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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

Congress frees up $10 million for Project drought relief

The U.S. House of Representatives passed an amendment of the 2000 Klamath Basin Water Supply Enhancement Act on Thursday, which will better distribute $10 million in funding every year to drought relief efforts in the Klamath Basin. The bill passed the Senate in June and is headed to President Trump’s

Solar array makes Hermiston RV park first of its kind

The new Panelview RV Park near Hermiston is the first of its kind to provide solar shade canopy solar arrays, meaning on a sunny day more energy could be produced than a motorhome can use. The 147-kilowatt solar array system will generate an estimated 226,357 kilowatt-hours of renewable electricity per

Merkley intros bill to protect jobless workers’ health insurance during COVID-19

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., along with 14 Senate Democrats, has introduced the Worker Health Coverage Protection Act, a bill that would protect millions of unemployed or furloughed workers from losing their health insurance by enabling them to access subsidized COBRA coverage and keep their insurance. The bill would provide a 100

Merkley bill would provide aid to families hit by natural disasters, economic crises

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) said Monday he has teamed up with Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) to introduce the Family Crisis Cash Assistance Act, legislation that would create a new, permanent program to help families struggling through a natural disaster or economic crisis with immediate cash assistance. As the COVID-19 pandemic has made clear, direct

Senators press FEMA for quick action after Oregon wildfires

Oregon’s U.S. senators say they will press the Federal Emergency Management Agency and others to step up their efforts to aid people and businesses who lost their property or saw it damaged by the recent wildfires that swept the state after Labor Day. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley concluded

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