Ley para poner fin a la especulación de precios de medicamentos
I wrote the End Pricing Gouging for Medications Act because we need to stop Big Pharma’s price gouging in its tracks and make sure essential medicine is affordable for everyone in our country. Read more about the End Price Gouging for Medications Act: https://www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-welch-dingell-crack-down-on-pharmaceutical-greed-introduce-bill-to-end-prescription-drugs-price-gouging/
Senator Merkley Highlights the Need for Climate Action in Hearing – Opening Statement
Senator Merkley highlights the critical importance of investing in climate action and tackling our plastic pollution crisis during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies hearing titled, “A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Request for the Environmental Protection Agency” on May 1, 2024. Watch
Senator Merkley Drills Down on Big Oil Lies in Budget Committee Hearing
Senator Merkley asks Representative Raskin about Big Oil’s efforts to avoid accountability for its role in climate chaos in a Senate Budget Committee Hearing titled, “Denial, Disinformation, and Doublespeak: Big Oil’s Evolving Efforts to Avoid, Accountability for Climate Change” on May 1, 2024. Watch the full hearing: https://www.budget.senate.gov/hearings/denial-disinformation-and-doublespeak_big-oils-evolving-efforts-to-avoid-accountability-for-climate-change
Merkley: Fixing our broken Senate
Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley and Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) took to the floor of the U.S. Senate to invite all U.S. Senators to begin a conversation on how to restore the Senate’s capacity to effectively do the people’s business.
Merkley: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month
During Hispanic Heritage month, we pay tribute to the Hispanic community and celebrate the impact these individuals have made on our nation.
3 Pathways to the Middle Class
Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley released a whiteboard video that explains how we can remove roadblocks and improve the pathways to the middle class for millions of working Americans. See more here: https://medium.com/@SenJeffMerkley/3-pathways-to-the-middle-class-9995524e35e3
Senator Merkley Introduces the Equality Act
On Thursday, July 23, 2015, forty Senators, led by Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), introduced historic, comprehensive federal legislation to ban discrimination against LGBT Americans.
Members of Congress Introduce Historic, Comprehensive LGBT Non-Discrimination Bill
Members of Congress gather in the Senate’s Lyndon B. Johnson room with advocacy leaders and LGBT Americans who have suffered discrimination to announce the introduction of historic legislation to ban discrimination against LGBT individuals in federal law.
Loan Shark Week: A Vortex of Debt
In honor of “Shark Week,” Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley released a whiteboard video to urge the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to crack down on predatory payday lending and prevent loan sharks from trapping American families in a vortex of debt.