Support for Living Wage Jobs

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley today called upon major car manufacturers to tell Congress whether or not their cars collect personal data from drivers, what data they collect, who owns that data, and whether data collected is securely stored to protect consumers’ privacy. “While data plays an

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden have joined 24 colleagues in calling on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Kathy Kraninger to reverse a proposed rule that would, for the first time, allow debt collection companies to send unlimited texts and e-mails to consumers. Just

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley today introduced the Transparency in Online Retailing Act of 2019, which would require online retailers to provide country of origin information for each of their products – information already required in stores – on their websites. “I personally discovered the difficulty of

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley today pressed federal banking regulators on reports that they are considering further gutting the Volcker Rule, and whether regulators are falling down on the job when it comes to current Volcker enforcement. Merkley and former Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) co-authored the Volcker Rule,

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley today demanded that the Social Security Administration (SSA) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) take necessary steps to protect American families from fraudulent Social Security-related robocall schemes that are victimizing tens of thousands of consumers. For years, robocallers have swindled millions of dollars from