Jeff Merkley: “I do not want to see us moving backwards.”

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.

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.

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