Index/People/Jeff Merkley

Jeff Merkley

American politician (born 1956)

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Dec 10, 2025
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is there a list of senators receiving money from Venezuela

There is no single, authoritative public list in the provided reporting that catalogues U.S. senators “receiving money from Venezuela.” Available sources document extensive U.S. legislative activity o...

Dec 11, 2025
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Which US senators have disclosed gifts or payments linked to Venezuela in the last 10 years?

Available reporting in the provided search results does not list any U.S. senator who has publicly disclosed receiving gifts or payments "linked to Venezuela" in the last ten years; coverage instead d...

Dec 11, 2025
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Which U.S. senators have been investigated for ties to Venezuelan-linked funds?

Available reporting in the provided sources does not list any U.S. senator as having been formally investigated for ties to Venezuelan-linked funds; the materials instead focus on congressional oversi...

Dec 11, 2025

Is there credible evidence linking US senators to Venezuelan cartel funding?

Available reporting and government statements show no direct, credible evidence in the provided sources that U.S. senators have accepted funding from Venezuelan cartels; the debate in sources centers ...

Oct 23, 2025

Which Democrat leaders have publicly compared Trump to Hitler?

A precise, documentable list shows ; commentary equating Trump’s behavior with authoritarianism appears in opinion pieces and from media figures rather than named Democratic officials. The materials i...

Nov 16, 2025

Republican Senators have voted 12 times to fund SNAP. Democrat Senators have voted 12 times to NOT fund

Available reporting shows the claim “Republican Senators have voted 12 times to fund SNAP; Democrat Senators have voted 12 times to NOT fund” is a simplification of a complex shutdown fight over targe...

Dec 2, 2025

Does Jeff merkelys name show up on the epstine flight logs?

Available public releases of Jeffrey Epstein-related materials include flight logs introduced in the Maxwell trial and documents the Department of Justice released in February 2025; reporters and docu...

Oct 4, 2025

Which Republican lawmakers have publicly denounced Trump's actions as authoritarian?

Several news analyses identify a mix of Republican lawmakers who have publicly criticized actions by former President Trump or his administration as authoritarian or dangerous, but the lists and conte...

Jan 20, 2026

What procedural reforms to the Senate filibuster have been proposed to allow voting-rights legislation to pass, and which senators support them?

A slate of targeted procedural fixes—ranging from a “talking filibuster,” carve-outs for voting and democracy bills, a “step‑down” cloture process or one‑off nuclear option, and raising the floor for ...

Jan 7, 2026

Calls for trump to resign

Calls for Donald J. Trump to resign have recurred across different moments of his presidency and post-presidential influence, voiced by activists, unions, lawmakers and petition drives citing everythi...

Jan 4, 2026

Venesualen list of USA Senators receiving money

The reporting provided contains extensive coverage of the U.S. raid that captured Nicolás Maduro and the immediate political fallout in Washington but contains no documented list or evidence that iden...

Jan 4, 2026

How did party leadership and committees respond to colleagues who demanded Trump's resignation?

When members of Congress and outside organizers publicly demanded President Donald Trump resign, party leaders and standing committees mostly rebuffed immediate resignation demands and instead leaned ...

Nov 23, 2025

Did Barton Trump speak to the senate chamber

Available reporting shows President Donald Trump addressed a joint session of Congress (a speech to both chambers) on March 5, 2025; multiple transcripts and summaries record him thanking Senate membe...

Nov 8, 2025

What evidence do critics cite when claiming the US government exhibits fascist tendencies?

Critics point to a cluster of behavioral and institutional signals—authoritarian rhetoric, attacks on independent institutions, alignment with violent far-right groups, and public support for antidemo...

Nov 6, 2025

Have there been proposals to reform the filibuster in 2021–2025 and what changes were considered?

The period 2021–2025 saw repeated, serious proposals to change the Senate filibuster ranging from procedural tweaks to outright elimination, with . Political reality kept most proposals unrealized: in...

Nov 1, 2025

How did Democrats propose to protect Social Security and Medicare during the 2018 2019 shutdown?

Democrats did not need to propose emergency measures to keep Social Security and Medicare payments flowing during the 2018–2019 shutdown because both the Social Security Administration and Centers for...

Oct 23, 2025

shumers shut down

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats have repeatedly blocked Republican-led Senate proposals to reopen the federal government, citing demands for a negotiated extension of expirin...