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Jeff Merkley

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Jeffrey Alan Merkley (born October 24, 1956) is an American politician and is the current junior United States Senator from Oregon, having served since January 3, 2009. [1]

123 relations: A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq, Afghanistan, AFL–CIO, Amy Klobuchar, Asylum seeker, Bachelor of Arts, Barack Obama, Barbara Boxer, Barbara Roberts, Bernie Sanders, Bill Bradbury, BlueOregon, Bob Packwood, Bullying, Calliope, Queensland, Carl Levin, Citizens United v. FEC, Classes of United States Senators, Coming out, Congressional Budget Office, Council of Representatives of Iraq, Dave Hunt (Oregon politician), David Douglas High School, Deborah Kafoury, Defense of Marriage Act, Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016, Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Don't ask, don't tell, Employment Non-Discrimination Act, Frank Shields (politician), Gender identity, Gordon H. Smith, Habitat for Humanity, Harry Reid, HuffPost, Independent Party of Oregon, International relations, Iraqis, It Gets Better Project, Jeff Sessions, Jefferson Smith (politician), Jim Bunning, Jim Risch, JPMorgan Chase, Karen Minnis, Kentucky, Lamar Alexander, LGBT, List of speakers of the Oregon House of Representatives, ..., List of United States Senators from Oregon, Master of Public Affairs, Master of Public Policy, Maurine Neuberger, Michael Bennet, Mike Lee (American politician), Monica Wehby, Multnomah County, Oregon, Myrtle Creek, Oregon, Neil Gorsuch, Nuclear weapon, Office of Refugee Resettlement, Oregon, Oregon Bottle Bill, Oregon Democratic primary elections, 2008, Oregon Equality Act, Oregon House of Representatives, Oregon state elections, 2006, Oregon State Senate, OregonLive.com, Party leaders of the United States Senate, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Portland, Oregon, Presidential Management Fellows Program, Princeton University, Proprietary trading, Rand Paul, Rasmussen Reports, Reconciliation (United States Congress), Republican Party (United States), Respect for Marriage Act, Ron Wyden, Roseburg, Oregon, Russ Feingold, Same-sex relationship, Seniority in the United States Senate, Sexual orientation, Stanford University, Steve Novick, Syria, Ted Kulongoski, Term limits in Oregon, The Oregonian, Tom Carper, Tom Harkin, Tom Udall, Turkey, Umpqua Community College shooting, United States Congress, United States Secretary of Defense, United States Senate, United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch, United States Senate Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate Committee on the Budget, United States Senate election in Oregon, 1968, United States Senate election in Oregon, 2008, United States Senate election in Oregon, 2014, United States Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Green Jobs and the New Economy, United States Senate Environment Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water and Wildlife, United States Senate Environment Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Management, and Regulatory Oversight, Volcker Rule, Wayne Morse, Wayne Scott, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, 111th United States Congress, 74th Oregon Legislative Assembly. Expand index (73 more) »

A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq

A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq is a 36-page plan created by a group of United States Democratic congressional candidates, retired military officers and national security professionals that outlines policy measures (consisting of bills currently before the United States Congress) that the candidates pledged to support in the 2008 elections.

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan (Pashto/Dari:, Pashto: Afġānistān, Dari: Afġānestān), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located within South Asia and Central Asia.

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AFL–CIO

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is the largest federation of unions in the United States.

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Amy Klobuchar

Amy Jean Klobuchar (born May 25, 1960) is an American former prosecutor, author, and politician.

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Asylum seeker

An asylum seeker (also rarely called an asylee) is a person who flees his or her home country, 'spontaneously' enters another country and applies for asylum, i.e. the right to international protection, in this other country.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (BA or AB, from the Latin baccalaureus artium or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, sciences, or both.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.

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Barbara Boxer

Barbara Levy Boxer (born November 11, 1940) is a retired American politician who served as a United States Senator for California from 1993 to 2017.

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Barbara Roberts

Barbara Kay Roberts (born December 21, 1936) is an American politician from the state of Oregon.

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Bernie Sanders

Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Vermont since 2007.

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Bill Bradbury

Bill Bradbury (born May 29, 1949) is an American politician from the US state of Oregon.

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BlueOregon

BlueOregon is a high-profile progressive blog covering the politics of the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Bob Packwood

Robert William Packwood (born September 11, 1932) is an American former attorney and politician from Oregon and a member of the Republican Party.

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Bullying

Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate or aggressively dominate others.

