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Jeffrey Alan Merkley (born October 24, 1956) is an American politician who is the junior United States senator from Oregon.He was elected to the Senate in 2008. A member of the Democratic Party, he served from 1999 to 2009 as the representative for the 47th district in the Oregon House of Representatives, which covers central Multnomah County on the eastern side of Portland; he was the speaker ...
U.S. Senate staff member Lawyer U.S. House. Maryland Senate. ... Jeff Merkley: Democratic October 24, 1956 (age 68) CBO analyst Defense Department.
Smith won the November 1996 Senate election to succeed the retiring Mark Hatfield, and Smith and Wyden served together until Smith's defeat in 2008 by Democrat Jeff Merkley. Wyden holds the Senate seat that was once held by Wayne Morse, a man whom Wyden worked for in the summer of 1968 as Morse's driver, [12] and whom Wyden calls his mentor. [13]
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), the top Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, called the White House move "a constitutional crisis." ... Times staff writer Taryn Luna in Sacramento contributed to ...
Aug. 19—Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden joined colleagues to introduce the Preventing Election Subversion Act, legislation which would institute new safeguards to insulate ...
Mar. 17—U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., had an online town hall for Baker County residents on Tuesday, March 16, and federal COVID-19 aid was a major topic. Merkley, who was elected in 2008 and ...
Its current U.S. senators are Democrats Ron Wyden (serving since 1996) and Jeff Merkley (serving since 2009). Mark Hatfield was the state's longest serving senator (1967–1997). Prior to 1906, U.S. senators were elected by the Oregon Legislative Assembly. In 1904, Oregon voters passed a ballot measure that required U.S. senators to be selected ...
Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley took to the floor of the chamber for more than 15 hours overnight to protest President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.