US Midterms 2026
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Jeff Merkley, a Democrat who has represented Oregon in the U.S. Senate since 2009, is seeking a fourth term in 2026 against Republican state senator David Brock Smith.
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Washington, Oct 16 (IANS) Two Democratic US senators introduced a resolution seeking to block President Donald Trump's civilian nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia, warning that the deal lacks safeguards…
In the United States, Democratic Senators Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Ed Markey of Massachusetts introduced a joint resolution of disapproval aimed at blocking President Donald Trump’s administration’s agreement with…
Markey“This century is going to belong to the nations that invest the most in education and infrastructure, not the ones that dribble away their national wealth in foreign wars and foreign military bases,” Merkley said.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley and Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey introduced a resolution that would force the Senate to vote on blocking a proposed nuclear deal between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.
Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley: a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: and Massachusetts’ U.S. Senator Edward J.
The page is a voters’ guide for the 2026 election in East Oregonia, focusing on the U.S. Senate race.
Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley co-leads a bipartisan bill reauthorizing the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (SRS) for three more years.
Jeff Merkley is seeking re-election to the U.S. Senate representing Oregon in the November 3, 2026 election.
Jeff Merkley is seeking reelection to Oregon’s U.S. Senate seat in the November 3, 2026 election.
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Jeffrey Alan Merkley was born on October 24, 1956, to Darrell Philip and Betty Lou Merkley, and after his first-grade year in Roseburg, Oregon, the family moved to Portland.
A graduate of David Douglas High School, he earned a 1979 bachelor's degree in international relations at Stanford University and a 1982 Master of Public Affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School.
As a Presidential Management Fellow he worked on military technology security in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
He returned to Portland in 1991 to lead Portland Habitat for Humanity as executive director until 1994; at Human Solutions, where he directed housing development, he started Oregon's first Individual Development Account program.
Merkley won a seat in the Oregon House of Representatives in 1998, representing an east Portland district numbered the 16th and, after 2002 redistricting, the 47th.
After the 2003 session he became the House Democratic leader, and when his party won a majority in 2006 he became Speaker of the House for the 74th Oregon Legislative Assembly.
In the 2008 U.S. Senate election he defeated two-term Republican incumbent Gordon Smith, 49 percent to 46 percent, and he took office on January 3, 2009. He won reelection in 2014 against Monica Wehby and in 2020 against Jo Rae Perkins.
In the Senate he and Michigan senator Carl Levin added the Volcker Rule amendment to the Dodd–Frank financial reform bill, and in 2016 he was the only senator to endorse Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination.
He gave a floor speech of 15 hours and 28 minutes on April 4, 2017, against the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch, and a speech of 22 hours and 36 minutes on October 21 and 22, 2025, criticizing the Trump administration.
Merkley is seeking a fourth Senate term in the November 3, 2026, election after winning the Democratic primary with 93.2 percent of the vote. His Republican opponent is state senator David Brock Smith, who won his party's nomination with 29.5 percent, defeating Jo Rae Perkins, a former Linn County party chair, and Brent Barker, a real estate broker.
