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As Communities Face Increasing Weather Threats, Cantwell Introduces Bill to Deploy Nation’s Next Generation Weather Radar

Legislation builds on Cantwell’s 18-year push to fill gaps in our radar network; in 2011, she secured a new Doppler radar system in Western WA to help forecasters better predict large storms WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. […]

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Cantwell & Murray Send Letter to Forest Service Chief Demanding Answers on Understaffed National Forest Trails

An internal USFS report warned of decaying infrastructure & declining public access; From Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie to the Olympic National Forest, WA is home to some of the nation’s most popular USFS trails WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, […]

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Merkley, Wyden Lead the Charge to Limit DHS’ Use of Facial Recognition Technology Amid Trump’s Rapidly Growing Surveillance State

Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today announced they introduced the ICE Out of Our Faces Act. The bicameral legislation would rein in the use of facial recognition technology (FRT) by the U.S. […]

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Merkley, Senate and House Lawmakers: Trump Administration Risking a New Arms Race with Failure to Renew Nuclear Treaty with Russia 

Washington, D.C. – Today, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley—co-chair of the Congressional Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Working Group and a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee—led his Senate and House colleagues in […]