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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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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For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service.
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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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If he's accurately quoted, I must say, it's outrageous, ... You all have indicated to us that you do not target children.
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I asked whether it was constitutional for Congress to intervene in an end-of-life case with a specific remedy,
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I intend ? to fight with all of my strength to keep the companies from exporting problems that we have here overseas,
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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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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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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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Merging the ability to conduct surveillance that reveals every aspect of a person's life with the ability to conjure up the legal authority to execute that surveillance, and finally, removing any accountable judicial oversight, creates the opportunity for unprecedented influence over our system of government.
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If we are going to have a health care program that works for all Americans, we are going to have to get beyond the blame game.
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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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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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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.