Jeff Merkley: “Social Security provides, on average, about 40 percent of income for seniors and disabled Americans.”

You can’t wait for a disaster to happen to start preparing, and this funding finally moving forward will be transformative for disaster resiliency along the North Coast.

America today is larger, busier and more complex than the America our Founding Fathers designed the Senate and its rules to govern.

I have heard heart-wrenching stories from Oregonians who have lost loved ones after a prescription for an injury or treatment turned into an addiction.

To be clear: Both parties have played a role in creating Senate dysfunction, and both have a responsibility to fix it.