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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.
It has been a privilege to work with my colleague. This has been bipartisan--especially making sure the kinds of policies that can come about with real net neutrality and making sure rural communities get a fair shake complement other work…
my colleague has said it very well. It is what I saw last week in these nine townhall meetings, and almost all of them were in rural Oregon. People joked and asked: Ron, why are you here? We have more cows than people. I said: My hometown…
my colleague from Massachusetts is probably being too logical for a lot of this discussion, whereby the special interests continue to shroud their real agenda, which is what my friend from Massachusetts has described. Clearly, with this…
it is important for everybody to understand how things work today and what net neutrality is all about. What net neutrality is fundamentally about is that everybody gets a fair shake with respect to using the internet. After you pay your…
As a general proposition, giving sanctions relief to a company like this, where there has been a bipartisan, non-classified report, as a general proposition that strikes me as a mistake from a counterintelligence standpoint, from a…
I appreciate the response. The President's comment over the weekend about ZTE I think obviously raises extraordinary national security questions, as well as economic policy concerns.
I must regretfully object to the Senate proceeding to the nomination of Christopher C. Krebs of Virginia to be Under Secretary of the National Protection and Programs Directorate at the Department of Homeland Security, DHS. Since November…
Thank you, Mr. President. Colleagues, this is the only resolution that provides a golden ticket to maintaining a free and open internet. By way of a free and open internet--and I know a lot of folks are following this debate. I see folks…
I ask unanimous consent at this point to speak for up to 5 minutes and to let my colleague from the Pacific Northwest, Senator Cantwell, follow me immediately thereafter. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
first of all, I want to thank the distinguished Senator from Vermont, who has been such a role model to me since I came to the Senate--we started working together on technology issues and worked together on so many matters dealing with…
We believe that Chemawa Indian School wants to improve the health and well-being of their students and we support them in this effort.
it is hard to find the words that will truly reflect what an abomination the campaign finance system in America has become. The fact is, the only people who seem happy with the current state of campaign finance are billionaires who have…
I come to the floor this morning to oppose the nomination of Stuart Kyle Duncan to serve on the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. I accept that there are differences of opinion with respect to nominees, and I accept that I will not…
The tax changes were unkind because senior citizens and working families will be made worse off.
Certainly, for everybody in English, it sure does not sound like putting America first.
The process used for tax reform was light years away from what we did for CHIP.
the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act worsens the offshoring of investments by allowing deductions that zero out, or at most halve, the tax rate applied to profits said to be made by offshore branches
More than a billion dollars going to the banks each month, but millions of families are looking around and wondering when they're going to see those raises they were promised.
nearly half of the benefit of the new pass-through rate is going to taxpayers with incomes of $1 million or more.
Senator Wyden sent Senator Hatch a letter describing 17 provisions in the legislative text that...did not reflect the decisions made by committee members.
We have a tax cut here that the independent scorekeepers have said disproportionately goes to the people at the top.
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