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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Oct 21, 2025

Thank you, Senator. I not only agree, but I so admire what you accomplished. It is so frustrating. Why can't we accomplish that again? I know one of our Members worked hard with my colleague across the aisle to do a bill that may have been…

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Oct 21, 2025

We are advocating because it is the right thing for every American that healthcare is a right. It is a foundation for a family to thrive. When I think about the things that enable a family to do well, it is healthcare; it is a decent home…

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Oct 21, 2025

President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million-- That is a lot of money. For folks in my neighborhood, $1 million seems like an unfathomable sum, and here, we are talking about $230 million, a quarter…

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Oct 21, 2025

It seems to me America is the last bastion of liberty in the world. There is nowhere to flee to, no mighty republic that stands if American democracy fails. I want to commend my partner from Oregon for taking this exceptionally important…

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Oct 21, 2025

I must say, Senator, I don't think there is an individual we have in the Senate who is not the descendent of immigrants. So shouldn't we all be able to identify with our family stories and bring those to bear to solve this challenge and…

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Oct 21, 2025

I appreciate so much this passionate question from my colleague from New Hampshire. And there is no one here among 100 Senators who has spent more time working on issues of disability, bringing their own life understanding to bear to help…

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Oct 21, 2025

That is horrific that he is flying away. He absolutely should be sitting down right now and holding a conversation with you about how we solve this problem for millions of Americans.

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Oct 21, 2025

They burned down the Presidential palace. They shot the President. Maybe they killed his family. They tore up the Constitution, and they said: Here is the new deal. But now that rarely happens in comparison to the new version in which…

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Oct 21, 2025

My colleague from Minnesota, I appreciate the question, but I particularly appreciate the recitation of the preamble, and I grabbed my pocket Constitution here that I have been bringing up various points through the night. And the line…

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Oct 21, 2025

My colleague from New York, absolutely. Benjamin Franklin wrote that ``whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.'' And I will just roll into that speech and the press. And we have seen…

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Oct 21, 2025

I thank my colleague. As long as that discussion is not taking place in the hours that I might be sleeping tonight, absolutely. And I do feel like this is so fundamental to our Nation. That is why everyone who has come down to the floor…

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Dan Rayfield
@danrayfield· OR· Oct 20, 2025

Today’s ruling, if allowed to stand, would give the president unilateral power to put Oregon soldiers on our streets with almost no justification. We are on a dangerous path in America.

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Oct 14, 2025

The president’s goal will be to produce violence and then use violence to expand his authoritarian powers.

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Tina Kotek
@tinakotek· Democratic · OR· Oct 10, 2025

I support Wilson’s efforts to hold the line in response to the Trump administration’s lies and aggressive tactics.

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Oct 10, 2025

They're essentially health care middlemen that are in the business of red tape, and they profit when Americans don't get health care.

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Oct 10, 2025

Without stronger oversight and real accountability, these contractors are just going to get a jumbo windfall for creating systems that actually harm Americans trying to get health care.

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Oct 9, 2025

An authoritarian President emboldened by a rubberstamp Congress, emboldened by a deferential Supreme Court, is sending military troops against American citizens who are peacefully protesting in city after city. This is un-American. It is a…

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Oct 9, 2025

back in 2021, in the NDAA, we had a clause that said Federal military police who were responding to a civil disturbance need to wear visible identification, including an individual identifier, which could, in fact, be a number or a name…

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