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Ron Wyden is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Oregon, a position he has held since 1996. A member of the Democratic Party, Wyden has been a prominent advocate for civil liberties, healthcare reform, and technology policy. Throughout his tenure, he has focused on issues such as privacy rights, government surveillance, and access to healthcare, often emphasizing the importance of transparency and accountability in government actions.
I thank my colleague, and I will just wrap up by way of saying that it seems to me that what has been learned here is that while the investigation goes on, there may have been a terrorist attack, there may have been a hate-inspired attack…
I thank my colleague, Senator Murphy. I thank him, Senator Booker, and Senator Blumenthal for what they have done today. Here is the bottom line for me, Senator Murphy and colleagues. Mass shootings are now happening like clockwork in…
With the volume of shipments coming in, it is important that ICE and CBP make sure targeting methodologies keep up with technology and the resulting changing patterns in trade.
I am very glad you are here. This is a particularly important hearing, because it really reflects what this committee is all about and how the challenge has changed over the years.
Not only do these counterfeits pose a threat to our businesses, but many also threaten the health and safety of the American consumer.
We finance roads, we finance ports, we finance the way farmers get their cattle to market.
That's why buyer reviews of sellers on platforms like Amazon and eBay--and liability laws that enable those reviews--are so valuable to those seeking authentic merchandise.
The Internet is the shipping lane of the 21st century, and every business in this country, in one way or another, is digital.
I really describe it, the Internet, as the shipping lane of the 21st century, and every business one way or another is digital.
The challenge of rooting out counterfeits is a lot more difficult than it once was, and it poses a direct threat to family-wage jobs in our country and our businesses.
These are really important issues, and I hope that we can continue working together to find bipartisan solutions.
Digital technology is a booster shot in the arm for exports at a time when 95 percent of the world's customers live outside the borders of the United States.
The bottom line is that the Internet is the shipping lane of the 21st century, and every business in this country, in one way or another, is digital.
I appreciated the effort that you and I were able to work together on, Mr. Chairman, to deal with these foreign websites, because I think that is a serious problem.
What we ought to be doing is substituting a very different approach, a tech-neutral approach that cuts the costs of these energy subsidies in half.
I appreciate your bringing it up, because getting away from picking winners and losers is the prerequisite to having a technology-neutral policy.
I think it is time to take the energy provisions in the tax code and throw them in the trash can.
What I have proposed--and more than 30 United States Senators are now on board on this--I have said, enough already, let us just throw the tax provisions, the energy tax provisions, in the trash can--there are more than 44 of them--and…
We applaud the Senate Finance Committee's approval last year of bipartisan legislation (S. 913) that clarifies that WHP is a qualifying technology.
the urgent need to extend the clean-energy tax incentives that expire at the end of this year
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