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Ron Wyden

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.

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Amazon continues to sell defective cloud computing services to businesses, government agencies, and to the general public. As such, Amazon shares some responsibility for the theft of data on 100 million Capital One customers.

– Ron Wyden

Found on Reuters 27 days ago Technology

A slap on the wrist from the FTC won't do the job, so under my bill Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg'd face jail time for lying to the government.

– Ron Wyden

Found on CNN 1 month ago Technology

Trump is using the office to line his own pockets at the expense of the American people and our standing in the world, requiring our allies to spend money at the president's hotel to attend the G-7 would be an insult to them and a violation of our Constitution's emoluments clause.

– Ron Wyden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

Senate Intelligence wasn't Senate Intelligence. They're doing Senate Intelligence as we sit here, and they expect to do Senate Intelligence during the next campaign.

– Ron Wyden

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

Taken together, this confirms that Treasury Department diverged from standard procedures in this case, from where I sit, the goal is to protect the President.

– Ron Wyden

Found on CNN 4 months ago US News

Given that Treasury Department has responded to my oversight questions, I have agreed to allow the nominations hearing for Brett McIntosh, Brian Callanan, and Brian McGuire to move forward so I can ask them directly about their involvement in this and other troubling episodes.

– Ron Wyden

Found on CNN 4 months ago US News

From where I sit, the goal is to protect the President.

– Ron Wyden

Found on CNN 4 months ago US News

Last year, my office met with a top official from the Treasury Department to express my serious concerns about the national security risks associated with a Chinese company buying Grindr, it is high time for the administration and CFIUS to consider the national security impact of foreign companies acquiring large, sensitive troves of Americans' private data.

– Ron Wyden

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

We now have an Interior secretary who has been on the job for one full business day and is already under investigation, with Bernhardt's track record and the number of allegations against David Bernhardt, it's no surprise. At least now, the American people will finally get the answers they deserve.

– Ron Wyden

Found on CNN 7 months ago Top News

If politicians want to restrict the First Amendment or eliminate the tools with which much of the world communicates in real time, they should understand they are also taking away the tools that bear witness to government brutality, war crimes, corporate lawlessness and incidents of racial bias.

– Ron Wyden

Found on Reuters 8 months ago Business

Drugmakers behave as if patients and taxpayers are unlocked ATMs full of cash to be extracted, and their shareholders are the customers they value above all else.

– Ron Wyden

Found on Reuters 8 months ago Health News

Olivier Brandicourt said it was' annoying to some extent,' olivier Brandicourt company, meanwhile, continues to raise the price of Symbicort.

– Ron Wyden

Found on CNN 8 months ago Health News

To me from an intelligence perspective, it's just Intel 101 that it would help our country to know what Vladimir Putin discussed with Donald Trump.

– Ron Wyden

Found on Reuters 9 months ago Politics

Instead of proposing meaningful changes that result in lower costs for families and taxpayers, Trump and his Administration are busy scoring cheap PR points that don't address the fundamental challenges that lead to higher prices every year.

– Ron Wyden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Company News

Disclosing that information may not have been required by law. My view is, it would have been a smart exercise of judgment. Certainly if you want to eliminate any question about appearances, you can sell the properties off.

– Ron Wyden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

The U.S. shouldn't get suckered into a race to the bottom with a bunch of no-tax, resort-lined islands to please the tax avoidance industry and their lobbyists.

– Ron Wyden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

This admission from DHS bolsters my concern about stingrays and other spying devices being used to spy on Americans’ phones.

– Ron Wyden

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

The news of a possible foreign stingray near the White House is of particular concern giving reports that the President isn't even using a secure phone to protect his calls, the cavalier attitude toward our national security appears to be coming from the top down. It is high time for the FCC and this administration to act immediately to protect American national security.

– Ron Wyden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

There was clearly an intent to collude.

– Ron Wyden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I am not at all satisfied on where the committee is on the follow-the-money issue, and if anything, the case for following the money is stronger today than it was 60 days ago.

– Ron Wyden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I urge the FCC expand the scope of this investigation, and to more broadly probe the practice of third parties buying real-time location data on Americans.

