Merkley Monthly: Realizando importantes inversiones en el puerto de Coos Bay
El Mundo de Coos Bay. Transformar el Puerto Internacional de Coos Bay, Oregón, en la primera instalación portuaria totalmente conectada con el ferrocarril en la Costa Oeste representa una gran oportunidad para Oregón y nuestras comunidades costeras. Este proyecto creará empleos sindicalizados bien remunerados y empleos locales permanentes, y aumentará la capacidad portuaria de la Costa Oeste en...
Tres estadounidenses fueron liberados de prisiones en China
NPR. El gobierno de Biden afirma que todos los prisioneros fueron detenidos injustamente y que se están reuniendo con sus familias por primera vez en muchos años. Parecen ser parte de un intercambio de prisioneros. ARI SHAPIRO, PRESENTADOR: Tres estadounidenses han sido liberados de prisiones en China. El gobierno de Biden...
Wyden y Merkley anuncian casi 1 millón de dólares para la restauración del ecosistema en Oregón; el premio de la Fundación Nacional de Pesca y Vida Silvestre beneficiará a los residentes y proyectos a lo largo del río Tillamook.
Pionero del condado de Tillamook, Washington DC—Los senadores estadounidenses Ron Wyden y Jeff Merkley anunciaron hoy una inversión federal de $1.18 millones para la Asociación de Estuarios de Tillamook con el fin de ayudar a reparar la carretera Burton-Fraser a lo largo del río Tillamook, que limita el paso de peces. "Dejar que nuestra infraestructura se desmorone con el tiempo hasta un punto en que...
Committee set to become energy, environment battleground
The Senate Democratic takeover and several retirements will make the Appropriations Committee fertile ground over the next two years for some of the sharpest debates over President Biden’s energy and environmental agenda. Nine of 12 subcommittee chairs (cardinals in Washington-speak) will be new party leaders on their respective panels. In
Merkley says impeachment trial is ‘constitutional responsibility’
Senators were focused as they considered evidence this week in the second impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump, according to Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley. “The mood was very somber, and very focused. Virtually all of us had been in that chamber on the day of the assault,” the Democratic
Wyden and Merkley unleash a flood of wild and scenic river designations
ENTERPRISE — Northeast Oregon is wild, scenic and recreational. If a new bill in the U.S. Senate becomes law, more local streams will officially become Wild, Scenic or Recreational, too. Oregon’s U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, both Democrats, cosponsored the River Democracy Act of 2021, which would add
Trump censure within ‘realm of possibility’ if impeachment fails: Sen. Jeff Merkley
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., said Wednesday on ABC News’ “Powerhouse Politics” podcast that if Senate Democrats cannot get 17 Republican votes to impeach former President Donald Trump, a 60-vote censure proposal is a possibility. “It seems extremely difficult if you don’t get two-thirds to convict, can you get 60 to close debate
Merkley praises Biden action to reunite separated children
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley has praised President Joe Biden’s latest executive order that seeks to reunite children separated from their migrant families at the border with Mexico under a now-revoked policy instituted by former President Donald Trump. The Oregon Democrat drew national attention to that “zero-tolerance” policy for unauthorized border
Questions for Senator Merkley
LABOR PRESS: 4,000 Americans are dying every day of COVID who didn’t have to die. 10 million are out of work. Global warming is melting the ice caps and contributing to superstorms and terrifying forest fires. We have the worst economic inequality in a century. There’s also a crime wave,
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