Merkley Monthly: Realizando importantes inversiones en el puerto de Coos Bay
El Mundo de Coos Bay. Transformar el Puerto Internacional de Coos Bay, Oregón, en la primera instalación portuaria totalmente conectada con el ferrocarril en la Costa Oeste representa una gran oportunidad para Oregón y nuestras comunidades costeras. Este proyecto creará empleos sindicalizados bien remunerados y empleos locales permanentes, y aumentará la capacidad portuaria de la Costa Oeste en...
Tres estadounidenses fueron liberados de prisiones en China
NPR. El gobierno de Biden afirma que todos los prisioneros fueron detenidos injustamente y que se están reuniendo con sus familias por primera vez en muchos años. Parecen ser parte de un intercambio de prisioneros. ARI SHAPIRO, PRESENTADOR: Tres estadounidenses han sido liberados de prisiones en China. El gobierno de Biden...
Wyden y Merkley anuncian casi 1 millón de dólares para la restauración del ecosistema en Oregón; el premio de la Fundación Nacional de Pesca y Vida Silvestre beneficiará a los residentes y proyectos a lo largo del río Tillamook.
Pionero del condado de Tillamook, Washington DC—Los senadores estadounidenses Ron Wyden y Jeff Merkley anunciaron hoy una inversión federal de $1.18 millones para la Asociación de Estuarios de Tillamook con el fin de ayudar a reparar la carretera Burton-Fraser a lo largo del río Tillamook, que limita el paso de peces. "Dejar que nuestra infraestructura se desmorone con el tiempo hasta un punto en que...
Bipartisan senators introduce Nurse Corps Tax Parity Act – Financial Regulation News
A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill that would exempt nurses in the federal Nurse Corps from paying income tax on their student loan forgiveness and scholarships. The Nurse Corps Tax Parity Act would amend the Internal Revenue Code to create parity in tax treatment for scholarships and loan
Legisladores estadounidenses piden un informe de la ONU sobre los derechos de los uigures antes de los Juegos Olímpicos de China
WASHINGTON, Jan 18 (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday urged the United Nations’ human rights office to release its assessment of China’s policies in Xinjiang before next month’s Beijing Winter Olympics, which the U.S. government is boycotting on a diplomatic level over what it says is ongoing genocide in the
Jeff Merkley says it’s time to talk about the … talking filibuster
Good mooorning, Early Birds. We’re going to spend the snowy three-day weekend digesting Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly’s engagement and an almost Rep. Ben Affleck (Mass.). What will you do? Play Wordle, perhaps? Let us know how you fare: earlytips@washpost.com. ?? SCOOP: “Leaders of the federal judiciary have had to backtrack after nearly three dozen law clerks and judges’s assistants affirmed
Lawmakers seek to strip IOC of tax-exempt status for going easy on China’s Winter Olympics
The International Olympic Committee would be stripped of its federal tax-exempt status under legislation that could be proposed as early as next week, four people with direct knowledge of the plan told USA TODAY Sports. The proposed legislation has bipartisan support and is in response to the IOC’s refusal to challenge
Senator Jeff Merkley on protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) has been in office for over a decade, and since assuming his seat in 2009, so much has changed. Presidents have come and gone, renewable sources of energy have begun to boom, and the COVID-19 pandemic has totally transformed just about everything in our lives. One
Los demócratas del Senado, con el respaldo de la Casa Blanca, presentan el proyecto de ley de sanciones a Rusia
Senior Democratic senators on Wednesday will unveil a fresh package of sanctions to punish Russian President Vladimir Putin if he invades Ukraine, an effort backed by the White House as the administration seeks to tamp down defections on a competing measure targeting Moscow set for a closely watched Senate vote
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