Jeff Merkley actually said...

"There could be a path that was better for irrigators, better for the river, better for the fish, better for the tribes."

"I certainly resolve to do what I could to assist."

"We don't want to spend the next 20 years just enriching lawyers. We want to solve the problem."

"The challenges now for us in Congress to put the same type of effort into this that all of our witnesses have put into the conversation."