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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

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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2024

Essentially, the wealthy investing in property proceed to never be taxed ever on their income from growing value of assets; is that not correct?

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Mar 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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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Suzanne Bonamici
@suzannebonamici· Democratic · OR· Mar 11, 2024

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of my bipartisan bill, the Save Our Seas 2.0 Amendments Act. Marine debris is a serious problem. Unfortunately, much of marine debris is made up of plastic…

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Suzanne Bonamici
@suzannebonamici· Democratic · OR· Mar 11, 2024

I am a strong supporter of collective bargaining for fair and just compensation, benefits, and working conditions.

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Suzanne Bonamici
@suzannebonamici· Democratic · OR· Mar 6, 2024

Instead of having a productive conversation about addressing student's mental health needs, ending campus hunger, protecting student's civil rights, Committee republicans have determined it would be a better use of our time to malign…

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Suzanne Bonamici
@suzannebonamici· Democratic · OR· Mar 6, 2024

Democrats will continue to support and defend programs that protect students and educators from all forms of discrimination, harassment and violence on campus.

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Suzanne Bonamici
@suzannebonamici· Democratic · OR· Mar 6, 2024

I just want to note that, and I am very grateful that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 have laid the groundwork to create campuses that are more reflective of our society.

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Suzanne Bonamici
@suzannebonamici· Democratic · OR· Mar 6, 2024

I am disappointed to see the DEI programs are the newest target in my republican colleagues politicized culture war.

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