Feds provide $1 million to rehab farmworker housing
News-Register McMinnville nonprofit Community Home Builders has been awarded nearly $1 million in federal grant funds to rehabilitate 24 units of agricultural worker housing at Villa del Sol apartments in east McMinnville. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden and U.S. Rep. Andrea Salinas announced the award of $956,333 from the
OREGON AND FOUR TRIBES EARN OVER $12 MILLION IN FEDERAL FUNDS-GRID RESILIENCE
KQEN On Wednesday, Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley as well as Representatives Earl Blumenauer and Val Hoyle announced that Oregon’s Energy Department has secured $10.9 million and four Tribes with members in Oregon have earned a combined $1.16 million in federal investment. A joint release said this is to
Americans bet $100 million on Trump v. Harris, but at what cost?
NPRAn election betting advertisement flashed on screen during coverage of former President Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden this weekend on the Right Side Broadcasting Network, a conservative media company. “Bet on the US election,” the ad for Kalshi said as Trump spoke on stage. “Bet $100 on Trump,
El senador estadounidense Merkley busca que el FBI investigue al jefe del DHS por posible perjurio
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Democratic U.S. senator on Friday asked the FBI to probe whether Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen committed perjury when she testified to Congress that the administration never had a policy to separate immigrant families. Senator Jeff Merkley has been an outspoken critic of the Trump administration’s
Wyden, Merkley bill would give Medicare drug negotiating power
WASHINGTON – Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., introduced a bill this week they say would allow Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices for the 43 million seniors who participate in Medicare Part D. “Medicare should be able to use its massive bargaining power to lower seniors’ drug prices. It’s high
‘A moral disaster’: AP reveals scope of migrant kids program
Decades after the U.S. stopped institutionalizing kids because large and crowded orphanages were causing lasting trauma, it is happening again. The federal government has placed most of the 14,300 migrant toddlers, children and teens in its care in detention centers and residential facilities packed with hundreds, or thousands, of children.
El senador Merkley insta a la administración Trump a poner fin a los campamentos fronterizos para solicitantes de asilo
Senator Merkley made a trip to the US- Mexico border this weekend, leading a group of legislators to see firsthand the families being held in government camps. He describes thousands waiting in hopes of having their asylum claims to be heard. Merkley and other legislators held a press conference Saturday
Merkley bill would stop USDA from euthanizing kittens
Washington (CNN)Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley is joining forces with a Republican congressman to stop Agriculture Department researchers from euthanizing kittens used in their work. Merkley told CNN he introduced on Wednesday a Senate version of the KITTEN Act — officially, the “Kittens in Traumatic Testing Ends Now Act of 2018.”
Merkley regresa a Texas exigiendo acceso a campamentos de inmigración
El senador Jeff Merkley, demócrata de Oregón, se unió a otros cuatro miembros demócratas del Congreso en una ciudad de tiendas de campaña remota en el oeste de Texas que alberga a adolescentes inmigrantes. Dicen que 2.700 adolescentes inmigrantes están detenidos allí a un costo de aproximadamente $1 millones por día. Merkley, que fue noticia a principios de este año
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