WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release and letter: Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ), and Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-ID), along with Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Chris Coons (D-DE), and Mitt Romney (R-UT), sent a letter to Ethiopia's Prime Minister ahead of planned peace talks led by the African Union set to beg more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is awarding $5,530,000 to the Banks and Prospect school districts, through their new Clean School Bus Program funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. These awards are intended to support the districts in replacing existing schools buses with zero- or low-emission buses. "Every child should be able to tr more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is awarding $5,530,000 to the Banks and Prospect school districts, through their new Clean School Bus Program funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. These awards are intended to support the districts in replacing existing schools buses with zero- or low-emission buses. "Every child should be able to trave more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: The Biden-Harris Administration announced the Fiscal Year 2022 recipients of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Clean School Bus Program rebate competition, awarding nearly $5 million from President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to two school districts in Oregon. The grants will help school districts purchase over 14 clean school buses that will accelerate the transition to zero emissions  more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -- 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) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA) released a committee report titled, "NO CURRENT PLANS..." Pebble LP, Sham Permitting, and False Testimony Threatening the World's Largest Salmon Habitat, and anno more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement on Oct. 28, 2022: * * * Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement on the new IRS Tax Gap report: "With at least half a trillion in unpaid taxes annually, the new IRS Tax Gap estimates confirm the urgent need for investments in the IRS to ensure taxes owed are taxes paid. "Importantly, IRS acknowledges that it underestimates ta more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., released newly public information showing that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) surveillance of Portland protesters in 2020 was far broader than previously known, and included lists of friends, family and social media associates for people who posed no threat to homeland security. "Oregonians had a right to get a full accounting of the Trump Administration's twisted efforts  more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Oct. 25, 2022: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today announced that the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) will receive more than $43 million in additional recovery funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for continued hazard tree and debris removal after the 2020 fire disasters. "Recovery efforts from the catastrophic 2020 fire season have been steady, but too many small more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Oct. 25, 2022: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today announced that the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) will receive more than $43 million in additional recovery funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for continued hazard tree and debris removal after the 2020 fire disasters. "Recovery efforts from the catastrophic 2020 fire season have been steady, but too many small co more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Oct. 26, 2022: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Jerry Moran, R-Kan., today applauded a new commitment from Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to reform the classification system and invest in new declassification technology. "The failures of the current classification system make our country both more vulnerable and less transparent -- it's a lose-lose proposition," Wyden said. "I'm pleased th more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release and letter on Oct. 25, 2022: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today called for more top-level security clearances for Federal Trade Commission officials, particularly those responsible for investigating corporate data breaches and crafting privacy rules, to better protect Americans against foreign hackers and other threats to security and privacy. As the primary federal regulator for data privacy and security, th more PR