WASHINGTON, June 24 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: The U.S. Senate Finance Committee, under the leadership of Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), passed the Enhancing Americans Retirement Now (EARN) Act, expanding opportunities for Americans to increase their retirement savings and improving workers' long-term financial well-being. The legislation builds on the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 24 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release: The U.S. Senate Finance Committee, under the leadership of Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), passed the Enhancing Americans Retirement Now (EARN) Act, expanding opportunities for Americans to increase their retirement savings and improving workers' long-term financial well-being. The legislation builds on the Setting Every Commu more PR

WASHINGTON, June 22 -- The House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy issued the following statement by Nathan Donley, environmental health science director at the Center for Biological Diversity, involving a hybrid hearing on June 15, 2022, entitled "Seresto Flea and Tick Collars: Examining Why a Product Linked to More Than 2,500 Pet Deaths Remains on the Market": * * * My name is Dr. Nathan Donley and I am the Science Director for the Environmental Health Program more PR

WASHINGTON, June 23 (TNSres) -- Rep. Peter A. DeFazio, D-Oregon, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, issued the following statement: Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) released the following statement after the National Academies shared its consensus study report evaluating the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Transport Airplane Risk Assessment Methodology (TARAM): "The TARAM report released today by t more PR

WASHINGTON, June 22 -- 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) issued the following statement regarding the benefits of a "gas tax holiday" to bring down gas prices for American families: "As discussions on possibly suspending the federal gas tax continue, I urge my colleagues to see this for what it is: a short-si more PR

WASHINGTON, June 23 -- Rep. Peter A. DeFazio, D-Oregon, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, issued the following statement: Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) issued the following statement in response to President Biden's call for a three-month federal gas tax holiday: "Although well-intentioned, this policy would at best achieve only miniscule relief while blowing a $10 billion dollar hole in the Highway Trus more PR

WASHINGTON, June 24 -- Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, issued the following statement on June 24, 2022: * * * U.S. Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) issued the following statement concerning the Supreme Court's ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade. "Today I join millions of Americans feeling the shocking loss of reproductive freedom in our country. This is not merely a political or legal issue. This is profoundly personal, speaking to an individual's right to control their body and rely on a half more PR

WASHINGTON, June 25 -- Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) issued the following statement following the Supreme Court's decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization to overturn abortion rights. "The Supreme Court's decision to overturn abortion rights is infuriating, heartbreaking, and dangerous," said Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici. "Abortion is health care. Abortion care is essential for the health and well-bei more PR

WASHINGTON, June 25 -- Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), a member of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, voted to pass the bipartisan gun violence prevention proposal negotiated by the Senate. "Recently a teacher told me that after Uvalde, she sat down with her students and told them she would take a bullet for them," said Congresswoman Bonamici. "Conversations like this are happening in classrooms across the country, more PR

WASHINGTON, June 23 -- Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Representative Peter DeFazio (OR-04) and Oregon Sen. Wyden sent a bicameral letter to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) about their significant concerns with the ongoing siting process for offshore wind facilities off the southern Oregon coast. BOEM has issued Call Areas for potential offshore wind leasing off Coos Bay and Brookings. These Call Areas are the first step in the leasing process and  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 23 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release and letter: Representative Peter DeFazio (OR-04) and Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden sent a bicameral letter to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) about their significant concerns with the ongoing siting process for offshore wind facilities off the southern Oregon coast. BOEM has issued Call Areas for potential offshore wind leasing off Coos Bay and Brookings. These Call Areas are the first step in the leasing p more PR

WASHINGTON, June 25 -- 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), Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO), Chair of the Aviation Subcommittee Rick Larsen (D-WA), and Subcommittee Ranking Member Garret Graves (R-LA) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Buttigieg urging him to protect the independ more PR

WASHINGTON, June 24 -- Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, issued the following news release and letter on June 23, 2022: Congresswoman Sara Jacobs (D-CA-53); Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR-01), Chair of the Education and Labor Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services; and colleagues sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi urging the Senate to include robust child care investments in any upcoming budget reconciliation package. The le more PR

WASHINGTON, June 25 -- Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Oregon, issued the following statement on June 24, 2022: * * * U.S. Congressman Kurt Schrader (OR-05) issued the following statement in response to Senate passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. I have long been a proponent of common sense gun control that does not infringe on the 2nd amendment, and I am pleased to see the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act pass through the Senate with overwhelming support. I have been a consistent advocat more PR

