WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley today pressed the Oregon Employment Department (OED) director on why hundreds of thousands of Oregonians have yet to receive the federal unemployment aid that Congress distributed months ago in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. “There are thousands of
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s subcommittee overseeing multilateral institutions, released the following statement after President Trump announced this afternoon that he would cut off U.S. funding for and withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO).
Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley teamed up with U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren to lead a group of six senators in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Education (ED) Secretary Betsy DeVos, raising serious concerns about reports that one of ED’s federal student loan servicers, Great Lakes Educational
Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced that the Salem Area Mass Transit District will receive over $3.5 million in grant funding for the purchase or lease of zero-emission and low-emission transit buses and the leasing, construction, and acquisition of necessary supporting facilities. “Now is the
Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, along with seven of his colleagues in the Senate, are calling on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to issue specific guidance for when long-term care facilities can safely reopen their doors to visitors, and what steps long-term care facilities should
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) sent a pointed letter this afternoon to Kay Erickson, director of the Oregon Employment Department. Merkley’s letter comes after a May 27 hearing in front of the Oregon House Business and Labor Committee in which Erickson revealed the agency was even further behind paying out benefits than
Senate Democrats are demanding action against a student loan servicer for reporting inaccurate payment information for millions of student loan borrowers, hurting their credit scores. In a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Senate Democrats Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Tina Smith
Democrats are urging Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to take “immediate and aggressive action” against a student loan company that incorrectly dinged the credit reports of nearly 5 million borrowers whose payments were automatically suspended under the CARES Act. POLITICO first reported last week that the Trump administration was rushing to fix errors
Thirteen Democratic senators, led by Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), on Tuesday, wrote a letter asking the Justice Department for details on what precautions are being taken against the coronavirus in juvenile detention centers. The senators, in a letter to the DOJ’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention,
Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today announced that the Biggs community in Sherman County will receive over $2 million in federal assistance to establish a municipal water system that will source and store water to support residents, firefighting efforts, and other emergency services. The funding—a
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