Senator Merkley made a trip to the US- Mexico border this weekend, leading a group of legislators to see firsthand the families being held in government camps. He describes thousands waiting in hopes of having their asylum claims to be heard. Merkley and other legislators held a press conference Saturday
Washington (CNN)Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley is joining forces with a Republican congressman to stop Agriculture Department researchers from euthanizing kittens used in their work. Merkley told CNN he introduced on Wednesday a Senate version of the KITTEN Act — officially, the “Kittens in Traumatic Testing Ends Now Act of 2018.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley today introduced the Transparency in Federal Spending Act, legislation that would require full transparency and congressional oversight of funding transfers within federal agencies. Merkley’s legislation follows the revelations this fall that the Trump Administration diverted nearly half a billion dollars in funding from
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Kurt Schrader (OR-05), along with Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, and Reps. Earl Blumenauer (OR-03) and Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), announced the designation of Oregon’s Van Duzer Corridor as an American Viticultural Area (AVA) this month. “Receiving the AVA designation is huge for our Oregon wineries
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley have filed an amicus brief supporting a lawsuit filed by six asylum seekers in the D.C. District Court challenging the legality of Donald Trump’s Presidential Proclamation and rule effectively barring all asylum claims outside of ports of entry. The Oregon
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, joined four other Democratic members of Congress at a remote tent city in West Texas that is holding immigrant teens. They say that 2,700 immigrant teens are being held there at a cost of roughly $1 million per day. Merkley, who made headlines earlier this year
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Six months after his Father’s Day trip exposing the child imprisonment and family separation crisis on the Texas border, Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley will lead a congressional oversight trip investigating the Trump Administration’s treatment of children who have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border fleeing persecution and danger abroad. Merkley
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley today announced that after securing a $600 million investment in rural broadband in the 2018 spending bill, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is launching a pilot program that will provide loans and grants to build broadband infrastructure across America—improving rural communities’
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