WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced today the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) is awarding $10,180,000 to boost the Tualatin Mountain Forest Project through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Forest Legacy Program. This new federal funding from the historic Inflation Reduction Act--the largest investment ever to tackle climate chaos--builds off the $3.63 million award Merkley and Wy  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Federal funding will help restore the Klamath River's habitat following historic dam removal and further protect endangered C'waam, Koptu, and salmon Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today announced the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is investing a total of$46,191,133in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to boost ecosystem restoration and enhance water quality and reliability thro  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced today that $5,360,000 in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds are headed to the Portland metro region for two transportation projects. The federal grants awarded will support the deployment of new digital technology for Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) light rail vehicles and fund airport terminal reconstruction effor  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced $42,712,400 in federal funding is coming to Oregon for five projects to improve railroad safety, efficiency, and reliability across the state. The investment--funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law--comes from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements (CRISI) Program, which advances projects  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden and U.S. Representative Val Hoyle announced today $10,215,123 in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds are headed to the Eugene area for two transportation projects. The federal grants awarded will support the deployment of a mobility app for residents and fund airport terminal reconstruction efforts at Eugene Airport (EUG), also known as Mahlon Sweet Field. "O  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Oct. 30, 2024: U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley as well as U.S. Reps. Earl Blumenauer and Val Hoyle today announced that Oregon's Energy Department has secured $10.9 million and four Tribes with members in Oregon have earned a combined $1.16 million in federal investment to modernize the electric grid and reduce the impacts of extreme weather while also ensuring power sector reliability. The four Tribes   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release on Oct. 30, 2024: Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal, D-Mass., and House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., today warned that Medicare Advantage (MA), an optional, private insurance alternative to traditional Medicare, is failing to live up to the standards Am  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released the following statement from a Sept. 17, 2024, hearing entitled "Lower Health Care Costs for Americans: Understanding the Benefits of the Inflation Reduction Act": * * * Today, the Finance Committee will look at two health care choices for America. One choice is to sign up for concepts of a health plan prescribed by Donald Trump. Over the weekend JD Vance gave Americans a preview of these conce  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released the following statement from a Sept. 12, 2024, hearing entitled "The 2025 Tax Policy Debate and Tax Avoidance Strategies": * * * In a matter of months, the Congress will begin a tax debate unlike any in recent memory. This will be a make-or-break moment for the federal budget and America's middle class, and the two sides have very different ideas of how to move forward. Donald Trump is effectiv  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released the following statement from a Sept. 24, 2024, hearing entitled "Chaos and Control: How Trump Criminalized Women's Health Care": * * * Today, the Committee meets to discuss the growing threat to reproductive health care. That threat is compounded by the failure of a growing number of states to adhere to the letter and spirit of the law in our committee's jurisdiction that protects the rights of   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 -- The Senate Finance Committee released the following testimony by OB/GYN Amelia Huntsberger from a Sept. 24, 2024, hearing entitled "Chaos and Control: How Trump Criminalized Women's Health Care": * * * Good morning Chairman Wyden, Ranking Member Crapo, and members of the committee. My name is Dr. Amelia Huntsberger, and I am a board-certified OB/GYN. I currently live and work in Oregon but previously practiced medicine in rural Idaho for more than a decade. Prior to lea  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Nov. 1, 2024: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced today the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) is awarding $10,180,000 to boost the Tualatin Mountain Forest Project through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Forest Legacy Program. This new federal funding from the historic Inflation Reduction Act--the largest investment ever to tackle climate chaos--builds off the $3.63 million award M  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Oct. 30, 2024: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today announced the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is investing a total of $46,191,133 in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to boost ecosystem restoration and enhance water quality and reliability through 24 projects throughout the Klamath Basin--12 of which are taking place in Oregon. This latest federal funding wave from the landma  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Oct. 28, 2024: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced today that $5,360,000 in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds are headed to the Portland metro region for two transportation projects. The federal grants awarded will support the deployment of new digital technology for Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) light rail vehicles and fund airport terminal recons  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced $42,712,400 in federal funding is coming to Oregon for five projects to improve railroad safety, efficiency, and reliability across the state. The investment--funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law--comes from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements (CRISI) Program, which advances projects th  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Oct. 28, 2024: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden and U.S. Representative Val Hoyle announced today $10,215,123 in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds are headed to the Eugene area for two transportation projects. The federal grants awarded will support the deployment of a mobility app for residents and fund airport terminal reconstruction efforts at Eugene Airport (EUG), also known as Mahlon Sw  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -- Rep. Val Hoyle, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Oct. 28, 2024: Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden and U.S. Representative Val Hoyle announced today $10,215,123 in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds are headed to the Eugene area for two transportation projects. The federal grants awarded will support the deployment of a mobility app for residents and fund airport terminal reconstruction efforts at Eugene Airport (EUG), also known as Mahlon Sw  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Oct. 31, 2024: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today announced a federal investment of $600,000 for the Rogue Valley International Medford Airport to support the expansion of service to Dallas-Fort Worth. "Making sure our regional airports have the support they need to keep Oregonians connected and moving is essential for the local economy," Wyden said. "I applaud this federal investment to Rogue Vall  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and five Democratic senators urged the Biden Administration to make clear a United Nations cyber convention should not be used to justify censorship, spying and human rights abuses by authoritarian governments like Russia and China, in a letter released today. "We fear the Convention will legitimize efforts by authoritarian countries like Russia and China to censor and surveil in  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- Rep. Val Hoyle, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley as well as U.S. Representatives Earl Blumenauer and Val Hoyle today announced that Oregon's Energy Department has secured $10.9 million and four Tribes with members in Oregon have earned a combined $1.16 million in federal investment to modernize the electric grid and reduce the impacts of extreme weather while also ensuring power sector reliability. The four Tribes secu  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Oct. 29, 2024: U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today announced a federal investment of $2.77 million toward the Port of Portland's work to decarbonize as well as improve natural disaster resilience. "The Port of Portland plays an integral role in many Oregonians' travel plans, and also a crucial element for small Oregon businesses who depend on the Port to ship their Oregon-grown goods around the wor  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Federal investment will support the new direct flight connecting Southern Oregon with Dallas-Fort Worth Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today announced a federal investment of $600,000 for the Rogue Valley International Medford Airport to support the expansion of service to Dallas-Fort Worth. "Making sure our regional airports have the support they need to keep Oregonians connected and moving is essent  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Tribes with Oregon presence to receive federal investments are the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs, Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, Burns Paiute and Nez Perce Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley as well as U.S. Reps. Earl Blumenauer and Val Hoyle today announced that Oregon's Energy Department has secured $10.9 million and four Tribes with members in Oregon have earned a combined $1.16 millio  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: U.N. Convention Against Cybercrime Lacks Safeguards Against Abuse; Senators Urge Admin To Seek Better Balance To Protect Journalism and Human Rights Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and five Democratic senators urged the Biden Administration to make clear a United Nations cyber convention should not be used to justify censorship, spying and human rights abuses by authoritarian governments like Russia and China, in  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: U.S. EPA invests in Port of Portland through its Clean Ports Program Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today announced a federal investment of $2.77 million toward the Port of Portland's work to decarbonize as well as improve natural disaster resilience. "The Port of Portland plays an integral role in many Oregonians' travel plans, and also a crucial element for small Oregon businesses who depend on the   more