Ron Wyden

What junk insurance is all about is making sure that insurance companies can charge more for people with pre-existing conditions and include arbitrary caps on the amount of care.

Let us try to make more of it look like what has happened out of this committee in the last couple of weeks.

I share Chairman Hatch's view about the opioid epidemic.

The American people were promised a muscular approach.

The Trump prescription drug plan lets pharmaceutical companies keep on--to borrow a phrase--getting away with murder.

The President famously talked about how drug companies were, quote, 'getting away with murder.'

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

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

The CHRONIC Care bill is about updating the Medicare guarantee and modernizing the program to deal with where most of the money is going to be spent: on cancer and diabetes and heart disease and strokes.

It is time to get over it. It is time to act. And we have learned in the last 24 hours enough is enough.

When is enough? And we watch these young people from the high schools, and I heard one in effect say, you know, we are kids, we cannot fix this. You adults get over it and deal with it.

The IRS said it would need nearly $400 million to implement the new law, but the Trump budget held the agency's funding flat.

Less than 2 months ago, Republicans passed legislation making $10 trillion in tax changes virtually on the fly--the biggest tax overhaul in 3 decades, requiring a web of complicated rule changes.

I do not want to hear about problems along the lines of what we saw in that private-sector area, because I was very concerned about the delegation when you were in the private sector.

The buck still stops, you know, with you.

The way tax laws are interpreted by the IRS can affect public confidence.

Were you party to any decisions intended to disfavor one political constituency over another or disfavor particular States based on the political constituency of those States?

I have had concern about your dual roles as Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy and Acting Commissioner of the IRS. It seems to me there is essentially an inherent conflict of interest.

Do you agree that it is important that we try to enforce that law and to do the investigative work internally to determine whether or not Russian or other foreign nationals are putting money into our elections?

Multinational corporations enjoy certainty with respect to their 14-percent rate slash, and for small businesses it is, well, we are very interested in it and we hope to do it soon--another clear example of the double standard established…

I think this area and the Secretary's statement is fraught with opportunities for political mischief.

Do you believe it is appropriate for the Treasury Secretary to target taxpayers in the manner this suggests?

The public is just going to be in the dark.

Given the energy and focus this committee has placed on the issue of political influence at the IRS in the recent past, it would certainly be hypocritical not to take it seriously now.

In my view, both sides would agree that the IRS ought to be politics-free when it comes to administering the law.