By Oregon Business & Industry, Pre-session poll: OBI on Friday released the results of a January voter survey conducted by DHM Research in advance of the 2026 legislative session. OBI commissioned this research to better understand what Oregonians see as the state’s most urgent challenges, with an emphasis on taxes, […]

Wyden, Merkley, Colleagues Probe Collapse in IRS Investigations of Wealthy Tax Cheats Under Trump — Senators: IRS investigations into abusive tax schemes plummeted last year to lowest levels in the past decade By U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, Press Release, Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley joined […]

Policy and Rulemaking Updates By Oregon Business and Industry   House development concepts: From Jan. 13-15, the Legislature held informational committee meetings that provided a limited preview of some of the bills that will be introduced during the coming session. All were in draft form and will almost certainly change […]

By NFIB, WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 20, 2026) – The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB),the nation’s leading small business advocacy organization, joined more than 100 trade associations in sending a letter to U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent calling for an immediate purge of the Corporate Transparency Act’s (CTA) Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) database of […]

By Oregon Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici Press Release, Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici issued the following statement on her upcoming legislation to create a comprehensive framework to improve AI education and workforce readiness: Artificial intelligence is shaping how Americans learn, teach, work, and compete, but our education and workforce systems have not kept […]

By Oregon Small Business Association Foundation, Higher inflation rates and economic uncertainty have prompted manufacturers to reevaluate their property needs, leading record-high leasing inventory and the highest industrial vacancy rate in 15 years at 6.1 percent in Portland.  As manufacturing jobs dropped 5.6 percent to 116,500, the number of transactions […]

By Oregon Attorney General, Press Release, The Oregon Department of Justice announced  that Ryan Tong, a former Orangetheory Fitness coach, has pleaded guilty in Multnomah County Circuit Court to multiple felony charges for diverting charitable donations for his personal use. The case was investigated with assistance from the ODOJ’s Charitable […]

By U.S. Chamber of Commerce, In the 2026  State of American Business keynote address delivered today at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce before business executives, state and local chamber leaders, policymakers, global partners and journalists, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Suzanne P. Clark said that the state of American business must be “growth-oriented, market-driven, future-focused—but above all, fearless.” “Reaching […]

By Oregon Business and Industry Policy and Rulemaking Updates Governor’s Prosperity Council: On Jan. 8, Gov. Kotek announced the full membership of the newly formed Governor’s Prosperity Council, having previously announced that Ampere Computing founder Renée James and Port of Portland Executive Director Curtis Robinhold would serve as co-chairs. The […]

By U.S. Attorney, Oregon district Press Release, PORTLAND, Ore.— A man from Delhi, India, was sentenced to federal prison for conspiring with others to export controlled aviation components and a navigation and flight control system to end users in Russia, in violation of the Export Control Reform Act. Sanjay Kaushik, […]