Jeff Merkley actually said...

"the funds that flow overseas when we purchase energy, and those funds that go to Venezuela, that go to Saudi Arabia."

"I believe transportation is about 60 percent of the carbon dioxide, and personal vehicles are about a third of that."

"Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate all of your testimony and particularly getting to the nitty gritty of the allocations."

"Isn't that demanding? And we could actually bridge that entire factor with energy efficiency alone if we really applied ourselves to it, a strategy that actually pays us back."