Ron Wyden actually said...

"I think there's an opportunity now to usher in a new set of rules that give Americans information about the basic rules under which the government conducts its operations."

"let's look at ways to shore up our own house first before we start talking about approaches that could unravel some of these sacred Constitutional rights that Americans feel so strongly about."

"Even the most conservative estimates of the annual tax gap put it in the hundreds of billions of dollars a year."

"A trillion dollars is a big number, and we are going to want to see big results in the next year."