WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Bob Casey (D-PA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Tina Smith (D-MN), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), along with U.S. Representative Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR-1), Joaquin Castro (D-TX-20), Sara Jacobs (D-CA-51), and Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ-11) led a bicameral group of their colleagues in urging congressional leadership to renew expired funding for child care. Funding the lawmakers passed in th  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, R-Oregon, issued the following news release: Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05) recently joined Rep. Ken Calvert (CA-41) and several of her colleagues to introduce the Treatment and Homeless Housing Integration Act. Similar to Chavez-DeRemer's DIRECT Care for the Homeless Act, this proposal would help connect people experiencing homelessness with treatment for substance use and behavioral health disorders - also referred to as dual diagnosis care.   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, R-Oregon, issued the following news release: This morning, Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05) supported H.R. 485, the Protecting Health Care for All Patients Act, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives and now heads to the U.S. Senate for consideration. The proposal, led by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05), would prevent a practice that health care programs utilize to discriminate against people with di  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Chair Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) released a bipartisan framework of legislation that would make key improvements to the nation's unemployment insurance system. Those improvements would focus on program administration and integrity to combat fraud and improve access to benefits for eligible workers.  "This bipartisan framework takes crucial steps to  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley announced today his first in-person town halls of the new year will be held in Linn and Benton counties on Tuesday, February 13 and in Washington and Columbia counties on Wednesday, February 14. The four events will kick start Merkley's 2024 town hall tour of Oregon, where he will hold community conversations for each of the state's 36 counties.  "I hold a town hall for eve  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley - a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee - unveiled two amendments he has introduced to the national security supplemental funding package being considered by the Senate this week. The amendments address two important issues related to Gaza and the West Bank. Merkley's first amendment declares that following Hamas' terrorist attacks on October 7, it is the policy  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, along with U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-VT), Tina Smith (D-MN), Angus King (I-ME), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), and Alex Padilla (D-CA), introduced the bicameral Future Advancement of Academic Nursing (FAAN) Act. This legislation would support a grant program to increase the number of faculty  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Peter Welch (D-VT), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) sent a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan pushing for dedicated funding to independent third parties--not just oil and gas companies--for methane emissions detection and monitoring. "In order to m  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced Oregon State University (OSU) will receive $1.5 million from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to administer the National Pesticide Information Center (NPIC), and provide the public with unbiased, accurate, and science-based information on a broad range of pesticide-related issues. The Center will ensure this information is easily accessi  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley issued the following statement after voting to begin debate on a national security supplemental funding bill: "Ukrainians are fighting and dying on the front lines to defend democracy. They need us now more than ever in the battle against Putin's tyranny. This is a Munich Moment, akin to when Chamberlain told Hitler that he could have a slice of Czechoslovakia and there woul  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 -- Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-Oregon, issued the following news release: Congressman Cliff Bentz (Or-02) joined Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (Oh-04) and 20 fellow members of Congress in filing an amicus (Friend of the Court) brief in the Supreme Court. The brief was filed in the case of Joseph Fischer v. the United States, challenging the lower Courts' decisions to apply what is a financial crimes statute against people linked to the events  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement on Feb. 8, 2024, at Finance committee hearing on AI in health care: * * * This morning the Finance Committee meets to discuss the use of artificial intelligence or AI systems in health care, with a focus on how this technology is being used in federal health programs like Medicare and Medicaid. There's no doubt that some of this technology is already making our health care  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release: Continuing his work investigating the tax practices of ultra-high net worth individuals, Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., sent a letter today to an attorney representing billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow seeking records related to the registration, use and tax treatment of Crow's superyacht, the Michaela Rose. Months of investigation by the Finan  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 8, 2024: Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., this week urged President Biden to remove Gail Ennis as Inspector General of the Social Security Administration (OIG). Wyden's call for Ennis' removal follows a multi-year investigation into allegations of a hostile work environment for whistleblowers, abysmal staff morale, and Ennis' failure to take full a  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 9, 2024: Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today applauded the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) for issuing new requests for proposals this week aimed at reforming the organ transplant system. The requests for proposals are a first step of the implementation of Wyden's Securing the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Net  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Chair Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) released a bipartisan framework of legislation that would make key improvements to the nation's unemployment insurance system. Those improvements would focus on program administration and integrity to combat fraud and improve access to benefits for eligible workers. "T  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Ranking Member Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, today released a bipartisan framework of legislation that would make key improvements to the nation's unemployment insurance system. Those improvements would focus on program administration and integrity to combat fraud and improve access to benefits for eligible workers. "Durin  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, with U.S. Senator Ron Wyden and U.S. Representatives Earl Blumenauer (OR-03), Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), Val Hoyle (OR-04), Andrea Salinas (OR-06), and Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05), announced today the U.S. Department of Commerce is sending Oregon a total of $7,050,722 for the fishery disaster declared for 2018, 2019, and 2020 Oregon Chinook salmon ocean commercial fisheries in t  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Dick Durbin, (D-Ill.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) along with 15 of their colleagues are filing their amendment to require that the weapons received by any country under the proposed national security supplemental are used in accordance with U.S. law, international humanitarian law and the law of armed conflict. The amendment is supported by Senators E  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Watch a video of Wyden deliver his remarks here As prepared for delivery I come to the floor today to reiterate my strong support for Judge Amy Baggio's nomination to serve for the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. Judge Baggio has a proven track record as both a jurist and a litigator. She spent a decade as a public defender, and in her career on the bench, she has presided over hundreds of civ  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden and Senate colleagues introduced legislation last week that would create children's savings accounts for every single child in Oregon and nationwide. These savings accounts would build lifelong wealth and economic self-sufficiency for kids from families with limited resources. Funds from the accounts could be used for post-secondary education, starting a business, buying a house or retireme  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden and Senate colleagues today introduced legislation that would direct the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop standards to measure and report the full range of artificial intelligence'senvironmental impacts, as well as create a voluntary framework for AI developers to report environmental impacts.  "AI will continue to grow rapidly across every industry, and the infra  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today announced an investment of $440,000 for the City of Hermiston from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to improve the Hermiston Municipal Airport. "It is absolutely essential to keep rural communities connected to services, especially in case of emergencies like natural disasters," Wyden said. "This federal investment will help Hermiston Airport to ex  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon'sU.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today issued the following statement after a bipartisan Senate vote to confirm Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Amy M. Baggio for a seat on the U.S. District Court in Oregon. "Judge Baggio and her extensive experience as both a jurist and a litigator will be an asset on the U.S. District Court in Oregon. The bipartisan support her nomination received in the  more