WASHINGTON, July 16 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following statement: * * * Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley issued the following statement after reports that climate provisions have been dropped from the reconciliation package. "I've seen my home state of Oregon burned up by catastrophic wildfires, exacerbated by climate chaos. I've seen entire towns burned to the ground. We cannot wait any longer to take action to combat climate chaos. "We need to move boldly and immediatel more PR

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, issued the following statement on July 14, 2022: * * * Congressional Cannabis Caucus Co-Chairs Blumenauer (D-OR), Lee (D-CA), Joyce (R-OH) and Mast (R-FL) released the following statement celebrating the passage of the Veterans Equal Access Act, SAFE Banking Act, and protections for veterans who consume cannabis or work in the cannabis industry as amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023. "The need to esta more PR

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Rep. Peter A. DeFazio, D-Oregon, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, issued the following news release on July 13, 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 Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) during today's hearing titled, "The State of General Aviation." Videos of DeFazio and Larsen's opening state more PR

WASHINGTON, July 16 -- 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) announced the committee will hold a hearing titled, "Implementing the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act." The purpose of this hearing is for Members to hear from U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Buttigieg on the administration's ongoing e more PR

WASHINGTON, July 16 -- Rep. Peter A. DeFazio, D-Oregon, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, issued the following news release on July 15, 2022: Yesterday, leaders of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure applauded House passage of the Don Young Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2022 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022. The bill was named in honor of Rep. Don Young, Chair of the Committee on Transportation and In more PR

WASHINGTON, July 16 -- Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: U.S. Congressman Kurt Schrader (OR-05) voted to advance the Ensuring Women's Right to Reproductive Freedom Act and the Women's Health Protection Act, two pieces of legislation to support reproductive freedom. "In the aftermath of the Supreme Court's consequential decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, at least nine states enacted legislation to take away a woman's right to an abortion while others moved to crimi more PR

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on July 14, 2022: Congressman Earl Blumenauer (OR-03) and Congresswoman Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon (PR-AL) are touting passage of the Empowering Resilient Local Communities Act (H.R. 8300), a bill to improve the federal government's ability to serve, protect, and respond to communities that are vulnerable to climate related emergencies and disasters. The House of Representatives passed the bill as an amendmen more PR

WASHINGTON, July 15 -- Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Congressman Earl Blumenauer (OR-03) and Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-08)are urging the Biden Administration to scale-up its response to the global food crisis made more dire by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In a letter signed by 37 members of the House of Representatives, they call for at least $200 million from the Additional Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act to boost the procurement and dist more PR

WASHINGTON, July 15 -- Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Legislation introduced by Congressman Earl Blumenauer (OR-03), Suzan DelBene (WA-01) in response to critical infant formula shortages nationwide passed in the U.S. House of Representatives. 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 tariffs are placed on formula imported from countrie more PR

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on July 12, 2022: Today Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) and Congressman Jesus "Chuy" Garcia (D-IL) introduced legislation to protect manufactured homebuyers from predatory practices. Manufactured housing can be an affordable option for many individuals and families, but buyers often face hurdles obtaining financing and lack safeguards provided to consumers who are purchasing traditional housing. The more PR

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on July 13, 2022: Today Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Chair of the Education and Labor Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services, and Congressman Derek Kilmer (D-WA) introduced legislation to update the Federal Work Study Program. The Opportunities for Success Act improves the Federal Work Study Program to better provide low-income students with an affordable higher education and valuable w more PR

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement at a Finance Committee hearing to consider Treasury and HHS Nominations on July 12, 2022: * * * The Finance Committee meets this morning to discuss two key nominations for important roles dealing with economic and health policy. First up, Dr. Rebecca Haffajee is nominated to serve as the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health and Human more PR

WASHINGTON, July 15 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release on July 14, 2022: Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement in response to a new Tax Policy Center analysis on who will pay to extend Medicare solvency: "An important new analysis from the Tax Policy Center confirms that households making at least $1 million per year will contribute 85 percent of the revenue needed to extend more PR

