Jeff Merkley

In 2001, President Bush's tax cut, did it increase or decrease revenue?

We need a health-care system. It gives peace of mind to Americans, not distress of whether you'll be able to get care.

The majority of Americans believe that the U.S. should stay in the Paris Agreement.

This is part of an enduring discussion about tactics in the United States.

Climate change is a wide-ranging national security challenge for the U.S. over the next 20 years.

I hope you will consider that and that some of these questions are not simple questions, but they are incredibly profound questions.

If human civilization doesn't get it together very quickly, we are in very deep trouble.

I do feel like perhaps you don't understand the gravity of the situation, from your response.

I believe you are acknowledging in that, which I am glad to hear, that it is a serious problem and that the EPA, that carbon dioxide is a pollutant and we have a legal obligation to take it on.

In my home State you have an impact on the oysters, because the Pacific Ocean is 30 percent more acidic than it was before we started burning coal.

Yes, it is very logical, you can do it in the laboratory, as Senator Whitehouse noted, that carbon dioxide traps heat.

If you go to a doctor and they say you have cancer, you decide you had better get a second opinion.

The beauty of the Senate is we get to have our own opinions.

I, as a Senator from Oregon, fighting for the quality of life of Oregonians, deeply resent folks fighting for oil industry that are trying to damage the health of my constituents and Americans across this country.

None of these standards, when they are set, are attained. That is the point.

Why fight so hard on the side of the oil industry rather than fighting on the side of the health of the people of Oklahoma?

The key to this is that by implementing that, by the time it is implemented, it would save annually 230,000--an estimate of course--asthma attacks among children, 160,000 missed school days, a tremendous number of missed work days, 630…

Do you acknowledge sending this letter to the EPA in October 2011?

On a 1 to 10 scale, how concerned are you about the impacts of fugitive methane in driving global warming?

Are you aware that methane is approximately 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a global warming gas?

I want moral clarity to be a foundation for U.S. policy.

To me there is a moral dimension to that.

To me, I am somewhat disturbed because we are Nation founded on religious freedom.

It certainly raises a moral question about how one engages a country and increases the power of leaders who are doing nothing to elevate the quality of life of their citizens.

The net effect of which was transferring a lot of wealth to a president for life, someone who has no interest in democratic principles.