Ron Wyden

When the Finance Committee passed the EXPIRE Act last week, practically every Senator here on the dais agreed it is time to end stop-and-go policies and give Americans more certainty about their taxes.

I strongly believe that comprehensive tax reform must simplify the tax code and make filing easier.

The most vulnerable people in America are going to bear the brunt of the effects of this decision.

Most of those paid tax return preparers do not have to meet any standards--any standards--for competence.

The tax code is so byzantine and so complicated, and so overgrown.

It is time to rewrite the tax code and make filing your taxes easier in America.

I am something of a privacy hawk around here.

Senator Rubio, Senator Warner, and I have introduced a piece of legislation called 'The Student Right to Know Before You Go Act.'

It is important for us, I think, to stand up against that in order to have this run more fairly.

I think we understand that our students are just getting smothered with these costs and these bills.

Every time we try to address those, it is the very same people who like to give these ardent statements on the debt, then defend all of those loopholes.

We have got to help the students who are underwater.

This is taking an enormous toll, in effect putting students and young people in shackles.

Your bipartisan efforts to make higher education more transparent and to actually produce real value for people is extremely important.

President Reagan said it was the best pro-family, anti-poverty thing the Federal Government can do.

President Obama has proposed for the last 2 years to encourage community colleges to collaborate with local employers to train workers.

Senator Wyden and Senator Hatch, you have both been my heroes, because you have spent so much of your careers trying to work on a bipartisan basis.

The President has proposed and Marco Rubio has talked about this as bipartisan support for the idea of increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit for people without children.

The market is not really rewarding work for people at the middle of the distribution the way it used to.

The middle class deserves better.

If working families fall further behind now, fewer will be able to climb America's ladder of economic mobility.

The real median earnings... have stayed virtually flat over the last 35 years.

The middle class is under siege.

Russia's actions are unacceptable and that there have to be consequences, but there also has to be a path for Russia to take to step back.

I am writing to express our strong support for S. 1771, Crooked River Collaborative Water Security Act