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Calliope, Queensland

Calliope is a town and locality in the Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Carl Levin

Carl Milton Levin (born June 28, 1934) is an American attorney and retired politician who served as a United States Senator from Michigan from 1979 - 2015.

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Citizens United v. FEC

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission,, is a landmark U.S. constitutional law, campaign finance, and corporate law case dealing with regulation of political campaign spending by organizations.

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Classes of United States Senators

The three classes of United States Senators are made up of 33 or 34 Senate seats each.

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Coming out

Coming out of the closet, or simply coming out, is a metaphor for LGBT people's self-disclosure of their sexual orientation or of their gender identity.

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Congressional Budget Office

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is a federal agency within the legislative branch of the United States government that provides budget and economic information to Congress.

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Council of Representatives of Iraq

The Council of Representatives (Majlis an-Nuwwāb al-ʿIrāqiyy; ئه‌نجومه‌نی نوێنه‌رانی) is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of Iraq.

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Dave Hunt (Oregon politician)

Dave Hunt (born November 10, 1967) is an American politician in the state of Oregon.

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David Douglas High School

David Douglas High School (DDHS) is a public high school in Portland, Oregon, United States.

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Deborah Kafoury

Deborah Kafoury (born August 19, 1967) is a politician in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Defense of Marriage Act

The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) (and) was a United States federal law that, prior to being ruled unconstitutional, defined marriage for federal purposes as the union of one man and one woman, and allowed states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages granted under the laws of other states.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016

The 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries and caucuses were a series of electoral contests organized by the Democratic Party to select the 4,051 delegates to the Democratic National Convention held July 25–28 and determine the nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (commonly referred to as Dodd–Frank) was signed into United States federal law by US President Barack Obama on July 21, 2010.

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Don't ask, don't tell

"Don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) was the official United States policy on military service by gays, bisexuals, and lesbians, instituted by the Clinton Administration on February 28, 1994, when Department of Defense Directive 1304.26 issued on December 21, 1993, took effect, lasting until September 20, 2011.

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Employment Non-Discrimination Act

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) is legislation proposed in the United States Congress that would prohibit discrimination in hiring and employment on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity by employers with at least 15 employees.

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Frank Shields (politician)

Frank W. Shields (born March 26, 1945) is an American politician and Methodist minister who served in both houses of the Oregon Legislative Assembly, from 1993 until 2007.

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Gender identity

Gender identity is one's personal experience of one's own gender.

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Gordon H. Smith

Gordon Harold Smith (born May 25, 1952) is an American politician, a former United States Senator and businessman from the state of Oregon.

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Habitat for Humanity

Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI), generally referred to as Habitat for Humanity or simply Habitat, is an international, non-governmental, and nonprofit organization, which was founded in 1976.

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Harry Reid

Harry Mason Reid (born December 2, 1939) is a retired American politician who served as a United States Senator from Nevada from 1987 to 2017.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.

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Independent Party of Oregon

The Independent Party of Oregon (IPO) is a political party in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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International relations

International relations (IR) or international affairs (IA) — commonly also referred to as international studies (IS) or global studies (GS) — is the study of interconnectedness of politics, economics and law on a global level.

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Iraqis

The Iraqi people (Arabic: العراقيون ʿIrāqiyyūn, Kurdish: گه‌لی عیراق Îraqîyan, ܥܡܐ ܥܝܪܩܝܐ ʿIrāqāyā, Iraklılar) are the citizens of the modern country of Iraq. Arabs have had a large presence in Mesopotamia since the Sasanian Empire (224–637). Arabic was spoken by the majority in the Kingdom of Araba in the first and second centuries, and by Arabs in al-Hirah from the third century. Arabs were common in Mesopotamia at the time of the Seleucid Empire (3rd century BC).Ramirez-Faria, 2007, p. 33. The first Arab kingdom outside Arabia was established in Iraq's Al-Hirah in the third century. Arabic was a minority language in northern Iraq in the eighth century BC, from the eighth century following the Muslim conquest of Persia, it became the dominant language of Iraqi Muslims because Arabic was the language of the Quran and of the Abbasid Caliphate. Kurds who are Iraqi citizens live in the Zagros Mountains of northeast Iraq to the east of the upper Tigris. Arabic and Kurdish are Iraq's national languages.

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It Gets Better Project

It Gets Better is an Internet-based 501(c)3 nonprofit founded in the United States by gay activist, author, media pundit, and journalist Dan Savage and his husband Terry Miller on September 21, 2010, in response to the suicides of teenagers who were bullied because they were gay or because their peers suspected that they were gay.

