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Following the passage of the "outrageous special interest override" of the Monsanto Protection Act, environmentalists and legislators are standing up against the biotech giant and their "dictatorship over seeds, over life, over food and over our freedom." In an email to supporters on Sunday, Senator Jeff Merkley announced his proposed amendment to ... (more)

When Oregon's U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley and other Democratic senators wrote to the IRS last year criticizing the agency's regulations, they didn't mention conservative groups.

Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley is being dragged into the partisan infighting surrounding revelations that the Internal Revenue Service wrongly targeted Tea Party groups seeking non-profit status.

The so-called Monsanto Protection Act signed into law earlier this year caused such an outrage that people around the world are planning to protest the biotech company later this month.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has a personal reason for wanting to ban discrimination in the workplace.

The senator was expressing hope that the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would bar discrimination based on sexual orientation, will become law.

Karl Rove is linking congressional Democrats to the IRS scandal, saying that the agency was just doing what some on the Hill wanted.

SALEM, Ore. State senators on Tuesday passed a bill that would prohibit businesses from demanding access to a prospective employer's social media accounts.

In March of 2012 Democratic Senators sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service demanding that Tea Party groups get extra scrutiny .

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., cosponsored a bill Tuesday that would allow students to pay the same interest rate on their federally subsidized Stafford loans as big banks get when they borrow money from the Federal Reserve.

In February 2012, seven Democratic Senators wrote a letter to the Internal Revenue Service commissioner requesting an investigation of "social welfare" organizations.

Senator Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., joined Portland Police officers and breastfeeding advocates Monday to introduce the Supporting Working Moms Act .

Higher education officials are disputing a national survey that said Oregon State University President Ed Ray's compensation put him at No.

The Oregon Legislature has decided that all gas-powered engines should be banned from Waldo Lake .

An Oregon Army National Guard RQ-7 Shadow lands at the Naval Weapons Systems Training Facility in Boardman, Ore., following a demonstration flight on June 19, 2012.

The Dalai Lama and other panelists touched on human consumption, the economy, political action and individual behavior during a sold-out Environmental Summit this morning at Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

A team of smokejumpers parachuting into a fire in the mountains of Southern Oregon landed in an illegal marijuana garden being prepared for growing season.

Campaign worker KC Hanson said she caught a man trying to steal anti-fluoride signs from outside the headquarters of Clean Water Portland.

Faced with another year of drought conditions in Southeastern and South-Central Oregon, Sens.

As he did during the last session of Congress, Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., introduced legislation Wednesday that would tighten loopholes that Oregon companies used to hire foreign workers to complete local forestry projects.