Merkley Announces Central Oregon Town Halls in March
Senator holding in-person conversations in Klamath, Lake, Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson counties between March 20-21 Bend, OR. — Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley announced he will continue his town halls with in-person community conversations in Klamath and Lake counties on Friday, March 20, followed by conversations in Deschutes, Crook, and Jefferson counties on Saturday, March 21. The five events continue Merkley’s 2026 town hall tour of
Merkley Applauds Senate Passage of Housing Provisions to Crack Down on Hedge Fund Control of American Homes
Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley—a long-time champion of kicking hedge funds out of the housing market—released the following statement after the Senate passed sweeping housing legislation that includes the first-ever limits on institutional investors purchasing single-family homes: “Housing in our communities should be homes for families, not profit centers
Wyden, Merkley Demand Answers from Defense Department on the School Bombing and Civilian Casualties in Iran
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today pressed the Department of Defense to provide answers to the American people regarding the airstrikes on a school and civilian casualties in Iran. Trump’s Defense Department airstrikes on a girls’ elementary school reportedly killed 168 people – mostly children –
Whitehouse, Merkley Demand Answers on EPA Enforcement Nominee
Washington, DC – Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) called on Susan Bodine, “special counsel to the administrator on compliance” at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and nominee for the EPA’s Assistant Administrator of the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assistance, to explain her role and answer important
Merkley Announces Funding to Keep Teachers in Oregon Classrooms
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley today announced key provisions in education and health care in the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education bill that will help Oregon communities. The bill was voted out of committee on Thursday. “Every kid in Oregon should have a shot at the
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
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