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|state=Oregon

|state=Oregon

|terms=January 3, 2009 – Present

|terms=January 3, 2009 – present

|preceded=[[Gordon Smith]]

|preceded=[[Gordon Smith]]

|status=j

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'''Jeffrey Alan “Jeff” Merkley''' (born October 24, 1956) is the junior [[United States Senator]] from [[Oregon]] and a [[progressive]] member of the [[Democratic Party]], being the only U.S. Senator to endorse [[Bernie Sanders]] in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries. He has voted with a majority of his Democratic colleagues 97% of the time during the current [[Congress]].<ref>http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/M001176/</ref> Previously he served as Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives. He currently serves on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, Environment and Public Works Committee, and the Budget Committee.

'''Jeffrey Alan “Jeff” Merkley''' (born October 24, 1956) is the junior [[United States Senator]] from [[Oregon]] and a [[progressive]] member of the [[Democratic Party]], being the only U.S. Senator to endorse [[Bernie Sanders]] in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries. He has voted with a majority of his Democrat colleagues 97% of the time during the current [[Congress]].<ref>http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/M001176/</ref> Previously he served as Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives. He currently serves on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, Environment and Public Works Committee, and the Budget Committee.

Merkley [[collude]]d in the [[Kavanaugh smear]] with a 15-hour [[filibuster]] on the Senate floor and is a supporter of the [[totalitarian]] [[Green New Deal]].<ref>https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/merkley-wyden-join-colleagues-to-introduce-green-new-deal-resolution-</ref>

Merkley [[collude]]d in the [[Kavanaugh smear]] with a 15-hour [[filibuster]] on the Senate floor and is a supporter of the [[totalitarian]] [[Green New Deal]].<ref>https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/merkley-wyden-join-colleagues-to-introduce-green-new-deal-resolution-</ref>

*[http://merkley.senate.gov/ Official Website]

*[http://merkley.senate.gov/ Official Website]

*[http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Jeff_Merkley.htm On the Issues]

*[http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Jeff_Merkley.htm On the Issues]

==References==

==References==

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[[Category:Oregon]]

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[[Category:Eagle Scouts]]

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