Ron Wyden

What is striking about it is, normally in this room we are talking about numbers and we are talking about tax law and charts and graphs.

You have delivered the wake-up call. You have conveyed the urgency of reform this morning.

The American people, in his words, have a right to expect straight answers from the intelligence leadership and doesn't think they're getting them now.

I wish to announce for the information of the Senate and the public that a business meeting has been scheduled before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. The business meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at…

I hope that you will join me in supporting more of those kinds of programs.

I think it's very encouraging the way people work together without regard to agency.

Water, as Chairman Wyden takes a drink, it's critical to our lives.

Those funds have been used to support every single county across the United States.

I strongly support the President's commitment.

What I would like you to tell us is, if confirmed, will you use all the tools that you have to stand up for America's agricultural exports so that they do not face discriminatory treatment in these foreign markets?

I believe strongly that the country needs a vigorous, proactive approach to identifying and remedying unfair trade practices.

Let us plan to talk about it some more. I would like that to be online so the American people can be a fuller partner in this debate.

I would like to announce for the information of the Senate and the public that a hearing scheduled before the Subcommittee on Water and Power of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources has been postponed. This hearing was scheduled…

Dear Chairman Wyden and Ranking Member Murkowski:

The Federal agencies responsible for protecting Western communities from these fires must use the smartest, most cost-effective firefighting strategies possible.

As Senator Wyden mentioned, even in the coast range, the moist part of Oregon, we've had active fires in May.

We are concerned that some of the other functions, particularly in terms of their trade-related obligations where they can really play a key role in facilitating commerce, we are concerned that that is really getting short shrift.

I think for our panel members, what you are getting is a sense of how importantly this committee regards international trade.

The trade jobs pay better than do the non-trade jobs.

While he is here, I just want to tell Senator Thune how much I have enjoyed working with him on the ENFORCE legislation.

That sounds too logical for Washington.

Thank you for very timely leadership. I think this is a particular important time for us to look back.

I hope that all of you as companies and advocates will also start to factor in that these drugs affect people differently.

I think you have to start with the proposition that at that time the level of desperation among seniors for some measure of assistance with their medicine was just extraordinary.

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