Jeff Merkley: “Every civilian life is equally worthy of protection”

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.

Donald Trump is a con man. This attempt to sway Americans by sending them a check with less than 30 days before the midterm elections is deceitful.

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

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