Jeff Merkley

Thank you. And I hope for our sake they don't start to target Rhode Island.

The shortage that my colleague from Maryland mentioned is certainly true in Oregon. We estimated we're about 110,000 units short.

If an investor pays more for a house, they're going to charge higher rents. It's going to drive up the rental market.

We should get the hedge funds out of the housing business.

I really saw when I was director of Habitat for Humanity how an affordable mortgage or affordable rental housing was huge to the stability of family.

The only people that could buy them were hedge funds. Hedge funds discovered that this was a fabulous investment.

The idea that tax policy could incentivize further outsourcing is absolutely atrocious.

It seems to me that there's a profound sense of the system being rigged, which increases cynicism in America.

Well, I sure would like to see ordinary Americans benefit rather than more tax policy directed to make the wealthy wealthier.

The Trump tax law slashed the corporate tax rate from 35 to 21 percent. And but that didn't trickle down to ordinary people.

The idea that tax policy could incentivize further outsourcing is absolutely atrocious.

It seems to me that there's a profound sense of the system being rigged, which increases cynicism in America.

Well, I sure would like to see ordinary Americans benefit rather than more tax policy directed to make the wealthy wealthier.

The Trump tax law slashed the corporate tax rate from 35 to 21 percent. And but that didn't trickle down to ordinary people.

It seems to me that there's a profound sense of the system being rigged, which increases cynicism in America.

The idea that tax policy could incentivize further outsourcing is absolutely atrocious.

Well, I sure would like to see ordinary Americans benefit rather than more tax policy directed to make the wealthy wealthier.

The Trump tax law slashed the corporate tax rate from 35 to 21 percent. And but that didn't trickle down to ordinary people.

We can pretend that nothing's changing, but the facts are otherwise.

What type of metric are we talking about?

If I was a citizen of that town I'd be kind of frustrated that we're paying more for less.

We can pretend that nothing's changing, but the facts are otherwise.

What type of metric are we talking about?

If I was a citizen of that town I'd be kind of frustrated that we're paying more for less, especially because Bank of America is financing fossil projects.

We can pretend that nothing's changing, but the facts are otherwise.