Jeff Merkley actually said...

We have not been checking and balancing the executive branch for 60-some odd years, maybe longer.

I am not ready to concede that the line should be wiped out with no geographic limits, no time limits, no style of force limits.

We have had serious conversations about the potential of using a nuclear weapon in--as a first-use weapon both in Vietnam and in Korea.

I am profoundly disappointed in what happened today. I think part of leadership is putting yourself in other people's shoes.