BlueOregon (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Over at his blog, Jeff Mapes reveals that Senator Ron Wyden had breakfast Thursday with Tom Daschle - former Senate Majority Leader and rumored pick for HHS Secretary - to discuss his Healthy Americans Act. Wyden didn't tell me much about Daschle's end of their conversation. But despite the increased Democratic numbers in the Senate, Wyden said it's clear to everyone that it is...
TODAY ON VOT3R - Politics STORIES (Free subscription) | yesterday
Senator Ron Wyden and the co-sponsors of the Healthy Americans Act sent Barack Obama a letter today: "As former colleagues in the United States Senate, we would like to congratulate you on your election as the 44th President of the United States and offer our commitment to working with you in a bipartisan...
Jezebel (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
... chair of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, has promised, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden has one, too. No wonder even Hillary Clinton couldn't get anything done 15 years ago. [Upstart Congressman Henry Waxman, when he wrests the gavel of the Energy and Commerce Committee from Auto Industry Michigan Congressman John Dingell, is expected to push for Obama's energy and environmental...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Reaction From Lawmakers Chair Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) said that she hopes Daschle can "go down deep and clean out some of the 19th-century ideas at HHS" implemented by the Bush administration (Bellantoni, , 11/20).Daschle "knows health care, he knows the Congress and the rhythms of the Senate in particular," Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said (Talev, , 11/20).Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said, "Tom...
Prospect.org (Free subscription) | yesterday
... always worries they'll end up on the Subcommittee for Acoustics and Ventilation," jokes Sen. Ron Wyden, a Finance Committee member. "The Senate Finance Committee is the opposite. It's the forum where the biggest financial decisions of our day come, and we have to figure [out] how to tackle them." For that reason, the leadership of the Finance Committee has traditionally produced legislative...
The Health Care Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Obama selected veteran policymaker Tom Daschle to head up the Department of Health and Human Services, signaling he wants the former South Dakota Senator to head up reform efforts. The quoted Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) saying, "Tom Daschle sees this as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. On the premier domestic issue of our time, the president-elect sees Tom Daschle with the skills and abilities...
The Curious Capitalist (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
... America trying to get this burden off their backs? I don't have a good answer. Oregon Senator Ron Wyden has lined up a few CEOs (Steve Burd of Safeway, Art Collins of Medtronic, H. Edward Hanway of CIGNA; Steve Sanger of General Mills, and Ronald A. Williams of Aetna Inc.) to back his universal health plan. But there's certainly no general clamor, and I don't recall Rick Wagoner, Bob Nardelli...
Political Animal (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
... lead his chamber's reform effort, has already indicated he supports an individual mandate. Senator Wyden's bipartisan bill for universal coverage has an individual mandate, as well. The insurance industry's positioning, therefore, is perfectly in line with these efforts. And it sets up a scenario under which Obama could, as a final compromise, "reluctantly" agree to an individual mandate...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
... of that experience. "Tom Daschle sees this as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," said Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). "On the premier domestic issue of our time, the president-elect sees Tom Daschle with the skills and abilities to bring people together and get this over the finish line." A native of South Dakota who was an Air Force intelligence officer, Daschle served four terms in the House...
BlueOregon (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
... very narrowly lost to Republican Bill Kennemer. Over at the O, Jeff Mapes notices that Senator Ron Wyden may be on tap to be the new chairman of the Intelligence Committee. Apparently, Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) is moving over...
Cato-at-liberty (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
... whatever health-care plan emerges from the scrum created by Messrs. Obama, Baucus, Kennedy, and Wyden. If the GOP fails, the beating it took in 2008 will pale in comparison to the decades-long drubbing that will follow.
BlueOregon (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
... auto industry and extension of unemployment insurance benefits. However, a top aide to Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said that although the bill may have to wait until next year, it will pass. "Sen. Coburn is delaying the inevitable," said Josh Kardon, Wyden's chief of staff. "The new Congress with the new president will pass the wilderness bill. It's just a matter of time." If this were...
