WASHINGTON, April 23 -- Rep. Maxine Dexter, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Dexter Returns from El Salvador After Blocked Attempt to Visit Wrongfully Deported Man, Demands Proof of Life and Accountability PORTLAND, OR -- Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. (OR-03), returned from El Salvador, where she demanded answers and accountability from the Trump Administration on the illegal deportation of immigrants to El Salvador, including Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a wrongfully deported   more

WASHINGTON, April 22 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Huffman, Merkley Lead Bill to End Drilling in the Arctic Ocean Washington, D.C. - On Earth Day, U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) introduced the Stop Arctic Ocean Drilling Act, which would permanently ban new or renewed leases for oil, gas, or mineral extraction in the Arctic Ocean Planning Areas of the Outer Continen  more

WASHINGTON, April 21 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Merkley, Blumenthal, Durbin, Markey: Trump Cuts to Tobacco Prevention Will Make Americans Sicker & Cause More Tobacco-Related Deaths, Diseases Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Edward J. Markey (D-MA) today slammed the Trump Administration for staffing cuts at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that will devast  more

WASHINGTON, April 22 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Merkley, Pingree Demand Trump Administration Halt Implementation of Reckless Reorganization at the Department of the Interior Washington, D.C. -- Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, and U.S. Representative Chellie Pingree (D-ME-01), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee   more

WASHINGTON, April 23 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Merkley, Wyden, Colleagues Condemn Trump and Hegseth's Trans Military Service Ban Washington, D.C. - Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden joined colleagues in condemning President Trump's un-American and unconstitutional transgender military service ban, calling it a blatant violation of our brave servicemembers' civil rights and a threat to national security. The lawmakers demanded an  more

WASHINGTON, April 23 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Merkley, Wyden, Colleagues Condemn Trump and Hegseth's Trans Military Service Ban Washington, D.C. - Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden joined colleagues in condemning President Trump's un-American and unconstitutional transgender military service ban, calling it a blatant violation of our brave servicemembers' civil rights and a threat to national security. The lawmakers demanded answe  more

WASHINGTON, April 21 -- Rep. Val Hoyle, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Rep. Hoyle Statement on the Passing of Pope Francis For Immediate Release: April 21, 2025 EUGENE, OR - Today, Representative Val Hoyle (OR-04) released the following statement regarding the passing of Pope Francis: "Today we lost a great and moral leader of the Catholic faith who epitomized the vision of social justice that I learned growing up in the Church. Pope Francis lived his faith and priorit  more

WASHINGTON, April 24 -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following Legal Sidebar white paper (No. LSB11288) on April 23, 2025, by attorney-adviser Brandon J. Murrill: * * * The Twenty-Sixth Amendment and Reduction of the Voting Age (Part 3): The Vietnam War and Oregon v. Mitchell This Legal Sidebar post is the third in a six-part series that discusses the Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits the federal and state governments from denying or abridging, on th  more

WASHINGTON, April 22 -- Rep. Maxine Dexter, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on April 21, 2025: * * * U.S. Reps. Dexter, Garcia, Frost, Ansari Arrive in El Salvador to Pressure Trump Administration To Abide By Supreme Court Order And Facilitate Return of Wrongly Deported Maryland Man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia San Salvador, El Salvador - Today, U.S. Representatives Maxine Dexter, Robert Garcia, Maxwell Frost, and Yassamin Ansari arrived in El Salvador to pressure the Trump Administratio  more

WASHINGTON, April 24 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release on April 23, 2025: * * * Wyden Demands Details of Rodney Scott's Involvement In Alleged Cover-up and Obstruction of Investigations into Death of CBP Detainee Scott Nominated to Serve as Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection With Authority Over 60,000 Employees and Millions of Border Crossings Every Month Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Rankin  more

WASHINGTON, April 25 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Wyden Demands Trump Administration Restore Travelers' Rights Mistreatment of travelers to U.S. has generated international travel safety warnings and may hurt upcoming global sporting events hosted in our country like the World Cup, Summer Olympics and the Paralympics Washington D.C. -U.S. Senator Ron Wyden today demanded the Trump Administration restore the rights of the one million travelers who rou  more

WASHINGTON, April 23 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Wyden, Merkley Co-Sponsor Bills to Permanently Protect the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans from Offshore Drilling Wyden co-sponsors additional Merkley-led bill to protect the Arctic Ocean Washington, D.C. --U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today announced they are co-sponsoring two bills that would permanently protect the Pacific and Atlantic oceans from the environmental and economic costs of fos  more

WASHINGTON, April 23 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Wyden, Merkley Demand Trump Administration Restore Funding for National Endowment for the Humanities "Libraries, museums, historic sites, and community centers in rural communities and small towns face particularly dire financial futures without grant funding from state humanities councils and the NEH." Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley said today they have joined Senate   more

WASHINGTON, April 23 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Wyden, Merkley Demand Trump Administration Restore Funding for National Endowment for the Humanities "Libraries, museums, historic sites, and community centers in rural communities and small towns face particularly dire financial futures without grant funding from state humanities councils and the NEH." Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley said today they have joined Senate and  more