Jeff Merkley: “I am profoundly disappointed in what happened today. I think part of leadership is putting yourself in other people's…”

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

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

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.