Dallas resident Tim Halderman appreciated the opportunity to get face time with U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley in Monmouth on Sunday, but Halderman wanted Merkley to listen to his proposals for health care reform. “I hope he goes back and comes up with something that keeps the federal government out of
Glad to hear that Sen. Jeff Merkley is sponsoring the Breastfeeding Promotion Act at the federal level. It’s based on Oregon’s law that ensures new mothers can express breast milk or breastfeed their infants privately during breaks at their workplace. It’s now widely known that feeding infants breast milk only
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) slammed senators on the other side of the aisle for using a “roadmap of rhetoric” that he believes was created to demonize health care reform. Merkley waved a copy of the 28-page memo during a June 10 Senate floor speech, calling it a plan to kill
There’s a health care reform that Congress can make that won’t cost billions: Support Sen. Jeff Merkley’s bill to ensure women can easily breast-feed or pump milk at work. There is plenty of scientific evidence that breast-feeding is better than formula. Both the American Academy of Pediatricians and the World
(PORTLAND, Ore. ONS) – It’s being called the strongest anti-tobacco measure since the U.S. Surgeon General ruled more than 40 years ago that smoking causes lung cancer. On Thursday, the U.S. Senate voted to allow the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate tobacco. The House already passed a similar
WASHINGTON — Moms in Oregon have the right to breast-feed at work. Now, U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., wants to spread that law nationwide. “Why would we not do everything possible to enable our mothers and our babies to benefit from this tremendous, God-blessed nutrient,” Merkley said. “Everything we can
WASHINGTON — Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, a self-described “champion” of breast-feeding, will be surrounded by mothers and their babies today at a “nurse in” designed to draw attention to federal legislation guaranteeing mothers the right to breast-feed their children at their workplaces. “We should adopt this as a society as
WASHINGTON (AP) — They’re the newest smoke-free tobacco products — dissolvable pellets or strips that don’t require users to chew or even spit. Sold in shiny plastic cases, the products melt in your mouth like breath mints. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company is test-marketing dissolvable products in three cities and says
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) visited Southwestern Oregon on Wednesday, May 27 as part of an effort to make yearly visits to every county in the state. Merkley spent that morning at Hope Mountain in Illinois Valley learning about biomass and forest-thinning projects recently begun in the area. He then met
WASHINGTON — Twelve years after Joe Camel’s forced retirement for luring children into a life of smoking, Congress is confronting another slickly advertised threat that some lawmakers and public health officials say is even more worrisome — tobacco that dissolves in the mouth and tastes like candy. “The future of
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