Ron Wyden

$100 billion is not impressing financial markets.

I admit that I think the structural issue ought to be tax reform.

Is there any reason why the principles of tax reform that were pursued in 1986 would not be once again an engine for job growth?

What I wanted as part of the end-of-the-year agreement was a 1-year extension of the Bush tax cuts so that you would force Congress to step up this year.

I think that would have enormous benefits for the economy in a number of respects.

At a little after 8:00, there were more than 30 United States Senators there interested in actually getting into the details.

I am very interested in seeing the corporate rate cut considerably and have proposed cutting it from 35 to 24.

If we have, Mr. Chairman and colleagues, the same debate in the lame duck session of 2012, where we are once again talking about extending the tax law today for two more years, Dr. Elmendorf has told us that will be damaging for the…

Which would mean that the fiscal picture you have painted today would not be quite the bleak one that you have offered.

In the middle 1980s, Democrats and Ronald Reagan got together. They got together on taxes, cut taxes, kept progressivity, and grew the economy.

I have voted for every market-opening agreement since I have been in public life.

I clearly come to these trade issues looking for ways to open markets.

We ought to make it more attractive to repatriate that money through tax law and incent private sector job growth.

I think the American people have a sense right now-- don't you, Mr. Chairman?--that they want us to do something now.

Would not having a one-page 1040 Form... be a public good in terms of simplicity?

Today, it is very clear that people loathe the Internal Revenue System.

There is today such a connection between the individual portions of the code and the corporate portions of the code.

When you are talking about long-term economic growth, you want a different tax model than what the Congress passed in December

The big idea for economic growth in our country is fundamental tax reform, where you go in there and clean out this job-killing, thoroughly discredited mess

One of Manchin's colleagues in the Senate who did show up to vote was Oregon Senator Ron Wyden.

I was still able to make it to Saturday's session.

Senators, let me thank all of you for your many kindnesses over the last 48 hours. When news about your prostate is ricocheting around the blogosphere, all the calls, notes, and even offers to object on my behalf have meant a lot. I only…

I thank the Senator from Oklahoma for his constructive work in helping to craft an agreement to pass S. 2925. As he notes, sex trafficking is modern day slavery. It is a morally reprehensible epidemic that ensnares far too many children…

I think we have a choice. We can continue to have this debate at the margins about how to extend a thoroughly discredited, insanely complicated, job-killing system that we have today or we can find a way, as Democrats and President Reagan…

I would also like to thank Senators McCain and Kyl for sponsoring this legislation and for their continued commitment to responsible recreational shooting in Arizona.