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Jeff Alan Merkley is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Oregon since January 6, 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, Merkley has focused on issues such as healthcare, climate change, and economic inequality throughout his tenure. He has been an advocate for progressive policies and has worked to address the challenges facing working families in Oregon and across the nation. Merkley is known for his commitment to transparency and accountability in government, often speaking out against perceived injustices and advocating for reforms.
Last month, I joined more than 200 Members in the House and Senate to send a letter to President Obama renewing our request that the President issue an Executive order banning contractors from receiving Federal Government contracts unless…
Have we reached a different point now? Have we successfully tackled the issue of 'too big to fail' and its close cousin, which is more in your realm, of 'too big to jail'?
It seems like every 3 months, we have another major scandal, and these scandals involve wrongdoing.
Well, I'm just asking you to make your agency as visible as possible with OMB for their review to be completed.
The whole point being that the tobacco industry understands that you have to addict children because adults don't pick up tobacco products and start using them.
We passed this act in June 2009. And it took 4 years and 4 months for the FDA to send it to OMB which, to me, is an egregious amount of time.
This is the American dream just slipping through our fingers for millions of working Americans.
I will just note that the 2015 proposals take the discretionary grant funds from 10 percent of the budget to 16 percent of the budget.
Over time, that makes a difference, a significant difference, as we think about having accurate indexes for areas that it might be applied, such as in Social Security.
I would like to see the Department of Labor convert the experimental CPI-E into a fully official published index.
There should be a vote on something as key to our Constitution as equality and opportunity.
Last month, I joined more than 200 Members in the House and Senate to send a letter to President Obama renewing our request that the President issue an Executive order banning contractors from receiving Federal Government contracts unless…
Does this reflect kind of a philosophical issue over whether education is a public good that not only benefits individual children but strengthens society as a whole?
My concern here is that this is the heart of the American dream, that there is a full opportunity to thrive for every American.
If our students are unable to begin purchasing a home early in their life and, therefore--and homeownership is the major builder of personal family wealth for working Americans, doesn't that amplify the inequality of wealth in our society?
Thank you for the work that your Department does facilitating exports which are so important to nurturing manufacturing.
But, it's important to our system in the United States that the powerful don't pay a fine while the ordinary person goes to prison.
I think what really stuck in my mind is that, the same week that the settlement came out with HSBC, ... it just seemed like the sort of thing that sticks in people's minds as to whether the justice system is not weighted heavily in favor…
I want to encourage the Forest Service to find a way to complete that commitment to the community.
I do want to thank you for being a cosponsor on the Wildfire Disaster Fund because that is key to a lot of things that we are talking about.
I must say, there is an ecstatic community in John Day, Oregon and the Forest Service was instrumental in developing the innovation of using a service contract rather than a harvest contract to have that 10-year plan.
I do feel like there are a lot of very sensitive landscapes that have fallen off the list in recent years.
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