Senator Jeff Merkley stresses the importance of creating a Consumer Financial Protection Agency in order to prevent financial scams from hurting our working families.
Senator Jeff Merkley took to the floor to talk about how working families have been hit hard by the risky business on Wall Street.
Senator Merkley spoke with Dylan Ratigan on MSNBC to talk about the need to ban high-risk trading inside our lending banks so that we can return to the days where the banks’ central focus was to lend to small businesses and families.
Three reasons to eliminate high-risk trading from the big banks and financial firms: 1)End bailouts 2)End conflicts of interest like we saw in the recent Goldman Sachs case 3)Support lending to small businesses
Senator Merkley: Three reasons to eliminate high-risk trading from the big banks and financial firms: 1)End bailouts 2)End conflicts of interest like we saw in the recent Goldman Sachs case3)Support lending to small businesses
In the wake of a new study outlining numerous cases where children have been poisoned by tobacco candy, Oregons Senator Jeff Merkley and Ohios Senator Sherrod Brown have called on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to immediately remove the products from the market.
Senator Merkley took to the floor to decry efforts by the Minority Leader to block Wall Street reform. Merkley also stressed the importance of strengthening …
Today Senator Merkley spoke out against those who are working to derail Wall Street reform and maintain the current system of tax-payer funded bailouts for big banks.
Oregons Senator Jeff Merkley added an amendment to the health care reform law that will give new mothers privacy and flexible break times to pump breastmilk once they return to work.
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