Jeff Merkley

Let me just say, factually, scientifically, you are wrong.

I think the President has full power within his inherent authority to simple declare the debt limit null and void.

I'm very concerned about the strategy currently of holding the country hostage and saying we're going to drive the economy off of a cliff if we don't get changes that benefit the wealthy and hurt ordinary American families.

Doesn't it seem a little insane that tax cuts for the wealthy that have--and the powerful corporations that have created the bulk of this problem would then have the problem addressed by cutting basic programs for the most challenged…

For 22 years it stayed one purpose, the deficit, reinforced every single year.

So in 1974, when the Budget Control Act was done, it has 100 percent of the senators vote for it and that was because it created a filibuster-free pathway for one purpose, deficit reduction; am I correct?

Your analysis concludes that the Trump and Bush tax cuts have together been the largest driver of increasing debt ratio.

I love the word 're-shore', thank you.

I just wish it did not take 2 days to get a Congressional Delegation halfway around the world to start those meetings.

Do you agree that trade relationship with China and the enormous number of supply chain factories that moved from the U.S. to China helped accelerate China's path to wealth and power?

I love the word 're-shore', thank you.

I just wish it did not take 2 days to get a Congressional Delegation halfway around the world to start those meetings.

Do you agree that trade relationship with China and the enormous number of supply chain factories that moved from the U.S. to China helped accelerate China's path to wealth and power?

We have China engaged in slave labor with the kind of a million Uyghurs; we have them taking away the Tibetan children to boarding schools when they are just 5 or 6 years old.

We need to pivot to renewables quickly, and should be expediting the thing that make that possible.

Let me just say, factually, scientifically, you are wrong. That we have already issued extraction permits for a vast amount of additional fossils.

Well, that is horrific. Because we are in a situation; my State is burning up from climate change.

Doesn't it seem a little insane that tax cuts for the wealthy that have--and the powerful corporations that have created the bulk of this problem would then have the problem addressed by cutting basic programs for the most challenged…

So in 1974, when the Budget Control Act was done, it has 100 percent of the senators vote for it and that was because it created a filibuster-free pathway for one purpose, deficit reduction; am I correct?

For 22 years it stayed one purpose, the deficit, reinforced every single year.

I'm very concerned about the strategy currently of holding the country hostage and saying we're going to drive the economy off of a cliff if we don't get changes that benefit the wealthy and hurt ordinary American families.

Your analysis concludes that the Trump and Bush tax cuts have together been the largest driver of increasing debt ratio.

I love the word 're-shore', thank you.

Do you agree that trade relationship with China and the enormous number of supply chain factories that moved from the U.S. to China helped accelerate China's path to wealth and power?

I just wish it did not take 2 days to get a Congressional Delegation halfway around the world to start those meetings.