Jeff Merkley: “Once you establish a principle of equality under the law, of equal opportunity, people get it, and their behavior…”

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.

This is an insult to Congress and the Constitution.