Jeff Merkley

We have not been checking and balancing the executive branch for 60-some odd years, maybe longer.

I am not ready to concede that the line should be wiped out with no geographic limits, no time limits, no style of force limits.

We have had serious conversations about the potential of using a nuclear weapon in--as a first-use weapon both in Vietnam and in Korea.

In this rule you have the ability to go to court or the ability to go to arbitration.

I could possibly clarify that. My understanding is that, currently, when you have an arbitration clause, you have one option, and that is to go into arbitration.

The thing that confused me about the Senator's commentary is that the Senator referred to people, through this regulation, being forced into court, but in reality, they would still have a choice of arbitration or court, as opposed to being…

I am profoundly disappointed in what happened today. I think part of leadership is putting yourself in other people's shoes.

Thank you for your continued advocacy to identify and pacify our funding fix.

But you couldn't do it through a timber sale because that didn't give the at least 10 year horizon that the owner needed to be able to invest in equipment for the mill.

I do think many of you or maybe all of you have spoken to the cycle we are trapped in of we are just depleting the funding on the front end to do the hazardous fuels and the thinning, and then we are spending it on the back end.

I think use of that term gives cover to the military in a way that is totally unacceptable.

I think we need to think about all the levers we have to pressure the military. They are really in charge.

You cannot really call on all parties to speak forcefully if our own President is not speaking forcefully.

We need to respond with enormous moral clarity and force on this issue.

This is ethnic cleansing. 288 Rohingya villages destroyed and not one word from our President.

Why should the American people put into an office of significant influence someone who refuses to look at the facts directly that are so important to the health of this planet?

You have been working in air pollution for these decades, and you have no acquaintance with data related to the warming of the planet or the factors that contribute to that?

Do you believe with high confidence that human activity is a major driver of climate change?

That is certainly the type of answer that we hear continuously. That is the coached answer that the Koch brothers are asking people to sew this uncertainty.

I would like to submit for the record the following peer reviewed study linking alachlor and acetochlor to cancer.

I would like to submit for the record the following peer reviewed study showing that chlorpyrifos has been linked to brain damage in children.

The nomination of Mr. Dourson to be in charge of chemical safety at the EPA is a threat to our nation's children, farm workers, communities at the front lines of exposure to chlorpyrifos.

Thank you. So, my understanding of your organization is that you ultimately recommended a safe level of 10 micrograms per kilogram per day.

Well, if you can't read a chart, are you qualified to have this role?

We really need to focus on not increasing the timber wars, but expanding on the foundation we have from the stewardship contracts