Jeff Merkley actually said...

"The ability to provide an alternative strategy for cooking fires could be a very significant factor in cutting off funding for al-Shabaab."

"this is a country, very much like Venezuela, that should be a donor. That should be a country, because of its vast natural resources, it should be assisting others and yet because of poor governance, ..."

"Zeroing out that budget means putting millions of people at risk of starvation and I hope that we can work with you so that doesn't happen."

"It's important that the U.S. rally the world to respond."