Jeff Merkley

To enable the people of Puerto Rico to choose a permanent, nonterritorial, fully self-governing political status for Puerto Rico and to provide for a transition to and the implementation of that permanent, nonterritorial, fully self-governing political status, and for other purposes.

To allow Americans to receive paid leave time to process and address their own health needs and the health needs of their partners during the period following a pregnancy loss, an unsuccessful round of intrauterine insemination or of an assisted reproductive technology procedure, a failed adoption arrangement, a failed surrogacy arrangement, or a diagnosis or event that impacts pregnancy or fertility, to support related research and education, and for other purposes.

To support United States policy toward Taiwan.

To provide back pay to Federal contractors, and for other purposes.

Calling for the immediate release of Evan Gershkovich, a United States citizen and journalist, who was wrongfully detained by the Government of the Russian Federation in March 2023.

To improve voter access to the ballot box through automatic voter registration, and for other purposes.

To direct the President to designate a month as African Diaspora Heritage Month.

To promote remediation of abandoned hardrock mines, and for other purposes.

Designating 2024 as the Year of Democracy as a time to reflect on the contributions of the system of Government of the United States to a more free and stable world.

To extend the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000.

To reduce the health risks of heat by establishing the National Integrated Heat Health Information System within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Integrated Heat Health Information System Interagency Committee to improve extreme heat preparedness, planning, and response, requiring a study, and establishing financial assistance programs to address heat effects, and for other purposes.

To expand Americans’ access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes.

To require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to promulgate regulations with respect to regional and interregional transmission planning, and for other purposes.

To expand Americans’ access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes.

To amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to authorize certain extraordinary operation and maintenance work for urban canals of concern.

To protect freedom of travel and reproductive rights.

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand access to telehealth services, and for other purposes.

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to ensure College for All.

To protect an individual’s ability to access contraceptives and to engage in contraception and to protect a health care provider’s ability to provide contraceptives, contraception, and information related to contraception.

To impose sanctions with respect to foreign persons responsible for violations of the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) individuals, and for other purposes.