Jeff Merkley actually said...

"Was that a diplomatic way of saying that we could use better partnership from those two nations?"

"Conflict prevents the delivery of food assistance at the scale necessary to meet the need, especially if the warring parties attempt to use starvation as a weapon."

"In these four countries, with so many children, severely, acutely malnourished, it is not just a moral outrage."

"Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, particularly for your deep, genuine, persistent interest and engagement on such an important issue."