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.
May 23, 2018
What concrete policy ideas would you suggest this committee pursue to help attract more providers to rural America?
May 23, 2018
I would like to just go down the row and have each of you give me what would be your top priority for Medicare as it relates to longer-term stability for rural providers and particularly for rural seniors in our country.
May 23, 2018
the Trump administration and half of Congress have spent the last 15 months desperately trying to make huge cuts to Medicaid.
May 23, 2018
This just looks like a bureaucratic la-la land to me, trying to sort all this stuff out.
May 23, 2018
I have very, very strong feelings, which I will not express again, about how damaging these Medicaid cuts would be.
May 23, 2018
if you wanted to turn rural America into sacrifice zones where hospitals shut down and people cannot get the health care they need, the quickest way to do it is by slashing Medicaid.
May 23, 2018
It ought to be possible to guarantee that rural Americans are not on the outside looking in.
May 23, 2018
We can get a bipartisan package here--this is doable--a bipartisan product in a crucial kind of area.
May 23, 2018
Keeping these hospital emergency departments open is a key challenge when it comes to rural health care.
May 23, 2018
people in rural areas today feel like their local hospitals are already teetering on the brink of closing their doors.
May 23, 2018
You ought to be able to practice at the top of your license and particularly in these rural areas.
May 23, 2018
we in Congress are tasked in the Constitution with promoting science and the useful arts through giving authors and inventors the exclusive right to their writings and discoveries for a limited time. The first copyright act provided that…
May 23, 2018
on May 10, I announced my intention to object to a unanimous consent request for the Senate to take up the nomination of Christopher C. Krebs who has been nominated by President Trump to serve as Under secretary of the National Protection…
May 23, 2018
I hope that one day soon it will not be necessary to come to the floor of this Senate and shine a spotlight on how the Trump administration is making it harder and harder for women in America to get the healthcare they need and deserve. It…
May 22, 2018
with Memorial Day coming up this weekend, I want to offer a few thoughts on this package of legislative reforms for the Department of Veterans Affairs, known as the VA MISSION Act of 2018, being considered by the U.S. Senate. I want to…
May 21, 2018
it is with sadness and reflection that I take a moment today to remember the shooting at Thurston High School in Springfield, OR, 20 years ago. At the time, we thought of Thurston as a tragic anomaly and not as the forerunner of the…
May 21, 2018
on February 2, Portland lost a dedicated man of faith, Rev. W.G. Hardy, Jr. As our community mourns the loss of this great spiritual leader, we also pause to celebrate all he did for our community. During the 22 years that Pastor Hardy…
May 17, 2018
as the Senate moves to vote on the nomination to head the CIA, here is the bottom line. While the American people have been told that Gina Haspel likes Johnny Cash and talked to Mother Teresa, Ms. Haspel has been exercising the…
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