Bend awarded $5 million federal grant to fuel affordable housing production
Bend Bulletin The city of Bend has received a $5 million grant intended to kickstart affordable housing supply, the federal government announced Wednesday. Awarded through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the grant set the course for the city to identify and address policies that slow affordable housing
Wyden, Merkley announce $30.1 million in ‘Payments in Lieu of Taxes’ to Oregon counties; $6 million to C. Oregon
KTVZ WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley announced Thursday that counties throughout Oregon will receive more than $30.1 million in Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) funding for 2024, including over $6 million for Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson counties. Because local governments cannot tax federal lands, annual PILT
Wyden, Merkley, colleagues call on Postal Service to prepare for November election
KTVZ WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Senator Ron Wyden said Thursday he is leading Senate colleagues including fellow Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley in calling on Postmaster General DeJoy and the U.S. Postal Service to share their plans to accommodate high volumes of mail expected in the upcoming 2024 general election in Oregon and nationwide.
Senators Wyden, Merkley call for inspector general investigation of Oregon’s Chemawa Indian School
Oregon’s only federally-run boarding school for Native American students may soon face a federal investigation at the urging of the state’s U.S. senators. In a pointed letter to the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Interior, Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, both Democrats from Oregon, lay out a
House passes bill expanding nursing mother workplace accommodation requirements
The House passed a bill Friday to expand federal requirements that employers provide break time and accommodations for nursing mothers to pump breast milk in a private, nonbathroom space. Dubbed the PUMP for Working Mothers Act, the bipartisan legislation led by Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York and Republican Rep.
Paris Hilton lobbies for bill to regulate abusive youth facilities
Paris Hilton spoke on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to lobby for a bill aimed at cracking down on abuse in facilities for troubled teens. Driving the news: Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) is writing a “Bill of Rights” that would guarantee children in youth facilities have the right to call their parents,
Oregon’s US senators focus on Warm Springs reservation in fight over infrastructure spending
Where safe running water isn’t a given, federal officials are tying solutions to embattled spending bills. Democratic senators from Oregon brought officials with the Biden administration to rural Central Oregon last week – thousands of miles from the political fight in Washington, D.C., – to tour neglected water systems on
Democrats Weigh Carbon Tax After Manchin Rejects Key Climate Provision
WASHINGTON – Some House and Senate Democrats, smarting from a move by Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, to kill a major element of President Biden’s climate plan, are switching to Plan B: a tax on carbon dioxide pollution. A carbon tax, in which polluting industries would pay
Gov. Brown, Sen. Merkley tour South Obenchain burn scar, talk proposed bipartisan bill
SOUTHERN OREGON, Ore. – After touring the burn scar from the South Obenchain fire on Thursday, Governor Kate Brown, Senator Jeff Merkley and other state and federal officials discussed how the infrastructure bill could help mitigate fire incidents in the future. The proposed $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act, which
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