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Ron Wyden
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 3
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I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it. But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.
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Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.
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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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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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The ethics laws do not let us tap out the truth in Morse code.
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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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How can it be, in a country as strong and rich as this one, that tens of thousands of Americans who need legal representation are turned away every year because their government won't support the very program designed to help them?
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The Bush administration did stop filling the reserve in 2002 when it helped the oil industry. Now they should do it to help the consumer.
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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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When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the systems most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results.
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It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.
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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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More customers for Canadian oil means that Canadian producers can charge more for their oil, which then means that American businesses and consumers will pay more for oil.
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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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Right at the heart of the Affordable Care Act is the ban on insurance companies discriminating against people with a pre-existing condition. And this part of the Affordable Care Act makes sure that health care is not just for the healthy and wealthy.
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Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation.
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In order to do vigorous oversight, the leadership of the intelligence community has got to be straight with the American people and straight with the Congress. For there to be vigorous oversight, the intelligence community's got to be straight with the American people and the Congress and that has not been the case.
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Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin.
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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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For those who believe executive branch officials will voluntarily interpret their surveillance authorities with restraint, I believe it is more likely that I will achieve my life-long dream of playing in the NBA.
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