WASHINGTON – El senador Jeff Merkley hizo circular detalles de su propuesta de reforma obstruccionista a sus colegas del Senado el miércoles, de la cual se proporcionó una copia a The Huffington Post. En él, Merkley, un demócrata de Oregón, expone su visión de la reforma, a la que llama “el obstruccionismo parlante”. Según las reglas actuales del Senado, los senadores
En mayo, Harry Reid, líder de la mayoría del Senado, estaba furioso por otra obstrucción obstruccionista de los republicanos del Senado. Admitió entonces que se equivocó en 2011 al no cambiar las reglas del Senado cuando tuvo la oportunidad. “Estos dos jóvenes y excelentes senadores dijeron que era hora de cambiar la situación.
WASHINGTON — Rural post offices in Oregon threatened with closure gained protection Wednesday, but the battle is far from over. Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley succeeded in attaching an amendment to a postal service reform bill that would impose a one-year moratorium on the closure of most rural post offices. After that,
Big banks are formulating a host of arguments —wild, off the mark arguments — aimed at dismantling the Volcker Rule firewall between loan-making, customer-serving banks and high-risk hedge funds.That firewall is essential for a stable banking system. When hedge funds blow up, and they regularly do, one doesn’t want them taking
WASHINGTON — Tiller, an unincorporated Oregon community pressed against the western boundary of the Umpqua National Forest, is not the first place that comes to mind when discussing an impending throw-down in Congress. Nor for that matter is Cascadia, Juntura or Helix, or any of 16 other difficult to find
Three years ago we experienced the greatest financial implosion since 1929. High stakes gambling and risky bets gone bad on Wall Street left our financial system near collapse and our economy in shambles. This crisis had many causes–all man-made. And it affected every last one of us, not just the
No se puede hablar del déficit federal sin mencionar la guerra en Afganistán. El senador Jeff Merkley hizo ambas cosas durante su discurso en el Foro de Columbia el miércoles por la noche. El senador Merkley tomó el gasto anual en la guerra de Afganistán ($120 mil millones) y lo dividió en empleos que podrían ser
WASHINGTON — After fighting for months against a plan to close scores of Oregon’s rural post offices, Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., announced Thursday that 20 are being removed from the list and will remain open for business.The U.S. Postal Service wrote in a letter that it had reached the decision
WASHINGTON – Sen. Jeff Merkley urged the Department of Labor and the White House Thursday to toughen regulations and oversight of a visa program that allowed foreign nationals to be hired for forest jobs in Oregon intended for unemployed Oregonians. Merkley made the demand in a letter to Labor Secretary
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