Ron Wyden

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 5:43 p.m., adjourned until Wednesday, June 16, 2021, at 10:30…

This is a fairness-based approach to revenue that the American people support, and I'm looking forward to working with Secretary Yellen on these issues in the weeks and months ahead.

These payments have the potential to cut child poverty in half if everybody does their part to reach vulnerable families.

To fund that agenda, the Congress must ensure that corporations and the wealthy--not just people who work for a living--have skin in the game.

What's most damaging to people's trust in the tax system, in my view, is its rotten, cynical unfairness to Americans who work for a living.

This committee takes the confidentiality of taxpayer data very seriously.

I want to continue working with the Treasury Department and Senator Crapo to get the job done.

I will offer just a few specifics before I close. Senator Brown, Senator Warner, and I recently debuted a plan that would eliminate the Trump-era deduction for shipping manufacturing jobs overseas and make sure that multinationals pay…

The information in the ProPublica report depicts a tax system in which the wealthiest people in the Nation pay rock-bottom tax rates, sometimes zero.

I'll have a proposal dealing with a core unfairness of the tax code, the special rules that allow the wealthiest individuals to pay little or nothing at all.

I want to commend you for that. They are a shared goal of ensuring mega-corporations pay their fair share of taxes to fund the investments.

To fund that agenda, the Congress has to make sure that mega-corporations and the wealthy, not just workers, have skin in the game.

The President, and Democrats in Congress, have a big agenda designed to create jobs, make it easier to raise a family, and help all Americans get ahead.

The pandemic has added urgency to these challenges.

The system still reflects the dangerous, old stigma against recognizing and treating mental illness.

The COVID-19 pandemic has not simply created a new mental health crisis, but rather exacerbated a longstanding crisis.

We are concerned that the new six-month in-person service requirement will inequitably limit access to services.

We hope members of this Committee will also consider long-term measures to address the inequities in reimbursement.

Senator Stabenow has long been a champion of mental health care.

There simply are not enough providers, whether it's psychiatrists or therapists or staff in inpatient facilities.

We think that this is an issue where the committee can come together and do better.

Before COVID-19, mental health conditions were widespread in the United States, and there was significant unmet need.

We urge the Committee to advance similarly innovative approaches to this crisis.

Insurance companies must not cut corners when it comes to mental health coverage.

When you hear about a 69-percent increase in substance abuse, you say, 'This is something that cannot wait.'