Jeff Merkley: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman.”

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

Your right to privacy includes the freedom to move around your community without every move being monitored.

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.