Oregon Delegation: Seven Airports In State Earn More Than $22 Million in Federal Grants
Airports in Portland, Hillsboro, Bend, Eugene, Corvallis, Burns and Joseph secure infrastructure investments Washington, D.C. – Oregon lawmakers today announced that seven airports in the Portland metro area, the Willamette Valley, Central Oregon and Eastern Oregon have secured about $22.7 million combined in federal grants for infrastructure improvements to taxiways,
Senator Welch, Oregon Governor Kotek, Sens. Klobuchar, Luján, Wyden, and Merkley Host Press Call on Republicans’ Attack on SNAP, Nutrition Programs
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee Subcommittee on Nutrition and Specialty
Merkley, Crapo Lead Bipartisan Effort to Expand Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration
Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Idaho’s U.S. Senator Mike Crapo today teamed up to introduce the bipartisan Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration (CFLR) Program Reauthorization Act of 2025. This legislation would reauthorize and expand the CFLR program, which helps fund collaborative and community-based forest management. The CFLR program has a
Amid Trump Tariff Uncertainty, Oregon’s Entire Democratic Delegation Rallies Behind West Coast Seafood Industry
After devastating order cancellations due to tariffs, Wyden, Merkley, Bonamici, Bynum, Dexter, Hoyle and Salinas ask USDA to buy West Coast pink shrimp Washington D.C.—U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, along with U.S. Representatives Suzanne Bonamici, Janelle Bynum, Maxine Dexter, Val Hoyle and Andrea Salinas today rallied behind the
Merkley, Schatz, Murkowski Sound the Alarm Over Staffing Shortages at the Indian Health Service
Washington, D.C. – Senate Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Member Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Senate Indian Affairs Vice Chairman Brian Schatz (D-HI), and Senate Indian Affairs Chairman and Senate Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) demanded urgent action from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to
Merkley, Dems SLAM GOP Plan: “Families Lose, Billionaires Win”
Senator Merkley joined Democratic Leader Schumer and other Democrats to outline the harms of the GOP budget plan, which would gut programs families count on to fund tax giveaways for the already wealthiest.
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