This Week's Quotes

People need help after an emergency, and the faster that help comes, the better shot they have of rebuilding what was lost.

As wildfires in central Oregon and statewide set new records every year in size and intensity, the rural communities on the front lines of these fights are the most in need of resources for recovery efforts.

Immigration court proceedings must uphold fairness and rule of law and not be politicized to satisfy Donald Trump’s arbitrary detention quotas.

This unwarranted blitzkrieg of assaults on justice and fair treatment raises serious constitutional concerns and is unworthy of the oaths you swore to uphold.

Congress must not let the Trump administration establish a dangerous precedent that our public lands are a fire-sale inventory for development by the highest bidder.

My legislation is the ironclad path to ensuring that Trump – or any future administration – cannot hijack our treasured public lands to build data centers that use up water resources and jack up energy costs.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned during my time in public service, it’s that when you come for Oregonians’ public lands, you’ll have hell to pay.

Public lands belong to the taxpayers, not corporations, and especially not Donald Trump.

With ever-evolving NIL deals, we need real regulations to codify student athletes’ rights to earn money while participating in college sports, and this bipartisan bill does just that.

Ensuring our student athletes are looked out for is of the highest priority.

As college sports continue to generate billions of dollars, we must protect the student athletes who made these record-breaking profits possible.

I would say to those who are following the hearing—after hearing all of these references of Timothy Thibault—he was gone… from the FBI by the time Mr. Smith was appointed and he never met him. And he was not a part of his team. Some of…

“I have made it a priority in Congress to deliver clean water to millions of people across the world, which has a six to one return in terms of health, economic, and educational returns, and I am hopeful Assistant Secretary Brooks…

“With the dismantling of USAID and the Trump Administration’s cuts to global programs, I fear the poorest countries who look to the United States for help will be overlooked.

“Having access to clean water is transformative for the poorest places in the world—it avoids conflicts between nations, keeps girls in schools, reduces infant mortality, and improves health and economic opportunity,”

“It doesn’t have to be this way. Americans are better people than that. We are not going to turn away innocent, hardworking people who are doing their best.”

It’s time for us to rise up and for people to see us doing that, not to step back and say ‘well immigration was an issue in the last campaign.’ Yes, we’ve got to have sensible regulation of immigration, but this fear factor is…

Yes, we’ve got to have sensible regulation of immigration, but this fear factor is unacceptable. It’s un-American.