Jeff Merkley actually said...

This is rural affordable housing across America. We are talking about 260,000 units, 14,000 projects, which got shortchanged.

Merkley emphasizes the importance of addressing rural affordable housing issues.

10/20/2015

More Jeff Merkley Quotes

During the continuing resolution, the funding, we worked in a bipartisan way to provide about $900 million more to adjust famines.

Why would we not raise that with an ally?

I think continued efforts on understanding these conflicts and what is going on...

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