Senator Jeff Merkley

Democrat  •  Oregon  •  1st Term  •  Sworn In 2009
Current Term 2009 - 2014
  • Votes with party 96%
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03/20/10
DeFazio threatens ‘no’ vote

...from senators from high-reimbursement states such as New York and Massachusetts. The change has the support of Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley even though it was stripped from the Senate version of the bill due to opposition by other lawmakers. Merkley spokesw

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03/19/10
What does this letter from Senator Harry Reid mean?

...Congress (collectively – the Senate bill w/ the reconiciliation “fixes”) does not do enough. The letter was sent to Sen Jeff Merkley, D-OR, and Bernie Sanders, I-VT, and notes, “I was very disappointed when it became clear that we did not have

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03/19/10
Reid Promises Separate Public Option Vote In Next Few Months

...vote on a public option in the coming months. In a letter to two of his more progressive colleagues in the Senate -- Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Bernie Sanders of Vermont -- the Nevada Democrat implicitly apologized for his inability to get a government

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03/20/10
The return of the public option

...a separate vote on a public option in the coming months. In a letter to two of his more progressive colleagues in the Senate -- Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Bernie Sanders of Vermont -- the Nevada Democrat implicitly apologized for his inability to get a

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03/20/10
Saturday Word: Health Care (and Finance) - The Caucus Blog ...

If nights haven't been long enough on Capitol Hill recently, members of the banking committee might have a few more ahead of them as the panel's chairman, Senator Christopher J. Dodd, powers through the 359 filed amendments before Congress ... He

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03/20/10
Obamacare, special Saturday edition | Worth Reading

On our editorial page, we repeatedly warned that then- Sen. Obama was not the post-partisan centrist he pretended to be, but rather a dangerous leftist who would fight relentlessly to impose socialism on America. ... Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Jeff Merkle

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Official website: http://merkley.senate.gov
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107 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-3753
Fax: 202-228-3997

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