Jeff Merkley actually said...

"I just want to share with you that, as I do my every county townhalls, it comes up time and time again that these school districts, they cannot even track the opportunities available let alone apply f..."

"do we have a major challenge as a Nation in which we are spending too much money on foreign wars and foreign bases rather than on domestic infrastructure and domestic education?"

"Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I appreciated the reference, Mr. Chairman, to the Small Business Lending Fund, which was a proposal that I developed in response to a problem we saw in community banks in Ore..."

"the employment goals also are impacted by the ability of us to sell our products overseas."