Senator Merkley on China’s Erasure of Tibetan, Mongolian, and Uyghur Cultures
Senator Merkley questioned witnesses during a Congressional-Executive Commission on China hearing titled “The Preservation of Memory: Combatting the CCP’s Historical Revisionism and Erasure of Culture” on December 5, 2024. Watch the full hearing: https://www.cecc.gov/events/hearings/preservation-memory-combating-ccps-historical-revisionism-and-erasure-culture
We need oversight for TSA’s facial recognition system.
I’m pushing for rigorous oversight of TSA’s facial recognition system—the building blocks for a national surveillance state. Remember: you can opt out!
Merkley to Biden Admin on Public Lands Damage: We Can’t Let “Devastation Sit there Unaddressed”
In the face of the damage that wildfires, hurricanes, landslides, tornados, and flooding have wrought on national parks, wildlife refuges, and national forests across the country during the past two years, Senator Merkley made the case for restoration and repair of public lands and infrastructure during a Senate Appropriations Committee
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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