Ron Wyden

The paramount mission for policymakers should be to develop a business tax code that is seen as fair and equitable.

Do. Or do not. There is no 'try.'

It is unsustainable for much of our tax code to exist on a temporary basis.

Senator Wyden's bills from 2010 and 2011 would have reduced the U.S. Federal corporate tax rate to 24 percent.

It cannot be both. It has to be one or the other.

You have to be quick, folks, because we have a lot of colleagues waiting.

The 15-percent special rate could create a massive new tax shelter that would allow the wealthy to funnel their money through sham partnerships.

I have a lot of concern about this.

The tax code is insanely complicated. Yet, determining the centerpiece of bipartisan tax reform should not be.

It is a prescription that will make it harder to solve the problems that the American people sent us here for.

It is a prescription for gridlock.

Using a partisan approach for the major issues of our time, health care and tax reform, is a prescription for trouble.

I hope after it has become clear that the partisan approach, trying to just ram a bill through that raises premiums, hurts those with preexisting conditions, slashes Medicaid--it has now failed twice.

I have spent hundreds of hours, literally, to produce what are still the only two bipartisan comprehensive Federal tax reform bills since 1986.

It might be a good way to create tax windfalls for the fortunate few, but it is not a good way to grow our economy.

Now anybody can write a bill that slashes tax rates for the fortunate few and the biggest corporations.

It is hard to look at that concrete evidence--concrete evidence--and find proof that the majority party wants real Democratic involvement in tax reform.

Senator Wyden was correct when he recently described the current tax code as a 'rotting economic carcass.'

I would like to see his security clearance pulled.

I definitely believe if you look at all of this evidence, he concealed contacts with the Russians on the security clearance reform, and then he attended a meeting billed as a session that in effect would have Russia helping the Trump…

And now, again, it is important for Democrats and Republicans to make clear that we Americans decide our elections. And we aren't going to let the Russians or any other country use or democracy as a playground.

My sense is we have so many different versions of the stories and then they come back and somehow try to find a path to correct it, and it short of reminds me of lather, rinse and repeat. This is what they do again and again.

None at all. And it's hard to see how Spicer could say that with a straight face because the subject line, Anderson, makes it clear that it's private, that it's Russian. It's confidential. That is not adoptions.

As you get more and more information about this, you really are just stunned at how reckless, almost cavalier this White House is with respect to security clearances. And as more information rolls in from Jared Kushner's activities, you…

It is absolutely essential that this get on the public record.