Jeff Merkley actually said...

"This remains both a huge factor affecting the quality of life for families and their ability to look positively on the future."

"the employment goals also are impacted by the ability of us to sell our products overseas."

"Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I appreciated the reference, Mr. Chairman, to the Small Business Lending Fund, which was a proposal that I developed in response to a problem we saw in community banks in Ore..."

"Isn't that kind of a sign of something massively wrong in our national education system?"