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KAINE, LEE, MERKLEY, & PAUL INTRODUCE BIPARTISAN BILL TO REPEAL 1957 AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF MILITARY FORCE
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Mike Lee (R-UT), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced bipartisan legislation to repeal an
Wyden, Merkley, Colleagues Demand Trump Administration Reinstate Vital HIV/AIDS Prevention Program
Senators fighting $2 billion in funding cuts from the emergency plan for AIDS relief (PEPFAR). Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley
Merkley, Murkowski Continue Oversight of Restoring NSF Ocean Monitoring Systems
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) pressed the National Science Foundation (NSF) to provide an update on the
Wyden, Merkley Sound Alarm on USDA Rural Development Reorganization
Washington, D.C.—U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today said they joined their Senate Democratic colleagues Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Ranking Member of the Senate Committee
Ranking Member Merkley Presses Secretary Burgum on Misusing National Park Service Funding for America 250
Washington, D.C. – Today, Senate Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Member Jeff Merkley (D-OR)—the lead Democrat overseeing funding for the U.S. Department of the Interior—demanded Interior
Merkley Statement on Senate Advancing Russia Sanctions Proposal
Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley issued the following statement after the Senate voted to advance bipartisan legislation to crack down on Russia’s
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🚨 🚨 🚨 The Trump Administration is trying to cancel legal representation for 20,000 children
Senator Jeff Merkley 10 hours ago
The Trump Administration is Targeting Immigrant Children
Senator Jeff Merkley 10 hours ago
Thank you to all of the firefighters working around the clock to keep communities across Oregon safe
Senator Jeff Merkley July 28, 2026 3:30 pm
Hard to put into words how craven and unacceptable this is.
Senator Jeff Merkley July 24, 2026 3:53 pm
Trump pocketing over $1.4 billion from his crypto schemes is corrupt as hell.
Senator Jeff Merkley July 23, 2026 4:26 pm
Republicans BLOCKED my Bill to Ban Gold Trump Coins
Senator Jeff Merkley July 23, 2026 9:23 am
People want lower costs on groceries, gas, and doctor’s visits, not gold-plated Trump Bucks.
Senator Jeff Merkley July 21, 2026 4:43 pm
The lack of anti-corruption provisions in the CLARITY Act ALONE is disqualifying.
Senator Jeff Merkley July 17, 2026 4:02 pm
We need to keep calling Trump’s election claims out for what they are: baseless conspiracies.
Senator Jeff Merkley July 16, 2026 5:16 pm
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Medicare and Medicaid were created 61 years ago today—and have been a lifeline for folks in Oregon and across the country ever since.
I’m fighting to restore health coverage to the millions who lost it because of Republicans’ Big, Ugly, Betrayal of a bill.
This is a five alarm fire: The Trump Administration is withholding Congressionally-approved funding and trying to cancel legal representation for 20,000 unaccompanied children—leaving them to face mass deportation alone. It’s wrong under every moral code.
Thousands of immigrant children risk losing lawyers after Trump aid cuts
More than 20,000 unaccompanied children risk going to US immigration court alone after federal funding cuts
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Holding in my thoughts the families and loved ones of the American servicemembers killed in Iran, as well as the Iranian communities affected by Trump’s war of choice.
I’m committed to ending Trump’s illegal war. It has cost us dearly.
Iran war casualty count eclipses 600 as Pentagon quietly changes accounting | CNN Politics
The Pentagon updated its war casualty database Saturday, recording more than 140 new wounded and restoring the four ...
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We need to pass my Children’s Safe Welcome Act to shut down Dilley and end family detention.