– Ron Wyden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Company News

Unilateral concessions before an upcoming trade negotiation. This may be the art of the deal for China but it's a big loser for American workers, companies, and national security.

– Ron Wyden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

The vast amount of her background can be declassified without compromising what are called sources and methods.

– Ron Wyden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

It is going to take place in public yet I believe as of now people will not know much of what the nominee was doing during that crucial period and will not know a number of the facts I know that relate to her record and who she really is.

– Ron Wyden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

The Morell report confirms some extremely troubling facts about Deputy Director Gina Haspel and the destruction of interrogation videotapes, gina Haspel didn't just draft the cable that authorized the destruction of the tapes, Gina Haspel played a key role in events surrounding the drafting of the cable.

– Ron Wyden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

It is the right thing to do given this series of serious allegations.

– Ron Wyden

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

The wall of unity among Senate Democrats is very strong.

– Ron Wyden

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

These emails show there is no longer a question of whether this campaign sought to collude with a hostile foreign power to subvert America’s democracy.

– Ron Wyden

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

Today, across American we are taking the gloves off to say it’s time to knock off the tax rip-off, no more Cayman Islands tax breaks … no more Wall Street tax breaks.

– Ron Wyden

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

Today, across American we are taking the gloves off to say it’s time to knock off the tax rip-off, no more Caymen Islands tax breaks … no more Wall Street tax breaks.

– Ron Wyden

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

Clearly, they have a clear decision to make. Do they want to reach out and support policies that would be beneficial to everybody, which would be that you would have to have the bipartisanship that was so dramatically lacking in the health care debate? this administration never had one substantive conversation with me about health care reform.

– Ron Wyden

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

This administration never had one substantive conversation with me about health care reform.

– Ron Wyden

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

This is a dramatic expansion of the government’s hacking and surveillance authority, such a substantive change with an enormous impact on Americans’ constitutional rights should be debated by Congress, not maneuvered through an obscure bureaucratic process.

– Ron Wyden

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Politics

This rule change could potentially allow federal investigators to use one warrant to access millions of computers, and it would treat the victims of the hack the same as the hacker himself.

– Ron Wyden

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Company News

So after leaving the front door open, the IRS left the back door open, too.

– Ron Wyden

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Latest Headlines

This 'cybersecurity' bill was a bad bill when it passed the Senate and it is an even worse bill today. Americans deserve policies that protect both their security and their liberty. This bill fails on both counts, i think this is very much on President Obama's shoulders.

– Ron Wyden

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

If Gilead's approach to pricing is the future of how blockbuster drugs are launched, it will cost billions and billions of dollars to treat just a fraction of patients.

– Ron Wyden

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Company News

If America is to cure Alzheimer's, cancer, diabetes and HIV in the years ahead, these cures must not be unaffordable and beyond the reach of most Americans.

– Ron Wyden

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Company News

This agreement with the duplicitous and untrustworthy Iranian regime falls short of what I had envisioned. However, I have decided the alternatives are even more dangerous.

– Ron Wyden

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

We're continuing to talk to our colleagues, there's great interest in getting this done this week.

– Ron Wyden

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

This has always been about reforming intelligence policies that do not make America safer and threaten our liberties.

– Ron Wyden

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Most Read Articles

They wait until the very last minute, they wait until the last minute and then they say, 'Oh my goodness it is a dangerous world we've got to continue this program the way it is!'.

– Ron Wyden

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

This bipartisan bill creates whatIexpect to be unprecedented transparency in trade negotiations, and ensures future trade deals break new ground to promote human rights, improve labor conditions, and safeguard the environment.

– Ron Wyden

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

I believe there will be Democratic support, number one. I believe it will pass the Finance Committee.

– Ron Wyden

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

There has also been talk of including an abortion policy rider — a complete nonstarter that has no place in a bill about access to care for America's seniors and children.

– Ron Wyden

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

We are certainly going to reschedule it, it's important to be able to throw open the doors of government to everybody. That's why town hall meetings are so important.

– Ron Wyden

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines