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Ronald Lee Wyden (/ˈwaɪdən/; born May 3, 1949) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator for Oregon since 1996. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served in the United States House of Representatives from 1981 until 1996. He is the current dean of Oregon's congressional delegation.

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This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.

House, Six Months, Swamps, Pretty, Quickly

Gasoline prices are soaring through the stratosphere, and the Federal Trade Commission, which is supposed to be standing up for the consumer, ought to stop playing footsie with the oil companies and take steps to protect the American people.

Companies, Consumer, Gasoline Prices, Oil, People

When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry.

Government, People, Patriot, Secretly, American

Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.

Back, Circumstances, Difficult, War

I don't care who you love. If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn't have to hide who you are.

Care, Country, Enough, Life, Love, Risk

There is an old saying that all roads lead to Rome. It seems the administration so often clearly believes that no matter what the evidence was at any particular time, essentially everything led to Saddam Hussein.

Believe, Led, Matter, Rome, Saddam, Time

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.

Agree, Bills, Delivers, Health, Promise, Reform

The ethics laws do not let us tap out the truth in Morse code.

Code, Ethics, Law, Morse, Morse Code, Tap

When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.

Clinics, Low Income, Organized, Senior, Seniors, Years

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.

Blame, Care, Games, Program

The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.

World, Way, Internet, Business

Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Disorder, Divorce, Stress, Suicide, Traumatic

Americans don't want to hear the answers are privileged and off limits or they can't be provided in public or it would be inappropriate for witnesses to tell us what they know. We are talking about an attack on our democratic institutions and stonewalling of any kind is unacceptable. General Jeff Sessions acknowledged that there is no legal basis for this stonewalling.

Answers, Attack, Basis, Democratic, Inappropriate, Kind

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.

Administration, Bush, Filling, Help, Helping, Oil

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.

American, Community, Order, Oversight, People, Vigorous

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.

Agenda, Judging, Judicial, Needs, Purity, Thoughtful

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?

Country, Strong, Government, Tens, Support, Program

Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.

Everything, Family, President, States, United States, Watches

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.

Access, Care, Looks, Time, Today, Together

The government's collection authority, under the Patriot Act, is basically limitless. They can get the medical records and financial records, gun purchase records. And it also becomes part of another important issue that relates to the FISA court and the rest of the debate. It almost becomes a secret law, like there are two Patriot Acts. The one you read on the laptop essentially leads you to believe that there's some connection to terror.

Believe, Gun, Law, Read, Act

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