Jeff Merkley actually said...

"I have some concerns about it. It is weaker than many States."

"But should the public not have a right to know what chemical soup is put into the ground on public lands?"

"One of the things that we have really been encouraging are the candidate conservation agreements with assurances."

"It is our responsibility not to politicize the science or the biology needed to recover a particular species, but to heed the warning signs given to us by science."