Ron Wyden

Whenever you ask anyone who has been through the child welfare system about what could have helped them the most, the answer is often, 'helping my mom . . . helping my dad . . . helping my family.'

Well, you are doing a terrific job, and I look forward to partnering with you in the days ahead.

Thank you very much.

And that has to change.

In my judgement, every one of those avenues should be explored before breaking a family apart.

For my part, that means ensuring that the TPP agreement contains 21st-century provisions to promote the digital economy.

USTR needs a full leadership team now more than ever to take on the range of trade priorities before it.

I still want to know more about how you are going to make the judgment to send a really tough message.

I care a lot about it because it is my workers, but I mostly care about it because you cannot just talk about enforcement in the abstract.

So, before we give a bunch of money away to corporations for tax breaks, we had better be figuring out what we are doing about retirement savings for Americans.

Let me emphasize, those pension benefits were earned. They were vested, and they were cut.

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation needs strong leadership to tackle a number of difficult challenges.

The fact is, the Affordable Care Act has extended health care coverage to more than 16 million real people who use their insurance coverage to see real doctors.

Their work 'cannot be generalized to the full population of applicants or enrollees.'

The report up for discussion today is not about any real-world fraud.

It is pretty hard to evaluate something you are not told about.

We have to work together, there is no question here.

On this side of the aisle, we do not take a back seat to anybody in fighting fraud and protecting taxpayer dollars.

Let me begin my remarks by saying that on this side of the aisle, we don't take a back seat to anybody in fighting fraud and protecting taxpayer dollars. One dollar ripped off is one dollar too many.

I am always willing to work with him, always willing to work in a bipartisan way.

Mr. Bagdoyan, you said in your testimony that tax returns are a 'key element of back-end controls. It's a major check that would shut down the fraudsters.'

Thank you very much. Again with apologies to our guests because after this quick comment I am going to make the sprint to the plane.

I hope this Congress can reach consensus on a reasonable package of national forestry forums to restore the health of forests and communities.

I want to assure you that our industry remains totally and completely committed to working with you and the rest of the Oregon delegation to find an effective compromise O and C solution before we see further economic declines in our rural…

I appreciate your efforts to protect private land access but there also must be more done on the BLM lands to address the risk insects, disease and catastrophic wildfire pose to private land.