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 United States Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR)

Jeffrey Alan Merkley (born October 24, 1956) is the junior United States Senator from Oregon. A member of the Democratic party, Merkley was a five-term member of the Oregon Legislative Assembly representing House District 47, located in eastern Multnomah County within the Portland city limits. He also served as Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives.


He defeated two-term Republican incumbent Gordon Smith in the 2008 U.S. Senate election. Merkley's tenure serving in the 111th United States Congress commenced on January 3, 2009, though he was not sworn into office until January 6,[1] with most of the rest of the incoming Congress.

US Senator Jeff Merkley
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Fri. March 19, 2010

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On the heels of Senator John Kerry promising to produce in the next two weeks an energy and global warming bill that can pass the US Senate, ...
Greg Walden, and had brief face-to-face exchanges with Sen. Jeff Merkley and 1st District Rep. David Wu. A key focus of the visit was pressing for support ...
The amendment, introduced by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) was not in the final health care bill and was ruled out of bounds for reconciliation by the Senate ...
In response, Oregon's Senator Jeff Merkley is urging the VA to act immediately to resolve the system problems identified in the report and take steps to ...

Sen. Jeff Merkley's amendment to the federal health care reform bill has been dropped.(Photo from Facebook) An amendment to the federal health care bill ...
WASHINGTON - House Majority Whip and Sixth District Congressman James E. Clyburn joined with Senator Lindsey Graham and Congressman John Spratt today to ...
A new bill introduced by US Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) is intended to make it easier for homeowners to pay for energy-saving home renovations and create ...
Oregon Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley says if the House doesn't add such a measure, he'll offer an amendment to add one when the Senate takes up a final bill. ...
Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley says if the House doesn't add such a measure, he'll offer an amendment to add one when the Senate takes up a final bill. ...
While the response of Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) to Senator Jeff Merkley's pleas on behalf of extending benefits for Oregon's unemployed isn't printable here, ...
There's also the matter of whether the DSCC needs to get involved (like it did on behalf of now-Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley in his 2008 primary) to get its ...
... on the prices of stocks or securities, but these bets can no longer be allowed to threaten our entire financial system," said Sen. Jeff Merkley. ...
PORTLAND - State Sen. Jeff Merkley will hold town hall meetings in Clatsop and Tillamook counties this weekend. In Clatsop County, the meeting will be held ...
Sherrod Brown (Ohio), Jeff Merkley (Ore.) and Charles Schumer (NY) were wary of the idea. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass. ...
Senator Jeff Merkley, an Oregon Democrat who is ideologically an opposite to Mr. Corker in many respects, agreed that the debate had gotten bogged down. ...
Senators Jeff Merkley of Oregon, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Ted Kaufman of Delaware and Maria Cantwell of Washington have all expressed serious reservations ...
Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Carl Levin (D-MI) and others are fighting hard for a real "Volcker Rule" that would reinstate some of the protection for Main Street ...
"The location inside the Fed makes absolutely no sense, and it needs to be thrown out," Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) said in an interview Friday. ...
This is why I am pleased to see our Oregon Senator Merkley standing up for tough reforms and introducing a bill with Sen. Levin to curb risky trading by ...
"We're in a wait and see mode," fellow Banking Democrat Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, told CNN. Earlier this week, Merkley and four other senators introduced a ...
As a result of one meeting, Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley said he would introduce a companion bill in the Senate of the bill, dubbed Act Act. To cap off the ...
That's why I have co-sponsored a bill offered by Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon that would provide support to community banks so they can begin lending again. ...
Quite a number of Senators, Sherrod Brown, Chuck Schumer, Jeff Merkley and Jack Reed, among others, rightly think a Fed-based consumer agency is ludicrous. ...
Also on Wednesday, five Senate Democrats, including two members of the Senate Banking Committee, Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Sherrod Brown of Ohio, ...
Sources tell CNN that several Democrats, including Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. and Sen. Ted Kaufman, D-Del., do not like how the negotiated deal on consumer ...
Tim Johnson of South Dakota, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Michael Bennet of Colorado. Clyburn and Spratt introduced the House ...
WASHINGTON, DC - Last week, Senators Jeff Merkley Mark Pryor, Debbie Stabenow, Sherrod Brown, Bernie Sanders, and Ben Cardin introduced the "Building STAR ...
'The bill has not gone through the banking committee; this is the time to have the debate,' said Sen. Jeff Merkley ...
WASHINGTON -- Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden begged the federal government Tuesday for ``immediate and coordinated'' assistance to help Klamath ...
I.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Kirsten Gillibrand (DN.Y.) and Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.). Sanders was joined at the press conference by ...
Senators Jeff Merkley and Carl Levin said in a statement they will hold a news conference on legislation "to limit the types of high-risk bets, ...
And yet in February, four Democrats in the Senate -- Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Michael Bennet of Colorado, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, and Jeff Merkley of ...
... stocks or securities, but these bets can no longer be allowed to threaten our entire financial system," said Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., a key sponsor. ...
Today, the US Green Building Council is showing their support for legislation introduced by Senators Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) and Mark Pryor (D-Arkansas) ...
Kulongoski, Sen. Ron Wyden, Sen. Jeff Merkley, Congressman Peter DeFazio. These people are supposed to help their constituents.
Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), would offer rebates for up to 30 percent of the cost of upgrades to energy-related equipment including energy ...
When Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon tried to appeal to Sen. Bunning's sense of decency by telling him how many Americans would be adversely affected ...
Previously, he worked as the deputy legislative director for then-Oregon House Speaker Jeff Merkley, who was elected to the US Senate in 2008. ...
Late Tuesday night, Democrat Jeff Merkley of Oregon pleaded for Bunning to climb on board and agree to the vote on a 30-day extension. ...


 


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