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Bipartisan legislation would ensure that legal cannabis businesses can access critical financial services, increase public safety Wednesday, April 26, 2023 Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley along with Montana’s U.S. Senator Steve Daines and U.S. Representatives Dave Joyce (R-OH-14) and Earl Blumenauer (D-OR-03) introduced the bipartisan, bicameral Secure and

Tuesday, April 11, 2023 By:  Brian Bull OPB Efforts to understand the effects and risks of wildfire smoke have received an $800,000 boost. The money comes from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and will support the University of Oregon’s new Wildfire Smoke Research and Practice Center. A team of students

Tuesday, April 11, 2023 KYVZ WASHINGTON (KTVZ) – Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., announced the U.S. Department of Education will be awarding Portland State University and Oregon State University a combined total of over $1.6 million to support training programs for school-based mental health providers under the Mental

Floor Speech, 01/19/2022   Mr. President, I compliment my colleagues from Maine and Georgia for engaging in perhaps the most substantive exchange I have ever witnessed in 13 years here in the Senate.   Earlier this evening, one of my colleagues from across the aisle said: Why are we going

Wednesday, January 26, 2022 Floor Speech, 01/19/2022 Mr. President, I compliment my colleagues from Maine and Georgia for engaging in perhaps the most substantive exchange I have ever witnessed in 13 years here in the Senate. Earlier this evening, one of my colleagues from across the aisle said: Why are

I am heartbroken and furious. George Floyd — as well as Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and so, so, so many others — should be alive today. We have lost them not simply because some bad people did terrible things. We have lost them because our nation was built on a

Two years ago today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a proposed blueprint for regulating e-cigarettes. The release of the proposed rule was an important step forward in achieving comprehensive regulation of new tobacco products including e-cigarettes, which are sold today with virtually zero regulation.  The Administration assured