Jeff Merkley says oil production costs are flat year over year
Oil companies are able to sell oil that costs no more to produce today than it did one year ago.
Oil companies are able to sell oil that costs no more to produce today than it did one year ago.
Says public education will get more money in 2012-13 though lawmakers cut $15 billion in overall spending.
Democratic Reps. Cicilline, Boswell, Carnahan and Critz "demanded that Congress vote to increase the nation’s debt limit without making any spending cuts."
"A few months into office, (President Barack Obama) traveled around the globe to apologize for America."
The 2009 stimulus bill "failed to get people back to work."
"No one thought we could get a bipartisan bill (Medicaid) passed. We did in the Florida Senate."
"We're going to be looking at $8 billion a day that we're going to be pouring into foreign countries in order to import that make-up…
We are looking at "150,000 barrels (of oil) per day less next year, and 200,000 barrels per day less being able to be developed from…
"We have seized more currency, more drugs, more outbound arms in the past year than any year in our country’s history."
Says "for the first time ever," Texas lawmakers are not funding student population growth.
"We are only inches away from ceasing to be a free market economy."
"It is a greater crime to have an untagged alligator than to host an open house party (for kids)."