WASHINGTON, March 15 -- Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on March 14, 2023: Today Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) introduced a resolution that will honor caregivers and their efforts to reduce hunger by recognizing National Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) Week. CACFP provides healthy meals and snacks to millions of children and adults in child care, afterschool and summer meal programs, emergency shelters, and adult care homes each year. Accord  more

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on March 15, 2023: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today thanked the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for launching an investigation into the data broker industry, a network of companies that buy, sell and trade Americans' sensitive personal information - everything from location data, to web history and purchase records -- with little oversight or transparency. Wyden, the Senate's leading critic and watchd  more

SALEM, Oregon, March 15 -- Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, R-Oregon, issued the following news release on March 14, 2023: Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05), a member of the House Agriculture Committee, held a Farm Bill listening session today with a number of Oregon farmers and ranchers to learn more about their priorities for the 2023 Farm Bill. The group discussed a wide variety of topics, including food security, conservation, cover crops and specialty crops, water resources and regulations, and ru  more

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Rep. Andrea Salinas, D-Oregon, issued the following statement on March 17, 2023: * * * Congresswoman Andrea Salinas (D-Tigard) issued the following statement after the Oregon Department of Transportation announced it will lower the speed limit for a one-mile stretch of Southwest Hall Boulevard: "Just a little more than a year ago, tragedy struck on Hall Boulevard when Karen Kain and her mother were hit by a car. Every day since that devastating accident, our community   more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- Rep. Andrea Salinas, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on March 14, 2023: Congresswoman Andrea Salinas (D-Tigard) issued the following statement after President Joe Biden announced an executive order to increase the number of background checks conducted before firearm sales: "In the average year, more than 580 of our fellow Oregonians are killed by firearms. 580 mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, sisters and brothers, friends and neighbors stolen from us  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on March 16, 2023: In the wake of Senate Republicans' refusal to grant then-Judge Merrick Garland a hearing or vote when he was nominated to the Supreme Court in 2016, followed by their rushed confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett right before the 2020 election, Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley today introduced the Every Supreme Court Nominee Deserves Timely Consideration Act. This legislation would ens  more

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley joined colleagues in both chambers of Congress to introduce bicameral legislation that would cap the list price of insulin at no more than $20 per vial. The Insulin for All Act of 2023 would substantially reduce the cost of this lifesaving drug for more than 7 million people who use insulin across the United States and the 1.3 million Americans who were forced to ration ins  more

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on March 17, 2023: Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley teamed up with Representative Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) to announce the 2023 Monarch Action, Recovery and Conservation of Habitat (MONARCH) Act. The bill was introduced today in the U.S. Senate and will be introduced in the House of Representatives in the coming weeks. The bicameral MONARCH Act would help prevent the extinction of the western monarch butterfly  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley joined forces with U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ben Cardin (D-MD), and Bill Hagerty (R-TN)--members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee--to introduce the Transnational Repression Policy Act. This bipartisan, comprehensive legislation would establish a new U.S. policy to hold foreign governments and individuals accountable when they stalk, intimidate, or assault p  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, March 16 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued the following news release on March 14, 2023: The Maine Irish Heritage Center (MIHC) on Tuesday hosted Maine's First District Congresswoman Chellie Pingree for a tour of their historic building, giving her a first-hand look at how $3 million in Community Project Funding she helped secure will restore, update, and weatherize the historic building. Coming just days before St. Patrick's Day, Pingree and members of Portland's Irish  more

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release on March 15, 2023: Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today cheered a Biden administration announcement showing that seniors will pay less for 27 drugs in Medicare Part B due to the Inflation Reduction Act's inflation rebate policy, which penalizes drug manufactures when they increase prices faster than the rate of inflation. "Today's news is yet another   more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement on March 16, 2023, on the Treasury budget proposal: * * * This morning the Finance Committee welcomes Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen for a hearing on the president's budget proposal. Everyone here, regardless of political stripe, understands that the FDIC, the Fed and the Treasury Department are putting in long hours to contain the fallout of the recent bank closures. T  more

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release: Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Senator Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., and Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., called on President Biden to foster development of small businesses and entrepreneurs in Cuba that offer an alternative to state-controlled industry, by easing U.S. financial restrictions targeting those players, in a letter sent today. "Small, private se  more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release: Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Senator Jon Tester (D-Mont.) joined 20 senators in a request to the Biden administration to publicize the effect of the Inflation Reduction Act's Medicare Part B inflation rebate on coinsurance in the program. "We strongly urge CMS to provide the following information quickly to help seniors in traditional Medicare   more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following remarks on March 16, 2023: As Prepared for Delivery I rise today to highlight a new rule by the State Department that honors a 15-year-old Portland girl whose life was cut short by a hit-and-run driver in 2016. The girl's name is Fallon Smart. And the man accused of manslaughter in her hit-and-run death was a Saudi national. Subsequent reporting by my hometown newspaper - The Oregonian - uncovered that the Saudi national   more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on March 16, 2023, and letter: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden and Senate colleagues today urged federal officials to focus new enforcement funds on reducing tax avoidance by large corporations and the wealthy -- while expressing strong support for the IRS not to raise audit rates for small businesses or households making less than $400,000 annually. "We... understand that the administration is still working on the oper  more

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on March 17, 2023: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today announced that applications are being accepted through April 7, 2023 to fill an upcoming federal judicial vacancy in Oregon created by the recent announcement from U.S. District Court Judge Marco Hernandez that he will take senior status in August 2024. "Judge Hernandez has dedicated his career to justice, serving with distinction as a federal  more

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on March 15, 2023: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, Jeff Merkley and Senate colleagues today announced they introduced legislation that would combat wage discrimination and help close the gender wage gap by strengthening the Equal Pay Act of 1963, ensuring women can challenge pay discriminations and hold employers accountable in Oregon and nationwide. "Today and every day, women deserve equal pay for equal work," Wyden  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on March 15, 2023: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, Jeff Merkley and Senate colleagues today announced they introduced legislation that would combat wage discrimination and help close the gender wage gap by strengthening the Equal Pay Act of 1963, ensuring women can challenge pay discriminations and hold employers accountable in Oregon and nationwide. "Today and every day, women deserve equal pay for equal work," Wy  more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on March 14, 2023, and letters: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today announced they have joined colleagues in urging seven of the nation's largest retail pharmacies to provide the strongest possible legal access to mifepristone for patients--and communicate clearly about their plans and policies. In the letters sent this week to Walgreens, CVS Health, Rite Aid, Albertsons, Costco, Kroger, and Walmart,  more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release and letters: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today announced they have joined colleagues in urging seven of the nation's largest retail pharmacies to provide the strongest possible legal access to mifepristone for patients--and communicate clearly about their plans and policies. In the letters sent this week to Walgreens, CVS Health, Rite Aid, Albertsons, Costco, Kroger, and Walmart, the senators re  more