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Ron Wyden

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Ron Wyden is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Oregon, a position he has held since 1996. A member of the Democratic Party, Wyden has been a prominent advocate for civil liberties, healthcare reform, and technology policy. Throughout his tenure, he has focused on issues such as privacy rights, government surveillance, and access to healthcare, often emphasizing the importance of transparency and accountability in government actions.

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Jun 20, 2017

The agenda has to be focused on creating more good-paying jobs for our people--red, white, and blue jobs.

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Jun 20, 2017

The most troubling part of all this is that it attacks our sovereignty.

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Jun 20, 2017

It allows a company to sue a foreign government, even to challenge a democratically attained rule or regulation or law.

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Jun 20, 2017

Obviously, we have noted the administration has an ambitious timeline for completing negotiations with Mexico and Canada.

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Jun 14, 2017

This is a broken, common-sense-defying system of fighting fire.

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Jun 14, 2017

How do we finally end the gridlock?

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Jun 14, 2017

This debate has been the longest-running battle since the Trojan War.

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Jun 12, 2017

Americans don't want to hear that answers to relevant questions are privileged and off limits.

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Jun 12, 2017

I believe the American people have had it with stonewalling.

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Jun 12, 2017

Stonewalling of any kind is unacceptable, and General Sessions has acknowledged that there is no legal basis for this stonewalling.

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Jun 12, 2017

If you're talking about meetings with a prominent Russian official and he says he doesn't really remember much, he doesn't know if there are any records, this kind of thing, it just cries out for those of us who are charged with oversight…

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Jun 12, 2017

When you have two officials and one of them is straight forward and lays out a lot of details and the other one just seems to duck and weave and try to figure out how to escape accountability, I think the American people are going to say…

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Jun 12, 2017

What we learned today is the country's top legal official doesn't have much of a grasp of the law, and he certainly doesn't understand what recusal is all about.

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Jun 12, 2017

Stonewalling of any kind is unacceptable. And General Sessions has acknowledged that there is no legal basis for this stonewalling.

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Jun 7, 2017

This idea was recently introduced as bipartisan legislation, S. 836, the Credit Union Residential Loan Parity Act, by Senators Ron Wyden and Lisa Murkowski.

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Jun 7, 2017

OHA is deeply concerned the president's FY 2018 budget cuts CHIP by an estimated $6 billion, or a 20% cut.

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Jun 7, 2017

The budget calls for refocusing Medicaid on the elderly, children, pregnant women, and individuals with disabilities.

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Jun 7, 2017

I'm hopeful that Congress will act to reauthorize this critical program.

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Jun 7, 2017

The Trumpcare bill shrinks the life of Medicare, and the budget proposal extends the mandatory cuts under the budget sequester by more than $30 billion.

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Jun 7, 2017

It would be a tough sell to convince those people they are worse off being enrolled in Medicaid, or that the program needs more than a trillion dollars in cuts.

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Jun 7, 2017

When asked if his proposed cuts would result in millions of Americans losing access to Medicaid, he responded, 'Absolutely not.'

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Jun 7, 2017

Secretary Price is the captain of the President's health-care team. He has been the premier advocate for Trumpcare, a bill that cuts Medicaid by $834 billion in order to pay for massive tax breaks for the wealthy.

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Jun 7, 2017

The budget math is fake, but the extreme agenda that would deprive millions of Americans of access to health care and wipe out living standards is not.

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Jun 7, 2017

This administration from day one has preferred 'alternative facts' and convenient spin to the truth.

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Jun 6, 2017

You told the American people that even a statistical sample would be jeopardizing America's national security. That is inaccurate and I think detrimental to the cause of ensuring we have both security and liberty.

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