Jeff Merkley for U.S. Senate, Oregon

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Jeff Merkley's Comprehensive Plan to combat global climate change: Reduce Emissions

Our dependence on foreign oil and the use of fossil fuels is a serious problem for our nation. We simply can't continue to put our national security, economic health and environment at risk.

I support Jeff Merkley's plan to reduce global climate changing pollutants which includes:

Jeff will cosponsor and work for passage of the Boxer Sanders Bill s. 309, the strongest and most comprehensive climate change bill in the U.S. Senate. The Global Warming Polution Reduction Act calls for an 80% reduction in climate change causing pollutants by 2050. Authored by US Senators Barbara Boxer (D-California) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), this bill takes on climate change by making the United States a leader in clean and efficient energy technologies—creating millions of family wage jobs.
Jeff will cosponsor and work for passage of Senator Maria Cantwell's Reducing Demand through Electricity Grid Intelligence Act. This bill by Senator Cantwell (D-Washington) will accelerate and encourage the development of a nationwide intelligent energy grid system through the broader use of new technologies. It will also improve energy efficiency and save consumers money on electricity bills. Taxpayers will save between $50 and $100 billion in the next 20 years and and work toward ending our national dependence on foreign oil.

After signing on to this plan, please don't forget to forward it to five of your friends. Together we can show Gordon Smith and the Republicans in Washington that we won't wait for change.

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Jeff Merkley was born in the small town of Myrtle Creek, Oregon, the son of a sawmill worker. He's fought hard for working families in Oregon and he's ready to help lead America.

As Oregon's Speaker of the House, Jeff Merkley led one of the most effective, efficient and progressive legislative sessions in Oregon's history - with big achievements for schools, ethics, health care, jobs, alternative energy, and protections for working families.

Discover why Jeff Merkley is ready to lead.

From the Oregonian:

Merkley raced [quarter-midget cars] as a child, and once owned -- and crashed -- a Harley. He roomed with an impoverished family in Ghana as a teen, hitchhiked across Israel as a young man and went on, as he puts it, to help shut down one of Portland's worst crack alleys.

"I've lived," he says, "a pretty unconventional life."

Read the Oregonian profile of Jeff Merkley's life before politics.

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