In case any of my Oregonian pals are having their FB polluted with Koch-funded election lies from the tragic Monica Wehby, heres a little bit about her opponent (wherever FB allows anyone I know to read it anyway): Jeff Merkley was instrumental in fashioning the Dodd-Frank financial reform package, authoring measures curtailing predatory mortgage lending as well as the Volcker rule to ban risky proprietary trading by deposit-taking banks. He has proposed numerous climate bills on energy efficiency and electric vehicles, which have been used as models in Obama Administration budgets and even drawn Republican co-sponsors. He championed repeal of the so-called “Monsanto Protection Act,” a provision anonymously tucked into a spending bill which gave the agribusiness giant legal immunity from judicial rulings. He has butted heads with the White House over full combat withdrawals from Afghanistan and, more recently, the NSA’s surveillance programs. And he just found the 51st vote for the Employee Non-Discrimination Act, gay rights legislation bequeathed to him by Ted Kennedy, the previous sponsor.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 08:36:21 +0000
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