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erkley.html

Breast-feeding moms to Merkley: You rock

By The Oregonian Editorial Board
April 05, 2010, 6:48AM
An Oregon law to boost breast-feeding by providing working mothers with
unpaid time and a clean space to pump breast milk is going national.

U .S. politicians are notorious for kissing babies, not legislating in their
behalf.

Candidate-baby encounters usually peter out in an exchange of gurgles.

But this somewhat volatile, albeit nonvoting bloc -- 4.2 million babies born
every year in the United States -- has found a new champion in Sen. Jeff
Merkley, D-Ore.

You may not remember, but on Aug. 1, 2007, Merkley promised to rock the baby
world. That day, Merkley announced his long-shot bid for the U.S. Senate in
an unusual setting -- a luncheon banquet for the Nursing Mothers Counsel of
Oregon.

Merkley was there to help the group celebrate its 2007 legislative victory
-- a new law, requiring Oregon businesses to give working mothers minimal
time (unpaid breaks) and a clean space (not a bathroom) to express breast
milk.

At that lunch, Merkley not only surprised the group by announcing his Senate
bid, but also promised, if elected, to expand the Oregon law nationwide.

Con't.

http://www.merkley.senate.gov/

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