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: Let there be a vote on Volcker
Senator Jeff Merkley talks with Dylan Ratigan on MSNBC about the effort by Wall Street lobbyists to kill the Merkley-Levin amendment that will put an end to high-risk trading and ban conflicts of interest.
Merkley-Levin Amendment Promotes Lending to Small Businesses
Senator Merkley talks about his amendment with Senator Levin to take high-risk trading out of commercial banks in order to free up lending for small business…
Senator Merkley Honors Nurses During National Nurses Week
Senator Merkley took to the floor to recognize the more than three million nurses nationwide during National Nurses Week.
Senator Merkley Advocates for Strong Consumer Protection
Senator Jeff Merkley stresses the importance of creating a Consumer Financial Protection Agency in order to prevent financial scams from hurting our working families.
The Fight for Wall Street Reform
Senator Jeff Merkley took to the floor to talk about how working families have been hit hard by the risky business on Wall Street.
Sen. Merkley Talks to Dylan Ratigan about Common Sense Reform for Wall Street
Senator Merkley spoke with Dylan Ratigan on MSNBC to talk about the need to ban high-risk trading inside our lending banks so that we can return to the days where the banks’ central focus was to lend to small businesses and families.
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