WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: PORTLAND, OR -- Today, Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Senators Ron Wyden, Jeff Merkley, and Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici announced the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) awarded $39,000,000 to advance TriMet's 82nd Avenue Transit Project. The funding comes after Blumenauer brought U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg to tour 82nd Avenue last summer(link is external). The grant will go towar  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: PORTLAND, OR -- Today, Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Senators Ron Wyden, Jeff Merkley, and Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici announced the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) awarded $39,000,000 to advance TriMet's 82nd Avenue Transit Project. The funding comes after Blumenauer brought U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg to tour 82nd Avenue last summer. The grant will go toward the purchase of U.S.  more

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- Rep. Val Hoyle, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on July 12, 2024: Today, U.S. Representatives Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) and Val Hoyle (D-OR) introduced the Veterans Affairs Opportunity for Women-Owned Small Businesses Act, bipartisan legislation to improve federal contracting opportunities for women-owned small businesses in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) Vets First Contracting Program. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and the Vietnam V  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, R-Oregon, issued the following news release: Today, Reps. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05), Gabe Vasquez (NM-02), and Eric Sorensen (IL-17) introduced the bipartisan Stop Fentanyl at the Border Act. This bill would increase funding for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), helping provide them with additional resources that are needed to combat the fentanyl crisis. "Oregon had the highest rate of fentanyl overdose deaths in the nation last year,   more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, R-Oregon, issued the following news release: Reps. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05) and Val Hoyle (OR-04) have introduced bipartisan legislation to expand federal contracting opportunities for women-owned small businesses. Specifically, the Veterans Affairs Opportunity for Women-Owned Small Businesses Act would require the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide these businesses with similar priority consideration already granted by other   more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Chair Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and 10 Senate co-sponsors introduced bipartisan legislation that would make key improvements to the nation's unemployment insurance system. The legislation, titled the Unemployment Insurance Integrity and Accessibility Act, would focus on program administration and integrity to combat fraud and improve access to benefits for  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: **Watch the full press call here(link is external).** Today, Wednesday, July 10 the Democratic Women's Caucus (DWC) and Congressional Equality Caucus (CEC) condemned House Republicans' attack on Title IX and highlighted the importance of safeguarding the Biden administration's Title IX rule. On a press call, DWC Vice Chair Teresa Leger Fernandez (NM-03), DWC Policy Co-ChairKathy Manning (NC-06), andCEC  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-Oregon, chairman of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries, issued the following news release on July 9, 2024: Today, the Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries held a legislative hearing on four bills which will modernize the Endangered Species Act, limit federal overreach in state water rights and reauthorize important programs for healthy wildlife and ecosystems. Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Bentz (R-Ore.) is  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Today, the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee passed the NASA Reauthorization Act of 2024, legislation to reauthorize the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) among other purposes. The Accessing Satellite Capabilities to Enable New Discoveries Act (ASCEND Act), introduced by Congressman Tom Kean, Jr. (NJ-07) and Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), is included in this reauth  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- Rep. Val Hoyle, D-Oregon, issued the following statement on July 11, 2024: * * * Today, U.S. Representative Val Hoyle (OR-04) voted against H.J.Res.165, the House GOP measure that aims to dismantle the Biden Administration's fix to Title IXwhich improved protections for victims of sexual harassment and assault. After the vote, Rep. Hoyle released the following statement: "It's shameful that House Republicans are trying to reinstate harmful Trump-backed efforts to underm  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: At a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Financethe first hearing of the Committee on child care in 30 yearsU.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) questioned Dr. Megan Pratt, assistant professor of practice at the Oregon State University College of Health, and Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women's Law Center, on investments in child care that would help families and the  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley announced today that his bipartisan legislation with Louisiana's Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. to address America's stillbirth crisis has been signed into law. The Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act amends federal law to clarify that stillbirth prevention activities are an allowable use of federal funds, saving the lives of mothers and babies. "A single stillb  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and California's U.S. Senator Alex Padilla--along with Senators Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Peter Welch (D-VT)--today announced the introduction of the Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act. The bill aims to ensure the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) does not enable mass voter suppression and disenfranchisement. The   more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, Rhode Island's U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, and U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX-37) today introduced a bicameral resolution designating July as Plastic Pollution Action Month. They spotlight the dangers plastic pollution poses to both human health and the environment, and call on Americans to protect, conserve, and maintain our planet by taking steps to reduce t  more

