WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 -- The House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis issued the following testimony by Aja DeCoteau, executive director of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, involving a hearing on Aug. 3, 2022, entitled "Building Climate-Resilient Coastal Communities: Perspectives From Oregon's State, Local and Tribal Partners": * * * My name is Aja DeCoteau. I am the executive director of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC), the fisheries technical and co more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 -- The House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis issued the following written testimony by Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership Executive Director Elaine Placido involving a hearing on Aug. 3, 2022, entitled "Building Climate-Resilient Coastal Communities: Perspectives From Oregon's State, Local and Tribal Partners": * * * I am honored to share our climate resilience efforts in the lower Columbia. The Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership is currently in its 27th year as a Na more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 -- The House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis issued the following testimony by Francis Chan, an associate professor at Oregon State University, involving a hearing on Aug. 3, 2022, entitled "Building Climate-Resilient Coastal Communities: Perspectives From Oregon's State, Local and Tribal Partners": * * * Thank you Chair Castor, Ranking Member Graves, and Representative Bonamici for this opportunity to speak to you today to discuss the important issue of building cli more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 -- The House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis issued the following written testimony by Tyler Bell, director of Westervelt Ecological Services' Rocky Mountain Region involving a hearing on Aug. 3, 2022, entitled "Building Climate-Resilient Coastal Communities: Perspectives From Oregon's State, Local and Tribal Partners": * * * Chair Castor, Ranking Member Graves, and distinguished Members of the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, on behalf of The Westervelt more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 -- Rep. Peter A. DeFazio, D-Oregon, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, issued the following statement on Aug. 12, 2022: * * * Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) issued the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Inflation Reduction Act: "With the House passage of the Inflation Reduction Act today, we are making life better for the American people and taking ta more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- Rep. Peter A. DeFazio, D-Oregon, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, issued the following news release and an Aug. 8, 2022, letter: * * * Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO), Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Chair Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), and Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Ranking Member Rodney Da more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 -- Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, issued the following statement on Aug. 12, 2022: * * * Congressman Blumenauer (D-OR) released the following statement celebrating the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. "Today, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, a historic investment in our nation's health, climate, and economy. I came to Congress with a mission to make the federal government a better partner to local communities so they can be more livable, healthy, and  more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Aug. 8, 2022: Last week, Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), founder and co-chair of the Congressional Bicycle Caucus introduced legislation requiring employers to offer a parking cash out option to employees who are otherwise offered a parking benefit. The value of the cash option would be equal to that of the parking benefit and taxable as ordinary income. "As the climate crisis continues to intensify, more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 -- Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Aug. 9, 2022: U.S. Representatives Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Peter Meijer (R-MI), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), Jason Crow (D-CO), Fred Upton (R-MI), and Scott Peters (D-CA) introduced the Afghan Adjustment Act. This bipartisan, bicameral bill establishes a legal adjustment process for tens of thousands  more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 -- Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Aug. 12, 2022: Today Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) helped the House pass the Inflation Reduction Act, sending the monumental legislation to President Joe Biden's desk to be signed into law. "The Inflation Reduction Act is a transformational piece of legislation that benefits Oregonians and Americans in many ways," said Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici. "It will reduce daily costs, expand access t more PR

BEAVERTON, Oregon, Aug. 11 -- Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Aug. 10, 2022: Today Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (OR-1) and Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley announced a $2 million U.S. Department of Transportation grant award to the City of Beaverton for the Beaverton Downtown Loop project. The Beaverton Downtown Loop is a mobility and modernization project that will significantly improve bike and pedestrian safety along a dangerous downtown cor more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 -- Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Oregon, issued the following statement on Aug. 12, 2022: * * * U.S. Congressman Kurt Schrader (OR-05) issued the following statement after voting for the Inflation Reduction Act. I have been particularly concerned about the cost of our health care system and have championed efforts to reign in the cost of prescription drugs throughout my tenure in the United States Congress. The prescription drug price reduction framework in the Inflation Reductio more PR

