Merkley, Wyden Announce More Than $92 million in Additional Funding for Critical Community Projects Across Oregon
Projects Dedicated to Improving Housing, Health Care, and Transportation & Infrastructure Improvements Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today announced they secured more than $92 million in federal investments for essential community-initiated projects in nearly every Oregon county in the final funding package that recently
Peters, Collins, Ossoff, Merkley Reintroduce Bipartisan SWAT Act to Target Invasive Insect Hurting Fruit Growers
Bill Would Fund Mitigation and Research on Spotted Wing Drosophila Which Continue to Threaten Cherry, Blueberry, and Other Fruit Crops Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Susan Collins (R-ME), Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) have reintroduced bipartisan legislation to combat the spread of spotted wing drosophila
Markey, Merkley, Senate Colleagues Demand Answers from Trump Administration on Treatment of Unaccompanied Children
Recent events demonstrate Trump administration’s deliberate attempts to target unaccompanied minors Letter Text (PDF) Washington, D.C. – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) today led a group of nine lawmakers in writing to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Secretary of Health and
KAINE, CURTIS, AND MERKLEY INTRODUCE BIPARTISAN BILL TO ADDRESS CRIMES IN BRAZILIAN AMAZON AND STRENGTHEN REGIONAL STABILITY
Bill would address organized crime, deforestation, and violence in the Brazilian Amazon WASHINGTON, D.C.– Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), John Curtis (R-UT), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR), senior members of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, introduced the Strengthening the Rule of Law in the Brazilian Amazon
Merkley, Sullivan, Smith, McGovern Fight Back Against Foreign Governments Trampling Human Rights Within the U.S. and Beyond
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR)—a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and past Chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)—teamed up with current CECC Chair Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK), CECC Co-Chair Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ), and CECC Commissioner Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) to
Committee Advances Peters, Hawley, Merkley, and Ossoff Bipartisan Legislation to Ban Member Stock Trading
WASHINGTON, DC—Bipartisan legislation led by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) to ban Members of Congress, the President, the Vice President, and their spouses and dependent children from holding, buying, or selling stocks has advanced out of committee. The committee passed the Halting Ownership and Non-Ethical Stock Transactions
Merkley Statement on His Bipartisan Bill to Rein in TSA Facial Recognition Technology at Airports Nationwide
Washington, D.C. – Today, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley—a longtime leader in sounding the alarm on the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)’s use of facial recognition technology—issued the following statement on his Traveler Privacy Protection Act: “No one should be required to have their face scanned to travel, and no government
Warren, Markey, Merkley, Whitehouse Press Top Trump Officials on Rising Electricity Prices for Americans
Consumers face higher electricity prices than when Biden left office, despite Trump campaign promise to cut energy and electricity prices in half Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), joined by Senators Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), pressed Trump administration
Merkley, Luján Demand Public Release of Epstein Files
Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and New Mexico’s U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján launched an effort to direct the U.S. Department of Justice to publicly release all files relating to the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein and his associates. Merkley and Luján introduced the Epstein Files Transparency Act
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