Jeff Merkley

With Just a Few Migrant Families to Reunite, ACLU Calls for Citizenship and No Future Separations
A young mother from Honduras and her 1-year-old child are detained by United States Border Patrol after rafting across the Rio Grande on the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday, June 25, 2018, in Granjeno, Texas. (Photo Jahi Chikwendiu/<em>The Washington Post</em> via Getty Images)
Dingell and Markey Introduce $10 Trillion THRIVE Act to Tackle 'Our Biggest Emergencies'
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The THRIVE Act plans to create nine million jobs by upgrading infrastructure for clean water, affordable public transit, and a reliable electric grid and expanding access to wind and solar power, electric vehicles, and healthy buildings. (Photo: aydinmutlu/Getty Images)
The bill aims to ensure "an intersectional response" to the climate crisis, coronavirus pandemic, economic inequity, and racial injustice "that is proportionate to the scope of the problems we face."
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As Coronavirus Ravages India, Senate Dems Urge US Pharma Firms to Share Vaccine Tech
Brett Wilkins, staff writer
A woman demands Pfizer "free the vaccine" at a March 11, 2021 demonstration outside the company's world headquarters in New York City. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)
"Addressing the spread of Covid-19 in India is critical," the senators wrote in...
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Warren and Cleaver Lead Introduction of 'Historic' Bill to Address US Housing Crisis
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Supporters of a Massachusetts bill to stop evictions during the coronavirus pandemic gather outside the State House in Boston on March 14, 2021. (Photo: Jim Davis/<em>The Boston Globe<em> via Getty Images)
"It's time to stop nibbling around the edges and, instead, pass this big, bold...
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One-year-old Dara Faraez walks across the floor in front of the podium as Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) speaks at the Back the THRIVE Agenda press conference on September 10, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Green New Deal Network)
As Biden Prepares to Unveil Infrastructure Plan, Progressives Push $10 Trillion Investment
Powerlines extend toward the horizon as the sun sets in the west. (Photo Matt Wiebe/Flickr/cc)
'Life and Death' Crisis as Utilities Cut Power to Over 765,000 Across 10 States During Pandemic
The For the People Act has been reintroduced in the 117th Congress after failing to pass the Senate in 2019. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Majority of US Voters Across Political Spectrum Back Landmark Pro-Democracy Reform Bill: Poll
Attendees hold signs as they listen to speakers during a rally calling for an end to corporate money in politics and to mark the fifth anniversary of the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, at Lafayette Square near the White House, January 21, 2015 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
'A Big Deal': Lawmakers Reintroduce Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United
Incoming Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) speaks during Martin Luther King Day celebration at National Action Network headquarters in New York on January 18, 2021. (Photo: Lev Radin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Senate Democrats Prove 'Democracy Reform Is a Top Priority' by Putting 'For the People Act' First
In an effort to seal off the revolving door between special interests and government, Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) recommended that President-elect Biden enact "a total ban on lobbyists employed by corporations from serving in the administration, especially at executive agencies they lobbied." (Photos: Kena Betancur/Getty Images (L) and Karen Bleier/AFP via Getty Images)
After Four Years of 'Outright Grift' Under Trump, Trio of Democratic Senators Urges Biden to 'Padlock the Revolving Door'
There is growing pressure on banks and financial institutions to stop financing fossil fuel projects. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)
New Report Shows How Banks and Financial Firms 'Gambling Away Our Future' by Bankrolling Oil and Gas Projects
Sens. Sherrod Brown (L) (D-Ohio) and Jeff Berkley (D-Ore.) chat while walking in the U.S. Capitol on August 5, 2020. (Photo: Douglas Graham/Roll Call/Getty Images)
In Bid to Beat 'Public Health and Economic Crises,' Senate Dems Urge Utilities to Suspend Shutoffs During Pandemic
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) speaks during a news conference called "Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 2020," in the U.S. Capitol on February 11, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)
Merkley Unveils Pioneering Bills to Make Financial Institutions 'Stop Bankrolling Climate Catastrophe'
'Five-Alarm Fire': As Trump Plots 'Flat-Out Coup,' Voters Urged to Deliver Biden Landslide to Avoid Chaos
Privacy Advocates Herald Bill to Curb Corporate Use of 'Enormously Invasive' Facial Recognition Technology
'For a Greener Future': Omar, Sanders Lead Bill to End Destructive Taxpayer Subsidies for Fossil Fuels

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