WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley issued the following press release:
.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley said today they are calling on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Head Start to release grant funding essential to preventing the Klamath Family Head Start program from foreclosing on its main site in Klamath Falls, Oregon.
"Despite the program submitting a full application for funding to pay off an outstanding loan and purchase their facility more than six months ago, Klamath Family Head Start still has yet to receive an update from the Office of Head Start (OHS)," the senators wrote to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "This delay is especially troubling as Klamath Family He...