Jeff Merkley

They need grant help to help build these systems when you're talking towns of under 10,000.

I want to focus on this third part because the Housing Trust Fund addresses the needs of the most vulnerable in our society.

The fires we're having out West produce a huge amount of carbon dioxide into the air.

I'm glad to see the addressing lead pipes and the PFAS and WIFIA, a program I worked to create here in the Senate.

Today is the day that Chairman Sanders is introducing the End Polluter Welfare Act and several of us are cosponsoring it.

It sends a message not only to the military in Burma but to would-be dictators around the world that there was space for them to become more authoritarian.

I hope we can really help turn the world back in the direction of governments that work for the people from a citizen-up strategy rather than an authoritarian-down strategy that China is championing.

I think that it can be done, that it should be done, and it can be done in such a way that it does not impact the people of Myanmar.

I have a deep interest in what happens in Burma.

To visit the Sittwe Muslim Quarter is to have chills go down your spine.

I was delighted to see the Biden administration expand sanctions to include the military-owned enterprises.

I want to get their opinion on whether the Biden administration should ensure that companies like Chevron do not make payments of royalties and other revenues to the Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise.

These folks who want to take the vote away from millions of Americans are absolutely on the wrong side of what it means to be a country of, by and for the people.

This is not some, as I just heard, some silly idea that we should stop voter suppression. It is fundamental. We took an oath to the constitution and that involves defending the right to vote, defending the ballot box.

We have this oath to the constitution. And that involves defending the ballot box and this voter suppression efforts all across the country.

Today I am introducing the Disaster-Safe Power Grid Act of 2020, in partnership with Senator Wyden.

You couldn't imagine going through those towns. I travelled 600 miles around Oregon, north to south and back north again, and never got out of the smoke.

It is veterans, it is Republicans, it is people who see the power of solar to really be able to have our own destiny in our own hands as an important part of this mix, and cheaper now that fossil fuel plants when we do that out-of-basin.

This winter, a lot of Oregonians lost power as a result of climate-intensified extreme weather.

I think this is a deeply corrupted vision of power that goes against the purpose of the vision of a Congress coming together to solve problems for America.

This is the right deal. This is, in essence, what Senator Carper was proposing earlier with some slight adjustments that address some of Senator Manchin's concerns. So a compromise has been forged.

This is a huge bill for America. This is so essential, not only does it have the unemployment, it has the direct payment to individuals with this $1,400 and the previous $600.

All 50 of us in the Democratic Caucus have a one-person veto, and it tells you the level of challenge it is to work together.

Well, it makes us very aware of McConnell's philosophy of power. And we saw this when he was in the minority under Obama. His strategy is delay and obstruct, delay and obstruct, never reach a deal.

There must be a way to bring 50 of us together, hopefully a hundred of us together, but a lot of us together. Nobody can live on $7.25 an hour.