During Deputy Secretary of State Michael Rigas' testimony before Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday, Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley lambasted the State Department over its "hastily planned, ...

The average human brain now contains enough tiny plastic fragments to equal the weight of a plastic spoon, a 50% increase in the past decade. Those sobering statistics, included in a February study ...

U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, along with others, expressed strong opposition to the Trump administration's recent ...

Democratic U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon says he's running for reelection. The 68-year-old said in a Thursday statement ...

During a Senate Appropriations Committee held on June 25, 2025, Senator Jeff Merkley grilled OMB Director Russell Vought over cuts to global aid initiatives like PEPFAR. The interruptions to these ...

During a budget hearing held by the Senate Appropriations Committee on May 8, 2025, Senator Jeff Merkley got into a heated ...

Oregon, announced Thursday that he will seek re-election to a fourth term in 2026, "pledging to continue to fight for working ...

From the late 1960s until the mid-1990s, two Republicans, Mark Hatfield (1967-97) and Bob Packwood (1969-95), represented ...

In 2017, he spoke for more than 15 hours in opposition to Trump’s Supreme Court nomination of Neil Gorsuch — a nomination he ...

At 68, Merkley is the junior of Oregon's two senators, and his current term is up at the end of 2026. He said he wants to ...

Merkley, 68, announced his decision in a video Thursday morning. He was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2008 and is ...

During his remarks in a Senate hearing today, Senator Jeff Merkley pressed UN Ambassador nominee Mike Waltz on the negotiations for peace in Iran. Waltz stated, "The President has been clear." ...