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
Merkley leads senators urging rapid famine aid
WASHINGTON – Amid an historic global famine crisis, a bipartisan coalition of senators led by Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., is pushing the Trump administration for rapid action to ensure that newly dedicated American assistance reaches hunger-stricken areas as soon as possible. The members of the Senate Foreign Relations and Appropriations
Senate Inquiries Narrow as Rosenstein Suggests Plan to Fire Comey Predated Memo
WASHINGTON — Republican senators signaled on Thursday that the Justice Department’s special counsel investigation into Russia’s interference in the presidential election and possible collusion by associates of President Trump would quite likely slow and narrow the scope of their own inquiries. Five different Senate and House committees — including both
U.S. senators from both parties try to ease banking for marijuana businesses
May 17 Republican and Democratic senators on Wednesday renewed their drive to make banking easier for marijuana-based businesses in those U.S. states where the drug is legal, undeterred by signals from the Trump administration about maintaining tough marijuana restrictions nationally. The eight senators, who spanned the political spectrum from libertarian-leaning
Trump’s new EPA appointee violates his own ethics order, senators say
On January 28, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on ethics, mandating that any political appointee who worked as a registered lobbyist within two years of their appointment be barred from participating in any matter related to their previous job. Now, two Democratic Senators are arguing that would effectively prevent the
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Appoints A Special Counsel To Oversee Russia Probe
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has appointed a special counsel to oversee the investigation into Russian influence in the 2016 election, ending weeks of speculation about how Rosenstein would respond to the growing chorus of lawmakers and advocacy groups calling for such a move. Rosenstein has named former FBI director Robert Mueller,
Can Senator Jeff Merkley Help Democrats Reclaim the Health-Care Narrative?
In the fall of 2009, as he was preparing for a town-hall meeting in rural Oregon, Senator Jeff Merkley’s staff got a call from a local lawyer, who advised him to show up wearing a bulletproof vest. Merkley, along with Barack Obama, had been elected the previous year, narrowly unseating
English 
Spanish