Jeff Merkley actually said...

"We commend Senators Jeff Merkley, Mark Pryor, Debbie Stabenow, Sherrod Brown, Bernie Sanders, and Ben Cardin for their leadership in sponsoring this bill."

"My wife is a nurse, and I can't tell you, during the 10 years she worked at a hospital, how often she'd come home and just say, 'You wouldn't believe how big American children are getting.'"

"In Oregon, we've done a number of things to try to take this on. And we are now third in the Nation--I believe, behind Utah and Minnesota--in terms of childhood obesity."

"we, too often, have a sick-care system rather than a healthcare system."