Merkley, Salinas Lead New Bill to Hold ICE, CBP Accountable for Abusing Americans’ Constitutional Rights
Washington, D.C. – Today, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and U.S. Representative Andrea Salinas (OR-06) introduced new legislation to hold U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) liable for violating individuals’ constitutional rights. The ICE and CBP Constitutional Accountability Act would make the federal government
Elfreth, Merkley Introduce Legislation to Prohibit Partisan National Park Passes
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congresswoman Sarah Elfreth (MD-03), Vice Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee, and Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), the top Democrat overseeing funding for the National Park Service, introduced the Prohibit Partisan Park Passes Act. The bill is straightforward legislation that would explicitly prohibit the National
CBO Tells Merkley: Trump’s Brazen National Guard Deployment to American Cities Has So Far Cost U.S. Taxpayers Upwards of $589 Million
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) told U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, that President Donald Trump’s brazen decision to deploy National Guard personnel to U.S. cities, including Portland, has cost taxpayers upwards of $589 million to date. If these
Merkley Announces Cosponsorship of Medicare for All Legislation
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley released the following statement announcing that he will cosponsor Sen. Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All legislation, which is expected to be introduced later this week. As Sen. Merkley has talked with Oregonians and Americans while Congress debated health care this year, he has
Oregon Delegation Presses New Forest Service Chief for Full Cooperation to Fight Wildfires
Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and Reps. Earl Blumenauer, Suzanne Bonamici, Peter DeFazio, Kurt Schrader and Greg Walden today pressed the new chief of the U.S. Forest Service for full cooperation in bringing much-needed resources to wildfire-ravaged communities across Oregon. In a letter to Forest
Equifax Hack: Merkley Expresses Alarm, Vows to Work with Colleagues to Help Protect Consumers
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley released the following statement after Equifax, one of the nation’s three major credit reporting firms, announced that as many as 143 million American consumers may have had their Social Security numbers and other sensitive information stolen in a massive hack of Equifax’s computer
Merkley, Wyden Announce Funding to Help Address Wildfire Crisis
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today announced that they have successfully included funding to help cover the cost of fighting the devastating wildfires that are currently burning in Oregon in the disaster and government funding bill expected to pass Congress this week. The legislation passed
Merkley Leads Successful Amendment to Restore UN Climate Change Funding
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley today announced that the Senate Appropriations Committee has passed his amendment to the 2018 State and Foreign Operations funding bill, restoring full U.S. funding for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The amendment
SENATORS YOUNG AND MERKLEY CALL FOR GAO REVIEW OF UN PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS
Today, Senators Todd Young (R-IN) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee that oversees the United Nations, sent a letter to the Comptroller General asking the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to examine United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations. Young and Merkley issued the following
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