Wyden Applauds Spending Bill For Keeping Commitment on Miners’ Health Benefits, USTR Waiver
Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today praised the inclusion of a permanent extension of health benefits for coal miners, as well as a waiver to allow Robert Lighthizer to legally serve as U.S. Trade Representative, in the federal spending bill released today. Wyden secured a commitment from Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch to […]
Wyden Urges Review of Ivanka Trump’s Trade Relations, Financial Conflicts of Interest
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., urged U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) Director Walter Shaub to review potential conflicts of interest arising from White House advisor Ivanka Trump’s interactions with the Chinese government, including the recent approval of three Ivanka Trump brand Chinese trademarks. In a letter to Director Shaub, Senator Wyden […]
Wyden, Brown, Senate Democrats Introduce Bill to Stop Government from Taking Away Social Security Benefits to Pay Off Student Loans
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senator Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, the Ranking Member of the Finance Committee Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy Subcommittee, along with eleven Senate Democrats, today introduced a bill to protect Americans who receive Social Security from having their benefits garnished to pay outstanding federal debts, […]
Wyden Statement on Latest GOP Health Care Proposal
Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement following the release of a new amendment to the House Republican health care bill: “Republicans’ latest attempt to pass Trumpcare reveals what they believe in: waivers to discriminate against those with pre-existing conditions, roll back essential health benefits, and put insurance companies back […]
Wyden Statement on Unprincipled Trump Tax Plan
Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement after the Trump Administration unveiled their unprincipled tax plan: “This is an unprincipled tax plan that will result in cuts for the one percent, conflicts for the President, crippling debt for America and crumbs for the working people. Instead of providing a real […]
Wyden Statement at Markup of Robert E. Lighthizer to be U.S. Trade Representative
Today the committee votes on the nomination of Robert Lighthizer to be the next U.S. Trade Representative. The global economy is increasingly competitive, and not all the competition is willing to play by the rules. Unfortunately, our workers and communities have had to fight off trade ripoffs and sometimes out-and-out cheating. As the Commerce Department […]
Wyden Welcomes New Tariffs on Unfairly Traded Canadian Softwood Lumber, Calls for Continued Tough Enforcement of U.S. Trade Laws
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement in response to the preliminary results of the Commerce Department investigation, launched in 2016, of Canadian dumping and subsidization of softwood lumber. “Unfairly traded softwood lumber from Canada has for decades hurt mill towns and American millworkers in Oregon and […]
Wyden statement on Trump administration’s health care hostage-taking
Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement in reaction to the president threatening to withhold cost sharing reduction payments that help to hold down out-of-pocket health care costs for low-income Americans: “We will not negotiate with hostage takers. There is no outcome in which the administration sabotaging insurance markets […]
Wyden Expands Request to HHS to Ensure Verma Complies with Ethics Agreements
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Acting General Counsel Jeffrey Davis requesting information about how the agency will ensure CMS Administrator Seema Verma is in compliance with her ethics agreements not to directly work on matters involving major Medicaid […]
Wyden Statement at Finance Committee Hearing on the 2017 Tax Filing Season
Now that Americans are getting into crunch time with tax filing season, I want to begin today’s hearing by discussing what usually happens when early April rolls around each year. Around this time of year, presidents usually release their tax returns to the public. It’s been a tradition for decades, but apparently that’s not going […]