Jeff Merkley

If we invest in recovery, we will get species off of the endangered species list.

Why don't we simultaneously say we are going to step up support for the Federal efforts when we are doing this bill?

The most direct path to reducing regulation of endangered species is to get them recovered and get them off of the endangered species list.

I think that we have heard a lot of reference to kind of reduce reliance on regulation.

This hearing will examine the ways the Chinese government and Communist Party attempt to use economic coercion for political aims.

Today's hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China entitled 'How China Uses Economic Coercion to Silence Critics and Achieve Its Political Aims Globally' will come to order.

How China uses economic coercion to silence critics and achieve its political aims globally.

There is an opportunity here, an incredible opportunity, that the United States has to seize it with both hands and to send a powerful message that no military coup will be tolerated.

People always give assurances until the moment a military coup starts or the counting is suspended and not resumed.

In China and around the globe, we are seeing that the same technology that drives the global economy... can also be used for repression.

Good morning. Today's hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China on 'Techno-Authoritarianism: Platform for Repression in China and Abroad' will come to order.

The International Olympic Committee has placed the world's athletes in the untenable position of making them essentially complicit in China's effort to use the Olympics to paint a very beautiful vision of their country and to basically…

Without proper guardrails to protect privacy and basic human rights, technology can control populations, trample freedom of expression, and undermine institutions of democratic governance.

We are seeing that the same technology that drives the global economy... can also be used for repression.

Today's hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China entitled 'Techno-Authoritarianism: Platform for Repression in China and Abroad,' will come to order.

Thank you for convening this hearing on the Chinese government's use of technology and digital platforms to expand and export its repressive policies.

Opening Statement of Hon. Jeff Merkley, a U.S. Senator from Oregon; Chair, Congressional-Executive Commission on China.

I referred to many of these changes as being done in the spirit of Jim Crow laws that existed prior to the adoption of the Voting Rights Act.

When our Committee went down to Georgia, Senator Klobuchar and I listened to stories about people waiting, I think five hours was one testimony.

Is the argument about or the discussion of election fraud--the cover story today for blocking the political power of black Americans and other citizens from minority communities.

It is absolutely essential that for a democratic republic to function well, the foundation has to function well.

We have zero cases in Oregon and Oregon initiated vote by mail.

I was thinking about how historians look at an 80 year period in which the only thing that was blocked by extended debate in the filibuster were laws to protect the voting rights and political power of black Americans.

I mean, that is really the type of fraud I am talking about and that has a huge impact.

Shouldn't we talk a lot about the fraud conducted on Election Day?