Jeff Merkley

And in the eastern part and southern part of my state we have had droughts that have gone on year-after-year.

Can we recognize that this is an incredibly powerful tool to help address the goals in the Western Water and Working Lands Framework?

Are you familiar with that NRCS Framework, and do you support that?

I would appreciate any help that we can get.

But I asked that simply because there is a tool that was incredibly effective that I worked to revitalize.

And the irrigation districts are responding by, one, changing their practices on the farm to get more crop with less water.

I was just up at Crater Lake where they showed that they have lost 240 inches of average snowpack over the last 90 years.

And in the eastern part and southern part of my state we have had droughts that have gone on year-after-year.

I've been pushing the administration to set up just such a hotline and the reaction so far has been modest.

Yes. Thank you. And certainly this is an agenda that we can continue to push forward.

We found the three C's, if you will. We found the cartels. We found the corruption, and we found the climate change.

I am quite impressed by the way we have responded, but I do think that the circumstances regarding Hong Kong, Ukraine, and China's use of high-tech to suppress the Uyghurs are very appealing strategies to many authoritarian leaders.

I remain concerned that as many as 35 states are not using this block grant funding for stillbirth prevention activities.

I am going to keep working to pass the Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act, to clarify in statute.

I encourage you to persist aggressively, given the consequences of failure, and we certainly have a deeply entrenched company, or companies, determined to keep addicting children.

I introduced bill, the Children's Safe Welcome Act, which we have shared with your team, which was designed to kind of lay out the gold standard.

Transitioning to LNG is not decarbonization.

The world is at this crisis point.

The DFC is doing exactly what we have to not do.

It is as bad as coal.

The amount of fossils that can be burned by humankind across the globe, and keep us below 1.5 degrees centigrade, is microscopic now.

I have submitted a request for this budget to include some dedicated funds for supporting folks who advocate for, and support environmental defenders.

It is exciting, as someone who grew up during the Vietnam War, to see the positive relationship that we now have with Vietnam, and hoping to build on that.

I really salute the administration's commitment to those--to the four programs: So one is the dioxin cleanup, one is the disabilities with children, and a third is continuing the demining, and the fourth is the Wartime Accounting…

I think it is an incredibly important investigation and report. We need to shine a light on the past in order to understand issues that may help us direct into the future.