Sens. Sherrod Brown and Jeff Merkley called on financial regulators to provide more information about their oversight of fintech companies, while raising concerns that a murky framework could be harmful to consumers and small businesses. Brown, the ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, and Merkley, the top Democrat on the
El senador demócrata de Oregón, Jeff Merkley, planea presentar varios proyectos de ley en los próximos meses para trasladar la combinación energética de Estados Unidos a fuentes 100 por ciento renovables para mediados de siglo. El plan cuenta con el respaldo de ambientalistas como el cofundador de 350.org, Bill McKibben. Merkley hizo el anuncio la semana pasada en la conferencia Netroots Nation en
El senador Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) presentará un proyecto de ley este otoño para poner a Estados Unidos en el camino de obtener el 100 por ciento de su energía de fuentes de energía limpia, anunció el senador en un foro en St. Louis esta mañana. Merkley hizo el anuncio en la conferencia Netroots Nation 2016, diciendo
WASHINGTON – With the goal of making voting easier and more accessible to all Americans, three Oregon lawmakers introduced a bill to expand Oregon’s vote-by-mail system nationwide. U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, and Representative Earl Blumenauer, introduced the Vote By Mail Act, along with Rep. David Cicilline of
More than a month after a Union Pacific Railroad oil train derailed and caught fire in the Columbia River Gorge, rules are in the works to increase the safety of oil by rail. On the same day the U.S. Department of Transportation proposed rules requiring railroads to improve their spill response planning and transparency, Oregon
Federal rail investigators would have the power to respond to major derailments by halting new oil shipments until full investigations are completed under legislation introduced Wednesday by Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley. The Democratic senators also are seeking $2 million to help pay for new investigators, while requiring
¿WASHINGTON? Antes de que la atención nacional se centre en las convenciones de los partidos políticos, un grupo de demócratas del Senado tomó la palabra esta semana para enfrentar al “dragón de muchas cabezas” que niega el cambio climático. El esfuerzo, que comenzó el lunes, tiene como objetivo denunciar a más de 30 organizaciones diferentes que están “cooptadas
Ten Senate Democrats want to know how the Federal Communications Commission and the Office of Management and Budget “intend to help protect consumers from receiving intrusive robocalls from the federal government and its contractors” following a recent FCC decision to exempt the government from those rules. “We are concerned that consumers
Washington, DC — Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Senator Jeff Merkley recently introduced the Wage and Garnishment Equity Act of 2016 (WAGE Act) to protect workers from losing their entire paychecks to wage and bank garnishments. “Predatory debt collectors use loopholes
The super PAC money swamping the American election system is generally, and rightly, blamed on the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling. But a lower court decision that relied on Citizens United ultimately opened the floodgates. Now a team of high-powered lawyers is seeking to overturn that lower court decision and upend the
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