Press Releases

Merkley, Bynum, Oregon Delegation Sound the Alarm Over the Trump EPA’s Illegal Termination of Solar for All Funding

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and U.S. Representative Janelle Bynum (OR-05) led their Oregon delegation colleagues—Senator Ron Wyden and Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), Val Hoyle (OR-04), Andrea Salinas (OR-06), and Maxine Dexter (OR-03)—in demanding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) follow the law and immediately reverse its termination of an $86.6 million federal award to Oregon under the Solar

Wyden, Merkley, Colleagues Request Report Detailing Looming Health Insurance Impacts Following Unprecedented Republican-Led Cuts to Medicaid, Premium Tax Credits

Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said today he is leading Senate colleagues, including Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., in requesting a detailed analysis of how Republican-led cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act will affect Americans’ health insurance plans.  “We are deeply concerned about the impacts of actions that Trump and Republicans

Oregon Delegation Members Applaud Success of OHSU Knight Cancer Challenge to Raise $1 Billion for Cancer Care and Research

Washington, DC – Today, the Oregon Congressional delegation, including Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden and Representatives Earl Blumenauer, Suzanne Bonamici, Peter DeFazio, Kurt Schrader and Greg Walden, welcomed Oregon Health & Science University’s (OHSU) announcement on meeting its Knight Cancer Challenge, raising $1 billion for cancer care and research

Merkley Statement on Senate Passage of “Fast Track”

WASHINGTON, DC — Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley released the following statement after the U.S. Senate passed “fast track” trade legislation for the Trans-Pacific Partnership and other future trade deals: “When crafting a new trade structure, our national objective should be raising wages and living standards for middle-class Americans. Past trade

Merkley Statement on Committee Passage of Bill to Increase Transportation Funding

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley released the following statement after the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, of which he is a member, passed a bipartisan bill to authorize renewal of the Highway Trust Fund and increased transportation funding over the next six years: “There is no

“These Unacceptable Delays Must Come to an End:” Senators Press Administration to Finally Finish Rule that Would Regulate E-Cigarettes, Other Tobacco

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the six-year anniversary of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act passed by this week, in an unsparing new letter nine U.S. Senators blasted the Obama Administration’s failure to finalize anti-tobacco regulations, calling the delays “unacceptable” and noting that youth use of new tobacco products

Merkley and Wyden Announce Newport Coast Guard Facility Funding

Portland, OR – Oregon Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced today that the Senate Appropriations Committee has provided funding for the U.S. Coast Guard helicopter facility in Newport to stay open through September 2016. The funding was included in the Homeland Security appropriations bill for fiscal year 2016, which

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