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Senator Merkley, Colleagues Probe FHFA Director Pulte on Risky Proposals to Allow Unconverted Cryptocurrency Assets in Mortgage Loan Underwriting
“While you claim that you issued this order following ‘significant studying,’ the directive includes no information on the process through which the Enterprises will develop
Merkley Announces Committee Action to Advance Critical Community-Initiated Projects for Oregon
Appropriations Hub on Merkley’s website will update as Oregon projects are selected and move through the Fiscal Year 2026 government funding process Washington, D.C. –
Forty-One Senators Call on Appropriators to Reject Anti-Environment Poison Pills
The lawmakers warn that policy riders harming environmental and public health would derail the Senate’s ability to pass spending bills Washington, DC – Senators Sheldon Whitehouse
Merkley, Levin Call for Curbing Plastic Microfiber Pollution from Laundry
Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and U.S. Representative Mike Levin (CA-49) today introduced the Fighting Fibers Act of 2025 to address one of
Merkley Announces Committee Action to Boost Oregon’s Wildfire Resiliency, Water Infrastructure, and Climate Investments
Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley—as the Ranking Member of the Senate Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee—announced he helped advance critical investments to strengthen forest health
Merkley Remarks at Senate Appropriations Committee Markup of Interior-Environment Appropriations Bill
Washington, D.C. – Today, the Senate Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Member Jeff Merkley (D-OR) delivered the following remarks as the Senate Appropriations Committee met for a full
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Trump gutted Medicaid for families across the country.
Republicans Killed Merkley Amendment to Save the U.S. Institute of Peace
Trump’s USAID cuts are deadly. I’m fighting like hell to restore these critical programs.
What’s a rescission?
I’m reflecting on a piece of Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield’s legacy: the Peace Tree.
The Hatfield Peace Tree – Celebrating Senator Mark Hatfield’s Legacy
I’ll keep fighting for a future where families thrive and billionaires pay their fair share.
Latest update on the Big, Beautiful BETRAYAL: they still don’t have the votes!!
Republicans BLOCKED my amendment to end crypto corruption.
Gaza is starving. Every moment that the U.S. fails to demand a massive influx in humanitarian aid and continues to supply Netanyahu with bombs, we are complicit.
No bombs. More aid.
Mass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger rise
Aid agencies warned for months that Israel’s harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widesprea...
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It doesn’t matter what Trump says, it matters what he DOES.
And what he did was gut Medicaid for families in Oregon and across the country.
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Read my full statement on the introduction of the Debt Ceiling Reform Act alongside @SenJeffMerkley, @SenatorDurbin, and @SenTimKaine:
A default on America's bills would be catastrophic for our economy.
That's why I introduced the Debt Ceiling Reform Act.
If President Trump is serious about ending the threat that Republican debt ceiling brinkmanship poses to our economy, it's time for him to prove it.
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