The United States Senator Ronald Lee Wyden is an American educator and politician. He has been serving as a senior U.S. Senator from Oregon under the Democrats since 1996. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 to 1996. He is also the dean of Oregon’s congressional delegation.
Representative of the Democratic Party, Wyden was born in Wichita, Kansas on May 3, 1949. He was born to a Jewish parent that fled Nazi Germany. Yet, Wyden grew up in California. There, he attended the Palo Alto High School, where he was a basketball player.
He later enrolled at the University of California on a basketball scholarship. But, he transferred to Stanford University. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Arts at Stanford in 1971. He furthered and earned a J.D. at the University of Oregon School of Law in 1974.
After his J.D., Wyden co-founded the Oregon Gray Panthers in 1974. There, he worked as an advocate for the elderly. He also taught Gerontology at Oregon University. Three years later, he worked as a director of the Oregon Legal Services for the Elderly till 1979. He also served on the Oregon Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators.
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Ron Wyden Quotes on Politics/Power/Constitution/Law
Congress should consult experts and consider alternatives and make 100% sure that any step it takes to police the Internet doesn’t change the Internet as we know it.
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The U.S. Senate does not allow legislative provisions to be included in appropriations bills, for much the same reason that most Americans are concerned about earmarks: it creates a slippery slope by which lobbyists and special interest groups can sneak provisions into large, must-pass legislation.
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I voted for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, not because I thought it was the best we could do, but because I thought it was a whole lot better than the current system.
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There is an old saying that all roads lead to Rome. It seems the administration so often clearly believes that no matter what the evidence was at any particular time, essentially everything led to Saddam Hussein.
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Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America’s broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.
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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 of the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.
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It is unclear exactly how many law enforcement agencies are currently using this capability, but it is reasonable to say that while resource limitations used to discourage the government from tracking you without a good reason, these constraints have largely disappeared.
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Ron Wyden Quotes on Health/Americans/Canadians
Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin.
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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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For the amount of money that the country is going to spend this year on health care, you can go out and hire a doctor for every seven families in the US and pay the doctor almost $230,000 a year to cover them.
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I believe the most important aspect of Medicare is not the structure of the program but the guarantee to all Americans that they will have high quality health care as they get older.
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I think if progressives stay at this, continue at the grassroots level to make the case that all Americans should have choice, all Americans ought to be able to hold insurance companies accountable, I think we will have 60 votes in the United States Senate for a strong bill.
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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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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 healthcare system.
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If you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep it, but if you don’t like the health insurance you have, you should be able to choose something else.
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Under the Healthy Americans Act, you’re in charge of your health care – not your employer. If you lose your job, change jobs or just can’t find a job, your health insurance is guaranteed to stick with you.
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With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.
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While Free Choice Vouchers didn’t fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family’s health insurance costs.
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I believe that whether you love your job or hate your job, get laid off or are just in-between jobs, you deserve health care that can never be taken away.
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In today’s world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.
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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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Ron Wyden Quotes on Economy/China/Obama
If China is helping its domestic industries charge an artificially low price for solar panels and other environmental goods, then China is violating international trade rules that it agreed to when it became a member of the World Trade Organization.
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President Obama was right to make enforcement of those trade rules a priority and his creation, today, of a Trade Enforcement Unit is a massive step in the right direction.
President Obama said it best during his State of the Union Address this year when he declared: ‘I will go anywhere in the world to open new markets for American products. And I will not stand by when our competitors don’t play by the rules.’
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Ron Wyden Quotes on Congress/Koreans/Republicans
Congress should consult experts and consider alternatives and make 100% sure that any step it takes to police the Internet doesn’t change the Internet as we know it.
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Because of the Korean free trade agreement, South Koreans who want Oregon blueberries are gonna see their prices go down because we will be getting rid of a 45 percent tariff on this Oregon product.
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It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryan’s plan to inject market forces into the American healthcare system, they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law.
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Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American’s rights into consideration.
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As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.
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Other Ron Wyden Quotes
For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service.
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Men and women who have served in harm’s way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don’t.
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It took a little over a decade to build a coalition strong enough to beat the insurance companies, but in 1990, then Senator Tom Daschle and I passed a law regulating the private market for supplemental Medicare insurance policies.
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The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.
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The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it’s grotesque.
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My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have said over the years, you don’t go with a story unless you have two independent sources to confirm it.
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Let’s hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line.
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I think I’ve got the best job around.
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I don’t care who you love. If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn’t have to hide who you are.
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This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.
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When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.
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