Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today announced that OHSU will receive about $2.7 million in grants to help provide quality rural health care during the COVID-19 crisis. “Our state’s health care heroes caring for Oregonians need all possible federal resources to keep themselves and their patients safe
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today announced that $153.5 million in funding will be distributed to schools throughout Oregon, as a part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act that was approved by Congress last month. “Every student—regardless of the color
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today announced that tribal communities in Oregon will receive over $430,000 to support the needs of elders and in an effort to curtail the spread of the coronavirus. The funding is being allocated by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and
PORTLAND, Ore. — While the nation’s top infectious disease expert urged everyone Wednesday to pump the brakes on calls to reopen the economy, two Oregon lawmakers in Washington, D.C. expressed their concerns about reopening too soon. “And the one way not to reopen the economy is to have a rebound that
Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley is part of a bipartisan group making a push to increase funds for suicide prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic. A release from Merkley said lawmakers are asking Senate leadership to provide the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline with $80 million to support critical prevention activities amid a
Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO), Jack Reed (D-RI), and Jerry Moran (R-KS), along with 10 of their colleagues, are making a bipartisan push to provide the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (NSPL) with $80 million to support critical suicide prevention activities amid a public
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today called for investigations into the Trump Administration’s COVID-19 response, including whether political expediency rather than urgent public health needs has driven the distribution of life-saving medical supplies and equipment and other key public health and economic decisions. The letter
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dozens of senators including Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden have joined forces this month to advocate for state, local and tribal government to receive dedicated, flexible funding in the next COVID-19 emergency funding package. Recently, Merkley and Wyden along with 31 of their colleagues
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Like millions of other Americans, Sen. Jeff Merkley is working from his Oregon home office — with his laptop propped up on Miller paint cans in order to do Zoom interviews. “I have 2 health care workers here in my house, with my son and my wife, and
Jackson County received $5,021,210 this month to offset financial losses from reduced logging on federal land inside its borders, but the amount is far less than the $15,100,000 in shared timber revenue the county received in 1991 when logging was strong. In today’s dollars, that $15 million figure would be
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