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Several Democratic senators on Tuesday wrote to the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and the three biggest private prison operators in the U.S. to ask what contingency plans they have in place to address the novel coronavirus. In the letter, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Jeff

WASHINGTON — Eastern Oregon’s congressional delegation — Democrat Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden and Republican Rep. Greg Walden, are pushing the Trump administration for an expedited review of the “presidential major disaster declaration” that Oregon Gov. Kate Brown requested for three Oregon counties and a tribal nation that suffered

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley announced Tuesday the expansion of a pilot program that will allow Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients in Oregon to use their benefits to purchase food online from Amazon and Walmart. The program is administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and

While new infection cases emerge in Oregon, state officials say they need an additional $1.5 million to trace contacts of those found infected with the new coronavirus and more staffing, according to state documents obtained Friday. They also say they need an estimated $2.5 million to help local health departments

Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley has announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will once again administer what he called “a critical program”, that has helped fight hunger among children in Oregon, during summer months. Merkley said every child in Oregon “deserves nutritious meals all year long”. He said when

Just before he wrapped up his Marion County Town Hall on Saturday in Woodburn, U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley gestured to the words beneath the mural of an American flag in the Valor Middle School commons. “I’m looking at the flag at the other end: United We Stand,” Merkley related. “How

PENDLETON, Ore. – A community meeting is set to convene in Pendleton on Tuesday to help people and businesses impacted by February’s deadly flooding in Umatilla County. Anyone who was affected by the floods is invited to attend the event, scheduled to take place from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the