Jeff Merkley actually said...

"People are also very, very concerned about the environmental footprint, at a time when we now understand that 80 percent of the proven fossil fuels in the world, the reserves, have to stay in the grou..."

"I am going to turn to the issue of whether owners of companies have a right to know how that company is spending their money, the owners' money, on political activity."

"So, you would use your position to say, let us do what Congress asked, and sometimes that means, if you will, that a rule is not going to go through 10,000 reiterations."

"Is it, Ms. Fairfax, appropriate that the SEC has failed to address this fundamental conflict of interest and has failed to follow the law written by Congress?"