Jeff Merkley actually said...

"I am profoundly disappointed in what happened today. I think part of leadership is putting yourself in other people's shoes."

"Thank you for your continued advocacy to identify and pacify our funding fix."

"I do think many of you or maybe all of you have spoken to the cycle we are trapped in of we are just depleting the funding on the front end to do the hazardous fuels and the thinning, and then we are ..."

"But you couldn't do it through a timber sale because that didn't give the at least 10 year horizon that the owner needed to be able to invest in equipment for the mill."