WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 -- Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Annie Kuster (D-NH), Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR), and Mike Lawler (R-NY) introduced the Early Childhood Workforce Advancement Act. This legislation will address the child care workforce shortage by investing in career and technical education (CTE) programs and incentivizing more students to enter the early childhood workforce upon graduation.  "Our country has a s  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 -- Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Representatives Suzanne Bonamici [D-OR], Dan Newhouse [R-WA], Jill Tokuda [D-HI], John Duarte [R-CA], David Valadao [R-CA], and John Curtis [R-UT] introduced bipartisan legislation to bolster satellite-driven wildfire research at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and partner institutions to better prepare for worsening wildfire seasons. The Satellites Preventing Agricultural Crises and Emergencies  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 -- Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, R-Oregon, issued the following news release: Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05) joined Reps. Annie Kuster (NH-02), Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), and Mike Lawler (NY-17) to introduce bipartisan legislation that aims to address the child care workforce shortage. The proposal would expand career and technical education (CTE) program investments and incentivize more students to enter the field of early childhood education. "In a recent survey of Oregon pa  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 -- Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-Oregon, chairman of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries, issued the following news release on Feb. 14, 2024: Today, the Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries held a legislative hearing on four bills to protect migratory waterfowl, provide greater flexibility to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to carry out its responsibilities under the End  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced a total of $15,214,286 in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds will be heading to the Redmond Municipal Airport (RDM) and Portland International Airport (PDX). Today's funding comes from Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) Airport Terminal Grants program. These federal grants are intended to fund safe, sustainable, and accessible airport termin  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced a total of $15,214,286 in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds will be heading to the Redmond Municipal Airport (RDM) and Portland International Airport (PDX). Today's funding comes from Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) Airport Terminal Grants program. These federal grants are intended to fund safe, sustainable, and accessible airport terminals, on-airport rail a  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced that $72 million in new federal funding is headed to the Klamath Basin for critical ecosystem restoration projects and agricultural infrastructure modernization. Additionally, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) announced a historic agreement with the Klamath Tribes, Yurok Tribe, Karuk Tribe, and Klamath Water Users As  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Today, Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced that $72 million in new federal funding is headed to the Klamath Basin for critical ecosystem restoration projects and agricultural infrastructure modernization. Additionally, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) announced a historic agreement with the Klamath Tribes, Yurok Tribe, Karuk Tribe, and Klamath Water Users Association (KWUA) that   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley issued the following statement after voting against the Senate's national security supplemental funding bill: "I have supported getting the emergency supplemental bill to the floor where we could have a robust debate and amendment process on the different elements of the bill. Unfortunately, no amendments have been allowed. "This bill has multiple important elements I supp  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement at an open executive session on Jan. 31, 2024, to consider nominations of Marjorie A. Rollinson to be chief counsel of the Internal Revenue Service, and Rebecca Lee Haffajee to be assistant secretary for planning and evaluation at the Health and Human Services Department: * * * The committee meets this morning to vote on two important nominations it approved last year. Fir  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement at a hearing on Feb. 8, 2024, entitled "Artificial Intelligence and Health Care: Promise and Pitfalls": * * * 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 technolo  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement at a hearing on Jan. 31, 2024, to consider nominations of Corey Tellez to be assistant secretary of the Treasury for legislative affairs, and Kathryn Lang, Sharon Lewis and Andrew Biggs to be members of the Social Security Advisory Board: * * * The Finance Committee meets this morning to consider four nominations-a nominee for Treasury Assistant Secretary for Legislative Af  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement on Feb. 15, 2024: * * * Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., released the following statement today after the Social Security Administration (SSA) released a proposed rule to implement electronic wage reporting to help the agency improve the accuracy of payments and reduce reporting requirements for disability beneficiaries: "If you're an American living on a   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., revealed today that an anti-abortion political group used mobile phone location data to send targeted misinformation to people who visited any of 600 reproductive health clinics in 48 states. In a letter to the Federal Trade Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission, Wyden urged the government to act quickly to protect the privacy of patients, and to hold the data broker a  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, Jeff Merkley and Senate colleagues today called on the U.S. Department of Education to urgently address the operational issues with the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form that impacts many students in Oregon and nationwide. "We are supportive of the Department's decision to make these adjustments in the updated form, but were disappointed to hear these adjustments  more