Jeff Merkley: “I am not ready to concede that the line should be wiped out with no geographic limits, no time limits, no style of force…”

This is an insult to Congress and the Constitution.

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

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.