Warren, Merkley, Booker, Van Hollen Question ED Secretary McMahon on Lack of Transparency, Guardrails for $1 Billion Student Loan Administration Fund
“(T)he agency has displayed a worrying lack of public transparency about what this vast sum of money has been spent on or will be spent on in the future.” Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) raised their concerns in a
Merkley Bringing ‘Stop the Corruption Town Hall Meetings’ to Portland, Springfield, Medford
PORTLAND, OR – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley announced today he will hold ‘Stop the Corruption Town Hall Meetings’ in Portland, Springfield, and Medford on Thursday, September 10. “Our democratic republic works best when elected officials work for the public good, not the elected official’s personal profit,” said Merkley. “Trump
Merkley’s Response to Trump’s Submission of U.S.-Saudi Nuclear Deal to Congress
Washington, D.C. – Following the Trump Administration’s submission to Congress on a proposed U.S.-Saudi civil nuclear cooperation agreement, referred to as a “123 agreement,” Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley—co-chair of the bicameral Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Working Group and a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee—issued the
Wyden, Merkley, Crapo, Risch, Bennet Note Fire Funding Included in Disaster Spending Recommendations
Washington, DC – Following numerous discussions among Western U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), and Michael Bennet (D-Colo,) with Administration leadership and agency officials, initial federal funding to begin fixing shortages in fire-fighting efforts known as “fire borrowing” is now being included
DeFazio, Wyden, Merkley Announce DOT Grant to Protect Oregon Communities from Hazardous Materials Accidents
WASHINGTON—Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (OR-04), Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) today announced that the Department of Transportation (DOT) awarded over $250,000 to the State of Oregon to develop or revise emergency plans and invest in emergency response training
Merkley Joins Colleagues in Demanding Scrutiny of IRS Contract with Equifax
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley on Thursday joined eight of his Senate colleagues in demanding further scrutiny of the Internal Revenue Service’s decision to award Equifax a sole-source contract to verify taxpayer identities and help prevent tax fraud, despite the company’s recent and severe security breach that exposed
Merkley Applauds CFPB Action to Protect Consumers from Payday Debt Traps
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley released the following statement after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a new rule to protect consumers from debt traps caused by payday and other short-term loans with exorbitantly high interest rates—sometimes as high as 500% APR. Merkley has been a leader
Merkley Statement on Trump’s Attempt to Undo Clean Power Plan
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley released the following statement in response to news reports that the Trump administration will attempt to undo the Clean Power Plan, the most significant federal curb on carbon pollution: “This is a dangerous and irresponsible step backward in our fight to combat climate
Merkley, Wyden, Feinstein, Harris Urge NOAA to Declare Fisheries Disaster
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden joined with California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris to push the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) to act quickly and support a catastrophic regional fishery disaster declaration requested by Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and California Gov. Jerry
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