Jeff Merkley in the New Yorker

News U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) plays minor—but noteworthy—roles in two back-to-back New Yorker articles this summer dealing with the financial collapse on Wall Street. First came a July 26 profile of Paul Volcker, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve. That piece describes Merkley as one of Volcker's "two closest allies on the Hill" along with Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) The ...   More