Jeff Merkley

We need to send a powerful message here, not one that basically tries to create space for some sort of spin or cover story to develop.

I stress this because quite a bit of time has passed, and we do not even have the first leg of the journey.

So at the time of this statement, North Korea was unwilling to reach the language we wanted, the complete, irreversible elimination.

They are in compliance with the JCPOA in your opinion?

As of this time, we have heard report after report that Iran is in compliance.

Thank you so much to my colleague from Oregon for his remarks on taking on the systematic corruption of dark money as it relates to this nomination.

I never anticipated I would be alive to hear an American President attacking NATO as a problem rather than an asset.

I think it is time for an agonizing reappraisal of our relationship with Turkey.

If America is to be respected in the world, our president needs to speak to the issue.

Seize the opportunity with this 1-year anniversary. Seize this opportunity to release the report. Seize this opportunity to provide more aggressive sanctions.

I thought perhaps from your testimony that the majority of the 401 certification delays were the result of incomplete applications being submitted?

To expedite the process.

Many components that might not be directly covered by just the word 'discharge' or at least there would be a huge amount of lawsuits and adjudication to try to determine what discharge and how broad that is?

That is something that certainly can be addressed within the existing law?

I wanted to start with a letter that a group of Senators sent on August 16th.

This was a deliberate decision by Kelly, by Steve Miller, by the President, by Jeff Sessions to inflict harm on children in order to send a political message.

The administration basically lied to the American public, said people aren't showing up for their hearings, so we have to do something dramatically different, that is to treat people as criminals.

The entire premise of this program is completely flawed. The administration for publicity said this is catch and release, that people don't show up to their hearings. But the administration shut down the family case management program.

No, absolutely not, Anderson.

I would say this is the type of thing were executive leadership makes a difference in giving direction to this body.

Should we not more accurately approach this from the viewpoint that there is still a nuclear threat from North Korea?

President Trump blamed poor relations with Russia on U.S. foolishness.

I think it's such a meeting is completely inappropriate at this point. Not just because the President's completely unprepared and you have a very sharp KGB agent in President Putin but while the President's under investigation it just…

We're in a very strange space right now because the President is under investigation, or his team is under investigation for potentially having collaborated with an enemy.

As long as our market is very open to the Chinese, and as long as they can pay wages that are much lower than ours and have environmental laws that are virtually nonexistent or non-enforced, is it not always going to be pretty much cheaper…