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  • Senate Finance Committee chair faces call to resign over wife's major stock holdings

    03/18/2024 5:09:04 PM PDT · by Robwin · 11 replies
    Just the News ^ | Updated: March 18, 2024 | Madeleine Hubbard
    Republicans are demanding Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden step down from his position as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee over his wife's major stock holdings."We are alarmed by reports of your wife's exceptionally large stock holdings, totaling $3 million, in four of the Big Five technology companies that you are tasked with overseeing – Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google," a group of national Republicans, led by New York Young Republican Club President Gavin Wax, wrote to Wyden in a letter obtained by Just the News on ThursdayWyden's latest financial disclosure covers 2022, and it shows that his wife, Nancy...
  • Wyden considers Netflix tax

    12/04/2023 3:22:29 PM PST · by Twotone · 21 replies
    Oregon Catalyst ^ | December 4, 2023 | Staff
    U.S. Senator Ron Wyden has been working with Idaho Senator Ron Crapo on creating a digital service tax somewhat modeled after Europe. Within Europe there are different models and proposals that target different digital services such as streaming, digital products, software, advertising and collecting consumer information. This means Wyden’s proposal could end up taxing Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime and Disney+ for providing digital streaming services to customers. This would be an interesting tax question for how it applies to Amazon Prime, which is primarily a delivery discount service that offers free videos and movies as a secondary benefit to signing...
  • Sen. Wyden to introduce new legislation that would ban 'judge shopping'

    05/25/2023 11:31:42 AM PDT · by aimhigh · 18 replies
    KPIC ^ | 05/24/2023 | Juliette Smith & KVAL.com News Staff
    Senator Ron Wyden is introducing new legislation that would ban what he calls "judge shopping." The Fair Courts Act comes after last month's decision by a Texas federal judge to reverse approval of the popular abortion drug mifepristone. Wyden says no federal judge should have this much power."When you had these anti abortion activists allowed to judge shop and put forth an illegitimate case in front of one judge 17-hundred miles from here, access to a safe and effective medication would effect nation wide! Nation wide... The choices women have!" Said the Senator. "No single judge oughta have that kind...
  • Federal Judge Blocks Dangerous Abortion Pill Nationwide, Saving Babies From Abortion

    04/08/2023 7:55:09 AM PDT · by Morgana · 18 replies
    Life News ^ | April 8, 2023 | Steven Ertelt
    A federal judge has issued a ruling that will stop the sales of abortion drugs nationwide and possibly save hundreds of thousands or even millions of babies from abortions. The abortion drug mifepristone is used for more than half of all abortions in the U.S. every year, or hundreds of thousands of unborn babies, according to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute. But a new lawsuit, filed by a group of doctors with the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, challenges the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval and later expansion of the deadly drug under the Clinton, Obama and Biden administrations. Represented by...
  • Oregon's Wyden urges Biden administration to ignore Texas judge's abortion pill ruling

    04/08/2023 6:08:07 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 18 replies
    ABC News Local ^ | April 7, 2023 | by KATU Staff
    PORTLAND, Ore. — A federal judge in Texas on Friday ordered that access to a common abortion pill be put on hold across the country, and then minutes later a federal judge in Washington ordered the Food and Drug Administration to keep the drug accessible. The dueling rulings put the medication mifepristone, which has been available for more than 20 years, in limbo. Not long after the rulings, Oregon’s senior U.S. senator, Ron Wyden, a Democrat, told KATU in a telephone interview that the president and the FDA should ignore the Texas judge’s ruling. "I think there's no basis for...
  • Woman arrested for outburst at Wyden town hall; Senator addresses infrastructure, mental health, Russia's war

    01/14/2023 2:32:21 PM PST · by Twotone · 14 replies
    KOIN Portland ^ | January 13, 2023 | Lauren Bishop
    PORTLAND, Ore. (Portland Tribune) — U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden’s Washington County town hall on Thursday, Jan. 12, was mostly civil, covering roads and bridges, social media and the war in Ukraine, save one woman’s outburst that saddled her with a few misdemeanors. After she shouted questions out of turn during the public Q&A at the Conestoga Recreation and Aquatic Center in Beaverton - related to how much money of the Inflation Reduction Act was going to China, alluding to a laptop belonging to President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and calling Wyden a “Chinese operative” - the woman was escorted from...
  • DEM SENATOR DEMANDS FBI TO COME CLEAN ABOUT HACKING AND SPYING ON AMERICANS- NOW!

