Jeff Merkley: “One of the things that I found very interesting was the rebound that has occurred on assets for banks of various sizes.”

The SRS program provides crucial payments that are a lifeline for rural communities here in Oregon and across America.

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.

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