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on July 12, 2022: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden today cosponsored comprehensive legislation to empower the youth vote and enforce the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, which enshrined voting rights for American citizens over 18 years of age. "For our democracy to thrive, young voters need to be full participants in elections and have the ability to exercise their Constitutional right to vote. And yet, young voters, particularly  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on July 12, 2022: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden today with colleagues introduced legislation to ensure that anti-choice states cannot limit interstate travel for abortion services. The Freedom to Travel for Health Care Act would empower the Attorney General and impacted individuals to bring civil action against those who restrict the right to cross state lines to receive legal reproductive care. "I am proud that Oregon more PR

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- The Senate Indian Affairs Committee issued the following information for a business meeting at 2:30 p.m. on July 13, 2022, at 628 Dirksen Senate Office Building: Agenda * To consider Roselyn Tso, of Oregon, to be Director of the Indian Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC * * * Original text here: https://www.indian.senate.gov/hearing/business-meeting-consider-roselyn-tso-be-director-indian-health-service more PR

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on July 13, 2022: Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, Representative Karen Bass (D-CA-37), and Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) teamed up to introduce the bicameral Children's Safe Welcome Act. This bill establishes new standards to ensure that the safety and well-being of migrant children in government custody are prioritized. The Children's Safe Welcome Act embeds child welfare best  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announce a total of $3,052,940 in federal funding is headed to three projects across the state to combat record drought conditions throughout the west, including Oregon. These federal investments are intended to safeguard local water supplies in response the extreme drought and weather events. "Between record droughts and raging megafires, Oregon and other We more PR

WASHINGTON, July 16 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release and letter: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden joined Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Alex Padilla (D-CA) and a dozen other colleagues in a letter to President Biden and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra urging them to immediately declare national and public health emergencies on reproductive rights. Millions of Americans have been endangered by the  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 16 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden joined Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Alex Padilla (D-CA) and a dozen other colleagues in a letter to President Biden and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra urging them to immediately declare national and public health emergencies on reproductive rights. Millions of Americans have been endangered by the Supreme Court' more PR

WASHINGTON, July 15 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced that the United States Coast Guard awarded a $30 million federal contract to expand Coast Guard shore-side facilities at East Tongue Point in Astoria. This enable the facility to accommodate the home porting of Fast Response Cutters (FRCs). Fast Response Cutters are the newest class of ships currently being produced for the United States Coast Guard. T more PR

WASHINGTON, July 15 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced that the United States Coast Guard awarded a $30 million federal contract to expand Coast Guard shore-side facilities at East Tongue Point in Astoria. This enable the facility to accommodate the home porting of Fast Response Cutters (FRCs). Fast Response Cutters are the newest class of ships currently being produced for the United States Coast Guard more PR

WASHINGTON, July 15 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, posted the following joint statement on July 14, 2022 with Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon: * * * U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley issued the following joint statement about today's announcement from the White House of Associate Oregon Supreme Court Justice Adrienne Nelson's nomination to the U.S. District Court. "We wholeheartedly support President Biden's nomination of Associate Oregon Supreme Court Justice Adrienne Nelson to the U.S. Dis more PR

WASHINGTON, July 15 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, posted the following joint statement on July 14, 2022 with Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon: * * * U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley issued the following joint statement about today's announcement from the White House of Associate Oregon Supreme Court Justice Adrienne Nelson's nomination to the U.S. District Court. "We wholeheartedly support President Biden's nomination of Associate Oregon Supreme Court Justice Adrienne Nelson to the U.S.  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on July 13, 2022: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today announced that the Columbia-Pacific Economic Development District (Col-Pac) will receive $225,000 to establish an economic development planning framework that supports diversified job creation in the region. "I know from holding more than 1,000 town halls throughout our state that Oregon communities are doing an incredible job taking care of each o more PR