Jeff Merkley: “Thank you for your leadership on Dodd-Frank, a huge effort to try to stabilize our financial sector.”

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.

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.

This is an insult to Congress and the Constitution.