Merkley, Wyden, Walden and Schrader Announce Major Transportation Grants for Oregon Cities
PORTLAND, OR — Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley, who serves on the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Ron Wyden, along with Congressmen Greg Walden (OR-2) and Kurt Schrader (OR-5), today announced more than $6.5 million in grant funding for public transit agencies in Oregon. “I joined the Appropriations Committee in 2013
Dems slam FCC head for proposed limits to low-income internet program
A group of Democratic senators slammed the head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday over his proposal to cut down on a program that helps make broadband and phone service more affordable for low-income households. The senators’ letter targets a proposal introduced by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai in November that
Merkley, Senators Push Back on FCC Proposal to Cut Phone and Broadband Service from Struggling Americans
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley, along with Senators Kamala Harris (D-CA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Cory Booker (D-NJ), today called on Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai to
In Bipartisan Push, Merkley and Colleagues Call on Banking Committee to Hold Hearing on the SAFE Banking Act
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley today joined a bipartisan group of colleagues in sending a letter to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Ranking Member Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), urging them to hold a legislative hearing on S. 1152, the
Merkley, Wyden Warn CFPB Against Repeal of Rule Cracking Down on Predatory Payday Lending Schemes
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, along with 41 of their Senate colleagues, today urged Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Acting Director Leandra English and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Mick Mulvaney to end any efforts to undermine and repeal the CFPB’s payday lending
STILL WAITING: Wyden, Merkley press for coast fisheries financial aid
Oregon Governor Brown and members of the Oregon Congressional delegation made the request to the Trump Administration nine months ago, and now Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley are urged the White House to take action on the request seeking disaster aid for West Coast fisheries. The Oregon senators have