Jeff Merkley
Jeff Merkley
Jeffrey Alan "Jeff" Merkleyis the junior United States Senator from Oregon. A member of the Democratic Party, Merkley was a five-term member of the Oregon House of Representatives representing House District 47, located in eastern Multnomah County within the Portland city limits. He also served as Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth24 October 1956
CountryUnited States of America
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My way of viewing the talking filibuster was as a way of doing unanimous consent with your feet. You object by going down and talking.
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We have a duty to ensure that patients don't have to worry whether they'll be dropped from their coverage if they get sick. Small business owners shouldn't have to break the bank to provide coverage to their employees. And families should not be forced into bankruptcy because of a medical crisis.
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When you use the word 'filibuster,' most of us in America - and I count myself among them - envision it as the ability to hold the floor on rare occasions to speak at length and make your point emphatically and even delay progress by taking hours.
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There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.
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For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families.
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We have our nominee, and it's is Secretary [Hillary] Clinton. I do hope that Secretary Clinton will take into account the huge resonance of the vision that Senator [Berny] Sanders was putting forward.This has inspired millions of citizens - a style of campaign we've never seen before winning 22 states, extraordinary number of caucuses. Now the challenge is to bring the two halves of the party together.
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Americans have powerfully sensed that we're off track. There is a structural challenge in our economy that needs to be addressed.
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What [Bernie] Sanders has done is he's focused the nation on the fact that these things are not inevitable. They are the result of policies. We can do better to create an economy that works well for working Americans.