Jeff Merkley actually said...

But, it's important to our system in the United States that the powerful don't pay a fine while the ordinary person goes to prison.

Merkley emphasizes the need for equal justice for all, regardless of power or wealth.

03/26/2014

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Using the churn as a strategy to simply eliminate Medicaid expansion means roughly 400,000 fewer Oregonians will be covered.

I would suggest you know very little about housing in Oregon.

Then you feel very comfortable cutting the basic program that ensures our children have food in Oregon?

So you are completely abandoning the principle that you asserted before?