WASHINGTON, D.C. – Two U.S. Senators are co-sponsoring a bill to extend summer meal programs that provide food for kids. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley said today they are co-sponsoring bipartisan legislation that would extend federal school meal flexibilities for children in Oregon and nationwide until September 30, 2023.
A key House panel announced plans Thursday to question senior U.S. Postal Service officials about the agency’s decision to buy as many as 148,000 gas-guzzling mail delivery trucks despite directives from the Biden administration to green the federal fleet and opposition from top environmental regulators. The House Oversight and Reform
“I am concerned,” Oregon U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley said of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “This is a scary moment because Russia’s protocols talk about escalating to tactical nuclear weapons if it’s needed to reinforce conventional efforts. That means it’s probably a policy option the Russian command and President Putin
Oregon’s U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley have co-signed a letter with Senate and House colleagues to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Chief Justice John Roberts. A release said the lawmakers are demanding answers regarding Justice Thomas’s potential violation of federal ethics law, after last week’s reporting on
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, met with Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday and declared his support for her nomination. “Judge Jackson will bring much-needed diversity of lived experience and professional background to the Supreme Court,” he said, adding that he believes she “shares a commitment to
As Russia and China explore a strong strategic alliance to challenge America’s global hegemony and the war in Ukraine stirs worries about a broader World War III conflict, lawmakers in Oregon and northern California are keeping a focus on trouble spots and the aftershocks of U.S. economic sanctions on Moscow.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Biden administration intends to declare that Myanmar’s years-long repression of the Rohingya Muslim population is a “genocide,” U.S. officials said Sunday. Secretary of State Antony Blinken plans to make the long-anticipated designation on Monday at an event at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, according to the officials who spoke on
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – While cases of COVID-19 are dropping across the US, countries in Europe are once again beginning to see a rise. The BA.2 variant has driven a rapid increase in COVID-19 cases in several countries around the world over the past few weeks, including China, Australia and much of
WASHINGTON (KTVZ) – Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., this week urged President Biden to include $4 billion in homeless assistance grants in his Fiscal Year 2023 budget so Oregon and the entire country can make additional progress towards sheltering unhoused people and ending homelessness. “Nationwide, nearly 600,000 people
Congressman Peter DeFazio, along with Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, have been joined by the rest of the members of the Oregon Congressional Delegation in a letter to President Biden requesting federal funds from the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act be allocated towards a proposal to create a major
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