Jeff Merkley

The biggest challenge testing human civilization is whether we can tackle climate chaos.

In terms of the impact it had on those who stormed the Capitol, maybe some of those would be a good witness to remind us that they were inspired by Trump. This was not a false flag operation. This was not an Antifa operation. This was core…

Well, I think the main witness is going to be the tapes of President Trump himself, what he said, and both verbally and, in the context of video, of how he was doing it. This is about, did he incite an insurrection, and the connections…

He deliberately sought to create a tremendous reaction to his claim that the election was stolen.

I appreciated the President's pledge to aim at a 100-percent clean energy economy, net zero emissions by 2050.

There were two insurrections. There was an insurrection from outside the building and there`s an insurrection inside the building.

It`s just an out -- it`s a completely outrageous demand by McConnell.

The guiding principle is power quest. How do I get that? I show that the team in office that can`t function, so I have a case for replacing them.

Yes, absolutely. They`re doing great harm to America, and they should be fired, removed, tossed as quickly as possible.

I will tell you that anyone who instructed the Army to lie to Congress and the American people, that is conduct unbecoming an officer, and that should have consequences.

We have a bill--Senator Rubio and I have a bill, the Uighur Forced Labor Prevention Act. It has a lot of sponsors in the Senate on both sides of the aisle.

President-elect Biden has supported a renewed significant economic package.

I had authored a provision that required the administration, whichever administration, to respond by April to evaluate China's actions with the treatment of the Uighurs, and that has now been done with today's determination by the…

I appreciate that you are willing to deal with that very directly.

Will we terminate the so-called Safe Third Country Agreements with the Northern Triangle countries?

I appreciate that Aung San Suu Kyi had invited, in her U.N. speech following the horrific massacres in August several years ago, to come and see for yourselves.

It's a very important issue for America. We need to get it done.

No, that's absolutely right. And so, you could have a state saying, hey, you know, we're -- we have a Republican legislature. We're going to allocate electoral votes to whoever the Republican candidate is, regardless of how the vote comes…

It'd be much healthier under a situation where every vote is counted to have the candidates of both parties proceeding to say, I know I need to harvest votes everywhere I can find them.

It's in some ways, it's an insult to voters across the political spectrum, even though it sort of has a systematic bias in terms of one political coalition.

Absolutely. And that's why I've introduced the constitutional amendment to do that.

Oh, absolutely. It's stunning when you have millions of votes different, that it comes down, as you put it, to what 65,000 votes. And I must say, it puts shivers down my spine.

And that's why I've introduced the constitutional amendment to do that. But as you know, and I know, it's very unlikely we're going to get the two-thirds we need in each chamber plus three-quarters of the state to agree to a constitutional…

Oh, absolutely. It's stunning when you have millions of votes different, that it comes down, as you put it, to what 65,000 votes. And I must say, it puts shivers down my spine.

If enough states say, by law, that they will award their electoral votes to the individual getting the most popular votes nationally, suddenly, we have a national popular vote system. And that effort is well underway.