Wednesday, July 8, 2009 Mr. Merkley: I rise to give voice to my strong support for President Obama’s proposal to create a consumer financial protection agency separate from our prudential banking regulators. I believe establishing this new independent agency is critical to protecting the economic security of the American middle
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Mr. Merkley: Mr. President, in the coming weeks we are going to be taking up what probably is one of the most vexing policy challenges of the last 50 years: How to reform our health care system and provide affordable, accessible health care to every single
Mr. Merkley: Mr. President, in the coming weeks we are going to be taking up what probably is one of the most vexing policy challenges of the last 50 years: How to reform our health care system and provide affordable, accessible health care to every single American. The goal couldn’t
Our nation faces a number of daunting challenges: high unemployment, skyrocketing foreclosures, and a credit freeze which is crippling businesses. Each of them is contributing to another long-simmering crisis: the unavailability and unaffordability of health care. Forty-seven million Americans do not have health insurance and millions more are under-insured. Seniors
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 Mr. Merkley: I first want to thank Senator Dodd for his tireless advocacy on this issue. The need to regulate tobacco products has been evident for years, and for years it has been impossible to accomplish this goal. It is frankly unbelievable that while we heavily
Mr. Merkley: I first want to thank Senator Dodd for his tireless advocacy on this issue. The need to regulate tobacco products has been evident for years, and for years it has been impossible to accomplish this goal. It is frankly unbelievable that while we heavily regulate the production and
As a young man working for the Secretary of Defense in Washington D.C., I applied for a MasterCard and was declined because I didn’t have enough credit history. So, I got an American Express card, paid off my balance every month as required, waited a few years to build up
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 Mr. Merkley: Mr. President, I am introducing two pieces of legislation to address the very heart of our economic crisis–the housing market and the deceptive lending practices that have placed millions of homes at risk of foreclosure. In the last few years, millions of families were
Mr. Merkley: Mr. President, I am introducing two pieces of legislation to address the very heart of our economic crisis–the housing market and the deceptive lending practices that have placed millions of homes at risk of foreclosure. In the last few years, millions of families were led into unsustainable home
Monday, April 27, 2009 Mr. Merkley: Mr. President, today I am introducing the Sustainable Revenue for Oregon Counties Act, a bill aimed at finding a sustainable long-term solution to the revenue problems faced by Oregon’s timber-dependent counties and other timber-dependent counties across our Nation. This bill, which is cosponsored by
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