Jeff Merkley

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) is warning that ongoing U.S. military actions in Iran are driving up fuel costs, creating ripple effects across transportation, food, and shipping nationwide. Gas Prices Spike As Strait Of Hormuz Shipping Halts On Monday, Slotkin posted on X while sharing a video...

The U.S. Congress is closer than ever to enacting a congressional stock trading ban as a bill on the matter cleared committee on Wednesday. A bipartisan group of senators announced a deal to advance the bill earlier in July. What Happened: The bill cleared the Senate Homeland Security &...

A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators announced a deal for a congressional stock trading ban at a press conference on Wednesday. What Happened: Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Jon Ossoff (D-GA) announced the initiative at a press conference on Wednesday,...

The Senate Banking Committee has officially scheduled a hearing to take up the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act on Thursday, May 11 at a meeting titled “Examining Cannabis Banking Challenges of Small Businesses and Workers,” reported Marijuana Moment Thursday evening...

The call for members of Congress to be banned from buying and selling stocks continues to heat up with a new report that seven members of the House of Representatives failed to disclose their stock trades. What Happened: An ethics group found that seven U.S. House of Representatives members...

Bloomberg is reporting that former Federal Reserve Chairman, Paul Volcker, is highly disappointed in the new financial regulation rule that bears his name. The “Volcker Rule” was first pitched as a way to ban banks from running private-equity and hedge funds, which would have, theoretically,...