Jeff Merkley actually said...

"So here we have Hensarling leading the charge to privatize the gains and socialize the losses, stick the taxpayer once again."

"I wanted to turn to the orderly liquidation authority and the effort to eliminate that. That was a bipartisan effort to say if a bank is in trouble, the shareholders should be at risk, the bond holder..."

"There is a lot of conversation here about a liquidity crisis, so we might as well ask the question whether or not there is a liquidity crisis at all."

"It is way past time to rectify the situation, and this bill has key language that puts us on track for several major projects related to that."