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Merkley: Forest Service Dangerously Unprepared for Wildfire Season

Washington, D.C. – Senate Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Member Jeff Merkley (D-OR) issued the following statement after a hearing with U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz on the President’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget request for the agency: “Forest Service Chief Schultz’s testimony only underscored the immense, serious challenges facing communities

Wyden, Merkley, Bonamici, Salinas, Dexter y sus colegas presentan una legislación para derogar el escudo de responsabilidad legal de la industria de armas.

La legislación daría a las víctimas de violencia armada vías legales para responsabilizar a los fabricantes por negligencia en los tribunales Washington DC—Los senadores estadounidenses Ron Wyden y Jeff Merkley, junto con las representantes estadounidenses Suzanne Bonamici, Andrea Salinas y Maxine Dexter, dijeron hoy que se han unido a sus colegas para presentar una legislación que garantizaría que las víctimas de violencia armada

Merkley’s Bipartisan Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act Now Law

Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley celebrated that his bipartisan bill to provide greater oversight and data transparency for institutional youth treatment programs was signed into law at the end of December. Merkley co-led the bipartisan Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act with Texas’ U.S. Senator John Cornyn and

Merkley, Wyden Announce Over $33 Million for Southern Oregon Critical Wildlife Crossing

Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced today that the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is receiving $33,182,188 in federal funding to construct the Mariposa Preserve Wildlife Crossing over I-5 in Southern Oregon through the heart of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. Once complete, the wildlife crossing will be among the

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