Jeff Merkley actually said...

"the increase in the allocation for renewable energy and energy efficiency is something that we have worked hard on on this committee."

"Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate all of your testimony and particularly getting to the nitty gritty of the allocations."

"One of the questions that I think it is worth wrestling with is whether we should have a coherent national strategy to reduce our importation of oil."

"the funds that flow overseas when we purchase energy, and those funds that go to Venezuela, that go to Saudi Arabia."