    12/22/2022 11:33:51 AM PST · by Enterprise · 17 replies
    https://libertyonenews.com ^ | 12/22/22 | Erica Carlin
    The FBI has obtained Pegasus spyware from the Israeli company NSO Group, which allows the agency to take complete control of a person’s phone without their knowledge. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has demanded answers from the FBI about how often it uses this invasive tool to hack Americans and whether the agency has gotten authorization from the courts to do so.“The American people have a right to know the scale of the FBI’s hacking activities and the rules that govern the use of this controversial surveillance technique,” Wyden said in a letter Tuesday to FBI Director Chris Wray.In particular, Wyden...
  • Iowa’s Senator Chuck Grassley Drops a bomb on the FBI and DOJ

    07/25/2022 7:54:34 PM PDT · by bitt · 38 replies
    GATEWAY PUNDIT ^ | 7/25/2022 | Larry Johnson
    It is no mere coincidence that the once highly regarded FBI has become a malevolent force, a cancer on the body politic. Like any cancer, it needs to be cut out, and destroyed as an institution. Harsh words, but the shameful, partisan conduct of the FBI during the past 7 years conjurers up images of the Soviet’s KGB or East Germany’s Stasi. Let me be clear, especially for any FBI thugs monitoring me, I am calling for the lawful action of Congress to defund the Bureau and create a new, professional Federal police force. This is not a call for...
  • Manchin won't support climate or tax provisions in Democrats' economic bill (“

    07/14/2022 9:24:16 PM PDT · by 11th_VA · 31 replies
    CNN ^ | July 15, 2022 | By Ella Nilsen and Manu Raju
    (CNN) Sen. Joe Manchin and his staff told Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and his staff "unequivocally" on Thursday the West Virginia Democrat won't support the climate or tax provisions of a Democratic economic package that the two had been negotiating for months, according to two sources familiar with the talks. Schumer, a New York Democrat, made a number of concessions to pare back the climate provisions but Manchin would not budge. Manchin told Schumer he will not support a bill this month with any provisions on energy or climate, or consider raising taxes on the wealthy or corporations, which...
  • No Matter What Happens To Biden’s ‘Disinformation’ Board, The Feds Are Spying On Americans

    05/23/2022 8:50:44 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 47 replies
    The Federalist.com ^ | May 23, 2022 | Daniel Turner
    A long line of suppressed disclosures has shown that the federal government is indeed spying on Americans, and Congress still hasn’t done anything about it.Facing an increasing backlash against the Biden administration’s Disinformation Governing Board (DGB), Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas promised it would not monitor Americans. It was not enough. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security was forced to put the DGB on “pause,” and its director, Nina Jankowicz, resigned under public pressure. Now DHS says it is “reviewing” the board while “continuing” its “critical work…to address disinformation.” No matter what happens with the board, it is hard to...
  • French lawmakers officially recognise China’s treatment of Uyghurs as ‘genocide’

    01/20/2022 8:01:57 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 9 replies
    France24 ^ | January 20, 2022
    France's parliament on Thursday denounced a "genocide" by China against its Uyghur Muslim population, in a resolution that risks straining ties between Paris and Beijing two weeks before the Winter Olympics. The non-binding resolution, adopted with 169 votes in favour and just one against, was proposed by the opposition Socialists in the lower house of parliament but also backed by President Emmanuel Macron's Republic on the Move (LREM) party. It reads that the National Assembly "officially recognises the violence perpetrated by the People's Republic of China against the Uyghurs as constituting crimes against humanity and genocide". It also calls on...
  • House Votes to Ban All Goods From China’s Xinjiang Over Uyghur Forced Labor Concerns

    12/08/2021 9:00:18 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 25 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 12/08/2021 | Mimi Nguyen Ly
    The House of Representatives late Wednesday passed legislation to ban all goods from China’s remote northwestern region of Xinjiang over concerns about forced labor.The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which passed the Democrat-led chamber by an overwhelming vote of 428-1, now heads to the Senate. It would need to pass the Senate and be signed by President Joe Biden to become law.Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) was the only lawmaker who voted against the measure.The measure would create a “rebuttable presumption” that all goods from Xinjiang, where the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has set up a vast network of detention...
  • Nike Executives Funneled Money To Democrat Who Just Blocked Uyghur Forced Labor Bill

    12/16/2021 9:56:36 AM PST · by DFG · 31 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | 12/16/2021 | Thomas Catenacci
    Several top Nike executives funneled more than $60,000 to the re-election campaign of Democratic Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden over the course of just 16 days in September. On Wednesday evening, Wyden blocked the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act which the House passed unanimously Tuesday and the Senate was expected to overwhelmingly approve. President Joe Biden vowed to sign the bill once passed by both chambers and work with Congress to “ensure global supply chains are free of forced labor,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement. Nike, a major benefactor of Wyden, was one of several corporations...
  • Elon Musk calls Elizabeth Warren ‘Senator Karen’ in spat over taxes

