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
Merkley on MSNBC: We Must End LGBT Employment Discrimination
Senator Merkley spoke with MSNBC’s Richard Lui about his bill ENDA to end LGBT employment discrimination.
Merkley: No Internet Sales Tax
Senator Merkley spoke on the floor on his opposition to the internet sales tax bill.
Merkley: “Independent” Foreclosure Review a Farce
In a Banking Subcommittee hearing on the Independent Foreclosure Review, Senator Merkley voiced his concerns with the outcome and its a affect on families wh…
Senator Merkley Speaks Out Against “Chained CPI”
In an interview with Chris Hayes on MSNBC, Oregon’s Senator voiced his disagreement with the President’s proposal to use a new cost of living adjustment that will cut benefits for seniors on Social Security.
Merkley: We must Cut Tax Loopholes
In the Senate Budget Committee, Senator Jeff Merkley said it is unfair to put programs thats benefit the most powerful in the tax code, then say it’s off lim…
Senator Merkley HSBC Q and A
Senator Merkley questions regulators over the lack of criminal prosecutions in the HSBC case.