If I just did it to help Democrats, I guess I am puzzled why so many Republicans would help us.

Our expectation is that we can do it together, our hope is that we can do it together, Republicans and Democrats, we have questions, we have some issues that we want to raise with the administration about the resolution and the wording, but that is to be expected,

A group of us, Republicans and Democrats, decided to see [if] we could put together a core bill that represents the philosophy and the practical approaches that will actually allow this to happen.

It's a problem that Republicans and Democrats alike need to solve. Oregonians are counting on us not to turn this into a political issue.

Republicans claim they want to support civil rights. We want to give them ample opportunity to demonstrate that.

The president began to make his case to us today,