Jeff Merkley

Failure to fund Ukraine will do deep damage to the Atlantic alliance.

I hope we'll see an eruption of integrity across the board, and bipartisan support for the integrity of every citizen paying their fair share.

I just heard the allegation that collecting taxes due is punishing success. Is it punishment on success to enforce the tax code?

Is borrowing more in order to let the wealthiest off the hook good for America?

So, colleagues across the aisle have proposed not enforcing the tax code with the richest Americans. They want to let them cheat. Is that good for America?

While we're paying our fair share, the wealthy need to pay their fair share too.

Well, I certainly believe that it undermines that sense of fairness and participation if the best off among us have full permission to cheat and not pay their share.

How close are we to actually honoring the Flores settlement so that no child is in CBP custody for more than 72 hours?

People cannot find it. They cannot afford it.

I never understood, like, if you are arguing that people disappear, why would you shut down a program that ensures 100 percent attendance at court hearings?

I think it is a common concern, that that long wait time is, you need to have enough time for people to prepare their asylum case fairly but not so long that it is essentially years waiting while you fall in love, you have children, you…

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:43 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, November 7, 2023, at 10 a.m…

If you are trying to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, there were hikers that used to come through in August, you cannot come through.

We have seen the fire season grow longer.

It is so palpable, the change within a few decades is so real.

I picture middle class families who have a mortgage, and their mortgage generally says, you must maintain homeowner insurance.

If you are trying to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, there were hikers that used to come through in August, you cannot come through.

It is so palpable, the change within a few decades is so real.

We have seen the fire season grow longer.

Things that occurred every 1,500 years have become once in a century events.

We do see in Oregon a lot of families affected by flood insurance issues.

I picture middle class families who have a mortgage, and their mortgage generally says, you must maintain homeowner insurance.

Policy has to change around settlements in order for that to be a possibility.

I support the two-state solution, but I think the facts on the ground are making it more and more difficult.

I support the two-state solution, but I think the facts on the ground are making it more and more difficult.