WASHINGTON, June 9 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Merkley, Wyden, 38 Senators Fight Trump's Cuts to the Job Corps Program * In Oregon, Tongue Point, PIVOT, and Springdale Centers at Risk Washington, D.C. - As the Trump Administration attempts to shutter the nation's largest jobs training program for low-income and at-risk young people, Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden and 38 Senate colleagues demanded U.S. Labor Secretary Lori Chav  more

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Merkley, Wyden, 38 Senators Fight Trump's Cuts to the Job Corps Program * In Oregon, Tongue Point, PIVOT, and Springdale Centers at Risk Washington, D.C. - As the Trump Administration attempts to shutter the nation's largest jobs training program for low-income and at-risk young people, Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden and 38 Senate colleagues demanded U.S. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-  more

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- Rep. Val Hoyle, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Rep. Hoyle Statement on President Trump's Unprecedented Decision to Federalize the California National Guard * For Immediate Release: June 9, 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C.- Representative Val Hoyle (OR-04) released the following statement after President Trump's unprecedented federalization of the California National Guard in response to protests in Los Angeles: "You don't send the National Guard into a city  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, released the following statement from a June 3, 2025, confirmation hearing for Joseph Barloon to be deputy U.S. Trade Representative, Janet Dhillon to be director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and Brian Morrissey Jr. to be general counsel of the Treasury: * * * The Committee meets this morning to discuss three important nominations. General Counsel of the Treasury, the head of the Pen  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, released the following statement from a June 3, 2025, open executive session to consider the nomination of Billy Long to be commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service: * * * Over the last several years, I have heard every member of this committee, Democrat and Republican, talk about the importance of independence and neutrality at the IRS. If you genuinely believe in those priorities, you cannot   more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Wyden, Bennet, Democratic Colleagues Urge Full Funding of Unemployment Insurance Administration Wyden Also Blasts Trump Administration's Recent Decision to Revoke Grants Helping States Improve UI Systems and Fight Fraud Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Finance Committee Member Michael F. Bennet (D-Colo.), House  more