Jeff Merkley actually said...

The standards set in this bill as an economy-wide cap... affects only a modest number of entities in the United States.

I have proposed creating within that organization a program to provide low cost financing to do energy efficiency retrofits up front.

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

One of the questions that I think it is worth wrestling with is whether we should have a coherent national strategy to reduce our importatio...