Standing Up for Human and Civil Rights

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley today released the following statement after a mob, incited by President Trump, assaulted police officers and stormed the Capitol, and a group of Republican senators attempted to block the congressional certification of the Electoral College vote in the November 2020 presidential election:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley—the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s subcommittee overseeing multilateral institutions, and a member of the bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CCEC)—released the following statement today after meeting virtually with President-elect Biden’s nominees to be the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (UN),

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley—a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee—issued the following statement today regarding reports that the government of Bangladesh has set plans in motion to forcibly move thousands of vulnerable Rohingya refugees to Bhashan Char, an uninhabited and potentially unsafe island in the

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement after President-elect Joe Biden announced that he will nominate Tony Blinken as Secretary of State and Linda Thomas-Greenfield as Ambassador to the United Nations (UN): “Today’s announcement is welcome news

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators and Senate Foreign Relations Committee members Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Marco Rubio (R-FL)—who serve as commissioner and cochair, respectively, of the bipartisan and bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)—released the following joint statement today following the ousting of four pro-democracy lawmakers from the Hong Kong