Jeff Merkley actually said...

"I do think it is time that that become understandable in public because otherwise how in a democracy do you have a debate if you do not know what the plain language means."

"I believe that what you just said is you want that information to be declassified that explains how you get from these standards of law to the conduct that has now been presented publicly."

"the standard for collecting phone records on Americans is now all phone records all the time all across America."

"I had an amendment last December that said these findings of law that translate the requirements that are in the law into what is permissible needs to be declassified so we can have the debate."