Press Releases
March 13, 2024
The Federal Work Study Program helped me work my way through college, but the dramatic increase of tuition costs has limited the program’s benefits for current students.
Issues:Education
March 12, 2024
Artificial intelligence has great potential, but we must address the potential for bias in its algorithms. This legislation will protect job applicants by helping to prevent AI-based hiring discrimination and increasing transparency about hiring practices.
Issues:Technology and Innovation
March 11, 2024
The bipartisan SOS 2.0 Act—which I worked on with the late Congressman Don Young and Senators Sullivan and Whitehouse—is the most comprehensive legislation Congress has ever passed to address the marine debris that threatens coastal ecosystems and communities.
Issues:Energy and Environment
March 11, 2024
Reconnecting the Lower Albina neighborhood is an important step that will help correct past wrongs that split a thriving Black community in Portland.
March 7, 2024
Manufacturing is a significant part of the economy in the Pacific Northwest, and there will be more jobs as the sector continues to grow.
March 6, 2024
The Community Project Funding process provides a powerful opportunity to highlight specific project needs in NW Oregon.
March 5, 2024
No family should experience the tragedy of losing a child to accidental fentanyl poisoning. I am grateful that Jon is attending the State of the Union with me to share this plan of hope.
Issues:Education
February 26, 2024
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden and Representative Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01) announced that OCHIN, Inc has received $2,001,642 from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to support OCHINS’s health information technology recruitment and training program for health clinics in underserved communities.
Issues:Health Care
February 20, 2024
Artificial Intelligence has tremendous potential to improve lives, but that potential also poses significant risks that must not be ignored.
Issues:Technology and Innovation
February 16, 2024
Wildfire is not uncommon in the West, but the climate crisis is causing longer and more dangerous wildfire seasons that put Oregon’s rural communities and agricultural economy at risk.