WASHINGTON, June 23 -- Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on June 22, 2022: Congressman Earl Blumenauer (OR-03), Suzan DelBene (WA-01), John Larson (CT-01), and Dan Kildee (MI-05) introduced the Affordable and Accessible Infant Formula Act in response to critical infant formula shortages nationwide. As the United States faces a worsening infant formula shortage, the Food and Drug Administration has allowed formula to be imported from around the world. Substantial  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 24 -- Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on June 23, 2022: Congresswomen Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) and Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) and U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) today introduced the Stop Anti-Abortion Disinformation (SAD) Act, to crack down on false advertising related to abortion services. This bill directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to prohibit deceptive or misleading advertising related to the provision  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 24 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's Senator Jeff Merkley and Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced a $1 million investment to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's (NFWF) Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Conservation Fund, and the establishment of a Pollinator Conservation Center at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). Both projects are supported by the western monarch conservation funding Senator Merkley secured a more PR

WASHINGTON, June 24 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on June 23, 2022: U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Todd Young (R-IN), Cory Booker (D-NJ), John Thune (R-SD), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), and James Risch (R-ID) announced that their bipartisan Senate resolution condemning the use of starvation and hunger as weapons of war was unanimously voted out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Senators introduced the resolution last month, not only condemning the u more PR

WASHINGTON, June 23 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement at a Finance Committee markup to consider retirement legislation on June 22, 2022: * * * This morning the Finance Committee meets to consider a proposal called the Enhancing American Retirement Now Act, or the EARN Act. It includes more than 70 proposals aimed at helping more Americans save -- the culmination of months of collaboration between just about every member of the more PR

WASHINGTON, June 25 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement on June 24, 2022: * * * Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on the passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act by the U.S. Senate: "For too long, Oregonians and families across the country have been forced to live in constant fear of gun violence terrorizing their communities. There is still much more to be done to m more PR

WASHINGTON, June 24 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., secured key provisions that protect Intelligence Community whistleblowers, bolster cybersecurity, and end the denial of security clearances for potential intelligence community employees based on past cannabis use, all in the 2023 Intelligence Authorization Act that passed the Senate Intelligence Committee Wednesday afternoon. Wyden, a senior member of the Intelligence Committee, more PR

WASHINGTON, June 23 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on June 22, 2022: The bipartisan cattle market reform bill cosponsored by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden passed out of the Senate Agriculture Committee today by voice vote, and is now eligible for a final vote on the Senate floor. "This takes a significant step to restore fairness and reform a marketplace now benefiting only a few corporate meat packers, while unjustly hurting Oregon's family ranchers and artificially d more PR

WASHINGTON, June 22 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on June 21, 2022: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden today introduced legislation that would protect personal reproductive health data in response to the leaked draft decision indicating the Supreme Court's plans to overturn Roe v. Wade. "The draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe shows that the fundamental rights of a woman over her own body and privacy are on the chopping block. Congress needs to step up and offer re more PR

WASHINGTON, June 24 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on June 23, 2022: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Senator Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Senator Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Senator Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., introduced bipartisan legislation today to create new protections against Americans' sensitive personal information being sold or transferred to high-risk foreign countries. "Right now it's perfectly legal for a company in China to b more PR

WASHINGTON, June 24 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley this week joined with senators from both parties to ask the Senate Subcommittee on Veterans Affairs for a $20 million budget increase to the VA's Office of Rural Health. "Congress must ensure the VA has the resources necessary to reach all of our veterans, no matter where they live," Wyden, Merkley and the other senators wrote. "Our rural veterans have earned  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 24 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley this week joined with senators from both parties to ask the Senate Subcommittee on Veterans Affairs for a $20 million budget increase to the VA's Office of Rural Health. "Congress must ensure the VA has the resources necessary to reach all of our veterans, no matter where they live," Wyden, Merkley and the other senators wrote. "Our rural veterans have ear more PR

WASHINGTON, June 22 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release and letter on June 21, 2022: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley welcomed today's announcement from the Biden administration on its plans to increase federal wildland firefighter pay and establish a new occupational series for these firefighters as required by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Following up on a letter they sent to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) last week, the senators today renewe more PR

WASHINGTON, June 22 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley this week announced that more than $1 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds will go to Oregon projects conserving sagebrush ecosystems. These projects will combat invasive grasses, safeguard precious water resources, prevent wildfire, and promote community and economic sustainability. "Oregon sagebrush restoration and conservation projects curb destru more PR

WASHINGTON, June 22 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley this week announced that more than $1 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds will go to Oregon projects conserving sagebrush ecosystems. These projects will combat invasive grasses, safeguard precious water resources, prevent wildfire, and promote community and economic sustainability. "Oregon sagebrush restoration and conservation projects curb destructive, w more PR