Ron Wyden

This is about good policy, helping people, and giving everybody in America the chance to get ahead.

I want to just give a shout-out to the tragic loss this week of Mike Enzi, a member of this committee.

The Encouraging Americans to Save Act, which was introduced by you, Chairman Wyden, would be a significant boost to OregonSaves.

Before there was much knowledge of COVID-19, it was already far too difficult for Americans to save for a dignified retirement.

I think what we are all trying to do is at the entry level.

ARA also supports Chairman Wyden's Encouraging Americans to Save Act, which is also a key provision in Senator Cardin's and Senator Portman's bipartisan Retirement Security and Savings Act.

Senator Cardin came in, and he has been working in these savings precincts for decades.

Now more recently, Americans were reminded about long-running retirement rip-offs by ultra-wealthy individuals advised by the priciest accountants and lawyers.

The pandemic economic crash made saving even harder.

Our tax code ought to help young people get started saving earlier in their careers.

I expect the Inspector General to be aggressive and unrelenting. Get the records, the emails and the memos. Run the transcribed interviews and question everyone up the leadership chain. Leave no stone unturned and make as much public as…

Mexico made commitments to improve the rights and conditions for its workers, but it's moving too slowly on the implementation of key reforms to its labor laws.

The Biden administration will have to work to make sure our dairy farmers have the access they were promised.

It's sound advice, and I hope we'll remember Mike's 80-percent rule as we work together on this committee and in the Senate for the American people.

Canada is joining a list of countries that are unfairly targeting and discriminating against innovative American employers with digital services taxes.

Now it's up to the Biden administration to clean up the messes the Trump administration left behind.

In Oregon, we talk about getting trade done right as a way to protect our workers and create high-wage, high-skill jobs.

USMCA became the strongest trade agreement ever for worker rights, for environmental protections, and for enforcement overall.

One of the biggest reasons why the original NAFTA hurt American workers and did little to protect our environment was that its enforcement system was ineffective, and it pushed labor and environmental protection off into unenforceable side…

ILAB should spend at least $30 million annually of USMCA Appropriated Funds on worker organizing and union capacity building in Mexico.

We see China as a very significant abuser of fisheries all around the world.

You have to hold them to their commitments.

It is just not fair.

I think the focus of this committee on the oceans provisions of the USMCA is very helpful.

One of the achievements of USMCA was to bring NAFTA into the 21st century.