Jeff MerkleySenator Jeff Merkley has served in the U.S. Senate since 2009 and has written a number of proposals to restore the talking filibuster. He responded to the Gorsuch Supreme Court nomination with the eighth-longest speech in Senate histry, clocking in at nearly fifteen and a half hours. The author of American Is Better Than This and Filibustered! (The New Press), he lives in Portland, Oregon. Read More Read Less