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Wyden added, " While I continue to have concerns about ensuring that taxpayers are protected if this loan is to occur, I believe that if the President can unwisely provide $ 750 billion of taxpayer money for the investment banks who took horribly unacceptable risks and helped trigger an economic collapse, we certainly have a duty to attempt to preserve a cornerstone domestic industry and the jobs of hundreds of thousands of working people whose personal actions are in no way responsible for the current economic crisis.
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While teaching gerontology at several Oregon universities, Wyden founded the Oregon chapter of the Gray Panthers ; which he led from 1974 to 1980.
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Wyden urged President George W. Bush to sign it, stating that " I see no reason why embryonic stem-cell research should be treated any differently than other research " in terms of federal grant funding.
O ' Brien responded by saying that she had used the memo to read a quote: " The memo had an accurate, verbatim quote of what Sen. Wyden said, and when I was talking to Ms. Comstock, she was saying something that was patently untrue.
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Wyden said in 2009 that he will continue to " fight tooth and nail " to block new federal attempts to block the law.
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In 2007 Wyden sponsored ( with Representative Gabrielle Giffords in the House ), the Stop Arming Iran Act, which would have barred the Defense Department from selling surplus F-14 parts and prohibit buyers who have already acquired surplus Tomcat parts from exporting them in order to prevent Iran from acquiring the parts.
In a May 2011 speech in the Senate, Wyden sharply criticized the use of Patriot Act, stating: " The fact is that anyone can read the plain text of the Patriot Act, and yet many members of Congress have no idea how the law is being secretly interpreted by the executive branch, because that interpretation is classified.
Wyden was the first politician in Congress to stand against the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act ( SOPA ) ( in the House ) and the PROTECT IP Act ( PIPA ) ( in the Senate ) on the grounds that it would " step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don ’ t.
Wyden and taxpayers
In a government report released in December 2008, Inspector General Devaney called MacDonald's management " abrupt and abrasive, if not abusive ," and U. S. Senator Ron Wyden, who commissioned the report, attributed the " untold waste of hundreds of thousands of taxpayers ' dollars " to MacDonald's actions.
U. S. Senator Ron Wyden, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests, attributed the " untold waste of hundreds of thousands of taxpayers ' dollars " to MacDonald's actions.
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Ronald Lee " Ron " Wyden ( born May 3, 1949 ) is the senior United States Senator for Oregon, serving since 1996, and a member of the Democratic Party.
In 2011, Wyden supported for the no-fly zone and other intervention in Libya in order to protect civilians, stating that " The violence of Colonel Gaddafi against his own people is a humanitarian crisis.
Wyden is a supporter of lifting the travel ban to Cuba as a more viable way to reach the Cuban people.
Wyden is a supporter of environmental protection measures, and was among the minority of senators to vote against confirming the appointment of Gale Norton as Secretary of the Interior.
Wyden is a supporter of legal abortion.
Wyden is critical of the estate tax, which he feels is inefficient, and has voted repeatedly to abolish it.
On November 19, 2010, Wyden announced he would take the steps necessary to put a hold on The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act ( COICA ) so it is not enacted into law this year.
His son Adam Wyden is an entrepreneur and owner of a start-up hedge fund, " ADW Capital " Partners LP.
Fred's daughter Nancy is co-owner of the store, and is also married to U. S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon.
They denounced the idea, with Wyden stating, " The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque ," while Dorgan called it " useless, offensive and unbelievably stupid ".
* 1996 U. S Senator Ron Wyden is elected by mail with a 66 % turnout, succeeding Bob Packwood.
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In January 1996, Wyden narrowly defeated Oregon State Senate President Gordon Smith in a special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by Bob Packwood.
In 2006, Wyden was one of 13 Senators to vote to require the redeployment of U. S. forces from Iraq by July 2007, and was one of 39 Senators to vote to call on the President to begin withdrawing forces from Iraq and establish a timeline for withdrawal.
Wyden also opposed President Obama's plan for a " troop surge " in Afghanistan in 2009.
Wyden, along with fellow Senator Merkley and President Obama, agreed that U. S. forces should not be on the ground in Libya.
Not long after Tom Daschle's withdrawal as President Barack Obama's nominee as United States Secretary of Health and Human Services due to a scandal over his failure to pay taxes, The Oregonian reported that Senator Wyden was being touted by many healthcare experts as a likely candidate to succeed Daschle as secretary-designate.
In late 2011 and early 2012, Wyden attracted attention for working with GOP House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan to develop a Medicare reform plan that would result in the semi-privatization of the system, provoking a negative response from Wyden's Democratic allies, including President Obama.
In 2001, Wyden wrote to President George W. Bush urging him to not alter the law through federal executive action.
The 1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act was a United States law authored by Representative Christopher Cox and Senator Ron Wyden, and signed into law on October 21, 1998 by President Bill Clinton in an effort to promote and preserve the commercial, educational, and informational potential of the Internet.
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Wyden voted for the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005, which would change federal law to allow federal money to fund embryonic stem-cell research, ending a federal ban.
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Wyden grew up in Palo Alto, California, where he played basketball for Palo Alto High School.
Wyden also served as the director of the Oregon Legal Services Center for Elderly, a nonprofit law service.
Wyden ran for the United States House of Representatives in 1980.
Wyden holds the Senate seat once held by the late Wayne Morse, a man whom Wyden worked for in the summer of 1968 when he served as Morse's driver, and whom Wyden calls his mentor.
Wyden was elected to a full term in 1998 with 61 percent of the vote, and in 2004, was re-elected to another full term, receiving 64 % of the vote compared to 31 % for his main opponent, Republican Al King.
Wyden characterizes himself as an " independent voice for Oregonians and the nation " and emphasizes his positions on health care reform, national security, consumer protection, and government transparency.
Wyden also voted many other times for withdrawal of combat forces from Iraq, against funding for the war without binding timelines, and against the establishment of permanent military bases in Iraq.
Wyden was attacked by union interests for advocating replacement of the employer tax exclusion with a tax deduction that would apply to all Americans.
Wyden has shown support for increasing Medicare funding, enrolling more of the uninsured in federal programs ( although his Healthy Americans Act would eliminate many of these programs including Medicaid and SCHIP and replace them with private insurance ), importing lower priced prescriptions from Canada, and negotiating bulk drug purchases for Medicare in order to lower costs.
Wyden supports free trade ; while in the House, he voted for the North American Free Trade Agreement and has subsequently supported many trade deals in the Senate being one of the very few Democrats to vote in favor of the Central America Free Trade Agreement.
With Senator Byron Dorgan, Wyden offered an unsuccessful amendment to end funding for TV Martí, an anti-Castro broadcasting project of the U. S. government aimed at Cuba.
Wyden voted against the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, a Republican effort to restrict the number of class actions suits against businesses and the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, a bipartisan change in bankruptcy law designed to make it more difficult to file for bankruptcy and to make those in bankruptcy pay more of their debts.
Wyden was among several moderate Democratic senators who in early January 2009 criticized President-elect Barack Obama's stimulus plan, calling for a greater emphasis on " tangible infrastructure investments " and warning that an effort had to be made to differentiate it from the Bush bailouts Wyden had opposed.
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