Ron Wyden

I do not think that is all so bad.

Senator Conrad helped all of us to ensure that, in the Affordable Care Act, there was a bigger role for the States in making health policy.

The Finance Committee meets today to consider four nominations for key posts in the Obama administration.

Barely more than half of American workers have access to a retirement savings plan through their employer.

Finally, we need to expand Social Security.

We must address the retirement emergencies poised to devastate far too many workers.

The recent turmoil in the financial markets is a keen reminder of why it is important to keep Social Security strong and reject calls to privatize that program.

We created a health care system after World War II that was completely tethered to the employer, and that was because we had to.

I want to ensure that everybody has a chance to get ahead.

That is out of whack, and I would like to change it.

They deserve health and pension benefits that they earned over decades of backbreaking work.

The bottom line for Oregon workers is going to be, when you get a job, you are going to get a retirement account, and you can begin to save.

It is obvious that working families and the middle class need more opportunities to save.

I hope this trend leads Federal lawmakers to pass the President's national auto-IRA proposal.

What we do about these pension systems.

ERISA just really has not kept up with this very different world.

We must not let that come to pass, and we ought to be addressing that too in a bipartisan way.

We should implement a number of the common-sense bipartisan reforms that Senator Crapo and I recommended.

I am introducing a bill to strengthen the saver's credit so it does more for the people who need the most help.

I look forward to working with you and all our colleagues on it.

My view on tax policy is, you want to give everybody in America the opportunity to get ahead.

This proposal is a step that Congress can take to put a little more balance in Federal policy to ensure that all Americans have the opportunity to save and to get ahead.

Our job is to make it different this time with meaningful legislation.

The situation for mine workers gets worse with every passing day, and this, Mr. Chairman and colleagues, is another public policy emergency.

I do not buy that, and I will let Chairman Hatch speak for himself, but I know he very much wants this committee to work in a bipartisan way.