Jeff Merkley

Students listen to instruction from instructor Ben McLane, right, during a wildland firefighter training, June 9, 2023, in Hazel Green, Ala. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)

Forest and park service worker cuts leave wildland firefighting crews short-staffed

Forest and fire officials in Washington state and Oregon say Trump administration funding cuts and a loss of federal workers who help support wildland firefighting continues to make planning for the upcoming wildfire season a challenge.
May 8
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., joined by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., the GOP whip, left, talks to reporters at the Capitol, in Washington, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republicans moving ahead with Trump’s ‘big’ bill of tax breaks and spending cuts amid tariff uproar

April 4
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., joined by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., the GOP whip, left, talks to reporters at the Capitol, in Washington, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump gives GOP senators his support as they charge ahead on tax package and spending cuts

April 2
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., calls on a reporter, Feb. 19, 2025, after a Senate policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Democrats channel their outrage over DOGE, Ukraine and more in marathon Senate session

February 21
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., arrives to talk to reporters after a closed-door meeting with fellow Republicans to find agreement on a spending bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. The current stopgap measure lasts through March 14. After that, without congressional action, there would be a partial government shutdown. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Republicans unveil blueprint to extend $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and lift the debt ceiling

February 13

San Francisco police investigating assaults on anti-China protestors during APEC

Demonstrators protesting the Chinese president and the Chinese Communist Party say they were harassed and assaulted by pro-Beijing groups, and one on Wednesday urged local police to take action. (Nov. 29)

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FILE - Trucks carrying humanitarian aid line up at the Rafah Border Crossing, Egypt, on the way to Gaza, Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. A cumbersome process of Israeli inspections and other hurdles is slowing the entry of aid into Gaza, two U.S. senators say after a visit to Egypt's Rafah crossing into to besieged territory. Hundreds of trucks are lined up at Rafah, sometimes waiting weeks to go through the process. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Cumbersome process and ‘arbitrary’ Israeli inspections slow aid delivery into Gaza, US senators say

January 6, 2024

Oregon senators seek answers over prison inmate retaliation

August 20, 2022

Feds looking at finances of Native American boarding school

June 29, 2022
FILE - The U.S. Capitol on a sunny morning, April 27, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Dems hone populist appeal with proposed stock trading ban

April 30, 2022
FILE - This June 3, 2011 photo, shows Bonneville Dam near Cascade Locks, Ore. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, March 17, 2022, added Bradford Island, which is next to the dam, and surrounding waters of the Columbia River to its Superfund list of toxic waste sites. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for years dumped toxic waste on the island. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Contaminated Columbia River island added to Superfund list

March 17, 2022

Oregon to GET $262M in wildfire recovery funding

February 10, 2022

Business Highlights: Powell opposition, Holmes trial

November 19, 2021
FILE - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies during a House Financial Services Committee hearing Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Inequality can prevent the U.S. economy from reaching its potential, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday, Nov. 9, and he underscored the Fed’s commitment to reducing unemployment as broadly as possible, including among disadvantaged groups. (Sarah Silbiger/Pool via AP, File)

Two Democratic senators oppose Powell as Fed chair

November 19, 2021

National monument proposed for area near OR’s Painted Hills

November 4, 2021
Hotel heiress and reality star Paris Hilton, flanked by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., left, and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., lends her celebrity to support legislation to establish a bill of rights for children placed in congregate care facilities, at the Capitol on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021. Hilton says she was traumatized as a teenager when she was sent by her family to abusive care facilities. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Paris Hilton pushes for federal ‘troubled-teen’ industry law

October 21, 2021
FILE- In this Dec. 11, 2007, file photo, members of the Maricopa County DUI chain gang are escorted to their assignment in Phoenix. As the nation on Thursday, June 17, 2021 officially made Juneteenth a federal holiday, honoring when the last enslaved Black people learned they were free, lawmakers are reviving calls to end a loophole in the Constitution that has allowed another form of slavery to thrive. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Lawmakers mark Juneteenth by reviving ‘abolition amendment’

June 18, 2021
FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington. A Chicago police officer has been charged with breaching the U.S. Capitol and entering a senator's office during the Jan. 6 insurrection. Karol Chwiesiuk, was arrested Friday, June 11 and faces five misdemeanor counts, including entering a restricted building, disrupting government business, and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds with intent to impede congressional proceeding. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Chicago police officer charged in Capitol insurrection

June 11, 2021
FILE - In this May 15, 2019, file photo, the Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River is seen from the air near Colfax, Wash. A coalition of 17 environmental groups are speaking out against a key part ...

Some green groups oppose lower Snake River dam removal plan

March 27, 2021
FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2019 file photo, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez speaks to reporters as he leaves a meeting at the Organization of American States, in Washington. U.S. Federal prosecutors in New York said on Tuesday, March 9, 2021, that an accountant witnessed meetings between Hernández and a drug trafficker in which they planned the trafficking of cocaine to the U.S. Hernández has previously denied any involvement with drug traffickers and has not been charged. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Proposed US legislation would target Honduras president

February 23, 2021
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., walks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, before the start of the third day of the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Merkley: GOP senators face issues in Trump verdict

February 11, 2021

2 Georgia men arrested, accused of roles in US Capitol riot

February 9, 2021

FBI: 2 NY men arrested for participating in Capitol breach

January 17, 2021
FILE- In this Dec. 11, 2007, file photo, members of the Maricopa County DUI chain gang are escorted to their assignment in Phoenix. National lawmakers are expected on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020, to introduce a joint resolution aimed at striking language from the U.S. Constitution that enshrines a form of slavery in America’s foundational documents. Many Americans will recognize modern-day prison labor as chain gangs deployed from prison facilities for agricultural and infrastructure work. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

US lawmakers unveil anti-slavery constitutional amendment

December 2, 2020

2 senators back revoking Wounded Knee medals for US soldiers

November 27, 2019

OSU to get funds to research quake impact on electrical grid

August 28, 2019

Jeff Merkley: Child separation is still happening

July 22, 2019

Jeff Merkley blames Donald Trump for illegal immigration surge

April 5, 2019

Jeff Merkley ends flirtation with presidential run

March 5, 2019
FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019 file photo, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., delivers her inaugural address following her swearing-in ceremony at the Renaissance School for Musical Theater and Technology in the Bronx borough of New York. Democrats hoping to unseat President Donald Trump in 2020 are courting the party’s famous freshmen, including Ocasio-Cortez and those from early voting states such as New Hampshire, South Carolina and Iowa. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen, File)

Belles of the ball: Dem freshmen courted by 2020 hopefuls

February 19, 2019

No to the Green New Deal

February 12, 2019

Jeff Merkley says Democrats refuse any funding for Donald Trump’s border wall

December 23, 2018

Beto O’Rourke leads another delegation to Tornillo

December 14, 2018
President Donald Trump, left, listens to a reporters question as FEMA Administrator Brock Long, center, and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, right, listen during a briefing on Hurricane Florence in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

US says transfer from FEMA funds won’t harm hurricane relief

September 12, 2018
President Donald Trump greets Judge Brett Kavanaugh his Supreme Court nominee, in the East Room of the White House, Monday, July 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The Latest: Liberals rally on court steps against Kavanaugh

July 10, 2018

U.S. Rep: Southwest Key holding 500 of 2,000 separated children

June 19, 2018
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