Meet Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley, who recently went on CNBC to make a business case for health care reform:

You're invited to sign up on a first-come, first-served basis to join us when BlogHer moderates a telephone conference call with Sen. Merkley at 1:45pm Eastern, 10:45am Pacific on Wednesday, Oct. 21. Please add your name below and any blog URL if you have one (that's not required :). We'll be back in touch with the phone number and logistics. We have room for a group of 20 bloggers, who will join BlogHer's contributing editors from both sides of the aisle.

If you're unable to attend, no worries -- please leave your question in the comments below and we will try to ask for you.

This call is the fifth in BlogHer's bi-partisan series of telephone conference discussions to connect women bloggers directly with legislators, in partnership with the Sunlight Foundation and OpenCongress.org. You can hear audio and read transcripts of our discussions at the links below:

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash)

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn)

Rep. George Miller (D-Ca)

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca)

We hope you join us!

Best,
Lisa
for Elisa, Jory and Lisa
BlogHer Co-founders