End Price Gouging for Medications Act
I wrote the End Pricing Gouging for Medications Act because we need to stop Big Pharma’s price gouging in its tracks and make sure essential medicine is affordable for everyone in our country. Read more about the End Price Gouging for Medications Act: https://www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-welch-dingell-crack-down-on-pharmaceutical-greed-introduce-bill-to-end-prescription-drugs-price-gouging/
Senator Merkley Highlights the Need for Climate Action in Hearing – Opening Statement
Senator Merkley highlights the critical importance of investing in climate action and tackling our plastic pollution crisis during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies hearing titled, “A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Request for the Environmental Protection Agency” on May 1, 2024. Watch
Senator Merkley Drills Down on Big Oil Lies in Budget Committee Hearing
Senator Merkley asks Representative Raskin about Big Oil’s efforts to avoid accountability for its role in climate chaos in a Senate Budget Committee Hearing titled, “Denial, Disinformation, and Doublespeak: Big Oil’s Evolving Efforts to Avoid, Accountability for Climate Change” on May 1, 2024. Watch the full hearing: https://www.budget.senate.gov/hearings/denial-disinformation-and-doublespeak_big-oils-evolving-efforts-to-avoid-accountability-for-climate-change
2020 Wasco County Town Hall
(Originally streamed live on July 21st, 2020) – I sat down with Oregonians in Wasco County for a virtual town hall, and we streamed our conversation right here to Facebook. Town hall begins around the 6 minute mark. Watch below to hear everything we talked about, including unmarked secret police
Every American should be terrified by what they’ve seen
(Originally posted July 20, 2020) – I’m flying back to DC right now to introduce legislation to STOP TRUMP from using his federal forces as secret military police. What he is doing in our state is the stuff of dictatorships and nightmares, and let me be clear: If he gets
This feels like an occupying force with no transparency.
(Originally posted July 13th, 2020) – By sending in this kind of occupying force, Donald Trump has inflamed the situation, not helped it. The Trump/Barr occupiers should get out of Oregon.
A Legacy America Must Confront
(Originally posted June 19th, 1865) – On June 19, 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, enslaved African-Americans in Galveston, Texas, finally received the news that they were free. 155 years later, we as a nation are still struggling to understand that the legacy of slavery is systemic
Merkley Leads Colleagues in Demanding Equality Act Passage
(Originally streamed live on June 18th, 2020) – I’m taking to the Senate Floor to demand that Mitch McConnell finally bring the #EqualityAct up for a vote. Last week’s devastating rollbacks in health care protections for transgender Americans makes clear that EQUALITY CANNOT WAIT.
Merkley Demands Action, Change, and Passage of the Justice in Policing Act
(Originally streamed live on June 16th, 2020) – Now is the time to be agents of change. I’m taking to the Senate Floor to demand action and call on the Senate to pass Senators Cory Booker and Kamala Harris’s “Justice in Policing Act.”
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