{"id":23810,"date":"2026-01-20T11:27:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/?p=23810"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:27:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:27:54","slug":"merkley-to-congress-fight-for-government-by-and-for-the-people-not-by-and-for-elites-and-oligarchs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-to-congress-fight-for-government-by-and-for-the-people-not-by-and-for-elites-and-oligarchs\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkley to Congress: Fight for government by and for the people\u2014not by and for elites and oligarchs."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Merkley to Congress: Fight for government by and for the people\u2014not by and for elites and oligarchs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_h_-IlVVT7Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator Merkley spoke on the floor of the U.S. Senate to outline the corrupting force of dark money in our elections since the Citizens United Supreme Court decision and to chart a path toward disclosure and getting dark money out of our electoral process.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Merkley spoke on the floor of the U.S. Senate to outline the corrupting force of dark money in our elections since the Citizens United Supreme Court decision and to chart a path toward disclosure and getting dark money out of our electoral process.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":18844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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