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Ron Wyden

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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.

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Feb 15, 2018

What we want is trade done right, and that means using all the tools and using them in a timely way.

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Feb 15, 2018

I want an American infrastructure bill. It means we are all in this together.

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Feb 15, 2018

We cannot allow China to steal our future.

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Feb 14, 2018

The Cancer Society knows something about what it means for patients to get clobbered by an extraordinary illness, and what they have said is, this opens up the door to charging those people more.

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Feb 14, 2018

Idaho's insurance bulletin would allow insurers to sell individual market plans that do not comply with federal law.

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Feb 14, 2018

It would be criminal for HHS to stand pat and let States continue the status quo.

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Feb 14, 2018

The Family First Act is all about finding safe ways to keep families together and healthy.

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Feb 14, 2018

The agenda of health care discrimination is out in force in this Trump budget.

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Feb 14, 2018

The Trump agenda of health care discrimination turns against older Americans.

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Feb 14, 2018

Millions of working Americans locked out of the program.

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Feb 14, 2018

When you get rid of the consumer protections in the Affordable Care Act, you're turning the clock back.

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Feb 14, 2018

The Trump administration seems dead-set on making the care they need unaffordable and inaccessible.

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Feb 14, 2018

The budget embraces the old Graham-Cassidy proposal.

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Feb 14, 2018

The Trump agenda of health care discrimination is back.

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Feb 14, 2018

That is not right; those people mean well, but they are not right.

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Feb 14, 2018

We know something about pre-existing conditions, and this does not protect people with pre-existing conditions.

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Feb 14, 2018

You cannot solve this problem if you let the manufacturers off the hook.

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Feb 14, 2018

So this idea that we are going to just sit in our offices back here and wait for somebody to tell us, oh, we are going to discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions, that will not cut it with me.

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Feb 14, 2018

I have been very interested in waivers--a lot of Senators have--but this is not a waiver.

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Feb 14, 2018

This has very, very substantial implications.

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Feb 14, 2018

This is going to be a question of whether the Department is going to say Federal law... controls.

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Feb 14, 2018

But there is a Federal law, something I fought very hard for.

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Feb 14, 2018

We are going to greenlight policies that are appropriately called junk because they are not worth the paper they are written on.

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Feb 14, 2018

We wrote a bipartisan law--Senator Dole, for example, was very helpful in it--which drained the swamp, an appropriate phrase for the time.

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Feb 14, 2018

In a lot of ways, junk insurance just turns back the clock.

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