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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Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.
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The KXL pipeline would make it easy and cost effective for oil producers in Canada to transport oil to the Gulf of Mexico where it could be shipped to customers - not just in the United States - but around the world.
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Right now, there are a limited number of customers for Canadian oil. Due to simple geography - and without the pipeline - it's really only cost effective for Canadian oil producers to sell their oil to North American customers, mostly American Midwesterners.
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Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.
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It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.
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It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.
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Today's modest action starts the long march to start to reform the tax breaks as they relate to the oil industry, and limits these incentives to the smaller oil companies that actually need the help the most,
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We're not mandating fluffier pillows or creating a legal right to a bigger bag of peanuts, ... What we're troubled by is that unlike other retail establishments, the airline industry basically keeps you in the dark. Our bill is basically about getting good information and empowering the consumer.
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until we get all the facts on the table.
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This proposal breaks faith with rural folks all across the West and will make it harder to find bipartisan legislative solutions in the future,
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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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We cannot abandon them, and this legislation finds a fiscally responsible way of extending this successful law.
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The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system.