Ron Wyden actually said...

People are falling out of the middle class, not moving upward.

In an era that we are living in of such extreme levels of income inequality, it is appropriate for the tax code to become even more progress...

We have focused on growing American workers' paychecks, putting more dollars into their pocket.

It is absolutely key to the kind of work we anticipate doing in a bipartisan way to work on tax reform.