Merkley, Jeff
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Ranking Member · Budget Committee
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Hearings to examine protecting Americans from global scam operations, focusing on assessing the United States response.
Aug 06, 2026
60:14
Merkley, Jeff. Thank you both very much for being so engaged in this topic, and I appreciate this hearing. I'm thinking about an Oregon citizen in Roseburg who was caught in an online gold investment scam and then went to a recovery service, which also turned out to be a scam, so was double scammed. I was just loo...
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