50
Jeff Merkley
Serving in office
Scheduled research active
Main board
The signal is improving, but the lifetime record is still thin.
This profile keeps a lifetime office and promise record. The trust score is designed to stay close to 50 until enough claims and evidence are reviewed.
Breakdown
- Delivered during the term promised: 4 x 1.0
- Delivered in a later elected term: 0 x 0.8
- Partial delivery: 4 x 0.4
- Never delivered: 3 x 0.0
- Disputed claims tracked separately: 0
- Reviewed promises in current record: 11
- Confidence: 48%
- Current claim count: 12
- Current evidence count: 57
Office History
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U.S. Senator
Oregon · current
Historical elected offices still need research.
- Work in a bipartisan manner to enact legislation that protects public lands, waters, and the outdoor-driven economy and responds to the needs of Tribes and local communities.
- Urge federal regulators to address illegal insider trading in prediction markets by federal employees.
- Request that the CFTC and OGE issue guidance reminding federal employees of their obligation to refrain from profiting from insider governmental information in prediction market trades.
- Request a staff-level briefing from regulators on insider trading in prediction markets by federal employees and on agency steps to detect and prevent it.
- Support and advance legislation to impose sanctions on foreign individuals complicit in forced organ harvesting in China, including visa bans, blocking U.S.-based transactions, and revoking immigration benefits, as well as require reporting to Congress on China's transplant policies, transplant volumes, and U.S. funding for transplant-related research in China.
- Support and work to pass legislation to update and expand Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for seniors and Americans with disabilities, including increasing income disregard amounts, updating asset limits to $10,000 for individuals and $20,000 for couples indexed to inflation, increasing the benefit rate to 100% of the federal poverty level, repealing the marriage penalty, repealing penalties for in-kind support, resource transfers, state taxes, and tribal benefits, streamlining lump-sum and back payments, and extending the program to the U.S. territories.
- Support and work to pass the DISCLOSE Act, which would require organizations spending more than $10,000 on elections or judicial nominations to promptly disclose donors, shut down transfers between organizations to mask contributor identities, strengthen prohibitions against foreign election spending, prohibit establishment of corporations to conceal foreign contributions, expand 'stand by your ad' disclosure requirements to online and issue ads, and require identification of top funders for outside groups in political ads.
- Support and work to pass legislation that would ban prediction market betting on elections, government actions (across all branches unless there’s a commercial hedging need), sports, and U.S. or foreign military actions; clarify congressional intent that these markets are against the Commodity Exchange Act; require the CFTC to enforce and prevent non-hedging markets; ensure state gambling laws are not preempted; and require a GAO study on prediction markets, insider trading, impact on children, offshore illegal betting, and future Congressional actions to regulate such markets.
- Support and work to pass legislation to impose sanctions on Hong Kong judiciary officials responsible for human rights violations and support persecuted Hong Kongers.
- Support and work to pass legislation to require the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive director at international financial institutions to oppose projects that use forced labor practices, including in China's Xinjiang region.
- Support and advance legislation to overturn new federal limits on student loans for nurses by classifying post-baccalaureate nursing degrees as professional degrees.
- Support and advance a War Powers Resolution to end U.S. military actions against Iran and force an end to President Trump’s war with Iran.
Method note
Long term, this app should score against a manually reviewed promise ledger that spans every elected office the candidate has held. The current model uses a Bayesian-style shrinkage step: thin records are pulled back toward 50 so the UI does not overstate certainty.
Claim occurrences, evidence, and future AI adjudications are all designed to store provider and model provenance. Formula version: 0.1.0.