MEDFORD, Ore. -Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley announced today that Oregon State University has earned an almost $300,000 grant. It comes from the US Department of Agriculture and will be used to study the feeding of spent hemp biomass, to cattle. It aims to implement the safe use of
Oregon U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D) conducted a virtual town hall for Columbia County late Wednesday afternoon. Sen. Merkley’s office provide the following summary of the town hall. Merkley opened the town hall by explaining portions of the local support included in the American Rescue Plan, the $1.9 trillion federal
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) convened a Zoom conference late last year to talk ideas about the filibuster and other Senate rules with his caucus. By the second call, Durbin had turned the effort over to Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), who has a lot of them. “He really took a personal
SALEM, Ore. — The American rescue plan signed by President Joe Biden will help millions receive COVID-19 relief. Senator Jeff Merkley said the plan is another step in the right direction as cases begin to drop in Oregon and vaccination quantities continue to increase. “After a year in which everything suddenly
When Pres. Joe Biden signed the America Rescue Plan into law this week, it did much more than just send $1,400 checks to Americans. Oregon U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley calls the $1.9 trillion dollar American Rescue Plan “the most transformative pieces of legislation since the New Deal.” “It’s a massive
Oregon and Idaho senators are leading a push in the United States Senate to reauthorized the Secure Rural Schools (SRS) program through September 2022, after the program expired in September 2020. Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley have been joined by Idaho Senators. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch in
A bipartisan group of more than a dozen lawmakers on Wednesday introduced a bill banning members of Congress and senior staff from buying and selling stocks, most bonds and options contracts. Called the Ban Conflicted Trading Act, the measure is intended to prevent lawmakers and high-level staffers from enriching themselves
Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley said he will serve in the 117th Congress as Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s subcommittee that oversees chemical safety, waste management, environmental justice and regulatory oversight. Merkley said “While the climate crisis will affect us all, we’ve already seen that the
Ex-President Donald Trump’s lies about election fraud did not just lead to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol meant to overturn a free and fair democratic election. His lies also led to a new wave of more than 250 voting restriction bills introduced by Republican governors and state
Even as the U.S. House passed legislation for the second time in two years, the Senate remains the question mark for federal efforts to shield gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people against discrimination. The House voted 224-206 on Thursday, Feb. 25, for legislation (HR 5) to bar discrimination in housing,
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