Senator Merkley Slams USPS Delays and Downgrades on Senate Floor
Senator Merkley spoke on the U.S. Senate Floor on Monday, July 29, 2024, about recent USPS downgrades that delay and degrade service for folks in Oregon and across the country.
Senator Merkley speaks out on the need to ban Congressional stock trading
Senator Merkley gave remarks at a press conference on the need to pass the ETHICS Act to ban lawmakers from buying and trading stocks. Politicians should work for the public, not for their stock portfolios. Watch the full press conference: https://youtube.com/live/xb6-Fs8xVb4 Read more about the ETHICS Act: https://www.merkley.senate.gov/peters-merkley-hawley-and-ossoff-announce-historic-bipartisan-agreement-to-advance-legislation-to-ban-member-stock-trading/
Reform our Immigration System, Pass the Children’s Safe Welcome Act
Senator Merkley, Representative Kamlager-Dove, Mina Dixon Davis of the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, and Neha Desai of the National Center for Youth Law discuss the Children’s Safe Welcome Act and the need to reform our immigration system. The bicameral Children’s Safe Welcome Act embeds best practices for child
KEZI: Merkley Launches New Coronavirus Webpage
(Originally released February 29th, 2020) – ICYMI: I released a new coronavirus resource page at www.merkley.senate.gov/coronavirus. Please visit and share for recommendations on how to limit exposure, what to do if you suspect you’ve been exposed, and how to create outbreak response plans at your workplace.
Merkley Questions Trump Admin on Child Separation Case
(Originally posted February 25th, 2020) – A little girl was held in detention. Despite having approval to live with her family, she was never informed she had family who wanted her. After 6 years she chose to be deported, not knowing the truth. Today I pressed Secretary Azar on her
Introducing the #BreakFreeFromPlastic Pollution Act
(Originally posted February 11th, 2020) – Did you know you may be eating 5 grams of microplastics each week? That’s the same as eating an entire credit card every seven days. Plastics aren’t just polluting our environment, they’re polluting our bodies and putting us at higher risk for cancers. That’s
Rally at the Capitol to #RejectTheCoverup
(Originally posted February 5th, 2020) – What we saw today was not the end of a trial. It was the execution of a cover-up. The president’s abuses of power have now seeped into the Senate, threatening the very foundations of this Chamber and our rule of law. Without a full
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