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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Sep 10, 2024

It would make it harder to do the bipartisan work on overpayments that we talked about in the Finance Committee.

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Sep 10, 2024

I am here as Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle...

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Sep 10, 2024

The question for the Congress and for the Senate is do we want to take the steps that the Chairman outlined...

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Sep 10, 2024

I said everybody has got to pay their fair share. No special exemptions for billionaires.

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Sep 10, 2024

Social Security is only part of the structure in which we help with retirement, and more affluent Americans benefit enormously from tax-sheltered retirements.

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Sep 10, 2024

It makes a lot of sense to me, and I encourage all of us to actually act now, rather than waiting.

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Jul 31, 2024

Why do we never hear about this? If it was the reverse, and driving your electric car was five times more expensive than driving your fuel combustion car, you can bet every fossil fuel company in America would be publicizing that.

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Jul 31, 2024

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and certainly one of the reasons there is so much interest in my home state in electrics is because of what is happening right now. We have 121 fires burning in my state. Over one million acres have already burned…

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Jul 31, 2024

I have been hearing, you know, politicians talking about bringing manufacturing jobs back to America literally my entire life, right, and we are finally doing it, right?

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Jul 31, 2024

Are all the charging stations that are going to be deployed under the Inflation Reduction Act going to have a NACS standard?

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Jul 31, 2024

Why do we never hear about this? If it was the reverse, and driving your electric car was five times more expensive than driving your fuel combustion car, you can bet every fossil fuel company in America would be publicizing that.

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Jul 31, 2024

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and certainly one of the reasons there is so much interest in my home state in electrics is because of what is happening right now. We have 121 fires burning in my state. Over one million acres have already burned…

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Jul 30, 2024

This expanding tension in which warfare is conducted by the minority against the President...is just not serving our democracy well.

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Jul 30, 2024

The minority...has an incentive to slow things down, make it difficult, extract promises.

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Jul 30, 2024

The challenge is a reflection of almost tribal-level warfare between the parties.

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Jul 30, 2024

But what I have seen in the testimony was that the actual time for folks on the Privileged Calendar is slower than those who go to committee, and it is slower now than when that reform was passed.

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