Ron Wyden
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 20: U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), left, talks with U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) as they head to a weekly policy meeting at the Capitol on March 20, 2012 in Washington, DC. The stage is being set for a fresh budget battle after the House GOP's plan was announced today amid calls from Democrats that their plan is already in place in the form of last year's Budget Control Act.
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is a steady diet of benefit reductions for senior citizens and cost shifting. And that will all take place until the Medicare guarantee is threatened. And I'm just not going to sit by and let that happen
I don't see it as an ideological issue
There’s no doubt that students are fearful in a way that I’ve never seen beforeMore quotes »
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Sen. Wyden Prods Forest Service To Update Air Tanker Fleet
Senator Ron Wyden is calling on the Forest Service to speed up efforts to modernize its fleet of air tankers used to fight wildfires. Wyden chairs the Senate’s subcommittee on public lands. He made his remarks in Madras Thursday during a visit to Butler Aircraft. from Oregon Public Broadcasting Read more »
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Want To Fix Medicine? Fix The Doctors First
at CPAC in Washington D.C. on February 10, 2011. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It is interesting to see Democratic Senator Ron Wyden (OR) and Republican Congressman Paul Ryan (WI) collaborating on an approach to control future Medicare spending. Approaches that from Forbes Read more »
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Senator Ron Wyden engages students in discussion of student debt
Senator Ron Wyden and Interim University President Robert Berdahl hosted a discussion about student debt and financial aid Wednesday morning. The discussion, which took place in the Knight Library, not only featured a panel of 15 University students but also from Oregon Daily Emerald Read more »
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Watching Big Brother: Privacy Board Delayed
online. The government does have a tool that could calm fears about this kind of legislation — it just doesn't use it. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., took to the Senate floor last week to denounce CISPA — the "Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act," which from WNYC | New York Public Radio Read more »
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Barack Obama: Says under Mitt Romney, "Medicare could end as we know it, leaving Julia with nothing but a voucher to buy insurance, which means $6,350 extra per year for a similar plan."
support.") Ryan’s new plan was based on yet another plan released in December 2011 in collaboration with Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon — which is the one we’ll focus on here. Why? Because Romney’s plan says that bipartisan plan "almost precisely mirrors" from Politifact.com Read more »
