Ron Wyden

When Oregonians honored me with the opportunity to represent them in the Senate, I made a beeline for this committee.

I believe you are essentially the gold standard for how you go about trying to promote principled bipartisanship.

This is legislation that I believe can pass both houses of the Congress and actually be signed into law by the President.

It's going to be an honor, Senator Murkowski, to continue to sit next to you and Senator Landrieu as we deal with these important issues.

I'd like to congratulate Senator Wyden for his work and endless energy for striking a balance that provides a wealth of environment, community, AND economy.

A well-managed forest produces clean water.

Proposals that offer short-term promises of increased timber volumes but don't sustain those into the future do not meet the needs of our industry or the communities.

We can't change our geography. We live where we live.

We applaud you, Senator Wyden, for the initial efforts to streamline procedural requirements pertaining to the environmental impact statements.

It's time to move away from the extremes, from the swinging pendulum, to find and legislate a reasonable and balanced solution.

I want to make it clear I'm going to work in a bipartisan way with Senator Murkowski and all of our colleagues to quickly mark up this legislation and bring it to the Senate floor.

Make no mistake about it: In Oregon and much of the country, recreation is going to be a powerful economic engine for the future.

The approach substantially increases the timber going to our mills.

I think we did what we were sent here to do, which was try to make good policy in a polarizing time.

The middle class is getting smaller in America.

The Federal Reserve is not infallible. Our responsibility as legislators is to provide oversight.

While the stimulus mind-set in Washington has at least so far been better for the investor class and the political class, it has not been good for the working class.

Chairman Camp's plan does nothing to help tackle our long-term budget challenges and, in fact, depends on gimmicks just to stay deficit neutral over the next 10 years.

When you take a serious look at our debt and deficit in the coming decades, tax reform that does not help stabilize our debt is simply fiscally irresponsible.

Senators Ron Wyden and Maria Cantwell recently sent a letter to EIA requesting such an analysis.

Personally I believe deeply in expanded trade.

What would be wrong with 30 days?

When will you give the American people a unclassified answer to that question that relates directly to their privacy?

The Critical Minerals Policy Act, submitted by Senators Lisa Murkowski (R- AK), Ron Wyden (D- Ore), Mark Udall (D- Col.), Dean Heller (R- Nev.) and 13 others, if fully enacted, will prevent supply shortages of critical materials and reduce…

We commend your efforts to strengthen our nation's capacity to address the challenges associated with critical minerals.