Jeff Merkley actually said...

"Well, clearly what you are doing in this budget is going to do a lot of damage to those individuals."

"Then you feel very comfortable cutting the basic program that ensures our children have food in Oregon?"

"So to the five airports that have contract tower support to keep rural air service, which is essential, you are saying that they will still have that support in the budget?"

"Using the churn as a strategy to simply eliminate Medicaid expansion means roughly 400,000 fewer Oregonians will be covered."