Jeff Merkley

Details

Party Affiliation: Democratic
In Office Since: Jan 1, 2009
Organization: United States Federal Government

Federal Roster & Campaign Finance

Bioguide ID: M001176
Chamber: US Senate
State: OR
Total Receipts (2026): $4,540,974
Total Disbursements: $1,979,569
Cash on Hand: $6,828,404
Coverage End Date: Jun 30, 2026

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Meetings

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Election History

No election history found.

Recent Bills Sponsored

No bills sponsored by Jeff Merkley are on file.

Recent Votes

Bill	Chamber	Roll call	Vote
Stop Insider Trading Act	house	—	Nay
Ratepayer Protection Act	house	—	Nay
Protect College Sports Act of 2026 HBCU Sports Media and Connectivity Program	senate	—	Nay
Protect College Sports Act of 2026 HBCU Sports Media and Connectivity Program	senate	—	Yea
Protect College Sports Act of 2026 HBCU Sports Media and Connectivity Program	senate	—	Yea

Bill title and chamber are the only bill details held for these votes; see Bills for the fuller record. “Roll call” is the upstream roll-call identifier, not a date no vote date is recorded in this dataset.

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Biography

Jeffrey Alan Merkley (born October 24, 1956) is an American politician who is the junior United States senator from Oregon. He was first elected to the Senate in 2008. A member of the Democratic Party, he served from 1999 to 2009 as the representative for the 47th district in the Oregon House of Representatives, which covers central Multnomah County, including portions of eastern Portland; he was the speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives during the last two years of his tenure. Merkley defeated two-term Republican incumbent U.S. senator Gordon Smith in 2008 and was reelected in 2014 and 2020, defeating Republican nominees Monica Wehby and Jo Rae Perkins. During his tenure, Merkley has been an advocate of progressivism and was the only U.S. senator to endorse Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries. Considered a potential candidate for president in 2020, he chose instead to run for reelection to the Senate.