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Jeff Sessions

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (born December 24, 1946) is an American politician and lawyer serving as the 84th and current Attorney General of the United States since 2017.

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Jefferson Smith (politician)

Jefferson Smith (born June 29, 1973) is an American entrepreneur, radio personality, and politician in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Jim Bunning

James Paul David Bunning (October 23, 1931 – May 26, 2017) was an American professional baseball pitcher and later a politician who represented constituents from Kentucky in both chambers of the United States Congress.

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Jim Risch

James Elroy Risch (born May 3, 1943) is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Idaho since 2009.

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JPMorgan Chase

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in New York City.

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Karen Minnis

Karen Minnis (born July 1954) is an Oregon Republican politician in United States.

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Kentucky

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States.

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Lamar Alexander

Andrew Lamar Alexander Jr. (born July 3, 1940) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Tennessee, a seat he has held since 2003.

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LGBT

LGBT, or GLBT, is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.

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List of speakers of the Oregon House of Representatives

This is a complete list of people who have served as Speakers of the Oregon House of Representatives through the 2009 session.

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List of United States Senators from Oregon

Oregon was admitted to the Union on February 14, 1859.

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Master of Public Affairs

The Master of Public Affairs (M.P.A.), one of several public affairs degrees, historically has been a master level professional degree offered in public policy schools that provides training in public policy and the operation of government.

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Master of Public Policy

The Master of Public Policy (MPP), one of several public policy degrees, is a master's level professional degree that provides training in policy analysis and program evaluation at public policy schools.

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Maurine Neuberger

Maurine Brown Neuberger-Solomon, best known as Maurine Neuberger (January 9, 1907February 22, 2000) was an American politician who served as a United States senator for the State of Oregon from November 1960 to January 1967.

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Michael Bennet

Michael Farrand Bennet (born November 28, 1964) is an American businessman, lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Colorado, a seat he has held since 2009.

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Mike Lee (American politician)

Michael Shumway Lee (born June 4, 1971) is an American politician, author, and attorney who is the junior United States Senator from Utah.

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Monica Wehby

Monica Wehby (born May 7, 1962) is an American physician and politician from the state of Oregon.

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Multnomah County, Oregon

Multnomah County is one of 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Myrtle Creek, Oregon

Myrtle Creek is a city in Douglas County, Oregon, United States.

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Neil Gorsuch

Neil McGill Gorsuch (born August 29, 1967) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb).

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Office of Refugee Resettlement

The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is a program of the Administration for Children and Families, an office within the United States Department of Health and Human Services, created with the passing of the United States Refugee Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-212).

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region on the West Coast of the United States.

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Oregon Bottle Bill

The Oregon Bottle Bill is a container-deposit legislation passed in the U.S. state of Oregon in 1971 and amended in 2007 and 2011.

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Oregon Democratic primary elections, 2008

The 2008 Oregon Democratic primary was a mail-only primary in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Oregon Equality Act

The Oregon Equality Act is a law of the U.S. state of Oregon which prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, public accommodations, and other categories.

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Oregon House of Representatives

The Oregon House of Representatives is the lower house of the Oregon Legislative Assembly.

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Oregon state elections, 2006

Oregon's 2006 statewide election included a May 16 primary election and a November 7 general election.

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Oregon State Senate

The Oregon State Senate is the upper house of the statewide legislature for the US state of Oregon.

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OregonLive.com

OregonLive.com is a website covering local news in Oregon and Southwest Washington.

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Party leaders of the United States Senate

The Senate Majority and Minority Leaders are two United States Senators and members of the party leadership of the United States Senate.

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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often shortened to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or nicknamed Obamacare, is a United States federal statute enacted by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County.

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Presidential Management Fellows Program

The U.S. Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) program is a highly selective, prestigious two-year training and development program at a United States government agency, administered by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), for U.S. citizens with a recent graduate degree.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Proprietary trading

Proprietary trading (also "prop trading") occurs when a trader trades stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities, their derivatives, or other financial instruments with the firm's own money, aka the nostro account, contrary to depositors' money, in order to make a profit for itself.

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Rand Paul

Randal Howard "Rand" Paul (born January 7, 1963) is an American politician and physician serving as the junior United States Senator from Kentucky since 2011, alongside Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

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Rasmussen Reports

Rasmussen Reports is an American polling company, founded in 2003.

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Reconciliation (United States Congress)

Reconciliation is a legislative process of the United States Congress that allows expedited passage of certain budgetary legislation on spending, revenues, and the federal debt limit with a simple majority vote in both the House (218 votes) and Senate (51 votes).

