Jeff está luchando para arreglar nuestro sistema financiero roto y hacer que funcione para las familias de clase media y las pequeñas empresas nuevamente. Jeff es un apasionado de la protección del consumidor y de asegurarse de que las familias comunes estén protegidas contra estafas y esquemas depredadores que amenazan sus bolsillos. Lideró la lucha en Oregón para enfrentarse a los prestamistas depredadores del día de pago. En el Senado de los EE. UU., luchó para crear y fortalecer la Oficina de Protección Financiera del Consumidor, la primera agencia federal con la única misión de velar por los consumidores en sus transacciones financieras diarias.
Hawley y Merkley presentan un proyecto de ley bipartidista para prohibir que Wall Street compre viviendas unifamiliares
WASHINGTON — Hoy, los senadores estadounidenses Josh Hawley (republicano por Missouri) y Jeff Merkley (demócrata por Oregon) presentaron la Ley de Viviendas para Familias Estadounidenses y una actualización de la Ley HOPE para la Propiedad de Vivienda, un paquete integral que prohíbe a los grandes inversores institucionales comprar viviendas unifamiliares. Su legislación responde a la crisis de propietarios de vivienda en Estados Unidos, que se ha agravado.
Luján, Merkley Introduce Legislation to Stop Grocery Price Gouging and Lower Costs for Americans
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) introduced the Stop Price Gouging in Grocery Stores Act of 2026, legislation that bans corporations from leveraging new technologies to increase grocery prices for
Senate Foreign Relations Democrats Statement on Reports of Trump Family Bribe from UAE Officials
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Chris Coons (D-DE), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) released the following statement in response to reporting that a company backed by
Wyden, Merkley, Colleagues Probe Collapse in IRS Investigations of Wealthy Tax Cheats Under Trump
Senators: IRS investigations into abusive tax schemes plummeted last year to lowest levels in the past decade Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today joined Senate colleagues to demand answers on how Republican funding clawbacks and DOGE staff cuts have gutted the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation
Whitehouse, Warren, Merkley, Reed Introduce Bill to Empower States to Protect Americans from High Credit Card Interest Rates
Legislation to restore states’ ability to cap consumer loan interest rates reintroduced after Trump calls for cap Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Jack Reed (D-RI), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) introduced legislation to protect Americans from sky-high interest rates for credit cards and other consumer
CBO Tells Merkley: Trump’s Brazen National Guard Deployment to American Cities Has So Far Cost U.S. Taxpayers Upwards of $589 Million
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) told U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, that President Donald Trump’s brazen decision to deploy National Guard personnel to U.S. cities, including Portland, has cost taxpayers upwards of $589 million to date. If these
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