Jeff Merkley actually said...

"Our mills really are depending on the public trees because the private trees are being exported to Japan and to China."

"the Federal Government should clean it up, and then go decade after decade with doing virtually nothing out there."

"any decision to actually recover oil would still rest with Congress."

"There are 13 Senators who are holding a series of closed meetings to work to prepare a version of the bill that will come before the Senate, probably next week."