Ron Wyden

I think that is a very, very damaging position to stake out.

We can have both [security and liberty].

Members of Congress do not conduct oversight of the executive branch for sport.

This is a disgrace, and it is deeply undemocratic.

Today, with HHS pushing a radical agenda that would send the number of Americans without health coverage through the roof, endanger seniors who count on Medicaid for nursing home care, and slash the programs that lay out basic living…

There is just no such thing as 'managed default.' Default is default and global credit markets will recognize it.

The United States has the best credit in the world because investors believe the government will always honor those commitments

Raising the debt limit is a necessary response to past spending and revenue decisions

We shouldn't risk the full faith and credit of the United States to address the debt limit

Our current tax code creates several major obstacles to middle-income job creation.

I believe tax reform should give everyone the chance to get ahead.

I just appreciate the chairman saying that he shares my view, that we are going to insist that nominees agree to respond to questions asked by--and underline it--any member of this committee.

I appreciate it. I am just running off to Intelligence.

I emphasize the word 'any' to remind our nominees the chairman and I expect nominees confirmed by this committee to provide prompt responses to questions from any member of the committee, Republican or Democrat.

I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for asking those questions, as we both feel it has been a bipartisan tradition in the Finance Committee for the chairman to ask those four questions to every nominee, regardless of which party holds the…

I will repeat the last part: it is 'any Senator of the committee,' not any Senator of the committee with an 'R' next to their name.

It is true that in the Trump administration, Treasury has not been the worst culprit in terms of stonewalling oversight.

This is not the behavior of a government that sees itself as answerable to the American people.

Our obligation to perform vigorous oversight is derived from the powers laid out in article 1 of the Constitution.

I believe this is a disgrace. I believe it is deeply undemocratic.

I want to begin by thanking you for your courtesy this morning, and on a regular basis.

We believe that this bill would be a worthy complement of measures to expand and improve LIHTC.

We thank Finance Committee Senators Wyden, Bennet, Heller and Portman for their cosponsorship.

Eliminating the estate tax and opening a new, mile-wide loophole for the wealthy to exploit passthrough status is a prescription for more inequality in America.

If this plan was built for a middle-class tax cut, then Trump Tower was built for middle-class housing.