WASHINGTON, June 13 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release on June 12, 2024: Today, the Finance Committee meets to discuss the horrific abuse and neglect of children at too many residential treatment facilities, or RTFs - places that say they provide behavioral health care to vulnerable children, but often leave kids harmed and more traumatized than they started off. Just this morning, the Committee released a new report with sh  more

WASHINGTON, June 12 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, Indiana's U.S. Senator Todd Young, and U.S. Representatives Jim McGovern (D-MA-02) and Michael McCaul (R-TX-10) announced Congress passed their bipartisan bill to enhance U.S. support for Tibet and promote dialogue between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Dalai Lama toward a peaceful resolution of the long-standing dispute between Tibet and China. The Promoting   more

WASHINGTON, June 13 -- Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, R-Oregon, issued the following news release: Today, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce advanced Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer's (OR-05) Civil Rights Protection Act (H.R. 8648) with bipartisan support. Her proposal would require colleges and universities to inform students of their procedures for filing discrimination reports and provide timely updates on the status of complaints filed. Watch Chavez-DeRemer's committee remarks HERE.   more

WASHINGTON, June 14 -- Rep. Val Hoyle, D-Oregon, issued the following statement on June 13, 2024: * * * Today, U.S. Representative Val Hoyle (OR-04), a proud member of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, issued the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court released their unanimous ruling on Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, which protected access to FDA-approved abortion medication Mifepristone: "Today's decision reaffirms that a woman's health care decisions should be up to h  more

WASHINGTON, June 15 -- Rep. Val Hoyle, D-Oregon, issued the following statement on June 14, 2024: * * * Today, U.S. Representative Val Hoyle (OR-04) voted against the partisan H.R. 8070, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2025, which authorizes the U.S. Department of Defense's spending for the year. Rep. Hoyle released the following statement in response: "Today, House Republicans took a previously bipartisan bill designed to support our servicemembers and use it as  more

WASHINGTON, June 11 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Louisiana's U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D., today announced their bipartisan Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act unanimously passed the Senate and now heads to President Biden's desk to be signed into law. The bill will help bring down the shockingly high rate of stillbirths and maternal mortality in the United States by opening up more federal resources  more

WASHINGTON, June 13 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley today issued the following statement after the Supreme Court's unanimous decision in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine: "Mifepristone has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 2000 and has been used safely and effectively for decades. Today, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that extremist groups trying to block access to this essential  more

WASHINGTON, June 13 -- Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Washington, issued the following news release on June 12, 2024: Today, Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03) introduced the Protecting Coastal Communities Act. The legislation will protect coastal communities and the aquaculture, fishing, and recreation industries by prohibiting wind energy development off the coast of Southern Washington and Northern Oregon unless it is proven they will not face adverse impacts from offshore wind projects.   more

WASHINGTON, June 13 -- Rep. Andrea Salinas, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: "I am so proud to see my bipartisan legislation pass unanimously out of the House Science Committee and move one step closer to becoming law," said Rep. Salinas. "These bills will strengthen the collaboration between government agencies to build resiliency to climate change and help ensure that Oregon farmers and communities have access to the latest emerging technologies. I thank Chair Lucas for his partne  more

WASHINGTON, June 13 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release: Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today launched a new investigation of top Trump official Jared Kushner's investment firm Affinity Partners, which reported that 99 percent of the billions of dollars it manages comes from foreign sources, primarily the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar. In a new letter, Senator Wy  more

WASHINGTON, June 13 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release on June 12, 2024: Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the findings of a two-year investigation exposing systemic taxpayer-funded child abuse and neglect in youth residential treatment facilities (RTFs) across the United States. The Committee's investigation into four major RTF operators revealed that children in these facilities are regularl  more

WASHINGTON, June 14 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement at a finance committee markup of Treasury and U.S. Tax Court nominations, on June 13, 2024: * * * The Finance Committee meets this morning to vote on four nominations. James Ives is nominated to serve as inspector general of the Department of the Treasury. And Rose Jenkins, Adam Landy, and Kashi Way are all nominated to serve as judges of the United States Tax Court. I'll h  more

WASHINGTON, June 11 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release on June 10, 2024: Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., called on BMW to provide straight answers about its use of parts made by a banned Chinese supplier, following shifting explanations from the German automaker in response to a Finance Committee Democratic staff investigation, in a letter sent today. As part of the original investigation, Finance Committe  more

WASHINGTON, June 13 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released the following statement from a hearing dated June 5, 2024, entitled "Revitalizing and Renewing GSP, AGOA and Other Trade Preference Programs." GSP is the Generalized System of Preferences and AGOA is the African Growth and Opportunity Act. * * * This morning the Finance Committee meets to discuss how the United States can strengthen its trading partnerships around the globe through trade prefere  more

WASHINGTON, June 13 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released the following statement from a June 4, 2024, confirmation hearing for James Ives to be Treasury Inspector General, and Rose Jenkins, Adam Landy and Kashi Way to be judges on the U.S. Tax Court: * * * The Finance Committee meets this morning to discuss four nominations. James Ives is nominated to serve as inspector general of the Department of the Treasury. And Rose Jenkins, Adam Landy, and Kashi  more

WASHINGTON, June 14 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release: Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina S. Khan and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler urging the agencies to hold UnitedHealth Group (UHG) accountable for negligent cybersecurity practices, which caused substantial harm to consumers, investors, the health care system, and   more

WASHINGTON, June 13 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Federal funds for OSU part of $14.7 million overall for Pacific Marine Energy Center consortium Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley with U.S. Representative Val Hoyle today announced that Oregon State University will receive $5.5 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to support its Pacific Marine Energy Center operations in Corvallis. "OSU's world-class researchers are on the front lines of the cl  more