WASHINGTON, June 17 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Merkley, Murkowski Lead the Charge to Block the Dismantling of One-Of-A-Kind Ocean Monitoring Network * Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) took to the Senate floor to successfully pass their bipartisan legislation that pauses the reckless dismantling of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), a complex system of 900 ocean monitoring instruments that provides rea more PR