WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley today released the following statement regarding the Israel-Hamas war. In his statement, the Senator calls for a ceasefire, to include the immediate cessation of hostilities by both sides. He also notes that a ceasefire will not endure unless the ceasefire and the negotiations that follow accomplish a number of objectives, including the release of all hos  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement at an open executive session on Nov. 2, 2023, to consider nominations of Marjorie A. Rollinson to be chief counsel of the Internal Revenue Service, and Demetrios L. Kouzoukas and Patricia Hart Neuman to be public trustees for Social Security and Medicare: * * * The nominations the Finance Committee is voting on this morning are instrumental to the federal government's finan  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement at a Nov. 2, 2023, confirmation hearing for Martin O'Malley to be commissioner of the Social Security Administration: * * * This morning we are meeting to consider the nomination of Governor Martin O'Malley to be Commissioner of Social Security Administration. Before we get to Governor O'Malley, I want to welcome our most esteemed former colleague, a Giant of the Senate, a  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to make public documents related to the Hemisphere phone surveillance program, which allows federal, state, local and Tribal law enforcement agencies to request searches of trillions of U.S. phone records, usually without warrants. Although the documents are not classified, the Justice Department has marked them as "La  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, Jeff Merkley and Senate colleagues today announced they introduced legislation that would prevent domestic violence abusers from buying firearms. "The profound grief suffered by Nicolette's family is a tragedy no family should ever have to endure," Wyden said. "Firearms must remain inaccessible to domestic violence abusers-- lives should not be lost due to inexcusable  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Washington D.C.--U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today announced a federal investment of $2.28 million in rural telemedicine help for Clatsop, Hood River, Marion, Wasco, and Yamhill counties. The funding, from USDA Rural Development, includes a first-in-the-nation Broadband Technical Assistance Program investment of $500,000 for Rural Prosperity Partners that will help address fundamental barriers fac  more