Wyden Hails Permanent Internet Tax Freedom For Working Families
WASHINGTON – Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., in a Medium post, hailed the inclusion of the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act in the trade enforcement package passed by the Senate today. The new law will permanently prohibit taxes on Internet access and multiple and discriminatory taxes on digital goods and services. Wyden co-authored the original Internet […]
Wyden Statement at Finance Committee Hearing to Examine the President’s Budget with HHS Secretary Burwell
Thank you, Secretary Burwell, for appearing before the Finance Committee to outline President Obama’s budget proposal for Health and Human Services one final time. Today I’d like us to begin to talk about how Congress and the administration can build on the Affordable Care Act. And I use that term because the list of the […]
Wyden Calls on Senate to Pass Toughest Trade Enforcement Package in Decades
Trade Enforcement Act Slated for a Thursday Vote Click here to watch Wyden’s floor speech WASHINGTON – Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, urged colleagues to pass a sweeping package of trade enforcement measures, in a Senate floor speech today. “The bottom line is that past trade policies were too […]
Wyden Statement on Finance Committee Hearing to Examine IRS Budget with Commissioner John Koskinen
Thank you, Chairman Hatch, for scheduling this hearing. And thank you, Commissioner Koskinen, for joining the Finance Committee this afternoon during a very busy time of year for the IRS. With tax season underway and President Obama’s final budget proposal at hand, there are a few specific issues relating to the IRS that I’d like […]
Wyden Statement at Finance Committee Hearing to Examine the President’s Budget with Treasury Secretary Jack Lew
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, Secretary Lew, for appearing before the Finance Committee to outline President Obama’s budget proposal one final time. Here’s where I’d like to begin today. There are, in America right now, two different tax systems. The one most people deal with is mandatory – their taxes come directly out […]
Wyden Calls for IRS to Track $67 Billion Corporate Tax Gap
WASHINGTON – The IRS must put a system in place to track the specific sources of unpaid corporate taxes, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore. wrote to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen in advance of this week’s budget hearings with U.S. Department of the Treasury and IRS. The IRS has estimated […]
Wyden Backs CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines, Questions Pain Panel Industry Ties
Top Finance Democrat Opens Inquiry, Asks Secretary Burwell About Conflicts of Interest on Interagency Pain Research Committee Wyden Also Offers Support for CDC Amid Unprecedented Opioid Epidemic in Oregon and Nationwide WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today sent a letter to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Tom […]
Wyden and Senate Democrats Introduce Bill to Help Working Families Save for Retirement
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore. along with Senate Democrats, today introduced legislation designed to help more working families and middle class Americans save for retirement. The country is facing a serious retirement crisis with millions of American workers with no pension and nothing saved at all. Additionally, according to the Joint Committee […]
Wyden Statement at Finance Committee Hearing to Consider HHS, SSA, Tax Court Nominees
The Finance Committee is meeting today to consider four nominations for key posts in the administration: Dr. Mary Wakefield to be deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services; Ms. Elizabeth Ann Copeland and Mr. Vik Edwin Stoll to be judges on the U.S. Tax Court, and Mr. LaMont Eanes to be deputy […]
Senate Finance Committee Democrats Urge Congress to Move Forward on Renewable Energy Tax Incentives
WASHINGTON – As Congress considers broad energy legislation on the Senate floor, all 12 Senate Finance Committee Democrats, led by Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today urged their colleagues to take action on energy policy and combat climate change by updating outdated energy tax policies. In a letter to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, […]