Ron Wyden
Ron Wyden
Ronald Lee "Ron" Wydenis the senior United States Senator for Oregon, serving since 1996, and a member of the Democratic Party. He previously served in the United States House of Representatives from 1981 to 1996...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth3 May 1949
CountryUnited States of America
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We're looking for the right vehicle to get this important provision into law and get some cost containment into the Medicare benefit.
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There is no assurance that even one drop of Alaskan oil will get to hurting Americans,
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I believe very strongly that no jurisdiction in this country has shown that they have been hurt by their inability to impose discriminatory taxes against the Internet, ... State and local governments have a right to be concerned about where their revenue is coming from, but they should not be able to view the Internet as a cyber cash cow and treat it differently from other forms of commerce.
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This voluntary program consists mostly of stuff they're already required to do,
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We have a bit more direction today than before, but . . . there is still a long way to go.
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We want to give the department real teeth to protect the public. This would give the federal government meaningful authority.
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the government isn't in the consumer protection business anymore.
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Everybody comes to a hearing, and they could be giving the same position paper from 10 years ago. All they need to do is change the dates, ... If you look at the tapestry of environmental legislation today . . . both sides have the capacity to block each other.
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Every single day, the flood of pornographic and sleazy spam grows.
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Now, the supposed justifications for restart have completely evaporated and the funds that are being wasted will go where they have long belonged: into cleaning up the environment that adjoins our lifeblood, the Columbia River, ... After years of indecision, the people of the Pacific Northwest deserve to have the money used to clean up the contamination at Hanford rather than on some wild good chase.
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now strikes a much fairer balance by protecting critical rights for our country's citizens and advancing intelligence operations to meet our security needs.
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My intention to vote for Judge Roberts tomorrow should in no way be construed as a weather vane for how I might vote on the next nominee, ... In the past I have not hesitated to vote against several of the president's nominees to the Courts of Appeal when they carried the ideological and activist baggage that I believe would be disruptive to our society.
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Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply - the lower the price. The higher the demand - the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil.
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She will face some very significant questioning, I believe, in the hearings, but she certainly deserves the benefit of the doubt.