WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Rep. Peter A. DeFazio, D-Oregon, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, issued the following news release on Jan. 27, 2022: Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) announced the subcommittee will hold a hearing titled, "Finding the Right Frequency: 5G Deployment & Aviation Safety." During this hearing, members will have an opportunity to more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 -- Rep. Peter A. DeFazio, D-Oregon, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, issued the following news release on Jan. 28, 2022: Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced the subcommittee will hold a hearing titled, "The Road Ahead for Automated Vehicles." The hearing will explore the infrastructure, safety, workf more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 -- The House Small Business Committee issued the following testimony by Nataki Garrett, artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, involving a remote hearing on Jan. 19, 2022, entitled "The Power, Peril and Promise of the Creative Economy": * * * My name is Nataki Garrett and I am the Artistic Director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. I am honored to be with you and share how the arts sector has been affected by COVID-19, to highlight our economic and social i more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 -- Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Jan. 25, 2022: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $25 million in funding to support increased research, development, and demonstration of technologies that harness wave power to create electricity. The funding supports eight projects that will make up the first round of open-water testing at the PacWave South test site off the Oregon coast. These awards will strengthen wave energy techn more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Jan. 26, 2022: Congressman Kurt Schrader (OR-05) is proud to announce the Tillamook Bay & Bar Project at the Port of Garibaldi has been approved for $62 million by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) to repair damages to the South Jetty's head and trunk. The funding for this critical safety project long championed by Congressman Schrader will largely come from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment  more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 -- Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-Oregon, issued the following news release on Jan. 24, 2022: Congressman Cliff Bentz, Congressman Fred Keller, and House Committee on Veterans' Affairs Ranking Member Mike Bost led a letter to the National Archives and Records Administration demanding that the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) fully reopen. This in response to the agency's recent decision to decrease capacity to 25%, which will further exacerbate veterans' inability to access cri more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 -- Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, issued the following joint statement on Jan. 28, 2022: * * * U.S. Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade, alongside U.S. Congressmen Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) and Dan Kildee (D-MI), today released the following statement amid reports of worker intimidation ahead of next week's union election at General Motors' (GM) Silao plant in Mexico. "Workers should be able to choose what union t more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Jan. 27, 2022: Congresswomen Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) and Elise Stefanik (R-NY) today led a bipartisan letter requesting the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary provide container size flexibility in the WIC program to improve families' food choices and access to certain foods, including dairy items such as yogurt. Under current guidelines for the Special Supplemental Nutritional Pro more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-New York, issued the following news release on Jan. 27, 2022: Congresswoman Elise Stefanik today led a bipartisan letter with Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-Oregon) requesting the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary to provide container size flexibility in the WIC program to improve families' food choices and access to certain foods, including dairy items such as yogurt. Under current guidelines for the Special Supplemental  more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following floor statement on Jan. 26, 2022: * * * Mr. President, I compliment my colleagues from Maine and Georgia for engaging in perhaps the most substantive exchange I have ever witnessed in 13 years here in the Senate. Earlier this evening, one of my colleagues from across the aisle said: Why are we going down this road? And there have been similar questions: Why is this so important? Why is this bill so important? I will ans more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release on Jan. 26, 2022: Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today commended a new report from the Biden administration which highlights enforcement efforts and ongoing improvements to the mental health parity law to ensure health insurance plans are in compliance with the law's requirements. "For more than a decade, the laws on the books have said mental health c more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following statement: * * * Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement on the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. "Justice Stephen Breyer has served with distinction for nearly 30 years. I thank him for his service and his commitment to upholding the rule of law and the Constitution. "President Biden's nominee to the Supreme Court will be put forward at a critical time. The six Republicans on the Supreme C more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following statement on Jan. 22, 2022: * * * Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on the 49th anniversary of the decision of Roe v. Wade, which has protected reproductive rights and access for millions of Americans. "Thanks to Roe v. Wade, access to safe and legal abortion has been a constitutional right for nearly half a century. "Despite this essential advancement for reproductiv more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release on Jan. 27, 2022: Bicameral Democratic Health Committee Chairs wrote to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure today to express their strong support for the Biden Administration's policies included in the proposed Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2023 (Pro more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Jan. 26, 2022: After many years of advocacy on behalf of Tillamook Bay, where infrastructure problems at the Port of Garibaldi impact local residents, commercial fisherman, and tourists, Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today announced the allocation of $62 million from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) passed by Congress and signed by President Biden last fall to address cr more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), member of the United States Senate Committee on Finance, and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) led their colleagues in a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen expressing concern that persistent underfunding of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will have negative effects on American taxpayers. Warren, Merkley, and their colleagues are calling for a minimum 14% i more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Jerry Moran, R-Kan., welcomed Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines' acknowledgement that the U.S. declassification system is failing and in need of urgent repair, in response to their request that she take swift and meaningful actions to reform the country's broken declassification system. In her response, Director Haines acknowledged the serious dangers posed by the cur more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release: Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Senate Aging Committee Chair Bob Casey (D-PA) along with 15 senators, called on the Social Security Administration (SSA) to provide an update on its efforts to improve field office services for beneficiaries amid the continuing challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. "SSA has a responsibility and a duty to provide more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (TNSRep) -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release on Jan. 27, 2022: Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Ranking Member Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, today called for the United States to use its trade tools to fight back against censorship and digital authoritarianism in China, Russia and other countries, in response to a new report by the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) that details the sprea more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley this week joined colleagues to call on the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to provide penalty relief for taxpayers in Oregon and nationwide amid extensive, ongoing processing backlogs at the IRS. "While the COVID-19 pandemic has strained every federal agency, the impact on the IRS has been particularly severe," Wyden, Merkley and more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley this week joined colleagues to call on the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to provide penalty relief for taxpayers in Oregon and nationwide amid extensive, ongoing processing backlogs at the IRS. "While the COVID-19 pandemic has strained every federal agency, the impact on the IRS has been particularly severe," Wyden, Merkley and th more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Jan. 24, 2022: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley said today that Oregon health care providers in Portland and Northeast Oregon will receive a combined total of $4.5 million from the American Rescue Plan to improve retention and reduce burnout during a critical staffing shortage. "Oregon health care workers all over the state have shared heartbreaking and harrowing accounts of long hours and few breaks  more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Jan. 24, 2022: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley said today that Oregon health care providers in Portland and Northeast Oregon will receive a combined total of $4.5 million from the American Rescue Plan to improve retention and reduce burnout during a critical staffing shortage. * "Oregon health care workers all over the state have shared heartbreaking and harrowing accounts of long hours and few br more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley this week announced that Mercy Foundation in Roseburg will receive $375,768 from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to expand telehealth services for rural schools. "The pandemic has forced us to find different ways to deliver health care services safely and efficiently, including through broadband," Wyden said. "When I visited Mercy Medical in Roseburg last  more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley this week announced that Mercy Foundation in Roseburg will receive $375,768 from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to expand telehealth services for rural schools. "The pandemic has forced us to find different ways to deliver health care services safely and efficiently, including through broadband," Wyden said. "When I visited Mercy Medical in Roseburg last wee more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley this week announced that Oregon will receive $1.23 million in federal reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for emergency protective measures in extreme fire conditions and hazardous debris removal from the Riverside Fire that ripped through Clackamas County in September 2020. "The Oregon State Fire Marshal went above and beyond the call of more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley this week announced that Oregon will receive $1.23 million in federal reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for emergency protective measures in extreme fire conditions and hazardous debris removal from the Riverside Fire that ripped through Clackamas County in September 2020. "The Oregon State Fire Marshal went above and beyond the call of du more PR