Jeff Merkley actually said...

I do think many of you or maybe all of you have spoken to the cycle we are trapped in of we are just depleting the funding on the front end ...

But you couldn't do it through a timber sale because that didn't give the at least 10 year horizon that the owner needed to be able to inves...

We need to respond with enormous moral clarity and force on this issue.

You cannot really call on all parties to speak forcefully if our own President is not speaking forcefully.