WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, R-Oregon, issued the following news release: Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05) recently cosponsored the Combating Organized Retail Crime Act, a bipartisan and bicameral proposal that seeks to target the rise in organized retail crime gangs that have been wreaking havoc on retailers and threatening public safety. Specifically, the legislation establishes a coordinated multi-agency response and creates new tools to tackle evolving trends in organized   more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on May 2, 2023: Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and Senator Sanders (I-VT) introduced the Climate Emergency Resolution, which demands that the President wield both existing authorities and emergency powers to unleash every resource available to mitigate and prepare for the climate crisis. "I appreciate the incredible progress that the Administration and Congress have m  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, R-Oregon, issued the following news release and letter : Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05) led 29 of her colleagues in urging U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan to listen to experts and follow the science before restricting eleven widely used rodenticides. In their letter, the lawmakers warn that the proposed regulations could make it more difficult for users to protect food supplies, public health, and homes and   more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee issued the following testimony by Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, at an April 18, 2023, member day hearing on transportation and infrastructure priorities: * * * Chair Graves, Ranking Member Larsen, thank you for the opportunity to testify before this committee today. Air travel is in flux right now. After two years where many of us often felt like the only person on a plane, airports are humming again. I walk aroun  more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee issued the following testimony by Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, at an April 18, 2023, member day hearing on transportation and infrastructure priorities: * * * Good morning. Thank you Chair Graves and Ranking Member Larsen for the opportunity to address the Committee. I have long advocated for long-term and practical solutions to our nation's crumbling infrastructure and to the climate crisis. Our recent efforts   more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-Oregon, chairman of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries, issued the following news release: Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Chairman Cliff Bentz (R-Ore.) and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) sent a letter to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Administrator Richard Spinrad regarding NOAA's recent reversal on supporting continued operations of   more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following statement on May 3, 2023: * * * Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley - a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee - issued the following statement on the visit of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to the United States. "The Philippines is the United States' oldest ally in the Indo-Pacific. We stand with the Philippines against any intimidation or coercion, including in the South China Sea, and to preserve a r  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release and letter on May 4, 2023: Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, along with Massachusetts's U.S. Senator Edward J. Markey and Representatives John Garamendi (D-CA-08) and Don Beyer (D-VA-08), sent a letter to President Biden urging the President to use the upcoming May summit of Group of Seven (G7) leaders in Hiroshima to propose specific steps to advance a new global nuclear disarmament dialogue. Merkley, Markey  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on May 4, 2023: Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, along with U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Roger Wicker (R-MS), and John Boozman (R-AR), teamed up to introduce the bipartisan Nurse Corps Tax Parity Act, legislation to ensure that nurses in the federal Nurse Corps are not required to pay federal income tax on their student loan forgiveness and scholarships. "As the husband of a nurse, I know frontline nur  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on May 1, 2023: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced today that Central Oregon, Eastern Oregon and the Portland metro area will receive more than $10 million collectively in federal resources from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and annual appropriations for water conservation projects. These projects will help make water supplies in the region more resilient to drought and climate chang  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on May 1, 2023: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced today that Central Oregon, Eastern Oregon and the Portland metro area will receive more than $10 million collectively in federal resources from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and annual appropriations for water conservation projects. These projects will help make water supplies in the region more resilient to drought and climate change.   more

WASHINGTON, May 6 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on May 5, 2023: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced today that the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) is awarding Oregon a total of $3,847,767 from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for ecosystem restoration projects across the state to restore lands and waters critical to climate and infrastructure resilience. * "With climate chaos threatening the permanent loss of plants and animals  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following statement on May 3, 2023: * * * Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley announced his support for Julie Su's nomination to be Labor Secretary, after meeting to review her record. "Julie Su is a passionate defender of workers and their families. In my blue-collar neighborhood, I see the effect stagnating wages are having on families' ability to take on rising costs from housing, to health care, to education. Our next Labor Secre  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release and letter on May 2, 2023: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and U.S. Representatives Doris Matsui, D-Calif., and Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., today led a letter urging bakers to stop unnecessarily adding sesame to baked goods and protect consumers with sesame allergies. "The dangerous practice of adding sesame to baked goods that have not previously contained the ingredient, often without notice, undermines the trust t  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release on May 3, 2023: Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released findings for a secret shopper study conducted by the committee majority staff, as a part of his efforts to address ghost networks, which are inaccurate health provider directories that prevent Americans from getting mental health care. The findings are released as the committee holds a hearing   more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement on May 1, 2023: * * * U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement after Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen notified Congress that the U.S. could default as soon as June 1st: "A catastrophic default that would wipe out millions of jobs and crater the American economy is potentially just weeks away, and it's a crisis manufactured by House Republicans. Wit  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement on a new report by ProPublica of billionaire Republican activist Harlan Crow's financial largesse benefitting Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his family: "With every new revelation in this case, it becomes clearer that Harlan Crow has been subsidizing an extravagant lifestyle that Justice Thoma  more

WASHINGTON, May 6 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release and letter on May 5, 2023: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., with Senators Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., John Fetterman, D-Pa., and Edward Markey, D-Mass., called on Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to delay pay cuts for thousands of rural letter carriers slated to go into effect under a new U.S. Postal Service policy. The senators voiced concerns about the Rural Route Evalua  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today along with Senators Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and James Lankford, R-Okla., sounded the alarm on the potential use of artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT, to generate persuasive, tailored scams intended to rob Americans by getting access to their personal financial information. "In previous tax filing seasons, many scam messages could be ide  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on May 3, 2023, and letter: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today asked federal officials to provide technical assistance to Oregon communities working through the potential local impacts to housing, ports and small businesses from a draft plan proposing changes in the state to the National Flood Insurance Program. The senators also requested in their letter to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEM  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on May 2, 2023: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, along with 253 members of Congress, submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit today in the case of Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, urging the Court to reverse the district court's stay on the FDA's more than 20-year-old approval of mifepristone. In April, the Supreme Court issued a stay of the lower court ruli  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on May 2, 2023: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, along with 253 members of Congress, submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit today in the case of Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, urging the Court to reverse the district court's stay on the FDA's more than 20-year-old approval of mifepristone. In April, the Supreme Court issued a stay of the lower court ruling   more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on May 4, 2023: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today announced that Rogue Valley International Airport has earned more than $800,000 in federal funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to rebuild its contract tower. "Safe air travel for residents of southern Oregon and visitors to the region requires regular infrastructure investments just like this one," Wyden said. "I'm glad the Bipartisan Infra  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on May 4, 2023: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today announced that Rogue Valley International Airport has earned more than $800,000 in federal funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to rebuild its contract tower. "Safe air travel for residents of southern Oregon and visitors to the region requires regular infrastructure investments just like this one," Wyden said. "I'm glad the Bipartisan Infrastr  more