WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Rep. Peter A. DeFazio, D-Oregon, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, issued the following news release on April 27, 2022: The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, from 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) during today's hearing titled, "Review of Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Request  more PR

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Rep. Peter A. DeFazio, D-Oregon, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, issued the following news release on April 27, 2022: The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, from 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) during today's hearing titled, "Examining Workforce Development and Job Creation in Su more PR

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-Oregon, issued the following news release: Congressman Cliff Bentz (OR-02) and 14 of his colleagues introduced the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) Accountability Act, a bill to return the NPRC to pre-pandemic funding levels if it fails to process and resolve the personnel record backlog of 600,000 requests before October 1, 2022. "I was pleased to see the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) reopen in March of this year, after nearly two more PR

WASHINGTON, April 22 -- Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: U.S. Congressman Kurt Schrader (OR-05) issued the following statement after joining President Biden and members of the Oregon delegation to celebrate the transformational investments secured in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: "It was an honor to welcome President Biden back to Oregon to celebrate a signature, lifetime achievement in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law," Rep. Schrader said. "It was a plea more PR

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) introduced a joint resolution to designate May 7th as Brain Donation Awareness Day. Post-mortem brain donation is critically important to advance the science of treating and curing degenerative brain diseases. "Brain donations provide a rare research opportunity for cognitive scientists to physically study the human brain. This is one key to more PR

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, issued the following news release on April 26, 2022: Senators Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Kennedy (R-Louisiana), and Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina) sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding to know why the Department of Justice to placed three deputy U.S. Marshals (DUSMs) on limited duty and opened an investigation into  more PR

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on April 26, 2022: Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley today is joined by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden and U.S. Representatives Peter DeFazio, Earl Blumenauer, Kurt Schrader, Suzanne Bonamici, and Cliff Bentz in a letter to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland calling for a renewed commitment to the Western Oregon Operating Plan (WOOP). Set to expire in 2024, WOOP serves as the agreement that governs fire response for the more PR

WASHINGTON, April 18 -- Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Arizona, issued the following news release: $188.7 million will be invested in Arizona wildfire mitigation efforts for the City of Prescott and the Four Forests Restoration Initiative (4FRI) from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs law led by Senator Kyrsten Sinema and shaped by Senator Mark Kelly. The investments comes as part of the USDA Forest Service's 10-year wildfire strategy: Confronting the Wildfire Crisis: A Strategy for Pro more PR

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following statement on April 26, 2022: * * * The office of U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement on Senator Wyden testing positive for COVID-19. "As part of routine testing, Senator Wyden tested positive today for COVID-19. "He is fully vaccinated and experiencing minor symptoms. "He is in Washington, D.C. and working from his residence while following CDC guidance to quarantine." more PR

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on April 28, 2022: Amid numerous allegations of corporations padding their profits by raising prices to gouge consumers, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today urged the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to ensure Americans are aware they can report suspected price gouging to the FTC, either at ReportFraud.FTC.gov or the fraud telephone hotline at 877-382-4358, or via traditional mail. "I write to express my concer more PR

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden joined colleagues this week in introducing a resolution to support the designation of April 2022 as "Preserving Local News Month." The resolution recognizes local news as a public good that serves an essential function in the democracy of the United States. "As the son of a journalist, I am proud to introduce legislation recognizing the importance of local news in our democracy," said Wy more PR

WASHINGTON, April 28 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on April 27, 2022: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden and Senate colleagues today sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in support of the Biden administration's proposal to better support immigrants by updating the "public charge" regulation. The Biden administration's proposed regulation would replace the public charge rule enacted by the Trump administration in 2019, which made it significantly m more PR

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., a senior member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, called on the FBI to explain the increase in the number of searches of Americans' communications, and to stop providing essentially meaningless statistics to the American people. "For anyone outside the U.S. government, the astronomical number of FBI searches of Americans' communications is either highly alarming or entirely meaning more PR

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release on April 26, 2022: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined colleagues in demanding to know why the Justice Department placed three deputy U.S. Marshals (DUSMs) on limited duty and opened an investigation into a use-of-force incident during the defense of the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon in July 202. The questions were raised in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland led by Sen. Tom Cott more PR

WASHINGTON, April 28 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on April 27, 2022: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today announced the Tumalo, Owyhee, East Fork, and Ochoco Irrigation District projects will be receiving critical federal funding that will help drought-stricken communities make the most of limited water supplies. These projects--funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and Fiscal Year 2022 appropriations bill, both of which Sen more PR

WASHINGTON, April 28 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on April 27, 2022: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today announced the Tumalo, Owyhee, East Fork, and Ochoco Irrigation District projects will be receiving critical federal funding that will help drought-stricken communities make the most of limited water supplies. These projects--funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and Fiscal Year 2022 appropriations bill, both of which  more PR

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on April 28, 2022: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today led colleagues in a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) urging the Department to continue purchasing seafood from the West Coast. Senator Merkley and Wyden were joined by Senators Alex Padilla (D-CA), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), and Patty Murray (D-WA), and Representatives Jared Huffman (D-CA), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Peter more PR

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on April 28, 2022: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today led colleagues in a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) urging the Department to continue purchasing seafood from the West Coast. Senator Merkley and Wyden were joined by Senators Alex Padilla (D-CA), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), and Patty Murray (D-WA), and Representatives Jared Huffman (D-CA), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Peter De more PR

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today led colleagues in a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) urging the Department to continue purchasing seafood from the West Coast. Senator Merkley and Wyden were joined by Senators Alex Padilla (D-CA), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), and Patty Murray (D-WA), and Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Peter DeFazio (D-OR more PR

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, released the following statements after the Senate this week unanimously passed their bipartisan Human Trafficking Survivor Tax Relief Act, which would exempt civil damages, restitution, and other monetary awards given to human trafficking survivors from federal income taxes as well as codify Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance that makes restitutio more PR

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley this week announced Oregon has earned more than $1 million for conservation and protection of vulnerable wildlife from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "From preserving the habitats of the Western pond turtle to mapping wildlife connectivity corridors, I am gratified to see more federal dollars go toward the conservation of some of the animals, plants and insects that more PR

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley this week announced Oregon has earned more than $1 million for conservation and protection of vulnerable wildlife from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "From preserving the habitats of the Western pond turtle to mapping wildlife connectivity corridors, I am gratified to see more federal dollars go toward the conservation of some of the animals, plants and insects that in more PR

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Rep. Peter A. DeFazio, D-Oregon, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, issued the following news release on April 28, 2022: The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure advanced three important aviation bills at today's markup, H.R. 3482, the National Center for the Advancement of Aviation Act of 2021, H.R. 5315, the Drone Infrastructure Inspection Grant Act and H.R. 6270, the Advanced Aviation Infrastructure Modernization (AAIM)  more PR