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
Democrats: GOP will ‘rue the day’ it pushed Pruitt vote for EPA
The Senate confirmed Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency Friday, installing one of the agency’s fiercest critics as the nation’s leading environmental regulator just hours after an Oklahoma judge ordered the release of his email conversations with oil, gas and coal groups. On
Oregon lawmakers urge rural county, schools funding
WASHINGTON – Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore., led a bipartisan group of lawmakers Friday in urging Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget, to include adequate funding for the Secure Rural Schools program in the president’s budget for fiscal year 2018. Wyden and Bonamici
SCOTT PRUITT, THE E.P.A., AND THE REPUBLICANS’ BARGAIN WITH TRUMP
Given that a cache of documents that might show whether Scott Pruitt, President Donald Trump’s choice to run the Environmental Protection Agency, ought to get the job is due to be released next Tuesday, why did Senate Republicans insist, over Democratic protests, on holding a confirmation voteon Friday? Since there was
Republicans rush to confirm Trump’s EPA nominee Scott Pruitt after federal judge orders release of fossil fuel emails
Senate Republicans were desperate to push through one of President Donald Trump’s most controversial Cabinet nominees Friday without a complete vetting of his record — confirming EPA nominee Scott Pruitt, 52-46. Late Thursday night, a judge in Oklahoma ordered thousands of letters between Pruitt and fossil fuel companies be made public. It’s a request he’s
Malheur County farmers, ranchers to receive federal assistance for snow storm damage
Farmers and ranchers in Malheur County whose crops were crushed or whose livestock was lost in winter storms may now apply for emergency loans through the US Department of Agriculture. The department’s Farm Service Agency announced Thursday it would offer assistance to those in Malheur County, as well as several neighboring counties.
Merkley, Wyden support bill to repeal ‘global gag rule’
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden are co-sponsoring a bill that would repeal the Mexico City Policy, an anti-abortion measure reinstated by President Donald Trump that threatens to strip funding from healthcare providers around the world. Trump is the first president to expand the policy, known as
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