Jeff Merkley: “I had difficulty getting the numbers on the individual tax provisions, what they would have costed, to better understand…”

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.