WASHINGTON, July 8 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today announced the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is awarding $299,973 to the Crooked River Water Quality Partnership, in collaboration with the Deschutes River Conservancy, through its WaterSMART Cooperative Watershed Management Program. This federal funding will be used to formalize the Partnership, identify priority projects, and develop project designs to redu  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, along with U.S. Reps. Earl Blumenauer and Suzanne Bonamici, today announced an additional federal investment of $1.49 billion for the Interstate-5 Bridge replacement project. "Today's federal investment, the largest investment in the country under the Bridge Investment Program, is great news for commuters and freight traffic in Oregon and throughout the Northwest," Wyden sai  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Funding announcement comes after Merkley-led letter urged the USDA for more federal support to West Coast fishermen and seafood harvesters, processors, and distributors Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, along with Oregon's U.S. Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), Val Hoyle (OR-04), and Andrea Salinas (OR-06), announced today that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has a  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Peters' Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to Consider Legislation Later this Month Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Jon Ossoff (D-GA) announced an agreement to advance bipartisan legislation, built off of Merkley's ETHICS Act, to ban Members of Congress, their spouses, and their dependents from holding, buying, or selling stocks. This is the first ti  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-Oregon, issued the following news release: Today, Congressman Cliff Bentz (OR-02) announced the annual process of nominating Oregon students to attend the nation's prestigious service academies for the upcoming Class of 2029. "It is an honor to be a part of a process that supports young leaders from Oregon's Second Congressional District who exemplify leadership, academic excellence, character, and patriotism towards our country, said Bentz." Oregon'  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-Oregon, issued the following news release: Congressman Cliff Bentz (R-OR) released the names of the 7 individuals he nominated to be considered for attendance at our nation's service academies. The full list of students who received and then accepted offers of Appointment are: * Sean Donohue | Phoenix Highschool | United States Naval Academy * Konnor Lilly | T.R. Robinson Highschool | United States Naval Academy Prep School * Hunter Carpen | Madra  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on July 9, 2024: Today, Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Senators Ron Wyden, Jeff Merkley, and Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici announced the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) awarded $39,000,000 to advance TriMet's 82nd Avenue Transit Project. The funding comes after Blumenauer brought U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg to tour 82nd Avenue last summer. The grant will go toward the purchase of   more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Rep. Andrea Salinas, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: The ACEP-ALE program provides financial assistance for eligible entities to purchase land easements that prevent land from being converted to non-agricultural purposes. This helps preserve the long-term viability of our nation's food supply, while also promoting climate-smart practices. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) allocated additional funding for the ACEP-ALE program. However, as currently constituted  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: DC [07/11/24]This week the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology advanced two provisions led by Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01) to help prepare for and fight wildfires. The Committee advanced the provisions as amendments to the NASA Reauthorization Act of 2024. They follow a recent Northwest Interagency Coordination Center briefing(link is external) on the upcoming wildfire season Bona  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement on Trump's tax and economic platform, on July 8, 2024: * * * "Donald Trump has falsified the Republican platform to hide his true intentions like he illegally falsified business records to cover up the affair he had with a porn actress. It's a waste of time to read into a flimsy campaign document like this to divine Trump's tax and economic plans. The man used to be presiden  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland last week requesting the appointment of a Special Counsel to investigate potential violations of ethics, false statement, and tax laws by Supreme Court Justice  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement at a hearing on tax court nominations, on July 10, 2024: * * * The Finance Committee meets this morning to discuss three nominations to the U.S. Tax Court. I'll begin with Jeffrey Arbeit, who has served for nearly a decade as a legislation counsel with the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation. His work there focuses on some of the most complicated areas of tax law, in  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement at a finance committee hearing on the need for congress to address America's child care crisis, on July 9, 2024: * * * It seems like a perfect time to take stock of our priorities, especially when it comes to the wellbeing of working families. Firefighters, nurses, and scores of other hard working Americans all have something in common: they pay taxes with every paycheck, b  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement on July 9, 2024 * * * Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released an interim report on pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and their impact on the access and affordability of prescription drugs. "Middlemen are right at the heart of Americans' frustration with the health care system: high prices a  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Chair Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and 10 Senate co-sponsors introduced bipartisan legislation that would make key improvements to the nation's unemployment insurance system. The legislation, titled the Unemployment Insurance Integrity and Accessibility Act, would focus on program administration and integri  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Ranking Member Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, and 10 Senate cosponsors introduced bipartisan legislation today that would make key improvements to the nation's unemployment insurance system. The legislation, titled the Unemployment Insurance Integrity and Accessibility Act, would focus on program administration and  more