Jeff Merkley actually said...

"I applaud all of them for coming today. It's an amazing group of individuals with diverse, as diverse, stakeholders coming together in this effort."

"the pledge to lower the cost by more--between a quarter and a third has been exceeded."

"Let's turn to our second panel, if they could come forward."

"What we are seeing now is that steadily rising temperature in the summertime, so that the mean temperature in the summer is now putting physiological stress on the animals which is affecting their rep..."