Wyden says he voted against budget bill because health care provision was stripped
Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden posted this op-ed on The Huffington Post Thursday explaining his vote against the 2011 budget continuing resolution:
The U.S. Senate does not allow legislative provisions to be included in appropriations bills, for much the same reason that most Americans are concerned about earmarks: it creates a slippery slope by which lobbyists and special interest groups can sneak provisions into large, must-pass legislation.
Wu says he has 'strongest' first-quarter fundraisingU.S. Rep. David Wu said Thursday, April 14, that he had one of the strongest first-quarter fundraising totals of his career.
The funding came months after Wu’s very public troubles during his 2010 re-election campaign.
Want statewide data? Here’s your websiteOregon’s Department of Administrative Services rolled out Tuesday a new website that lets citizens customize data from state agencies and comment on the site. The website, Data.Oregon.gov, also lets visitors interact with state records, create their own charts, graphs, calendars and maps, and save them online. Visitors may even suggest new “datasets” for displaying information not yet available on the site.
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Merkley gets Bar Association honorOregon Sen. Jeff Merkley receives the American Bar Association’s Congressional Award Tuesday, April 12, for his support of legislation to protect funds that help low-income families who need legal assistance.
Merkley, Snowe want president to cut oil demand in emergenciesU.S. Sens. Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine) and Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) introduced Wednesday, March 16, legislation aimed at reducing the federal government’s consumption of oil in emergency situations. The federal government consumes about 1.5 percent of the nation’s energy, which costs taxpayers approximately $25 billion a year. The Strategic Petroleum Demand Response Act would require the Secretary of Energy to develop an emergency plan — working on a voluntary basis with states, local governments, and private companies — that the President could execute to lower petroleum demand. According to the most recent data from the Energy Information Administration, the United States consumes nearly 17 million barrels of oil per day and it is estimated that Saudi Arabia’s total potential output is slightly more than 12 million barrels per day.
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