Jeff Merkley actually said...

"Maybe we should raise it in a hearing like this and shine a light on it?"

"there is a big sense in America that while CFTC fiddles, the American consumer is getting burned"

"we should add some investor protections, and we do require three different levels of information, depending on how much a company is raising."

"it looked to me like a path, really, a paved path to predatory activity that would damage a lot of folks"