Jeff Merkley

Members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee released a letter dated May 2 that confirmed the investigation.

I do compliment you on pursuing companies that are selling to children directly in violation of the law and giving them warning letters.

My basic impression is that under the guise of saying that this is helpful to some adults to have candy flavors and fruit flavors to encourage them to quit smoking and turn to vaping instead, we are damaging an entire generation of our…

I think what I heard you say is that unless money comes from another department, we need to work together to sustain the effort that FDA has on opioids.

The ability to provide an alternative strategy for cooking fires could be a very significant factor in cutting off funding for al-Shabaab.

The government is really a vast criminal enterprise. Hard to change but we are pressing for elections.

This is a country, very much like Venezuela, that should be a donor. That should be a country, because of its vast natural resources, it should be assisting others and yet because of poor governance, bad leadership, authoritarian…

Zeroing out that budget means putting millions of people at risk of starvation and I hope that we can work with you so that doesn't happen.

This is unacceptable and it's going to take U.S. leadership.

It's important that the U.S. rally the world to respond.

We have concluded this does constitute ethnic cleansing.

I think everyone has concluded this will not happen without an extremely coordinated international response.

Somalia has lost 80 percent of its forest in the last 30 years.

It was very exciting to have Maile Pearl with us on the floor just moments ago. It was certainly the first time I have seen a little baby on the floor of the Senate and may be a good symbol for the work the Senate will be doing in the…

We need to make sure that that plus-up money gets to the Klamath Basin very quickly for land idling and for pumping for this summer.

We have worked with our colleagues in the Northwest delegation, including Senator Murray, to include language in the omnibus to enable the Corps to finish the Village Development Plan at the Dells Dam Site.

With the additional $50 million that Congress provided in the omnibus for navigation operations and maintenance, we need help making sure the small parts on the Oregon coast get the dredging they need.

Having been involved in that and working with Senator Menendez to write the AUMF on Syria, the Administration's position was they had the authority without Congress.

Will you look into that issue, and if there is--if that test of the Administration is not met, fight to restore this funding for the health of women around the world?

I hope you will be a leader in taking on the carbon pollution because we do not have a lot of time on this.

We do not have you quite--on a major threat to the planet.

That does go against most of the international findings of law, that there has to be a threat, and it is our law as well.

It is an issue in many, many countries where the country is more or less robbed while the people live in abject poverty.

Will you work to have our President be a visible, vocal, forceful advocate against the genocide and ethnic cleansing in Burma?

There is a lot of concern in America, and a lot of people are paying attention to this hearing.