Ron Wyden

Any agreement must include not only Trade Promotion Authority but other vital issues like Trade Adjustment Assistance and enforcement.

Competing in the global economy is a tough challenge, it is a national challenge, and that is why this package expands the Trade Adjustment Assistance program.

If you believe strongly in trade, as I do, and you want more of it, all of this excessive secrecy accomplishes nothing except making people more cynical and more skeptical about trade.

This is an issue of such importance that it is essential to provide that kind of time.

I want to be clear as we start this, that I think opponents have made a number of valid arguments.

I really urge colleagues to be here at 3.

Enforcement ought to be based on defending American jobs and promoting economic growth at home.

I do believe that we are close to finding common ground.

I have come to feel that opponents of trade deals make a number of very valid arguments.

The public has a right to know from this point on what is at stake in trade.

H.R. 2 moves the physician payment system from one that rewards volume to one that rewards value. I look forward to extending value-based policies across the entire spectrum of Medicare. I agree, it is important to reward all providers and…

I will be very brief. I think tonight is a milestone for the Medicare Program--a lifeline for millions of older people. That is because tonight the Senate is voting to retire the outdated, inefficiency-rewarding, commonsense-defying…

I rise in opposition to the Lee amendment. Colleagues, the Lee amendment is the bluntest possible instrument that would cut spending across government on every possible program. The SGR, the doctors reimbursement formula, has always been a…

I urge colleagues to oppose this amendment. What Senator Cornyn seeks to do is to strike an idea that originally came from the Heritage Foundation. If it is adopted, sick people will definitely sign up, healthy people will stay on the…

I want people to see, and I spend a significant amount of time at every town meeting walking through this, that the numbers do not work.

The Federal Government has got to do a better job in managing the forests.

I want to make it clear that I think our policy has got to be do both, and we have got to do both in a sustainable fashion.

Some people do not agree with that. How high would the harvest have to go nationally and in my state in order to no longer need a safety net?

More than 16 million Americans have gained health insurance coverage thanks to the Affordable Care Act.

There's never been a law in history that couldn't be improved-- including this one.

This nonstop campaign to undercut the law is bad news for Oregonians like Beth Stewart.

Unfortunately, it looks like it'll take a rear-guard action to keep from going back to the dark days when America's health care system worked only for the healthy and the wealthy.

My first choice for this morning's hearing would be to get past the well-worn talking points and begin the effort to find bipartisan ways to improve the Affordable Care Act.

Obamacare did cut hundreds of millions of dollars from the Medicare Advantage program.

I continue to believe there is an opportunity for some bipartisanship here and some reforms that can bring people together.