Ron Wyden

I appreciate your interest in getting this done. I spoke on CHIP on the floor yesterday.

As chairman of the Pricing, Reimbursement, and Access Steering Committee for Lilly USA and as the relevant profit and loss business unit leader for the biomedicines business unit for the United States, I approved pricing recommendations…

You have always been a gentleman. Every member of this body feels that.

The President's first budget proposed cutting Medicaid by hundreds of billions of dollars through proposals like block grants.

Endangering the health of low-income Americans, in my view, is the absolute wrong way to go.

To me, risking the Medicaid guarantee so essential for long-term care for the eligible seniors--I want everybody to know that is a non-starter here.

Withholding information for more than 8 months and refusing to provide information to Congress about planned regulatory actions is an assault on Congress as a co-equal branch of government.

There was not one single hearing to discuss the specifics of the legislation before us today. The legislation before us today involves $10 trillion worth of changes in tax policy. Our colleagues on the other side trumpet this idea that…

Our country needs fresh strategies to reduce the cost. That is the point of this legislation.

I thank the Chair. I was concerned at the beginning because there are so many deserving schools in Oregon and Pennsylvania and elsewhere that don't get this special treatment, and obviously you have heard my colleagues express their…

So is this Hillsdale College--because that is what I have been led to believe--and I would like my colleague's analysis of whether they would benefit.

If my colleague would yield further, what is your analysis of how many colleges would benefit from this? The reason I ask is, in my view, there are a lot of deserving Oregon schools--and I seem to remember quite a few colleges in…

We are going to have several of our colleagues on our side, and we will start with Senator Sanders.

My colleague has a parliamentary inquiry, and then we will go to Senator Bennet.

I want to thank my colleague from Illinois for a very insightful analysis, and his skills as a handwriting expert may be necessary as the Senate Finance Committee tries to divine what that particular page actually means. I thank my…

What analysis would it be, for example, with respect to what the new bill--the bill we are actually going to vote on--means for middle-class families? We have millions of middle-class folks who are trying to sort out what this means for…

I think 30 minutes is what we have been talking about and that it is appropriate.

I am going to try to do some, but as far as I can tell, it sure looks like a lobbyist's wish list. There are going to be a lot of folks happy on K Street as they try to shop for the holidays because of the fees they have put together in…

This pile of papers, for all practical purposes, is what we have been waiting for for days.

My understanding is that you and Senator Casey in particular have been out here--and we are so glad to have our colleague from Connecticut--wondering when in the world we would actually get to see this legislation.

I think my colleague--my seatmate--is making a very important point. Of course, people always wonder, well, is this kind of a Democratic position or a Republican position? I want to make it clear that I believe that Tom Barthold, the head…

He is a very fine member of the Finance Committee. I don't remember any discussion in our committee about how this specific legislation affects children. My colleague is really the expert on the subject, and maybe he can tell me if he…

It is my intention, Mr. President, to come back every 30 minutes until we get an answer to the question. I just asked my colleague from South Carolina if there was a hearing on the sweeping changes that are being proposed in this bill, the…

Will my colleague yield for a question? Could my colleague tell me when the hearing was held on the health changes envisioned in this legislation?

And colleagues, the Senate is looking at making $10 trillion of changes in tax policy on the fly. This is the biggest change in Federal income tax policy in more than three decades. This is legislation that will determine our country's…