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Merkley, Crapo Lead Bipartisan Effort to Expand Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration 

May 7, 2025

Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Idaho’s U.S. Senator Mike Crapo today teamed up to introduce the bipartisan Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration (CFLR) Program Reauthorization Act of 2025. This legislation would reauthorize and expand the CFLR program, which helps fund collaborative and community-based forest management. The CFLR program has a

Merkley: CFTC Allowing Election Gambling is a Bad Bet for Democracy

May 7, 2025

Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley today issued the following statement after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) moved to dismiss its appeal against Kalshi Inc., effectively allowing betting on U.S. elections to continue: “Election gambling reduces our democratic process to a horse race for the wealthy and

Merkley, Schatz, Murkowski Sound the Alarm Over Staffing Shortages at the Indian Health Service

May 6, 2025

Washington, D.C. – Senate Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Member Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Senate Indian Affairs Vice Chairman Brian Schatz (D-HI), and Senate Indian Affairs Chairman and Senate Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) demanded urgent action from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to

Merkley, Curtis Introduce Strengthened Bipartisan Bill to Further Relations Between United States & Taiwan

May 5, 2025

Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Utah’s Senator John Curtis today introduced bipartisan legislation that reaffirms U.S. policy to support Taiwan’s democracy and engagement with the world. The Taiwan Relations Reinforcement Act—which Senator Merkley previously co-led with then-Senator Marco Rubio—comes as Taiwan faces increasing military and diplomatic aggression from China. “As longstanding

Merkley, Warren: Trump-Linked Crypto Deal is a ‘Staggering’ Conflict of Interest

May 5, 2025

Senate will vote on the GENIUS Act which will turbocharge this kind of corruption and contains no restrictions to prevent foreign countries from currying favor with President Trump by using his stablecoin Washington, D.C. – Today, in response to recent reports surrounding a billion-dollar business deal with a Trump-backed cryptocurrency

Interior Cuts in Trump Administration’s “Skinny” Budget to Leave Lasting Scars on Public Lands, Tribal Nations, and Human Health

May 2, 2025

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Interior-Environment Subcommittee on the Senate Appropriations Committee, released the below statement following the release of President Trump’s ‘skinny’ budget for Fiscal Year 2026. “This budget is exactly what we expected from this administration: abandoning critical programs, slashing essential government services,

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