Jeff Merkley actually said...

"Well, certainly I and many members of this committee would love to work with you as you dig deeper into those numbers and identify those barriers, how we might overcome them and go further in that eff..."

"It is a choice between a strong, secure energy independent America or a weaker, oil addicted America."

"It is a choice between investing a billion dollars a day in red, white and blue American-made energy or sending that billion dollars a day overseas."

"This bill is a choice of creating jobs for Americans or sending those jobs overseas."