WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 -- Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, chair of the House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services, issued the following opening statement as part of a Sept. 28, 2021, virtual hearing entitled "How to Save a Life: Successful Models for Protecting Communities from COVID-19": * * * We are examining best practices for increasing COVID-19 vaccinations through the lens of health equity. To date, the CDC reports that 686,639 people in the United States ha more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee issued the following opening statement at a Sept. 22, 2021, hearing on nominations for the Health and Human Services and Treasury departments. The nominees are Christi A. Grimm to be Inspector General at the Health and Human Services Department and Neil Harvey MacBride to be General Counsel for the Treasury Department. * * * The Finance Committee meets this morning to discuss two nominations for key roles more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- Rep. Peter A. DeFazio, D-Oregon, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, issued the following news release on Oct. 15, 2021: Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Salud Carbajal (D-CA) announced the subcommittee will hold a hearing titled, "Achieving Mission Balance: Positioning the Coast Guard for the Future." This hearing more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 -- Rep. Peter A. DeFazio, D-Oregon, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, issued the following joint statement on Oct. 13, 2021, with Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-California: * * * Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Salud Carbajal (D-CA) issued the following statement regarding allegations of rape and sexual harassment of studen more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -- Rep. Peter A. DeFazio, D-Oregon, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, issued the following news release: Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Chair of the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Salud Carbajal (D-CA), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Donald M. Payne, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statements on the critical steps t more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 -- Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Oct. 12, 2021: U.S. Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)--the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade--is leading eighteen of his colleagues in pressing the Biden administration to emphasize strong worker protections at the upcoming twelfth World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference (MC12). MC12 is scheduled to begin on November 30 in Geneva, Switzerland, amid historic econom more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 -- Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Oct. 13, 2021: U.S. Representative Peter DeFazio (OR-04), along with Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, and Representatives Earl Blumenauer (OR-03), Kurt Schrader (OR-05), and Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01) today requested answers on alleged mistreatment of Oregon National Guard (ORNG) servicemembers deployed to assist with the state's COVID response. In a letter to Oregon Governor Kate Brown and Major Gene more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 -- Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Oct. 13, 2021: U.S. Representative Peter DeFazio (OR-04), along with Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, and Representatives Earl Blumenauer (OR-03), Kurt Schrader (OR-05), and Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01) today requested answers on alleged mistreatment of Oregon National Guard (ORNG) servicemembers deployed to assist with the state's COVID response. In a letter to Oregon Governor Kate Brown and Major Genera more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Oct. 15, 2021: Today Congresswomen Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), and Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM) introduced comprehensive legislation to increase access to arts education. The Arts Education for All Act will support and encourage arts education and programming for our young children, K-12 students, and youth and adults involved in the justice system. It will help to close existing  more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 -- Rep. Peter A. DeFazio, D-Oregon, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, issued the following news release on Oct. 13, 2021: Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN) urged President Biden to ensure protection of clean water by reopening and reexamining the 57 Nationwide Permits (NWPs) proposed by the Trump administration. Codified in the Clean Water Act of 1977,  more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Oct. 15, 2021: U.S. Representatives Kurt Schrader (D-OR-05) and Markwayne Mullin (R-OK-02) introduced the bipartisan Long-Term Care Pharmacy Definition Act of 2021. This commonsense legislation is the House companion bill to the Senate version, introduced by U.S. Senators Tim Scott (R-SC) and Mark Warner (D-VA). Long-term care (LTC) pharmacies provide medication management for many seniors and other vulne more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley is leading a push today to urge the Biden administration to make a decisive pivot away from the policies of the Trump administration and raise the standard of care for unaccompanied children in U.S. custody. Merkley was joined in his effort by U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Alex Padilla (D-CA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Sheld more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Oct. 13, 2021: U.S. Representative Peter DeFazio (OR-04), along with Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, and Representatives Earl Blumenauer (OR-03), Kurt Schrader (OR-05), and Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01) today requested answers on alleged mistreatment of Oregon National Guard (ORNG) servicemembers deployed to assist with the state's COVID response. In a letter to Oregon Governor Kate Brown and Major General more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement on Oct. 13, 2021, after the Social Security Administration announced benefits will increase by 5.9% in 2022: * * * "This increase in Social Security benefits will be welcome for millions of Americans trying to make ends meet after the previous administration's bungled response to COVID-19 left us in an economic crisis of shortages and price increases. "Working Americans p more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Oct. 13, 2021: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden today expressed concerns in a letter to the parent company of Mt. Bachelor that the introduction of the "Fast Tracks" pass at the Central Oregon ski resort will result in inequitable access to public lands. "Given the serious concerns this policy raises about equitable access to the public lands on which Mt. Bachelor operates under its U.S. Forest Service Special Use perm more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Peter DeFazio (OR-04), along with Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, and Representatives Earl Blumenauer (OR-03), Kurt Schrader (OR-05), and Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01) today requested answers on alleged mistreatment of Oregon National Guard (ORNG) servicemembers deployed to assist with the state's COVID response. In a letter to Oregon Governor Kate Brown and Major General Michael E. Stencel, more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: As Oregon, California, and many other states across the U.S. confront an unprecedented housing affordability crisis, Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-CA) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) are leading a major push to ensure that comprehensive housing investments stay in President Biden's Build Back Better plan. The three senators were joined in their push by more than two dozen S more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Oct. 14, 2021: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced today Oregon State University will receive a $2 million grant from the Department of Energy to study the impact of offshore winds on the environment. "Moving rapidly to a clean energy future requires having the best and brightest minds provide robust research on ways to make that vision a reality," said Merkley. "I am pleased OSU wi more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Oct. 14, 2021: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced today Oregon State University will receive a $2 million grant from the Department of Energy to study the impact of offshore winds on the environment. "Moving rapidly to a clean energy future requires having the best and brightest minds provide robust research on ways to make that vision a reality," said Merkley. "I am pleased OSU will  more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, issued the following news release: As California, Oregon, and many other states across the country confront an unprecedented housing affordability crisis, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) are leading a major push to ensure that comprehensive housing investments stay in President Biden's Build Back Better plan. If included in the plan, these investments would have a transformatio more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley expressed their disappointment over the United States' inhumane treatment of Haitian migrants at the southern border and their summary deportations. In a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Wyden, Merkley and 14 of their Senate colleagues also called for the immediate appointment of a new Special E more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley expressed their disappointment over the United States' inhumane treatment of Haitian migrants at the southern border and their summary deportations. In a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Wyden, Merkley and 14 of their Senate colleagues also called for the immediate appointment of a new Special Envo more PR