Jeff Merkley

I am hopeful that the President of the United States and other leaders of the United States Government will weigh in...

Should we be asking our President to weigh in directly with the King of Saudi Arabia to get access for aid into Yemen?

I think that we need to look at these through other matters as well.

I think continued efforts on understanding these conflicts and what is going on...

During the continuing resolution, the funding, we worked in a bipartisan way to provide about $900 million more to adjust famines.

Was that a diplomatic way of saying that we could use better partnership from those two nations?

Why would we not raise that with an ally?

As our planet continues to warm, the potential for new famines only gets worse.

Conflict prevents the delivery of food assistance at the scale necessary to meet the need, especially if the warring parties attempt to use starvation as a weapon.

It is, therefore, essential that the hearing today address not only the root causes that drive the suffering but also the multilateral actions the international community can take to address it.

In these four countries, with so many children, severely, acutely malnourished, it is not just a moral outrage.

An appalling number, almost 800 million people across the world, do not have enough food to eat every day.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, particularly for your deep, genuine, persistent interest and engagement on such an important issue.

I am very concerned about the reports of Boko Haram also sending in suicide bombers into these settings, which is another form of absolute chaos complicating every effort to make things better.

I would like to acknowledge Chief Warren Brainard of the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Suislaw Indians.

Climate change should always be on the table as one of the factors we consider.

The resources are constrained and you have to make choices.

I just thought I would toss that to you.

Well, in that case, you are the right man for this job and you are going to have a lot of fun. It is a significant challenge.

It is a very complicated set of issues including the removal of dams on the river that do not produce much power.

I am concerned about the budget, which leaves out seven of the coastal ports in Oregon for fiscal year 2018.

It is an ancient failure on our part to fulfill our end of the bargain, and I just encourage every possible effort for us to keep moving forward with the effort.

I extend to my colleague from Hawaii every blessing for her successful health treatment. I know the thoughts and prayers of every Member of the Senate are with her tomorrow and beyond as she undertakes that healing path…

You heard of the movie 'Dumb & Dumber', but the Republican health care movie is mean and meaner.

The Federal Government should clean it up, and then go decade after decade with doing virtually nothing out there.