A southern Oregon state senator announced Tuesday that he would seek the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate. The campaign of Sen. David Brock Smith, a Republican from Port Orford, pointed to his long roots in southwest Oregon, describing him as a third-generation resident and former restaurant owner who led his family’s business for 45 years. […]
Free news: The funding will enable the development of more than 40 additional permanently affordable homes for purchase on sites including Avalon Drive in Hood River. BRCLT thanks Senators Merkley and Wyden for their support of this funding to help address the severe challenges of affordable housing in the Gorge.
WOODBURN— Stopping overly aggressive immigration enforcement will take a “groundswell” of backlash from elected leaders and ordinary Americans, U.S. Rep. Andrea Salinas said Friday. Salinas, a Democrat who along with former GOP U.S. Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer made history as Oregon’s first Latina members of Congress in 2023, joined Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, and immigrants rights […]
HOOD RIVER & WASCO CO. — On Friday, Feb. 6, Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley held two well-attended, wide-ranging town halls in Mt. Hood and The D…
Oregon’s candidates for Congress raised nearly $3 million between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31 — half a million more than they had in the previous quarter, federal campaign finance records show. As the May 19 primary approaches, fundraising is ramping up among candidates for U.S. Congress, with the tightest races expected in Oregon’s 4th and […]
Free news: Oregon’s U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley — a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — today, Jan. 14, released the following statement after the Senate voted to block U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA)’s War Powers Resolution aimed at stopping unauthorized U.S. military action in Venezuela.
A rescue helicopter that’s long been kept at Newport’s Municipal Airport and Coast Guard facility on the Oregon Coast will remain there, an official for the federal agency assured Oregon’s U.S. Senators in writing. It follows major local fallout over the Coast Guard’s decision to relocate the helicopter further south on the Coast to North […]
The U.S Coast Guard has promised to indefinitely return a life-saving rescue helicopter to its facility at Newport’s Municipal Airport, Oregon’s two U.S. senators said Thursday, capping weeks of angst in the town ahead of a dangerous crab fishing season. The U.S. Coast Guard removed the helicopter in late October with no public explanation from […]
(The Center Square) – A new proposal in Congress led by a Virginia U.S. senator aims to prevent the federal government from using taxpayer money for military operations toward Venezuela without formal authorization.
Oregon’s U.S. senators are urging their peers on a powerful budgeting committee to send emergency funding to Oregon and other states where national lands and parks were recently burned by wildfires. More than a million acres of federal land burned across the West this summer, including thousands of acres of the Columbia River Gorge National […]
