Jeff Merkley actually said...

"The SEC has failed the public on this issue and allowed this type of conflict of interest practice to continue, and I think it is absolutely unacceptable."

"I think for you to unilaterally remove it from the rulemaking agenda was an egregious affront to these core issues of our Republic."

"There is a lot of conversation here about a liquidity crisis, so we might as well ask the question whether or not there is a liquidity crisis at all."

"I wanted to turn to the orderly liquidation authority and the effort to eliminate that. That was a bipartisan effort to say if a bank is in trouble, the shareholders should be at risk, the bond holder..."