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An historic victory for chemical safety

June 7, 2016—Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley speaks on the Senate floor after the United States Senate passed the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, landmark legislation to better protect our kids and families from dangerous toxic chemicals in everyday products.

Protecting against exploding oil trains

Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley speaks on the Union Pacific oil train accident that took place near Mosier, Oregon and the urgent need to protect our communities from the threat of dangerous oil trains.

Merkley: Honoring Your Right to Know

May 25, 2016—This week in his “We the People” speech series, Senator Merkley discusses the importance of ensuring consumers can find genetically-modified organism (GMO) ingredient labeling on food packaging while ensuring that food producers are not subject to confusing or conflicting labeling requirements in different locations.

Merkley: Senator Merkley Discusses Supreme Court Nominee Merrick Garland

5/19/15 – Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley shares his thoughts after meeting with Chief Judge Merrick Garland, President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States, and the urgent need to fulfill the Senate’s constitutional responsibility to hold hearings, debates and votes in committee and on the floor.

Crowdfunding Small Business: One Dollar at a Time

Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley celebrates the start of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s new equity crowdfunding rules will allow startups and small businesses in all fifty states to raise capital from small-dollar investors.

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