WASHINGTON – Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced Monday that he would revoke Obama-era standards requiring that cars and light trucks sold in the U.S. average more than 50 miles per gallon by 2025, a move that could change the composition of the nation’s auto fleet for years to
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, recently returned from a congressional trip examining the humanitarian and food crisis in east and central Africa. From March 24 through April 1, he visited South Sudan and Somalia, two of the Four Famines sites, as
A group of Democratic senators slammed the head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday over his proposal to cut down on a program that helps make broadband and phone service more affordable for low-income households. The senators’ letter targets a proposal introduced by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai in November that
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley, along with Senators Kamala Harris (D-CA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Cory Booker (D-NJ), today called on Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai to
The annual Jefferson County town hall will be held Wednesday, April 4, at the Warm Springs K-8 Academy. U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley will return to Jefferson County April 4, for his annual town hall, to be held in Warm Springs. Merkley will update constituents on his work in Washington, D.C.,
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley today joined a bipartisan group of colleagues in sending a letter to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Ranking Member Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), urging them to hold a legislative hearing on S. 1152, the
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, along with 41 of their Senate colleagues, today urged Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Acting Director Leandra English and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Mick Mulvaney to end any efforts to undermine and repeal the CFPB’s payday lending
Oregon Governor Brown and members of the Oregon Congressional delegation made the request to the Trump Administration nine months ago, and now Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley are urged the White House to take action on the request seeking disaster aid for West Coast fisheries. The Oregon senators have
The Trump administration has figured out a way to engender bipartisanship: Propose selling off U.S. federal power marketing administration assets, including Bonneville’s 15,000-mile high-voltage electric transmission system. Fourteen Democratic U.S. senators — including Oregonians Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley — have joined with nine Republicans in a letter to budget director Mick Mulvaney opposing the proposal made last
Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and a bipartisan group of their colleagues urged federal officials to oppose Trump’s Fiscal Year 2019 budget scheme that would auction off the transmission assets of the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) and other Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs). “There is
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