WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, Representatives Peter DeFazio (D-OR-4) and Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR-1), along with 39 of their congressional colleagues, are blasting the Trump administration for continuing to garnish wages of millions of struggling student loan borrowers, despite a new law passed by Congress last month that
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today announced that Oregon will receive nearly $38.6 million in Child Care and Development Block Grant funding to help support families’ child care needs and child care providers throughout the coronavirus pandemic. The funding, which will be administered by
SALEM, Ore. – Oregon will be receiving nearly $38.6 million to help support families’ child care needs and child care providers through the pandemic, senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley announced Thursday. The money will be in the form of Child Care and Development Block Grant funding. It is authorized
ONTARIO — Economic relief from the novel coronavirus COVID-19 is needed in many aspects of daily life including transportation and the Ontario Municipal Airport will join others across Oregon in getting just that: relief. On Wednesday morning, U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., made the announcement that Oregon’s
WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Senator Jeff Merkley, along with Representatives Peter DeFazio (D-OR-4), Brenda Lawrence (D-MI-14), Ro Khanna (D-CA-17), and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL-9), on Wednesday led a group of 15 senators and 98 House members in pushing congressional leadership to institute a nationwide moratorium on utility shut-offs amid the mounting economic
U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley recently announced that Oregon airports will receive more than $140 million to help them respond to the economic fallout from the coronavirus public health crisis. Among the airports receiving funds are the Newport Municipal and the Siletz Bay State (Gleneden Beach) Airports, which
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley today pressed the Trump administration to address small businesses’ problems accessing key emergency coronavirus grant and loan programs, which are sowing confusion and anxiety rather than providing relief. This effort comes days after Merkley pressed the Small Business Administration (SBA) to fix
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today urged the federal Treasury Department to support a request by Oregon officials that could help Oregonians stay in their homes during the COVID-19 crisis. The senators’ letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin deals with the successful implementation of Treasury’s
The federal CARES Act included $10 billion in coronavirus relief funds for U.S. airports, and $140.1 million is on its way to Oregon. The money is in the form of 55 separate grants, but just over half, $72.3 million, is for Portland International. Other big grants are going to Mahlon
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, along with Representatives Peter DeFazio (D-OR-4), Brenda Lawrence (D-MI-14), Ro Khanna (D-CA-17), and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL-9), today led a group of 15 Senators and 98 House members in pushing congressional leadership to institute a nationwide moratorium on utility shut-offs amid the mounting
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