Jeff Merkley

Agriculture is the second-largest driver of our economy in the State of Oregon.

What we have seen in a lot of the farming communities in Oregon is a declining population.

I can't overState how much concern there is among the citizens who live in these zones of contamination that have been just recently identified.

I do appreciate Dennis McLerran's prompt response to the letter that Senator Wyden and I sent in which we are asking for full extensive cooperation.

I would like to see the EPA look at this very closely because the tests that cost many hundreds of dollars with a monitor, or thousands of dollars, can be done for just a fraction of that by testing the moss.

Do we believe, at this point--I realize we will learn a lot more--that women who have had Zika say in childhood would be very unlikely to have the virus at a level that would cause concern in their childbearing years?

In addition to the medical research teams, do we have a modeling team working on demographics of this to understand how the natural immunization of populations might slow the spread and reduce the risk?

The sheriff from Harney County has said you all came here to say you wanted to support the community, and the best way you can support the community is to go back home.

The county commissioners... has noted that those are costs they simply can't bear and they should have a mechanism to be able to recover these costs.

I wanted to speak in support of this.

I would like to work with my colleagues, Senator Crapo and others, who have States that are on the Columbia River.

People may be surprised to find out that more water rolls through the Columbia River than any other river in the Country.

Each of these standards has a constitutional foundation. The first reflects the restraints of the dormant commerce clause. The second reflects the Constitution's supremacy clause. The third corresponds to the scientific factual predicate…

I thank my colleague so much for presenting this idea before she came to the U.S. Senate and for helping--well, stepping in to be the initial Director, getting it up and running, and now being here to make sure we defend its ability to…

So $11 billion in returns. I believe that number includes real cash returned to individuals but does not include the vast savings that have come from families who were never cheated in the first place.

I know my colleague and I have talked about this--the number increases. I will say something like the CFPB has returned $3 billion, and my colleague will say: Oh, Senator, it is now $5 billion. And when I say it is $5 billion, my colleague…

One of the things we have a lot of concern about is making sure that predatory mortgages don't return. They were a key product in helping drive the collapse in 2007-2008. We are concerned those could return if the ability of the CFPB to…

I appreciate the remarks of the senior Senator from Massachusetts, who has brought so much personal research in the course of her career and passion and insight to this battle and who put forward the idea of the Consumer Financial…

I thank my colleague from Rhode Island for his comments and insights. Now we are going to turn to the Senator from Massachusetts. We will be delighted to hear her thoughts on this challenge of taking serious issues related to the Wall…

Let's address the core issue. Let's look at the fact that there are enormous economic consequences, that global warming is a huge assault on our rural resources.

Here we are with this paralyzed process where a few individuals say: You know, I guess it is not important to get toxic cancer-causing items out of our household products. Also, it is not important that our States get flexible funds to…

One of the things that I found very interesting was the rebound that has occurred on assets for banks of various sizes.

Enabling essentially taxpayer-subsidized hedge funds to operate with our deposits and put the entire banking system at great risk would be absolutely no service to Americans in urban or rural America.

Seven years ago, our economy plunged into a free fall that took us deeper than any crisis since the Great Depression.

Congress responded with the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to protect consumers and our economy.