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Suzanne Bonamici
@suzannebonamici· Democratic · OR· Feb 15, 2017

To clarify further, this rule simply amends the State rule that we addressed in H.J. Res. 66, that gives the safe harbor to jurisdictions with strict investor protections. Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr…

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Earl Blumenauer
@earlblumenauer· Democratic · OR· Feb 15, 2017

Like many people, I have noticed renewed interest in the 25th Amendment, as we have seen erratic behavior out of the White House, an inability of Donald Trump to even tell whether it rained on him during his inaugural speech, and repeating…

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Suzanne Bonamici
@suzannebonamici· Democratic · OR· Feb 15, 2017

I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. Schakowsky), the co-chair of the Congressional Task Force on Seniors.

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Suzanne Bonamici
@suzannebonamici· Democratic · OR· Feb 15, 2017

May I inquire as to the remaining time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Oregon has 11\1/2\ minutes remaining.

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Feb 15, 2017

Mr. President, today I, along with my colleagues Congressmen Chaffetz from Utah and Conyers from Michigan, am introducing the Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act, a bill that protects Americans from seeing their phones and other…

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Feb 15, 2017

Mr. President, I think Senator Murray has said it very well, and I want to pick up on what I think is really at stake with this nomination. In effect, if confirmed, Congressman Mulvaney would be the numbers guy for the Trump team, the…

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Feb 15, 2017

Mr. President, whenever the discussion in the Senate turns to gun violence, we often hear Senators say: We shouldn't be talking about guns; we ought to be talking about mental health. That is exactly what we are trying to make sure is the…

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Feb 14, 2017

Mr. President, I listened carefully to my colleagues on the other side, and I want to make sure people really understand what this debate is all about. This debate is about background checks. It is about mental health. It is not about…

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Feb 13, 2017

After breaking the Mnuchin rule once, the majority is now planning to fast-track a second tax break for the wealthy. This one will be even larger; in fact, it could be 10 times bigger or more. My guess is that a lot of Americans are…

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Feb 13, 2017

Mr. President, when you serve as the Secretary of Treasury, you are charged with a variety of responsibilities, and right at the center of your duties is to address taxes. This is an area that the nominee to head the Treasury Department…

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Feb 13, 2017

Mr. President, there are communities across this country that are still waiting for the recovery from the great recession to show up. In many of those towns and cities, the storefronts are boarded up, the factories are shuttered, and, in…

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Feb 13, 2017

Madam President, even now, more than 2 months after then President-Elect Trump nominated Steven Mnuchin to be Treasury Secretary, I still find it hard to believe. Month after month out on the campaign trail, President Trump attacked Wall…

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Feb 10, 2017

Madam President, the Senate is now debating the nomination of Steven Mnuchin to be the Secretary of the Treasury, and this is yet another nomination on which the majority has walked away, unfortunately, from a 20-year bipartisan approach…

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Feb 9, 2017

I would also refer my colleagues to the following news articles: ``Trump's HHS Nominee Got A Sweetheart Deal from A Foreign Biotech Firm,'' a story published by Kaiser Health News on January 13, 2017; ``Representative Tom Price Got…

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Feb 9, 2017

Mr. President, before Senator King leaves the floor, let me just say, as one who ran the legal services for the elderly program in Oregon, that the Senator makes all of us in legal services proud tonight. Senator King has really put a face…

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Feb 9, 2017

Mr. President, the debate on Congressman Price's nomination, in my view, is a referendum on the future of health care in America. On this side of the aisle, we think it is worth spending 30 hours talking about a subject this important to…

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Feb 9, 2017

I also refer my colleagues to the following documents: an announcement by Innate on June 10, 2016, entitled ``Private Placements and Rights Issue to Raise Additional Working Capital,'' and the Public Financial Disclosure Report signed by…

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Feb 9, 2017

I also refer my colleagues to the following news articles and documents: ``Australian Drug Maker has Low Profile but Powerful Backers in Washington,'' printed in the New York Times on January 13 of this year; ``Aussie shareholding puts…

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