Press Releases

Merkley, Salinas, Colleagues Champion Strong Federal Support for Regenerative Agriculture

Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and U.S. Representative Andrea Salinas (OR-06) led their colleagues—including Senator Ron Wyden, Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), and Val Hoyle (OR-04)—in reintroducing the Soil Conservation And Regeneration Education (Soil CARE) Act. Their bicameral bill would create a training program and curriculum to ensure

Merkley, Watson Coleman, Murkowski, Rutherford Team Up for Bipartisan Effort to Combat Opioid Overdoses in the Workplace

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ-12), U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Congressman John Rutherford (R-FL-05) partnered together on bipartisan legislation to help tackle rising rates of opioid overdoses with increased access to overdose reversal medications like naloxone. The Workplace Overdose Reversal Kits (WORK)

VIDEO RELEASE: Merkley Underscores Importance of Climate, Environmental Justice, and EPA Rebuilding in Appropriations Subcommittee Hearing With EPA Administrator Regan

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley—who serves as the chairman of the Senate Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee—convened an appropriations hearing to discuss the crucial need to provide the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with the robust FY22 funding it requires to tackle America’s urgent

Merkley, Colleagues Introduce Bicameral Bill to Protect U.S. From Risk of New Coronavirus Strains By Defeating Virus Abroad

Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, along with Representatives Raja Krishnamoorthi and Pramila Jayapal and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), have introduced the bicameral ifying Opportunities for Variants to Infect and Decimate (NOVID) Act, legislation that would dramatically expand the nation’s international coronavirus prevention and vaccination efforts to

Merkley Applauds Senate Passage of United States Innovation and Competition Act, Which Includes Critical Merkley Amendments to Promote Human Rights and Democracy in China

Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley—a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) and the Chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)—is applauding the Senate passage of the United States Innovation and Competition Act, legislation that includes a number of key Merkley amendments and CECC-recommended provisions

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