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

If an investor pays more for a house, they're going to charge higher rents. It's going to drive up the rental market.

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

We should get the hedge funds out of the housing business.

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

I really saw when I was director of Habitat for Humanity how an affordable mortgage or affordable rental housing was huge to the stability of family.

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

The only people that could buy them were hedge funds. Hedge funds discovered that this was a fabulous investment.

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Earl Blumenauer
@earlblumenauer· Democratic · OR· Jan 30, 2024

The GDP growth for the first three years of the Biden Administration is 3.4 percent, outpacing the first three years of the prior administration.

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Earl Blumenauer
@earlblumenauer· Democratic · OR· Jan 30, 2024

We have almost three million jobs created last year. Unemployment is at a historic low, 3.5 percent.

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Earl Blumenauer
@earlblumenauer· Democratic · OR· Jan 30, 2024

Inflation, which we were deeply concerned about, is now down to between two and three percent, very close to the Fed's target rate.

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Suzanne Bonamici
@suzannebonamici· Democratic · OR· Jan 18, 2024

It is clear from the debate on the bill that what my colleagues on the other side of the aisle want to happen is for every pregnant student to stay pregnant with consequences long beyond their time in college. That is why it is so…

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Suzanne Bonamici
@suzannebonamici· Democratic · OR· Jan 18, 2024

As I mentioned in committee, a pregnant student is not just the only one affected. If whomever impregnated the student got some rights and notification about paternity and child support obligations, that might help this information be more…

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Suzanne Bonamici
@suzannebonamici· Democratic · OR· Jan 18, 2024

If my colleagues on the other side of the aisle truly cared about moms, they would join us in addressing the embarrassingly high maternal mortality rate in this country, which is especially concerning for women of color. Mr. Speaker, I…

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Suzanne Bonamici
@suzannebonamici· Democratic · OR· Jan 18, 2024

Anyone seeking reproductive care should have access to a real healthcare provider that will provide them with real, comprehensive, and accurate medical information. That is not what they get at pregnancy resource centers. I urge my…

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Jan 17, 2024

I think there are other things in the tax code that raise a lot of revenue

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Jan 17, 2024

I look forward to working with you on this

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Jan 17, 2024

The Billionaire Policy now is really built on three words really ending, buy, borrow and die

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Jan 17, 2024

If he wants to make a billionaire income tax a bipartisan bill, I'm all in.

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Jan 17, 2024

What we're trying to do is use this year to the greatest extent possible for helping people, and then to tee up for 2025.

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Jan 17, 2024

The idea that tax policy could incentivize further outsourcing is absolutely atrocious.

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Jan 17, 2024

It seems to me that there's a profound sense of the system being rigged, which increases cynicism in America.

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