Jeff Merkley actually said...

"I imagine, just knowing your background, that you probably share my concerns that such issues get the insight from experts and also that the public has a chance to weigh in, so that we get, in this 'W..."

"I am concerned that this request relies on a significant increase in user fees that is not feasible and unlikely to gain congressional approval."

"while stripping healthcare from millions of Americans, it gives a tax giveaway of roughly $600 billion to the richest Americans?"

"Did he call it mean because it takes a wrecking ball to rural healthcare by putting rural clinics and rural hospitals into a financial crisis?"