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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.
More important, what I think highlights the lack of balance, and I use that word specifically, because there are takings, what highlights the lack of balance is, our friend, the gentleman from Florida, said that the homeowner, instead of…
I make my point. You are talking about property owners that want to develop. There are property owners in America, folks, 65 million of them who just want to live in their homes. They are senior citizens, they are low-income people. They…
there are instances, of course, where the impacts of pollution are dispersed over a large area that are not covered under local ordinances. There are instances of pollution being dispersed across State lines.
what troubles me is this legislation creates a Federal express line where the developer and commercial interests can come in and have their claims addressed, but when it is the typical homeowner, under this bill we say ``Sorry, Charlie…
I want to come back to the fact that this legislation tries to ensure that pro-development interests get a fair shake. But now we also have to make sure that typical homeowners who are not development interests get a fair shake as well. I…
most of our citizens look at the title of this legislation. It has a sweeping name, the Private Property Protection Act. When you look at the sweeping title of this bill, one assumes that all American property owners are protected. In…
Under this legislation as it is written now, if the developer hurts a huge number of private property owners downstream, that developer can still get compensation.
All we are saying is over the next 3 years let us give an incentive to States. It is not a matter of changing the Federal criminal code. No criminal law at the Federal level will be changed, but because there are such serious problems with…
the view of the gentleman from Florida and myself is that the juvenile justice system does not work. We see these young people committing offense after offense after offense, and there are absolutely no consequences. What we are seeking to…
Mr. Speaker and colleagues, I am a Member of the House who has felt that the calculation of the Consumer Price Index for our country should be a concern that was outside politics, one that was going to be nonpartisan. Making sure that the…
it seems to me that it is very revealing that when my Republican friends feel strongly about the budget, they enshrine their views in the Constitution. But when it comes to protecting senior citizens, for the last half hour we have heard…
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