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
Jeff Merkley says he asked FBI to investigate DHS secretary for perjury because he’s ‘sick and tired of this administration lying’
Washington (CNN)Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley said Monday that he asked the FBI to open a perjury investigation into Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen last week because “it’s time for some real accountability.” “I am just sick and tired of this administration lying to the American people, lying to Congress, doing
U.S. Senator Merkley seeks FBI probe of DHS chief for possible perjury
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Democratic U.S. senator on Friday asked the FBI to probe whether Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen committed perjury when she testified to Congress that the administration never had a policy to separate immigrant families. Senator Jeff Merkley has been an outspoken critic of the Trump administration’s
Wyden, Merkley bill would give Medicare drug negotiating power
WASHINGTON – Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., introduced a bill this week they say would allow Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices for the 43 million seniors who participate in Medicare Part D. “Medicare should be able to use its massive bargaining power to lower seniors’ drug prices. It’s high
‘A moral disaster’: AP reveals scope of migrant kids program
Decades after the U.S. stopped institutionalizing kids because large and crowded orphanages were causing lasting trauma, it is happening again. The federal government has placed most of the 14,300 migrant toddlers, children and teens in its care in detention centers and residential facilities packed with hundreds, or thousands, of children.
Sen. Merkley urges Trump administration to end border camps for asylum seekers
Senator Merkley made a trip to the US- Mexico border this weekend, leading a group of legislators to see firsthand the families being held in government camps. He describes thousands waiting in hopes of having their asylum claims to be heard. Merkley and other legislators held a press conference Saturday
Merkley bill would stop USDA from euthanizing kittens
Washington (CNN)Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley is joining forces with a Republican congressman to stop Agriculture Department researchers from euthanizing kittens used in their work. Merkley told CNN he introduced on Wednesday a Senate version of the KITTEN Act — officially, the “Kittens in Traumatic Testing Ends Now Act of 2018.”
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