We have made promises to our seniors that they have honored through decades of hard work, and that we must keep to seniors today and tomorrow. Jeff believes that Social Security and Medicare are a covenant with our seniors, and has fought against efforts to privatize or weaken these essential programs.
Senators Wyden and Merkley Urging Leadership to Renew SRS Payments to Counties
US Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley have urged their colleagues to keep the government’s promise to rural communities in Oregon, 40 other states and Puerto Rico by passing legislation that would provide vital funding for schools, law enforcement and essential road repairs. Since payments through the Secure Rural Schools
Wyden, Merkley urge Trump: Don’t cut Medicare, Medicaid
A total of 21 Democrat U.S. senators, including Oregon’s Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, sent a letter Wednesday to President-elect Donald Trump to remind him of his campaign promises to reject cuts to Medicare and Medicaid and to ask that he clarify whether he still intends to do so. The
A Democratic Senator Weighs In On Trump’s Emerging Cabinet
As Donald Trump’s cabinet takes shape, Sen. Jeff Merkley, an Oregon Democrat, weighs in. He says he’s “deeply concerned” about the choice of Ben Carson to leading Housing and Urban Development. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now that President-elect Donald Trump has nominated some of his choices for cabinet positions, the Senate
Sen. Jeff Merkley on Republicans’ efforts to repeal and delay
Sen. Jeff Merkley, the junior Democrat from Oregon, takes a dim view of his Republican colleagues’ strategy to immediately repeal the Affordable Care Act — but delay the effective date. Republicans don’t want the “the millions hurt by repeal to be hurt before the next election, so they push it beyond
We Have a Retirement Savings Problem. Politicians Can Help.
It should be easier to save money for retirement. We can all agree on that, right? But about half of all Americans who work in the private sector do not have access to an employer-based retirement plan like a 401(k). Federal legislation to increase those numbers has not amounted to much.
Merkley Decries Inadequate Social Security Cost of Living Adjustment
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley released the following statement after the Social Security Administration announced a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) of only .3 percent for 2017. This news follows a COLA of zero for 2016. “With today’s announcement, the Social Security Administration is saying that seniors only need about
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