Ron Wyden

Earlier this week, Oregon senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkely announced that Oregon State University will receive more than $180,000 in federal funds to help hops growers.  The funding will be used to research and develop management strategies for the fusarium canker fungus killing hops in Oregon, Washington and Idaho.   “...

As Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden led Wednesday’s session pushing to approve the nomination of Doug McKalip as Chief Agricultural Negotiator for the USTR.   "These days, Americans are paying more for their groceries but getting less, and our farms and ranches are getting clobbered by inflation and drought.  American...

Oregon senator Ron Wyden is speaking out against “Big Oil.”  He said he’s angry about “war profiteering”. “Big oil is charging far more for the same gallon of gas than they were doing, for example, in other times when we had big economic challenges.” Wyden went on to add the major oil ...