Political Quotes

On the recordApril 21, 2010
The Senator is absolutely right about the fact that 80 secret holds is clearly not what Senator Grassley and I and reformers thought would happen. Given all these secret holds, you would think at the back of the Executive Calendar--which is page 19; it is entitled ``Notice of Intent to Object to Proceeding''--given what the distinguished Senator from Rhode Island has pointed out, one would think that page 19, ``Notice of Intent to Object to Proceeding,'' would be filled with these names if the rule was being honored. I say to the Senator, both you and I are holding up this page 19 with nary a word on it.
Said by
Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon
Source
govinfo.gov
Apr 21, 2010

Editor's note · Context

Senator Wyden discusses the issue of secret holds in the Senate.

Share

More from Ron Wyden

Aug 5, 2026

Taxpayers cannot keep writing blank checks for a Department of Defense that repeatedly fails to account for trillions of dollars in assets.

wyden.senate.gov
Aug 19, 2026

HHS must suspend all Medicaid data transfers to ICE and DHS pending a comprehensive review of HHS’s controls and the court’s continuing oversight.

wyden.senate.gov
Aug 27, 2026

Oregon’s public universities produce top-tier scientific breakthroughs, and lab discoveries shouldn't sit on a shelf when they could be creating good-paying jobs and growing our local economy.

wyden.senate.gov
Aug 1, 2026

More importantly, independent privacy and security oversight is not an optional expense to be cut when it becomes inconvenient.

wyden.senate.gov

Other voices in this conversation