    12/14/2021 2:44:17 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 42 replies
    NY Post ^ | 12/14/2021 | Theo Wayt
    Elon Musk called Elizabeth Warren “Senator Karen” and said she reminded him of an “angry Mom” on Tuesday after the Massachusetts Senator said the Tesla CEO should pay more in taxes. “Let’s change the rigged tax code so The Person of the Year will actually pay taxes and stop freeloading off everyone else,” Warren tweeted with a link to a story about Musk being named Time Magazine’s 2021 person of the year. “Stop projecting!” Musk replied with a link to a Fox News opinion article arguing that the Massachusetts Democrat lied about having Native American heritage in order to benefit...
  • Elon Musk RIPS Elizabeth Warren Whining Over Him Being Named TIME ‘Person of the Year’

    12/15/2021 8:39:37 AM PST · by JV3MRC · 27 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | 12/15/2021 | Joseph Vazquez
    Elon Musk used his Twitter account like a battering ram to troll the left for their hypocritical pontificating about class warfare. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) took to Twitter Dec. 13 to express disgust at the world’s richest man being chosen as TIME magazine’s 2021 “Person of the Year.” Warren spewed, “Let’s change the rigged tax code so The Person of the Year will actually pay taxes and stop freeloading off everyone else.” Musk clapped back: “[I]f you opened your eyes for 2 seconds, you would realize I will pay more taxes than any American in history this year.” Then Musk...
  • Elon Musk: 'I Will Pay the Most Taxes of Any American In History'

    12/15/2021 8:42:00 AM PST · by SmokingJoe · 68 replies
    The street.com through Msn ^ | December 14 2021 | Corey Goldman
    Obnoxious, but likely correct. Tesla CEO and paper billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday shot back at comments from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), telling the Democratic Senator to "stop projecting" and calling her "Senator Karen" for criticizing Musk for not paying enough in taxes. Following Musk's crowning by Time Magazine as Person of the Year on Monday, Warren took to Twitter to weigh in on the billionaire wealth debate and hers and others' perspective that those who make the most don't pay their fair share of taxes. "Let's change the rigged tax code so The Person of the Year will actually...
  • BASED: TIME Mag Names Vaccine Mandate Critic Elon Musk Its 2021 ‘Person of the Year’

    12/14/2021 3:15:27 PM PST · by JV3MRC · 9 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | 12/14/2021 | Joseph Vazquez
    Too bad for the left, they can't mandate who wins “Person of the Year.” So TIME magazine decided to give the world’s richest man Elon Musk that honor, though he’s become a vocal critic of vaccine mandates and the left.
  • ‘90% agreed to’: Biden meets with Manchin in Delaware to sell new billionaire’s tax

    10/24/2021 10:59:51 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 43 replies
    The Washington Times ^ | Sunday, October 24, 2021 | Haris Alic
    President Biden hosted Sen. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, a key swing vote for his legislative agenda, in Delaware on Sunday as Democrats weigh a new billionaire’s tax to help pay for their multi-trillion-dollar expansion of the federal safety net. Mr. Biden met with Mr. Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer at the president’s Delaware home for a wide-ranging discussion on the spending plan. The talks came as Democrats have become increasingly optimistic that a deal is at hand. “We have 90% of the bill agreed to and written. We just have some of the last decisions...
  • A top senator wants to tax the cash piles the wealthy are sitting on - and Biden agrees with him

    09/24/2021 5:47:44 PM PDT · by libstripper · 130 replies
    Business Insider via MSN ^ | Sept. 2, 2021 | Ayelet Sheffey, Juliana Kaplan
    Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden wants to tax billionaires' unrealized wealth gains annually. Biden said he supports the proposal as a potential method to fund Democrats' social-spending bill. "I come from the corporate state of America," Biden said. "I just think it's about just paying your fair share, for Lord's sake." House Democrats have proposed a whole host of options to pay for their $3.5 trillion social-spending bill which includes measures like universal pre-K, tuition-free community college, and paid leave for workers. One of those options, proposed by Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden, is a change to the way the...
  • OPINION: A Democratic plan to wipe out independent contractors

    09/20/2021 6:11:27 PM PDT · by blueplum · 20 replies
    The Hilll via msn ^ | 20 September 2021 | Christopher A. Iacovella, Opinion Contributor
    As Washington turns its attention to a massive $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill, every household across America should be on high alert because some Democrats want to take away the right to work. Senate Finance Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is championing a bill to radically overhaul America's unemployment system. The legislation would model our federal system on a California law that is so unpopular and so poorly written that emergency action was required to avoid severely disrupting the state's economy.... ...To repair the economic damage done by this ill-conceived policy, California's lawmakers issued more than 50 emergency exemptions to the law....