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

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Respect for Marriage Act

The Respect for Marriage Act, abbreviated as RFMA, was a proposed bill in the United States Congress that would have repealed the Defense of Marriage Act and required the U.S. federal government to recognize the validity of same-sex marriages.

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Ron Wyden

Ronald Lee Wyden (born May 3, 1949) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator for Oregon since 1996.

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Roseburg, Oregon

Roseburg is a city in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Russ Feingold

Russell Dana Feingold (born March 2, 1953) is an American lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of Wisconsin.

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Same-sex relationship

A same-sex relationship is a relationship between persons of the same sex and can take many forms, from romantic and sexual, to non-romantic homosocially-close relationships.

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Seniority in the United States Senate

Seniority in the United States Senate is valuable as it confers a number of benefits and is based on length of continuous service, with ties broken by a series of factors.

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Sexual orientation

Sexual orientation is an enduring pattern of romantic or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University, colloquially the Farm) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Steve Novick

Steven "Steve" Novick (born February 8, 1963) is a politician in the U.S. state of Oregon and a former environmental lawyer and political activist.

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Syria

Syria (سوريا), officially known as the Syrian Arab Republic (الجمهورية العربية السورية), is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest.

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Ted Kulongoski

Theodore Ralph Kulongoski (born November 5, 1940) is a retired American politician, judge and lawyer who served as the 36th Governor of Oregon from 2003 to 2011.

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Term limits in Oregon

Term limits legislation – term limits for state and federal office-holders – has been a recurring political issue in the U.S. state of Oregon since 1992.

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The Oregonian

The Oregonian is a daily newspaper based in Portland, Oregon, owned by Advance Publications.

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Tom Carper

Thomas Richard Carper (born January 23, 1947) is the senior United States Senator from Delaware, serving since 2001.

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Tom Harkin

Thomas Richard Harkin (born November 19, 1939) is an American politician, attorney and author who served as a United States Senator from Iowa from 1985 to 2015.

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Tom Udall

Thomas Stewart Udall (born May 18, 1948) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from New Mexico, a seat he was first elected to in 2008.

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Turkey

Turkey (Türkiye), officially the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), is a transcontinental country in Eurasia, mainly in Anatolia in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe.

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Umpqua Community College shooting

The Umpqua Community College shooting occurred on October 1, 2015, at the UCC campus near Roseburg, Oregon, United States.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States.

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United States Secretary of Defense

The Secretary of Defense (SecDef) is the leader and chief executive officer of the Department of Defense, the executive department of the Armed Forces of the United States of America.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies

The U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies is one of twelve subcommittees of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations.

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United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies

U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, often referred to colloquially as the CJS Subcommittee is one of twelve subcommittees of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations.

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United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies

The U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies is one of twelve subcommittees of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations.

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United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies

The United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies is one of twelve subcommittees of the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations.

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United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch

U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Legislative Branch is one of twelve subcommittees of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations.

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United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

The United States Senate Committee on Appropriations is a standing committee of the United States Senate.

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United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

The United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (formerly the Committee on Banking and Currency) has jurisdiction over matters related to banks and banking, price controls, deposit insurance, export promotion and controls, federal monetary policy, financial aid to commerce and industry, issuance of redemption of notes, currency and coinage, public and private housing, urban development, mass transit and government contracts.

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United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works

The United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works is responsible for dealing with matters related to the environment and infrastructure.

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United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

The United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations is a standing committee of the United States Senate.

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United States Senate Committee on the Budget

The United States Senate Committee on the Budget was established by the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

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United States Senate election in Oregon, 1968

The 1968 United States Senate election in Oregon was held on November 5, 1968.

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United States Senate election in Oregon, 2008

The 2008 United States Senate election in Oregon was held on November 4, 2008.

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United States Senate election in Oregon, 2014

The 2014 United States Senate election in Oregon took place on November 4, 2014 to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Oregon, concurrently with the election of the Governor of Oregon, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.

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United States Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Green Jobs and the New Economy

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United States Senate Environment Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water and Wildlife

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United States Senate Environment Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Management, and Regulatory Oversight

The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Management, and Regulatory Oversight is one of four subcommittees of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

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Volcker Rule

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Wayne Morse

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Wayne Scott

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Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs is a professional public policy school at Princeton University.

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111th United States Congress

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74th Oregon Legislative Assembly

The Seventy-fourth Oregon Legislative Assembly was the Oregon Legislative Assembly (OLA)'s period from 2007 to 2008.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Merkley

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