United States senators have called for an end of hostilities in Ethiopia in a letter to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali they sent ahead of peace talks in South Africa. The senators included Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman of the Senate
Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS) Director Andrea Bell joined U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley and Hacienda CDC CEO Ernesto Fonseca and other local leaders to meet with residents at Rockwood Village, an affordable housing community that opened in fall 2021 and serves 224 households. Director Bell also shared progress on
U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley recently pressed the Bureau of Reclamation to prioritize Oregon as the agency develops its plans for the drought relief resources that Congress recently provided in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). “[W]e write to strongly urge
PORTLAND, Ore. — About 400 people filled the East Portland Community Center Saturday afternoon to hear President Joe Biden give a speech on how inflation is impacting prescription drug costs. President Biden took the podium at around 12:30 p.m. He talked about lowering costs for American families, primarily seniors. He championed his Inflation Reduction Act, which
With climate chaos flooding states, burning communities across the West, and driving crippling droughts, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley along with Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Alex Padilla (D-CA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) sent a letter to
Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today announced four Oregon based organizations will be receiving awards totaling $100 million to foster partnerships around Oregon to support the production and marketing of climate-smart commodities. These projects are intended to expand markets for commodities that are produced with smaller or no carbon footprints, helping
Adrienne Nelson, having gotten hearty endorsements from Oregon’s U.S. senators and many others, awaits a vote of a Senate committee and the Senate itself on her nomination as a U.S. District Court judge. The Senate Judiciary Committee considered President Joe Biden’s nomination of Nelson, now a justice of the Oregon
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation (CTUIR) will receive over $15.5 million in federal funding for high-speed Internet and digital training on Tribal lands, according to a press release from the U.S. Senate. The funding was announced by Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), who
U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today announced that three Oregon tribal organizations will receive a combined more than $1.6 million from the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) to continue to provide victim and intervention services after sexual violence on tribal land. “Addressing the atrocity of sexual violence on
Oregon schools will receive $8,265,004 million in federal grant funding to help provide students with safe and supportive learning environments and opportunities to help foster their success. The funding comes from the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) which provided $1 billion for state education agencies (SEAs) to make grants to
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