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In 2008 he ran for the Democratic Party's nomination for the United States Senate for the seat then held by Republican Gordon Smith but narrowly lost to  Oregon House  speaker  Jeff Merkley  .
 employee of: Oregon House, Jeff Merkley
Given a phrase that describes the relationship between two words, extract the words and the lexical relationship between them. The output format should be "relation1: word1, word2; relation2: word3, word4". 
Option: cities of residence, top members employees, members, alternate names, origin, state or provinces of residence, title of person, spouse, city of headquarters, NA, founded by, state or province of headquarters, employee of, countries of residence, country of birth, founded, subsidiaries, country of headquarters 
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Answer:
 employee of: Oregon House, Jeff Merkley