Jeff Merkley actually said...

"this represents a huge threat to the future of our children."

"Thank you and thank you for your efforts, and I hope the Administration will continue to pursue this, especially after we get the results of this study from the FDA of these products."

"if you do not get those kids starting every day, obviously if you lose 4,000 smokers a day, you would be out of business pretty quickly"

"What we all have come to learn time and time again is that the issues faced in childhood very much set a course for a person's life and disproportionately so, so that they deserve a great deal of our ..."