WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) are leading nine of their Senate colleagues in pushing the Trump administration to immediately craft, release, and implement a plan that includes robust testing for the coronavirus and expanded contact tracing. Contract tracing is a decades-old process
Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced today that the City of Corvallis will receive over $7.3 million in funding to support its public transportation operations and projects—including coronavirus response efforts. The funding will be allocated to the Corvallis Transit System through theCoronavirus Aid, Relief, and
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today announced that the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) will receive nearly $42.7 million in funding to support rural public transportation operations and projects—including coronavirus response efforts—in communities throughout the state. The funding will be allocated through the Coronavirus
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, along with nine of his colleagues in the Senate, are expressing concerns to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that key front-line health providers and hospitals are getting shortchanged in the $30 billion first round of health care funding from
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today announced that Oregon will receive nearly $38.6 million in Child Care and Development Block Grant funding to help support families’ child care needs and child care providers throughout the coronavirus pandemic. The funding, which will be administered by
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley today pressed the Trump administration to address small businesses’ problems accessing key emergency coronavirus grant and loan programs, which are sowing confusion and anxiety rather than providing relief. This effort comes days after Merkley pressed the Small Business Administration (SBA) to fix
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today urged the federal Treasury Department to support a request by Oregon officials that could help Oregonians stay in their homes during the COVID-19 crisis. The senators’ letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin deals with the successful implementation of Treasury’s
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, along with Representatives Peter DeFazio (D-OR-4), Brenda Lawrence (D-MI-14), Ro Khanna (D-CA-17), and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL-9), today led a group of 15 Senators and 98 House members in pushing congressional leadership to institute a nationwide moratorium on utility shut-offs amid the mounting
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today joined a bipartisan group of 38 colleagues requesting that any future legislation to address COVID-19 includes support for victims and survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. The Oregon senators’ request comes amid reports from service providers that abusers
BEAVERTON, Ore. [04/13/20] – Representative Suzanne Bonamici, Senator Jeff Merkley, and Senator Ron Wyden called on House Leadership to provide $50 billion to support the already-struggling child care sector in the next coronavirus pandemic response package. “Even before the current COVID-19 pandemic, too many families were struggling to find affordable, high-quality
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