Open Congress : News Articles for Sen. Ron Wyden [D, OR]

Veterans Day calendar

2009-11-07T00:00:00Z

...Oregon service members killed in Iraq and Afghanistan; Afghan-Iraqi Freedom Memorial, 700 Summer St. NE. Speaker: Sen. Ron Wyden; Contact: Robin Steckley, (503) 373-2390 Appreciation Day, 3 p.m.: Recognizing residents of Tierra Rose Care Center who were

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Bennett ad is 1st of 2010 race

2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

...a $90,000 local TV ad campaign by the conservative Club for Growth for an alternative reform bill he has been pushing with Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. The club contended in its ads, and in letters it sent to state convention delegates, that Bennett's plan wo

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Health debate might drag on

2009-11-04T00:00:00Z

...time to mobilize and lawmakers might focus more on getting re-elected. "This is a battle against the clock," said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. "When you're in an election year, everything is seen through a different prism." The legislation, President Obama's

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Both Sides Exaggerate Effects of Public Option

2009-11-02T00:00:00Z

...with private insurers is the best way to ensure choice and competition that are so badly needed in today's market." Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., on the other hand, said the bills were setting the public option up to become a "health care ghetto." "Everybody

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Boxer joins push to broaden exchanges

2009-11-02T00:00:00Z

...Sen. Barbara Boxer has signed a letter to majority leader Harry Reid urging him to support Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden's Free Choice amendment , a subversive plot to open the health exchanges to everyone, even those who get coverage through their employers. N

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The current health-care report

2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

...to have only private insurance will be allowed to opt out. I feel pity for Americans who live in those states. Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden had offered an amendment allowing Americans to choose their insurance provider, including the public choice, if one does

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Health care plans would put limit on out-of-pocket costs

2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

...and other experts say the caps are an important step. "You get a lot of security for very little cost," said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. According to the American Journal of Medicine study, out-of-pocket costs averaged $17,943 for all medically bankrupt fami

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Nine More Dems Urge Wyden ‘Free Choice’ Proposal

2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

...lawmakers on planet earth have pushed more persistently for health care reform in the past decade than Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). And although Wyden’s own enormous blueprint for a health system overhaul was largely ignored through this year’s debate,

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Health care bills would limit out-of-pocket costs

2009-10-29T00:00:00Z

...and other experts say the caps are an important step. "You get a lot of security for very little cost," said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. According to the American Journal of Medicine study, out-of-pocket medical costs averaged $17,943 for all medically bankr

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Electric motorcycle maker Brammo gains momentum

2009-10-29T00:00:00Z

...actually let them swing a leg over. Bramscher said he met with 15 other legislators as well. Photo: Brammo CEO Craig Bramscher points out features of an Enertia electric motorcycle as Sen. Ron Wyden gets comfortable behind the handlebars. Credit: Brammo

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Candidate plans to spend $1 million

2009-10-29T00:00:00Z

...currently being examined by Congress. Tracey likes the more bi-partisan plan, The Healthy Americans Act, sponsored by Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat. The plan will allow Americans choices in their coverage improve portability and respect the pow

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Candidate plans to spend $1 million

2009-10-29T00:00:00Z

In reality, few would qualify for public option

2009-10-29T00:00:00Z

...of these exchanges, leaving many Americans watching the debate in for a big surprise. Only a handful of senators, such as Ron Wyden, D-Ore.; Mary Landrieu, D-La.; and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, have focused on widening the exchanges where a public option

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Electric motorbikes? Firm charges ahead

2009-10-29T00:00:00Z

...Bramscher met Tuesday with officials from the Energy Department and with lawmakers, including their home state senators. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said Brammo, which employs 52 people at its southwestern Oregon plant, was poised to become an economic driv

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Health care bills would limit out-of-pocket costs

2009-10-28T00:00:00Z

...other experts say the caps are an important step. "You get a lot of security for very little cost," said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. According to the American Journal of Medicine study, out-of-pocket medical costs averaged $17,943 for all medically

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Electric Bikes Trace Car Execs' DC Trip

2009-10-28T00:00:00Z

...Craig Bramscher met Tuesday with officials from the Energy Department and with lawmakers, including their home state senators. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said Brammo, which employs 52 people at its southwestern Oregon plant, was poised to become an economi

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Judd Gregg: Senate Dems Can Do What They Want on Health Care

2009-10-27T00:00:00Z

...their private insuranceit is very hard to compete with the government, he said. The Republican senator praised his colleague Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) who proposed an alternative ammendment which allows individuals to opt out of their companys insurance

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Moderate Democrats cool to government-run health plan

2009-10-27T00:00:00Z

...states with affordable insurance could stay out of the national plan but opt into it later if the need arose. Right up until the final minutes before passage, said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., "there may be debate about the various types of the public option

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Electric bikes trace route of car executives to DC

2009-10-27T00:00:00Z

...Bramscher met Tuesday with officials from the Energy Department and with lawmakers, including their home state senators. Sen. Ron Wyden , D-Ore., said Brammo, which employs 52 people at its southwestern Oregon plant, was poised to become an economic dri

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Truth Emerges about the Public Option

2009-10-26T00:00:00Z

...week on MSNBC’s Countdown, Keith Olbermann also discovered the limitations of the public plan. Olbermann quoted Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, who said that more than 200 million Americans would not qualify for such a plan. Olbermann noted that only very smal

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