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
Senators Hold Press Conference Decrying GMO Labeling Proposal as Inadequate
U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Jon Tester (D-MT), Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) hold a press conference on July 6, 2016 to express their concerns over the Senate proposal for the labeling of genetically modified foods (GMOs) and to emphasize the importance of protecting consumers’
Merkley: Let’s Pass Common-Sense Gun Safety Measures — and End Anti-LGBT Discrimination
Following the mass shooting in Orlando, Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley joins Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) late on June 15, 2016 to discuss taking common-sense steps to improve gun safety and ending discrimination against the LGBT community.
Merkley: When will Congress finally say enough is enough?
Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley joins Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) on the Senate Floor on June 15, 2016, to call for action following the tragic shooting in Orlando, Florida.
‘We the People’ not ‘We the Powerful’
June 8, 2016—Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley joins Senate Democrats on the steps of the Capitol to unveil new legislation — “We the People” — to reform government and take back our democracy from special interests.
An historic victory for chemical safety
June 7, 2016—Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley speaks on the Senate floor after the United States Senate passed the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, landmark legislation to better protect our kids and families from dangerous toxic chemicals in everyday products.
Protecting against exploding oil trains
Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley speaks on the Union Pacific oil train accident that took place near Mosier, Oregon and the urgent need to protect our communities from the threat of dangerous oil trains.
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