Ron Wyden

If Congress were to deny a foreign tax credit for amounts recovered under the State Aid rules... U.S. taxpayers as a whole would not be at risk of footing the bill.

The inversion virus is growing. The inversion virus is mutating.

I would like to know what they mean, the EU state aid cases, for our tax treaties.

The EU state aid cases look like, to me, another example of foreign governments targeting American firms.

So my concern here is--and the point of the question is--the effects could go far beyond what are just these initial state aid cases.

So these cases, then, could have a substantial and direct impact on the U.S. fisc, and consequently American taxpayers?

When you walk into a doctor's office, you're putting an extraordinary level of trust--and maybe even your life--in your physician's hands.

These avenues to overutilization of O&P services are similar to those described by Senators Hatch and Wyden during the November 17 hearing.

APTA would like to thank Chairman Hatch and Ranking Member Wyden for holding this important hearing, and for APTA to share its comments.

I think this is some of the most egregious and offensive behavior I have seen in a long, long time.

I look forward to our pursuing this again in a bipartisan fashion, and today we put some bipartisan sunlight on it.

All Americans deserve quality healthcare throughout their lives.

Yes. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the time during the quorum call be allocated equally. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.

A principal goal of the social safety net is to help individuals and families in their times of struggle and reconnect them to gainful employment.

I think Senator Bennet, who has been for this kind of advocacy for a long, long time, makes the point also that Congress has a big oversight responsibility, and we have to more frequently hear from people in the field, and I am going to…

A key program that's supposed to connect people to jobs so they can rise out of poverty--Temporary Assistance for Needy Families or TANF--isn't working.

That is an eye-popping figure.

I firmly believe we need to do something to increase the number of job opportunities for people at the very bottom.

Is there a program that you think is one of the best models we should be looking at?

The very best program, the best program in this space is a job.

Give one or two examples.

Senators Wyden, Stabenow, Cardin and Brown wrote Secretary of the Treasury Lew specifically requesting... help Americans save for retirement.

Reserving the right to object, I am happy to extend the debate for a couple of minutes for each side, but I think it does need, in the interest of fairness for the proponents and opponents, to have equal time for the purposes of wrapping…

I would like to inform my colleague, the distinguished chairman of our Intelligence Committee, I am always thinking about the history of the committee. I believe Chairman Burr, the ranking minority member Senator Feinstein, and I have been…

We do not want to be back here as a committee or as a Congress several years from now in the same situation.