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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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Feb 15, 2018

right now it is estimated that 700,000 Dreamers face the very real threat that they may be ripped from the only life and the only country they have ever known. These are young people who have grown up in America. They go to school here…

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Feb 15, 2018

I think that needs to be a central part of our trade agenda as we move forward.

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Feb 15, 2018

you cannot afford, in a time like this, to pass up opportunities.

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Feb 15, 2018

The President's budget once again eliminates the program.

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Feb 15, 2018

What we need is action that will lead to concrete, positive results for both U.S. companies like U.S. Steel as well as United States workers.

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Feb 14, 2018

The Trump agenda of health-care discrimination turns against older Americans.

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Feb 14, 2018

We know something about pre-existing conditions, and this does not protect people with pre-existing conditions.

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Feb 14, 2018

The agenda of health care discrimination is out in force in this Trump budget.

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Feb 14, 2018

The budget embraces the old Graham-Cassidy proposal.

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Feb 14, 2018

We wrote a bipartisan law--Senator Dole, for example, was very helpful in it--which drained the swamp, an appropriate phrase for the time.

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Feb 14, 2018

In a lot of ways, junk insurance just turns back the clock.

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Feb 14, 2018

The President famously talked about how drug companies were, quote, 'getting away with murder.'

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Feb 14, 2018

The agenda of health-care discrimination is out in force in this Trump budget.

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Feb 14, 2018

So this idea that we are going to just sit in our offices back here and wait for somebody to tell us, oh, we are going to discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions, that will not cut it with me.

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Feb 14, 2018

when is enough? And we watch these young people from the high schools, and I heard one in effect say, you know, we are kids, we cannot fix this. You adults get over it and deal with it.

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Feb 14, 2018

Millions of working Americans locked out of the program.

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Feb 14, 2018

The Trump administration seems dead-set on making the care they need unaffordable and inaccessible.

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Feb 14, 2018

This has very, very substantial implications.

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Feb 14, 2018

The Trump agenda of health care discrimination is back.

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Feb 14, 2018

it is time to get over it. It is time to act. And we have learned in the last 24 hours enough is enough.

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Feb 14, 2018

The American people were promised a muscular approach.

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Feb 14, 2018

Idaho's insurance bulletin would allow insurers to sell individual market plans that do not comply with federal law.

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Feb 14, 2018

That is not right; those people mean well, but they are not right.

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Feb 14, 2018

I have been very interested in waivers--a lot of Senators have--but this is not a waiver.

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