Jeff Merkley

I feel strongly that if we want to build a safer, more competitive country, we can't give up on the need to invest right here at home.

Somehow the prospect of working for the Forest Service while you live in your car is not such an entertaining one.

We really have to push to map the acres around our most vulnerable towns, and how we thin and treat those forests even if they are more expensive per acre.

We can no longer view these villains as natural disasters, what they really are, are human-caused unnatural disasters.

Indeed, the budget request for fiscal year 2024 gives us another stark reminder that our forests are in peril, and that we need these investments.

Thank you very much.

We want people to know that they can come to the airline industry, that they can have a family-sustaining job.

I for one think that the richest 400 families should pay at least what a middle-class American pays, rather than eight percent.

I appreciate the President not taking that tack, and instead of saying fair share.

The idea that we're going to cut taxes on the rich, which is what the Republican plan in the House is, and put this massive additional tax on the ordinary families, I know it would not sell in my state one moment.

I for one think that the richest 400 families should pay at least what a middle-class American pays, rather than eight percent.

Well thank you, because that is a huge issue, and we need to invest a lot more.

The debt is like paying our national credit card.

The idea that we're going to cut taxes on the rich, which is what the Republican plan in the House is, and put this massive additional tax on the ordinary families, I know it would not sell in my state one moment.

I appreciate the President not taking that tack, and instead of saying fair share.

I see that even the dream of home ownership fading away for so many families in my blue-collar community.

I for one think that the richest 400 families should pay at least what a middle-class American pays, rather than eight percent.

Let's talk about homes and housing for middle class Americans and low-income Americans. It is the biggest issue coming up in my town halls.

I appreciate the President not taking that tack, and instead of saying fair share.

I'm concerned that a failure to pay our credit card bill, if you will, is going to create a crisis.

The idea that we're going to cut taxes on the rich, which is what the Republican plan in the House is, and put this massive additional tax on the ordinary families, I know it would not sell in my state one moment.

I just want to encourage you to expand your horizon to understanding those pieces because it is such an important part of the conversation.

I just want to encourage you to expand your horizon to understanding those pieces because it is such an important part of the conversation.

There are parents in every county who have lost their brothers or sisters or spouses or children to the contamination from fentanyl.

I will tell you, every--I have had now 19 town halls this year in Oregon, 19 of the 36 counties.