Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday morning and Oregon leaders responded to the moment. Here’s a look at what they had to say: Gov. Kate Brown (D-Ore.): “Today marks a new chapter for our country as we welcome President Joseph R. Biden
Gov. Kate Brown hailed the inauguration of Joe Biden as the nation’s 46th president and Kamala Harris as the first woman and first woman of color to serve as vice president, describing it as “an extraordinary moment.” Brown, a fellow Democrat, said she looked forward to working with the new administration to address the
Senate Democrats are making a sweeping democracy reform package the first bill they plan to introduce after taking back the majority. Incoming Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and incoming Rules Committee Chairwoman Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said on Tuesday that the first bill Senate Democrats will offer will be the For The People
After Democrats won control of the House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm elections, they introduced and passed the For the People Act as H.R. 1 — the first bill of their majority. It aimed to restore voting rights, reform campaign finance laws and enhance ethics enforcement. Senate Democrats have
When faced with the heart-wrenching accounts of children systematically separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border, Trump administration officials routinely relied on the same defense: that the enforcement of their so-called zero tolerance policy did not aim to break up families. If those separations did happen, they often said, it
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon has called for the investigation and prosecution of current and former Trump administration officials after the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General released “a disturbing report confirming that the Trump administration knew their zero tolerance policy would lead to family separations,” the
High-speed broadband is on its way to rural parts of Polk and Linn counties. Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley announced on Wednesday that PEAK Internet will receive $13.2 million in federal funds to help connect 5,265 people, 32 businesses, 13 farms and two public schools to high-speed broadband
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon praised the House for voting to impeach President Trump for a second time. “Donald Trump is completely unfit to be president,” the Democrat from Oregon said, calling on the Senate to hold a trial as soon as possible. Merkley called the situation “the
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Jan. 6, Oregon’s U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley’s office released the following statement after a mob, incited by President Trump, assaulted police officers and stormed the Capitol, and a group of Republican senators attempted to block the congressional certification of the Electoral College vote in the November
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has been joined by Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi in calling on President Donald Trump’s Cabinet to remove him from office following Wednesday’s violent assault on the Capitol by the president’s supporters. Trump called the mob that swarmed the Capitol “very
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