Jeff Merkley
DSen. OR · U.S. Senate · 3 terms
Political perspective
from the voting recordOn the standard liberal–conservative scale, Merkley sits more conservative than 7% of the Senate and more liberal than 91%. This is a DW-NOMINATE score — derived purely from how they vote, not an opinion.
We link to what Merkleysays they stand for so you can hold it against the record above. We don't put words in anyone's mouth or declare a promise “kept” or “broken” — where there's no published, structured position to compare, we leave it to you rather than invent a verdict.
Contact
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Campaign money
live· 2026 cycle“From PACs” is corporate, industry, and union political-committee money — a proxy for special-interest funding. Totals via the FEC.
- UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION ACTIVE BALLOT CLUBLabor$10K
- FORWARD TOGETHER PACOther / unclassified$10K
- OCEANS PACOther / unclassified$10K
- TURQUOISE PACOther / unclassified$10K
- OFF THE SIDELINES PACOther / unclassified$10K
- ALSOPACOther / unclassified$10K
- HEALTH JOBS JUSTICEOther / unclassified$10K
- VICTORY NOW PACOther / unclassified$10K
- Other / unclassified62%
- Labor25%
- Membership9%
- Trade2%
- Corporate1%
Largest PACs and committees giving to the campaign this cycle, from FEC committee-to-candidate filings. The FEC doesn't tag donors by industry — the names usually tell you, and OpenSecrets has the formal industry breakdown below.
- Labor unions$109K
- Health & medicine$34K
- Airlines & aviation$10K
- Lawyers & lobbyists$8K
- Real estate$5K
- Automotive$5K
Grouped from the names of the PACs that gave — our own rough classification, PAC money only (not individual donors). Another 63% came from PACs we couldn't slot into an industry by name.
Where the money goes
live· 2026 cycleMerkley's campaign has spent $1.9M across 914 reported disbursements.
- Consulting & research$570K 30%
- Advertising & media$459K 24%
- Payroll & admin$299K 16%
- Events & fundraising$293K 15%
- Other$269K 14%
- Travel & lodging$32K 2%
- RWT PRODUCTION, LLC$423K
- MANDATE MEDIA, INC.$298K
- THE KAUFFMAN GROUP$248K
- ADP, INC.$137K
- CAPITOL COMPLIANCE ASSOCIATES, INC.$125K
- BF DIRECT LLC$112K
- KAUFFMAN, KIMBERLYWASHINGTON, DC · 19 payments$26K
- REEDVILLE CATERINGHILLSBORO, OR · 6 payments$22K
- BECKLEY, JUSTINWASHINGTON, DC · 3 payments$5K
- BELL, JOHNELLPORTLAND, OR$3K
- STOLL, BARREPORTLAND, OR · 4 payments$3K
- VERNIER, CHRISTINEPORTLAND, OR$3K
- VERNIER, DAVIDPORTLAND, OR · 2 payments$3K
- STOLL, NORMAN ROBERTPORTLAND, OR · 2 payments$2K
These are the venues, caterers, and hotels the campaign paidfor events — the money trail to where fundraising happened, with the vendor's city and state. It is not a guest list or attendance: who came, who hosted, and “what the crowd was like” aren't in any public record, so we don't guess at them.
Categories are grouped by keyword from the free-text purpose each campaign reports to the FEC, so the split is a guide, not an audit. Otheris spending whose reported purpose didn't clearly fit a category — campaigns describe disbursements inconsistently. Totals are for the candidate's campaign committees this cycle; see the FEC for the line-by-line record.
Background
Represents Oregon · age 70 · from Myrtle Creek.
Jeffrey Alan Merkley 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.
Biography from Wikipedia & Wikidata (public, CC BY-SA). Family is spouse and children only.
Stock trades
Senators disclose their trades through the Senate's system. See Merkley's filings:
Committees
liveWhat they're assigned to work on.
- Senate Committee on the BudgetRanking Member
- Senate Committee on Appropriations
- Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
- Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- Senate Committee on Rules and Administration
- Joint Committee on Printing
via congress-legislators committee data.
Who they're up against
Candidates who have filed with the FEC for this Senate seat— who's challenging them now, and who they faced last time.
Next election
· 2026 cycle- David Brock SmithRepublicanChallenger
David Brock Smith is an American Republican politician currently serving in the Oregon State Senate. He represents the 1st district, which covers all of Curry County and parts of Coos and Douglas counties. He is the Republican nominee in the 2026 U.S. Senate election in Oregon. (Wikipedia ↗)
$48Kraised ↗ - Jo Rae PerkinsRepublicanChallenger$9Kraised ↗
+ 3 other minor candidates with little or no money raised.
Candidates and money raised from FEC filings (bulk candidate summaries). Short bios are quoted from Wikipedia or Ballotpedia where a confident match exists — never invented; candidates without a sourced bio show their FEC record only.
How Jeff actually voted · last 15 bills live
- NaySeptember 17, 2026PN999-4On the Nomination
- NaySeptember 17, 2026PN999-4On the Cloture Motion
- NaySeptember 17, 2026S. 4668On the Motion to Proceed
- NaySeptember 15, 2026S. 4668On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed
- NaySeptember 15, 2026H.R. 3633On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed
- NaySeptember 15, 2026PN1093-3On the Nomination
- NaySeptember 14, 2026PN1093-3On the Cloture Motion
- NayAugust 8, 2026S. 5271On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed
- NayAugust 8, 2026PN1078On the Nomination
- NayAugust 8, 2026PN1078On the Cloture Motion
- YeaAugust 8, 2026H.R. 6500On Passage of the Bill
- NayAugust 8, 2026On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 6747 to S.Amdt. 6732 to H.R. 6500 (No short title on file)On the Motion to Table
- YeaAugust 7, 2026On the Cloture Motion S.Amdt. 6732 to H.R. 6500 (No short title on file)On the Cloture Motion
- NayAugust 7, 2026PN730-11On the Nomination
- YeaAugust 7, 2026H.R. 5334On Passage of the Bill
Real roll-call votes from the U.S. House Clerk. “Missed” = recorded as Not Voting.
Congressional calendar · next 12 days
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Every figure here is real and sourced: identity, party, seat, term history, committees and contact (congress-legislators); vote attendance, missed votes & how they voted (U.S. Senate (senate.gov), last 100 roll calls through September 17, 2026); campaign money raised and spent (FEC); stock-trade disclosures (U.S. House Clerk Periodic Transaction Reports); declared election opponents & the money they raised (FEC candidate filings), with opponent bios quoted from Wikipedia or Ballotpedia where a confident match exists; ideological placement (DW-NOMINATE, voteview.com) and party-unity (computed from the roll calls above); biography (Wikidata + Wikipedia); the 2026 session calendar (official schedule). Nothing on this page is invented. wheresmyguy? carries no flight data, home locations, or real-time tracking. Time-stamped information is delayed at least 4 hours by design — wheresmyguy? is never a real-time tracker.