Ron Wyden

My focus is going to be on finding new opportunities to sell red, white, and blue American goods overseas; helping our businesses create high-skill, high-wage jobs; and growing paychecks for middle-class families.

There has never been a greater need for the U.S. to back its workers and businesses by strongly enforcing our trade laws and agreements.

Those voices have to be heard, and those who favor a trade agenda that takes on the challenges of a hyper-competitive global economy have a responsibility to make the case that it is going to work for the middle class.

For Oregon's middle class, moving the recovery from a walk to a run comes down to the five T's.

Nobody this weekend said the answer was just safety net programs.

You cannot have big-league economic growth with little league infrastructure.

We think that is the kind of thing that can help raise paychecks.

I am not going to accept turning those rural communities into sacrifice zones where we just write them off.

How is this going to grow that paycheck?

Labor markets and a healthy economy are of paramount importance to the health, happiness and well-being of all Americans.

I think certainly tax reform is part of it.

My own view is that that kind of approach is a particularly poor fit for an economy where two-thirds of the economic activity is driven by consumer spending.

How will this grow the paycheck?

What is needed for sustained economic growth is more people buying homes and cars and other goods and services that make life better for them and their families.

I share a lot of your concerns as well, and I look forward to working with you.

I think the childless EITC, the Earned Income Tax Credit, is a great way of ensuring that those who work get the rewards that they deserve.

How will this grow the American worker's paycheck?

When working families see bigger paychecks, America's economic recovery is going to go from a walk to a run.

I am determined to find a way to improve the care for chronically ill individuals, particularly Medicare beneficiaries.

This objection is very unfortunate. The Oregon congressional delegation has teamed up in a bipartisan way to provide, among other things, trust land for the two remaining Native American tribes in our State that have no land base. These…

I want the body to know the Senator from Alaska has written some of the really thoughtful provisions with respect to education tax credits, and I commend him for that.

My friend Senator Thune and I are on the floor this afternoon to speak together about the Internet Tax Freedom Act. Before that, I wish to spend a few minutes discussing Senator Rockefeller and his extraordinary accomplishments. I know…

I support the amendment from the Senators from Colorado and North Carolina and I especially want to thank Senator Bennet for his leadership on this issue. I was proud to help them by including it in the highway legislation mentioned by the…

I am here to talk about the Intelligence Committee report, but before the Senator leaves the floor, I just want to tell my colleague from Nebraska how much I appreciate his service. I note for the body that in the effort to build a…

I am proud to pick up, as a result, where my colleague Senator Harkin left off and introduce his legislation.