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Federal officials turned away a group of Oregon congressmen and the governor after they asked for a tour of a Portland facility that houses immigrant children.
Gov. Kate Brown, U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, and U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, all Democrats from Oregon, asked the Office of Refugee Resettlement for permission to tour the Morrison Child & Family Services building where immigrant children are being held.
Oregon's U.S. senators, both Democrats, agree on thwarting President Donald Trump's next nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley agree that Senate Democrats will need to stick together — the 47 Democrats are joined by two independents — and also enlist support from a handful of Republicans, who hold a one-vote majority in the chamber.
PORTLAND, OR – Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, along with Rep. Suzanne Bonamici and Gov. Kate Brown, today released the following statement in response to the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) refusing to allow the delegation to tour on Thursday evening Morrison Child & Family Services, where ORR placed children who the federal agency had separated from their parents when they crossed the border.
"The Office of Refugee Resettlement turned down our request to meet with the children being held at the facility here in Oregon.
Oregon's 1st District representative, also top Democrat on the House environment subcommittee, said administrator 'put nation at risk' with policies, not just his spending abuses and questions about government ethics.
U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, long a critic of Scott Pruitt, welcomed his resignation Thursday as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for the past 16 months.
Portland Ore – Senator Jeff Merkley, Governor Kate Brown and Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici joined with Planned Parenthood and others Thursday to rally Oregonians to pressure members of the Senate to block any presidential nominee for the Supreme Court who would threaten a woman's constitutional right to have an abortion. The President is expected to announce a nominee within days to fill the vacancy resulting from Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's decision to retire at the end of this month.
Three of the highest-ranking Democrats in Oregon—U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, Gov. Kate Brown and U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici—are sounding an alarm over what a new Supreme Court justice could mean for legal abortion in the United States.
The US Supreme Court announced its opinion on the Janus vs. ASCME case this morning, ruling that government workers who choose not to join unions will not be required to pay union fees to fund collective bargaining work. Oregon's unions and politicians remain confident that this blow to the national labor movement will not destroy the local organized labor movement.