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      <excerpt> As the new chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on International Trade, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden can play an important role in making sure this turnaround ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Friday, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden got the Senate health care duo, Max Baucus and Harry Reid, to agree that some workers who cannot afford their share of the premiums for employer coverage could shop in the government&#8217;s new brokerage service, called the Ex</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Bennett also is a co-sponsor with liberal Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., of an alternative health care reform plan. These accomplishments have earned ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Ron Wyden&#8217;s Q &amp; A with the Columbia Journalism Review hit the publication&#8217;s Web site today. In it, the Oregon Democrat is called one of the few politicians willing to talk about the thorny issue of how costly health care will remain for millions of </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, backed an individual mandate as part of a bipartisan health reform bill he pushed with Democratic Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...was the 59th vote, and the bill could provide her state with an estimated $300 million in help for health care for the poor. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., got the bill altered Friday so more people would have access to its health exchanges, marketplaces where</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Medicaid insurance program for poor people in a bid for Landrieu's support. And Friday, Reid struck a deal with Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, who has been pressing to allow more Americans access to new insurance exchanges where commercial insurers would compet</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Kirsten Gillibrand of New York -Elected Senator will serve until 2012 election, Gillibrand is Hillary Clinton&amp;#39;s Replacement Chuck Schumer of New York Byron Dorgan of North Dakota Ron Wyden of Oregon ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>As Dana Milbank said in the WaPo article about it &amp;quot;Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) won a promise from Reid to support his plan to expand eligibility for health insurance. Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) got Reid to jettison a provision stripping ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Marshall Wittman, who is Senator Joe Lieberman&amp;#39;s Communications Director, says I left an incorrect impression when I wrote that David Gregory should have asked the Senator if he would filibuster the bill if it didn&amp;#39;t cancel the insurance...  ... Re</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Sen. Roland Burris (D-Blagojevich) traveled to Iraq, where he refused to answer questions about the admonishment he received from the Senate Ethics Committee. Chicago Breaking News has more: When a reporter told Burris some were questioning  the expense of</excerpt>
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