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Earl Blumenauer
@earlblumenauer· Democratic · OR· Mar 20, 2024

I am here this morning on the occasion of the 24th annual National Bike Summit to celebrate the bicycle. It was an honor to kick off the annual bicycle ride through the Capitol this morning with several hundred enthusiasts. We had a lot to…

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Mar 14, 2024

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the privileges of the floor be extended for the balance of the day for my intern, Lucas Rigsby. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Mar 12, 2024

If I recall that Michigan did some audits to try to examine that. What did those audits find?

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Mar 12, 2024

I hate to see people trying to address a non-problem and disguise it as a problem when they are really trying to intimidate people from voting.

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Mar 12, 2024

My father was a mechanic and he said why is it that in America the laws mean that those who earn income by the sweat of their brow pay a much higher tax than those who earn money through investments?

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Mar 12, 2024

These things sound like legitimate operations moving to low polling location and so forth, but they can be used in extremely prejudicial manner.

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Mar 12, 2024

Well, hallelujah, because it's the first I've seen a real proposal coming from an Administration to try to help tackle this challenge.

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Mar 12, 2024

This is all across the country. This is an example of the threats that were put forward in Oregon.

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Mar 12, 2024

Essentially, the wealthy investing in property proceed to never be taxed ever on their income from growing value of assets.

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Mar 12, 2024

My father was a mechanic and he said why is it that in America the laws mean that those who earn income by the sweat of their brow pay a much higher tax than those who earn money through investments?

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Mar 12, 2024

A big source of the inflation we've been dealing with is corporations doing huge price increases on products and have all-time high profits.

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Mar 12, 2024

Essentially, the wealthy investing in property proceed to never be taxed ever on their income from growing value of assets.

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Mar 12, 2024

A big source of the inflation we've been dealing with is corporations doing huge price increases on products and have all-time high profits.

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Earl Blumenauer
@earlblumenauer· Democratic · OR· Mar 12, 2024

In 2022, the world lost more than 16 million acres of forest, an area bigger than West Virginia. Deforestation accounted for about 10 percent of the world's annual greenhouse gas emissions and 40 percent of all tropical deforestation as a…

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Mar 12, 2024

This is all across the country. This is an example of the threats that were put forward in Oregon.

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Mar 12, 2024

If I recall that Michigan did some audits to try to examine that. What did those audits find?

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