Jeff Merkley

This is such an important discussion to the future of our democracy. Such an important question as to the integrity of our elections and the vision of Government, of, by and for the people, not the powerful.

In fact, if an individual has an independent campaign on their behalf that is spending tens of millions of dollars, and the rest of their donors are spending $25, $100, who is that elected leader going to pay the most attention to?

The Court says that the Supreme Court has said, so this group of individuals represented by this corporation has an interest in expressing its viewpoint in our society and should have the full protection to do so.

I think the numbers of small donors have actually increased very significantly over the last decade.

The voters who found out that this massive ads were being funded by a Bitcoin billionaire, that did not cancel the Bitcoin billionaire's voice.

Did not the Supreme Court say in what I think was an extraordinarily corrupt decision of Citizens United that favors Government by the powerful over representative Government by the people, a complete inversion of the design of our…

I am deeply concerned about agency process bottlenecks that really frustrate our ability to get LWCF projects done in a reasonable timeframe.

The prices we experience are extremely painful to Americans, they are devastating, they are primarily the result of disruption from Putin's war on Ukraine.

I urge you to choose the no-lease option in your final plan.

I think we are all going to learn a lot from this effort. It is an incredibly important effort.

There are 32 tribes that are not receiving any funding for law enforcement, though they fall under the same qualifications; and advocating that we try to start figuring out how to help those that have none.

I appreciate the commitment you have expressed to make sure it sustains its scope and functionality, incredibly important to my state.

Let us also recognized the oil companies' own leases that would allow them to drill on 20 million additional acres of Federal land and water that they are not using.

There are a tremendous number of vacancies. The recruitment is very difficult.

I appreciate your recognition that those 32 tribes deserve to be included in the program, and we will work with you in that regard.

I want to commend you for your leadership on the Indian Boarding School Initiative.

It is like a heroin addict saying that the solution to heroin addiction is more heroin.

We simply must adopt more of a keep-it-in-the-ground perspective since we are at this tipping point.

I want to make sure that I have your commitment, that will honor that requirement in the 2022 bill

Public Law 280 is a nearly 70-year-old law affecting criminal jurisdiction in tribal lands in six states, including Oregon.

We are definitely at a point where business as usual doesn't work.

I believe in the beautiful work of the Peace Corps around the world, what the volunteers do in so many ways to assist some of the most challenging places.

Increasingly, this oppression threatens the religious, cultural, linguistic, and historical identity of the Tibetan people.

Those who express reverence for the Dalai Lama are punished.

More than 70 years after the invasion that led to Chinese rule in Tibet, Tibetans continue to struggle in the face of unrelenting oppression.