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
Merkley: Trade policy should be judged by whether it creates good American jobs
Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley speaks about U.S. trade policy on the floor of the U.S. Senate on February 26, 2015.
Merkley Speaks Out Against Looming Homeland Security Shutdown
Sen. Merkley speaks on the Senate floor against a misguided plan that puts deporting DREAMers ahead of protecting and strengthening Homeland Security.
Merkley on Keystone: “You want to unleash the dirtiest oil in the world?”
Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley speaks out on the floor of the Senate against the Keystone XL Pipeline on January 13, 2015.
Merkley: Congress Must Deliver for the Klamath Basin
Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley speaks on the floor of the Senate on December 16, 2014 on the community-developed water agreements in the Klamath Basin and the…
Senator Merkley Questions NY Fed President on Too Big To Jail
Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley questions William Dudley, the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, on whether financial regulators have truly end…
Merkley Speaks Out Against Keystone XL Pipeline
Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley speaks on the Senate Floor opposing a bill to fast-track construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline and explaining why the pipeli…