Jeff Merkley: “Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and thank you all for your presentations.”

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

Your right to privacy includes the freedom to move around your community without every move being monitored.

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.

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.