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
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.
Merkley Calls Out GOP Efforts to Roll Back Dodd-Frank
Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley calls out recent GOP efforts to roll back Dodd-Frank at a Senate Banking Committee hearing on June 7, 2016.
Merkley: Honoring Your Right to Know
May 25, 2016—This week in his “We the People” speech series, Senator Merkley discusses the importance of ensuring consumers can find genetically-modified organism (GMO) ingredient labeling on food packaging while ensuring that food producers are not subject to confusing or conflicting labeling requirements in different locations.
Merkley: Senator Merkley Discusses Supreme Court Nominee Merrick Garland
5/19/15 – Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley shares his thoughts after meeting with Chief Judge Merrick Garland, President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States, and the urgent need to fulfill the Senate’s constitutional responsibility to hold hearings, debates and votes in committee and on the floor.
Crowdfunding Small Business: One Dollar at a Time
Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley celebrates the start of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s new equity crowdfunding rules will allow startups and small businesses in all fifty states to raise capital from small-dollar investors.
Merkley to Senate GOP: Hold Public Hearings for Judge Garland
April 27, 2016—This week in his “We the People” speech series, Senator Merkley addresses the Senate’s constitutional obligation to holding public hearings and provide advice and consent on the President’s nominee for the Supreme Court of the United States. Since 1975, the President’s Supreme Court nominees have waited an average
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