Jeff Merkley: “It is an incredible national parks system, but it only works if we have people staffing it.”

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

Immigration court proceedings must uphold fairness and rule of law and not be politicized to satisfy Donald Trump’s arbitrary detention quotas.

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.