WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following news release: * * * After Republicans Passed The Largest Healthcare Cut In History And On The 60th Anniversary Of The Creation Of Medicaid And Medicare, Ranking Member Merkley, Leader Schumer, And Senate Democrats Introduce Legislation To Reverse Devastating Healthcare Cuts In Republicans' "Big, Ugly Betrayal" After Republicans passed legislation earlier this month that woul  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Merkley Acts to Preserve Bipartisan Funding Agreements in Congress * Washington, D.C. - As the Senate considers bipartisan legislation to set funding for a portion of the federal government, Oregon's Senator Jeff Merkley offered an amendment to reaffirm that bipartisan funding agreements made by Congress cannot be undone by the Administration or partisan maneuvers in Congress. Merkley offered an ame  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, urged his colleagues to pass legislation to curb President Trump's "catastrophic trade war." In a speech prepared for delivery, Wyden highlighted how tariffs are raising costs for American consumers and battering U.S. businesses, and he pushed to rein in the president's use of emergency powers. * * * Here is the text of the statement: I rise to support my colleagues who are seeking to free America  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Wyden, Merkley, Colleagues Call for Restoration of Voting Rights Act * Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, both D-Ore., said today they have joined Senate colleagues in reintroducing legislation that would update and restore critical safeguards of the original Voting Rights Act of 1965 that federal court rulings have eroded in recent years. "Six decades after Congress passe  more