Merkley Monthly: Making major investments in the Port of Coos Bay
The Coos Bay World Transforming the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay into the first fully ship-to-rail port facility on the West Coast is a huge opportunity for Oregon and our coastal communities. This project will create good-paying union jobs and permanent local jobs, increase West Coast port capacity by
Three Americans have been freed from prisons in China
NPR The Biden administration says the prisoners were all wrongfully held and that they are being reunited with their families for the first time in many years. They appear to be part of a prisoner swap. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Three Americans have been freed from prisons in China. The Biden
Wyden, Merkley Announce Nearly $1.2 Million for Ecosystem Restoration in Oregon; National Fish and Wildlife Foundation award will benefit residents and projects along Tillamook River
Tillamook County Pioneer Washington D.C.—U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today announced a federal investment of $1.18 million for the Tillamook Estuaries Partnership to help fix the Burton-Fraser Road along the Tillamook River that is limiting fish passage. “Letting our infrastructure crumble over time to a point where it
SENATORS SAY REIMBURSEMENT FUNDS HEADED TO SOUTHERN OREGON
U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley say Oregon will receive $2.48 million in federal reimbursement for fire response and hazardous debris removal from the South Obenchain and Almeda fires that tore through southern Oregon in 2020. Wyden said, “Southern Oregon has made incredible progress recovering from these catastrophic fires,
Bipartisan senators introduce Nurse Corps Tax Parity Act – Financial Regulation News
A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill that would exempt nurses in the federal Nurse Corps from paying income tax on their student loan forgiveness and scholarships. The Nurse Corps Tax Parity Act would amend the Internal Revenue Code to create parity in tax treatment for scholarships and loan
U.S. lawmakers call for U.N. Uyghur rights report before China’s Olympics
WASHINGTON, Jan 18 (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday urged the United Nations’ human rights office to release its assessment of China’s policies in Xinjiang before next month’s Beijing Winter Olympics, which the U.S. government is boycotting on a diplomatic level over what it says is ongoing genocide in the
Jeff Merkley says it’s time to talk about the … talking filibuster
Good mooorning, Early Birds. We’re going to spend the snowy three-day weekend digesting Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly’s engagement and an almost Rep. Ben Affleck (Mass.). What will you do? Play Wordle, perhaps? Let us know how you fare: earlytips@washpost.com. ?? SCOOP: “Leaders of the federal judiciary have had to backtrack after nearly three dozen law clerks and judges’s assistants affirmed
Lawmakers seek to strip IOC of tax-exempt status for going easy on China’s Winter Olympics
The International Olympic Committee would be stripped of its federal tax-exempt status under legislation that could be proposed as early as next week, four people with direct knowledge of the plan told USA TODAY Sports. The proposed legislation has bipartisan support and is in response to the IOC’s refusal to challenge
Senator Jeff Merkley on protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) has been in office for over a decade, and since assuming his seat in 2009, so much has changed. Presidents have come and gone, renewable sources of energy have begun to boom, and the COVID-19 pandemic has totally transformed just about everything in our lives. One
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