Jeff Merkley actually said...

"They can modify essentially the public ledger, and the public ledger becomes de facto record of ownership."

"This latest generation of technology which we are talking about today takes things to a whole new level."

"Mr. Gallippi is talking about these very low transaction fees, which will make many of my merchants in Oregon, their eyes light up."

"So I have got Whiffies out in Oregon that says it likes to accept bitcoins because it has a one-tenth of 1 percent transaction fee."