Jeff Merkley

I mean, here you have 100 talented people coming together with all their experience in the world, and we just spend an incredibly, tediously slow nomination process instead of putting all those talents to work on legislation to make…

This expanding tension in which warfare is conducted by the minority against the President...is just not serving our democracy well.

The only way I see us pursuing these reforms is by that type of conversation.

The challenge is a reflection of almost tribal-level warfare between the parties.

The minority...has an incentive to slow things down, make it difficult, extract promises.

Why do we never hear about this? If it was the reverse, and driving your electric car was five times more expensive than driving your fuel combustion car, you can bet every fossil fuel company in America would be publicizing that.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and certainly one of the reasons there is so much interest in my home state in electrics is because of what is happening right now. We have 121 fires burning in my state. Over one million acres have already burned…

The minority...has an incentive to slow things down, make it difficult, extract promises.

This expanding tension in which warfare is conducted by the minority against the President...is just not serving our democracy well.

The challenge is a reflection of almost tribal-level warfare between the parties.

Freedom House has now documented Chinese transnational repression in 36 countries, so it really is spreading in an effort to shape how they are viewed around the world.

We have been really a voice in the world to identify, promote the vision of fundamental human rights.

The extension of the kinds of policies that President Trump enacted would, I believe, be not only bad for the typical American, but be bad for our overall economy.

It's estimated that, by the end of this decade, the hedge funds will own some 40 percent of the single-family rental houses in America.

My father, the mechanic, would ask the question, why is it that working people who earn their income by the sweat of their brow pay a higher marginal rate than do millionaires getting a return on their already existing investments?

Is there any logic to saying that we should keep homeownership, single-family homeownership, on the plate of middle class Americans?

It's estimated that, by the end of this decade, the hedge funds will own some 40 percent of the single-family rental houses in America.

The extension of the kinds of policies that President Trump enacted would, I believe, be not only bad for the typical American, but be bad for our overall economy.

People are watching the dream of homeownership disappear before their eyes, for their children.

Hedge funds want to take that off the plate of middle-class Americans and put it on their plate.

I want to know, to what degree, Mr. Stiglitz, would retaining some of the cuts for the wealthiest individuals and the corporations from the previous Trump tax cuts, or increasing those cuts, how would that benefit ordinary Americans?

My father, the mechanic, would ask the question, why is it that working people who earn their income by the sweat of their brow pay a higher marginal rate than do millionaires getting a return on their already existing investments?

Is there a reasonable argument to say that, in terms of equity, under how we approach the opportunity and the stake in our society for ordinary working Americans, hedge funds shouldn't be in the single-family housing market?

The extension of the kinds of policies that President Trump enacted would, I believe, be not only bad for the typical American, but be bad for our overall economy.

President Trump made recently when he told some of the country's wealthiest political donors they should increase their donations from $2 to $3 million to $25 or to $50 million in support of his election, because his tax policies would…