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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

Docs-to-Doctors

Our veterans have stood up for us, and we must stand up for them. Long wait times put our veterans’ health in jeopardy and are simply unacceptable. That’s why I introduced the ‘docs-to-doctors’ program. Learn more here: merkley.senate.gov

It’s time to #StopKavanaugh!

Donald Trump is an unindicted co-conspirator in a felony committed by his personal lawyer. FOUR of his campaign aides are already GUILTY of crimes. His nominee to SCOTUS is a judge who says presidents shouldn’t be prosecuted or even investigated. Does anyone see a problem here? It’s time to Stop

Fly Smart Act

Did it make you mad to read that Scott Pruitt was jetting around the country on luxury, first-class flights at taxpayer expense? Me too – and I’ve got a plan to fix it. Learn more at Merkley.Senate.gov

The Protecting Students from Worthless Degrees Act

Higher education should be a path to the American Dream, but that dream is shattered if when students graduate, they find that their degrees are worthless. This system is broken, and the Protecting Students from Worthless Degrees Act would help fix it.

World Humanitarian Day

As we mark this year’s World Humanitarian Day, we need to step up in the face of devastating famines that threaten millions of lives. U.S. food aid has saved countless lives; our foreign aid is critical as a matter of morality and U.S. national security interests.

Reunite Children With Their Families

Today is the court-imposed deadline for the Trump administration to reunite children with their families. They missed it. This will go down as a shameful chapter in American history.

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