Jeff Merkley actually said...

"These impacts aren't always straightforward, as we will hear from some of our witnesses today."

"We have heard today that climate change is having impacts on the ground right now; that it is not an abstract theory."

"My impressions were, seeing this in studies of lots of species some of my colleagues have talked about the migrating lobsters, so on and so forth, so this is not just one particular, lots of ocean spe..."

"That represents a lost opportunity for the American sportsman."