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1. January 16, 2020

   Wyden, Oregon Labor, Ag and Business Leaders Hail Bipartisan Passage of New NAFTA

   Washington, D.C. –Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., hailed the passage of the new NAFTA trade agreement today, by a bipartisan 89-10 vote. The updated agreement with Mexico and Canada includes strong new enforcement provisions by... Continue Reading: Wyden, Oregon Labor, Ag and Business Leaders Hail Bipartisan Passage of New NAFTA

2. January 7, 2020

   Wyden, Grassley Hail Passage of Updated NAFTA

   Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released the following statements regarding the broad, bipartisan passage of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act... Continue Reading: Wyden, Grassley Hail Passage of Updated NAFTA

3. October 22, 2019

   Wyden, Senate Dems Will Force Vote To Restore Homeowners’ Ability To Work Around GOP Tax Law’s Harmful SALT Caps

   Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today announced that he and fellow Senate Democrats will force a vote tomorrow on a resolution to undo Republican-made IRS rules blocking critical state workarounds to harmful state and local tax (SALT)... Continue Reading: Wyden, Senate Dems Will Force Vote To Restore Homeowners’ Ability To Work Around GOP Tax Law’s Harmful SALT Caps

4. October 1, 2019

   Wyden, Merkley Announce Legislation to Help Students Seeking Higher Education

   Continue Reading: Wyden, Merkley Announce Legislation to Help Students Seeking Higher Education

5. August 1, 2019

   Wyden, Merkley Reintroduce Bill to Protect Small Businesses From Burdensome Internet Sales Tax Collection Requirement

   Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley this week reintroduced legislation that would stop states with a sales tax from creating red tape for small businesses as a result of last year’s Supreme Court ruling in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc.... Continue Reading: Wyden, Merkley Reintroduce Bill to Protect Small Businesses From Burdensome Internet Sales Tax Collection Requirement

6. June 21, 2019

   Wyden Joins Colleagues in Introducing Legislation to Guarantee Dreamers Access to Home Loans

   Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., this week joined 11 of his colleagues in introducing a bill to guarantee Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients access to federally-backed home loans. The Homeownership for Dreamers Act... Continue Reading: Wyden Joins Colleagues in Introducing Legislation to Guarantee Dreamers Access to Home Loans

7. June 13, 2019

   Wyden, Merkley Urge Feds to Reconsider New Housing Rules

   Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley this week urged federal officials to reconsider a newly proposed public housing rule that could worsen homelessness and force some families of mixed citizenship status to separate. The Oregon senators’... Continue Reading: Wyden, Merkley Urge Feds to Reconsider New Housing Rules

8. June 7, 2019

   Merkley, Wyden Join Colleagues in Calling on Trump Administration to Protect Consumers from Abusive Debt Collection Tactics

   WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden have joined 24 colleagues in calling on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Kathy Kraninger to reverse a proposed rule that would, for the first time, allow debt collection... Continue Reading: Merkley, Wyden Join Colleagues in Calling on Trump Administration to Protect Consumers from Abusive Debt Collection Tactics

9. June 4, 2019

   Wyden Introduces New Bipartisan Legislation to Combat Affordable Housing Crisis

   Washington, D.C. – As Oregon and the country face an affordable housing and homelessness crisis, Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today joined Senator Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and a bipartisan group of legislators to introduce a bill that would increase investment... Continue Reading: Wyden Introduces New Bipartisan Legislation to Combat Affordable Housing Crisis

10. April 16, 2019

    Wyden, Merkley Urge Increased Funding for Affordable Housing

    Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley this week joined 39 of their colleagues in sending a bipartisan letter to the Senators who lead the housing subcommittee urging increased funding for the Section 4 Capacity Building program. The... Continue Reading: Wyden, Merkley Urge Increased Funding for Affordable Housing