Press Releases

Wyden, Merkley Call for Automatic and Swift Tariff Tax Refunds, Real Relief for Small Businesses and Families

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) led several Senate Democrats today, including U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), in calling on the Trump administration to put in place an automatic tariff refund process that does not create more pain for U.S. small businesses and families in Oregon and nationwide.  In a letter to Customs and Border

Merkley Reacts to Trump’s Pro-Pollution Plan

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley, a senior member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement after the Trump administration issued a new plan to allow more carbon pollution: “Today, the Trump agenda to turn the Environmental Protection Agency into the Polluter Protection Agency is

Senators Call on Pompeo to Address Ethnic Cleansing in Burma

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Todd Young (R-IN), along with 13 of their colleagues, today pressed the U.S. Secretary of State to take a number of actions in response to the ethnic cleansing being committed against the Rohingya people in

Senators Introduce Bill to Help Americans Hurt by Medical Debt

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley and Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) introduced the Medical Debt Relief Act. This legislation would prevent medical debt from continuing to damage consumers’ credit scores after it has

Oregon Congressional Delegation Stands Up for Hazelnut Farmers

WASHINGTON, DC [08/15/18] – Congresswoman Bonamici, Senators Wyden and Merkley, and Representatives DeFazio, Blumenauer, and Schrader called on the Trump Administration to work with China to reduce or eliminate Chinese tariffs that are harming Oregon’s hazelnut farmers and making it difficult for them to compete with growers in other countries.

Wyden, Merkley Ask for Updated Wildfire Impact Study in Oregon

WASHINGTON— Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today asked Travel Oregon to update its 2017 wildfire study to capture the additional impact of this year’s wildfires on the normally robust outdoor recreation and tourism economy in Oregon. The senators said the agency’s previous research on the impact of the 2017

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