PORTLAND, Oregon, Aug. 12 -- Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Aug. 11, 2022: Congressman Earl Blumenauer (OR-03), Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), and Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley announced a $5 million U.S. Department of Transportation grant award to Multnomah County for the Earthquake Ready Burnside Bridge project. The funding will go toward completing planning on the project to replace the existing 96-year-old bridge with a new seismic more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following statement on Aug. 7, 2022: * * * Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley released the following statement after the U.S. Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act, historic legislation that will tackle the climate crisis, lower health care costs, and increase tax fairness, all while creating good-paying American jobs. For years, Merkley has been one of the Senate's foremost advocates for bold climate action. "Today is a big da more PR

PORTLAND, Oregon, Aug. 12 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Aug. 11, 2022: At Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley's invitation, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael S. Regan visited Oregon to see first-hand how communities in the state are handling climate chaos. Along with Oregon's U.S. Senator Ron Wyden and Oregon Governor Kate Brown, Senator Merkley and Administrator Regan visited a community farm in Gresham to discuss the impacts of e more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release and an Aug. 5, 2022, letter: Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley led colleagues in a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Califf urging the FDA to retain and strengthen seafood traceability rules. Strengthening these rules will ensure Americans are consuming safe, legally caught, and honestly labeled seafood. Joining the letter are Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release and letter on Aug. 10, 2022: Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley led a group of 14 Senators in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) urging the Senators to include critical funding to address the monkeypox (MPV)/orthopoxvirus Public Health Emergency (PHE) in any forthcoming legislative package in the 117th Congress. "As of August 9, 2022, there hav more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release on Aug. 7, 2022: Legislation authored by Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today passed the Senate as part of the historic Inflation Reduction Act. The linchpin of the Inflation Reduction Act's clean energy package is Wyden's Clean Energy for America Act, first introduced in 2015, which reforms the energy tax code to incentivize emissions reductions rathe more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Aug. 7, 2022: Legislation authored by Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today passed the Senate as part of the historic Inflation Reduction Act. The linchpin of the Inflation Reduction Act's clean energy package is Wyden's Clean Energy for America Act, first introduced in 2015, which reforms the energy tax code to incentivize emissions reductions rather than specific technologies. The Clean En more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following floor speech on Aug. 6, 2022, in support of the Inflation Reduction Act: * * * The Senate is at the beginning of a long debate that's long overdue. At its center is the Inflation Reduction Act, which goes after some of the biggest challenges facing the American people today. This bill is made up of proposals that have been in the works for many years -- most of which comes out of th more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement on Aug. 6, 2022: * * * Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement following the Senate Parliamentarian's rulings on the compliance of Senate Democrats' reconciliation language related to prescription drug pricing reform: "Senate Democrats wrote our reconciliation language to comply with Senate rules, and the parliamentarian has largely agreed more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement on Aug. 7, 2022: * * * Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement after Republicans voted to remove a provision from the Inflation Reduction Act that would have created a $35 monthly copay cap for insulin for Americans with private insurance: "Republicans have just gone on the record in favor of expensive insulin," Wyden said. "After years  more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release on Aug. 7, 2022: Legislation authored by Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., to incentivize big corporations to invest in their workers rather than wealthy executives and shareholders today passed the Senate. A modified version of the Stock Buyback Accountability Act was included in the Inflation Reduction Act. The proposal would impose a 1 percent excise ta more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release on Aug. 12, 2022: Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today unveiled the Taxing Big Oil Profiteers Act. The bill would double the tax rate of Big Oil's excess profits, impose an excise tax on stock buybacks benefiting wealthy shareholders, and close one of Big Oil's favorite tax loopholes. The bill is also sponsored by Senators Schumer, Murray, Stabenow, Casey, Pa more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release and letter on Aug. 12, 2022: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden this week with colleagues Senators Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Cory Booker, D-N.J., Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., implored the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate a post market study of pulse oximeters to ensure they are effective across racially diverse patients and consumers. Recent studies have shown that inaccurate results  more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement at a July 28, 2022, confirmation hearing. The nominee is Doug McKalip to be chief agricultural negotiator of the U.S. Trade Representative. * * * The committee meets this morning to discuss the nomination of Mr. Doug McKalip to serve as the Chief Agricultural Negotiator within the Office of the United States Trade Representative. Mr. McKalip brings nearly 30 years of fede more PR