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March 24, 2025

Merkley, Risch, Wyden, Crapo Team Up for Bipartisan Bill to Boost Mass Timber Industry Nationwide

Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Idaho’s U.S. Senator James Risch today launched a renewed bipartisan effort to promote the use of mass timber in federal building projects and military construction. The bipartisan Mass Timber Federal Buildings Act—which is cosponsored by Oregon’s U.S. Senator Ron Wyden and Idaho’s U.S. Senator Mike Crapo—would incentivize the use of mass timber building materials by providing a preference in federal building contracts for mass timber products, giving mass… Continue Reading

March 24, 2025

Wyden, Warren Press Social Security Commissioner Nominee on Trump, Musk Efforts to Gut Agency

—U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said today they are pressing the Social Security Commissioner nominee to commit to stopping the Trump Administration and the the self-styled “Department of Government Efficiency’s” ongoing efforts to hollow out the Social Security Administration (SSA). Wyden, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee; and Warren, a member of the Finance Committee, warned those Social Security schemes may be a “prelude to privatization.”  The… Continue Reading

March 21, 2025

Merkley, Wyden Condemn President Trump’s Move to Revive Cruel Family Detention Policy

Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden joined their colleagues in an effort led by Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee Dick Durbin (D-IL) to decry President Donald Trump and his Administration moving to revive family detention for migrant families. The Senators began with strenuous objection, writing in their letter: “We strongly object to the failed and inhumane practice of detaining migrant families. We are deeply disturbed by reports that your Administration intends t… Continue Reading

 The Oregon Way

January 24, 2025

In Oregon, There’s Always a Way—It’s the OREGON WAY

November 15, 2024

Turning the Oregon Way up to 11(01)

This month, I held my 1,101st town hall (my 36th of 2024) to keep my pledge to hold an open-to-all town hall in every nook and cranny, in each and every county of Oregon, every year.  … Continue Reading

October 18, 2024

The ImPORTance of Coos Bay

I’ll always fight to get Oregon’s ports the resources they need to improve their infrastructure, support the regional economy, and make our supply chains more efficient - which is especially important now that congested ports are in the spotlight as a key factor driving the ongoing supply chain crisis. … Continue Reading

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