WASHINGTON, April 11 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * As Trump Pushes Toward Recession, Heinrich & Lujan Demand Answers on Cuts to New Mexico Manufacturing Center WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) are demanding answers on the Administration's decision to cancel funding for ten National Institute of Standards and Technology Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Centers across the country, including in  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Booker, Blumenthal, Bonamici, Lee Urge DOE, OCR to Rescind Guidance on Inclusive Classrooms WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), along with U.S. Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR-01) and Summer Lee (D-PA-12), led colleagues in writing a letter to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon and Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Tra  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 (TNSFR) -- The Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled has announced the removal of several products and services from the federal Procurement List, affecting contracts previously held by nonprofit agencies employing individuals with significant disabilities. The action, formalized in a Federal Register notice dated April 11, 2025 (Document 2025-06195, 90 FR 15455), comes after a prior proposal was published on March 7, 2025. Among the items de  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Rep. Andrea Salinas, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Congresswoman Salinas on Republican Budget: "A Gift to Billionaires at the Expense of Hardworking Families" Washington, DC - Today, Congresswoman Andrea Salinas (OR-06) issued the following statement after voting against the Republican budget bill that would cut health care, food assistance, and other critical benefits to give $7 trillion in tax breaks to billionaires: "Any way you square it, thi  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Dexter, Bonamici Lead Fight Against Republican Cuts to Medicaid Representatives offered an amendment to sweeping GOP budget blueprint to protect Medicaid from being used to finance tax cuts for the ultrawealthy WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Today Congresswomen Maxine Dexter, M.D. (OR-03) and Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01) introduced an amendment to prevent cuts to Medicaid from financing tax cuts for the ultraw  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released its latest weekly update on Environmental Impact Statements (EIS), reflecting filings received between March 31 and April 7, 2025. The notice, published in the April 11 edition of the Federal Register, announces the availability of final EIS documents submitted by other federal agencies in compliance with Section 309(a) of the Clean Air Act. These filings represent the EPA's ongoing role in publicly disclosin  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release on April 10, 2025: * * * In Open Letter to the American Public, Senate Democrats Warn Against Republican Cuts to Health Care to Pay for Tax Handouts for Billionaires As Republicans Consider Budget Measure to Fast Track Health Care Cuts, Democrats Urge Americans to Stand Up and Speak Out Washington, D.C. - Senate Democrats sent an open letter to the American publ  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * In Open Letter to the American Public, Wyden, Merkley, Senate Democrats Warn Against Republican Cuts to Health Care to Pay for Tax Handouts for Billionaires As Republicans Consider Budget Measure to Fast Track Health Care Cuts, Democrats Urge Americans to Stand Up and Speak Out Text of the Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. - Senate Democrats sent an open letter to the American public today, warning f  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following news release on April 10, 2025: * * * Merkley: House Republicans Are Betraying Middle-Class Families by Advancing Senate Republicans' Budget Resolution WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, released the below statement following House Republicans' vote to advance Senate Republicans' budget resolution. "Af  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Department of Interior National Park Service has opened a public comment period for the proposed listing of several historic sites in the National Register of Historic Places. The pending nominations, submitted before March 29, 2025, span communities in Washington, D.C., New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Kansas, Nevada, Oregon, and Indiana, and represent a wide spectrum of the nation's architectural, cultural, and social history. Among the n  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following news release on April 10, 2025: * * * New CBO Analysis Shows Republicans' Tax Giveaways Add $52 Trillion to National Debt Over 30 Years Merkley Requested New CBO Estimate That Shows Republican Budget Proposal Adds Trillions More to National Debt Than Previously Projected WASHINGTON, D.C. - At the request of U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Bud  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Oregon Delegation Demands Immediate Restoration of Critical FEMA Program Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley led his Democratic colleagues in the Oregon delegation--Senator Ron Wyden and U.S. Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), Val Hoyle (OR-04), Andrea Salinas (OR-06), Maxine Dexter (OR-03), and Janelle Bynum (OR-05)--in calling for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Oregon Delegation Demands Immediate Restoration of Critical FEMA Program Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley led his Democratic colleagues in the Oregon delegation--Senator Ron Wyden and U.S. Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), Val Hoyle (OR-04), Andrea Salinas (OR-06), Maxine Dexter (OR-03), and Janelle Bynum (OR-05)--in calling for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Oregon Delegation Demands Immediate Restoration of Critical FEMA Program Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley led his Democratic colleagues in the Oregon delegation--Senator Ron Wyden and U.S. Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), Val Hoyle (OR-04), Andrea Salinas (OR-06), Maxine Dexter (OR-03), and Janelle Bynum (OR-05)--in calling for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) t  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Rep. Val Hoyle, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Oregon Delegation Demands Immediate Restoration of Critical FEMA Program WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley led his Democratic colleagues in the Oregon delegation--Senator Ron Wyden and U.S. Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), Val Hoyle (OR-04), Andrea Salinas (OR-06), Maxine Dexter (OR-03), and Janelle Bynum (OR-05)--in calling for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) t  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Oregon Delegation Urges Reversal of Cuts, Planned Layoffs at Social Security That Hurt State's Seniors Letter from Wyden, Merkley, Bonamici, Hoyle, Salinas, Bynum, Dexter cites disastrous decisions in Social Security field offices in Warrenton, La Grande and The Dalles Washington, D.C. -U.S. Senator Ron Wyden today led his Democratic colleagues in the Oregon delegation - Senator Jeff Merkley and U.  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Oregon Delegation Urges Reversal of Cuts, Planned Layoffs at Social Security That Hurt State's Seniors Letter from Wyden, Merkley, Bonamici, Hoyle, Salinas, Bynum, Dexter cites disastrous decisions in Social Security field offices in Warrenton, La Grande and The Dalles Washington, D.C. -U.S. Senator Ron Wyden today led his Democratic colleagues in the Oregon delegation - Senator Jeff Merkley an  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Oregon Delegation Urges Reversal of Cuts, Planned Layoffs at Social Security That Hurt State's Seniors Letter from Wyden, Merkley, Bonamici, Hoyle, Salinas, Bynum, Dexter Cites Disastrous Decisions in Social Security field offices in Warrenton, La Grande and The Dalles Washington, D.C. -U.S. Senator Ron Wyden today led his Democratic colleagues in the Oregon delegation - Senator Jeff Merkley and U.S.   more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Rep. Val Hoyle, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Rep. Hoyle Introduces Vote at Home Act to Improve Americans' Access to the Ballot Box Introduction comes as House Republicans bring forward the SAVE Act, which threatens to jeopardize millions of Americans' ability to vote For Immediate Release: April 10, 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Representative Val Hoyle (OR-04) introduced the Vote at Home Act to provide a new path forward on voting that makes  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following floor remarks on April 9, 2025: * * * Mr. President, I must object to the Senate proceeding to the nomination of Sean Plankey of Pennsylvania, to be Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Department of Homeland Security. Since July 2022, I have repeatedly urged CISA to release an important, unclassified report by independent cybersecurity experts that the Agency commissioned, titled "U.S.   more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: * * * Senators Coons, Blunt Rochester, colleagues demand answers from the Trump administration regarding decision to cancel funding for Manufacturing Extension Partnership programs WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Chris Coons and Lisa Blunt Rochester (both D-Del.) joined a letter to Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, led by Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Comm  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following remarks on April 10, 2025: * * * Wyden Blasts Trump Tariff Chaos and Billionaire Handouts in Hearing on Trade and Tax Nominees As Prepared for Delivery Joining the Finance Committee this morning are William Kimmitt, the nominee for Commerce under secretary for international trade, and Kenneth Kies, the nominee for assistant Treasury secretary for tax policy. They'll make up   more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release on April 10, 2025: * * * Wyden Statement on Social Security Using Death Master List to Revoke Social Security Numbers Washington, D.C. -- Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement after news reports indicate the Trump Administration is planning to use Social Security to "terminate the financial lives" of certa  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Wyden, Paul, Schumer, Kaine, Shaheen, Welch and Warren Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Repeal Global Tariffs Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., introduced legislation today that would repeal Donald Trump's global tariffs, along with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and S  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release on April 10, 2025: * * * Wyden, Whitehouse Lead Colleagues in Demanding Answers on DOGE's Access to the Sensitive National Child Support Database The Federal Parent Locator Service Holds Identifying Information of All Working Americans, Whether or Not They Pay Child Support Career HHS employees were silenced, ignored, and even potentially purged for refusing to  more