Word: wyden
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...this year, Graham has found himself a popular man with Democrats. While he wouldn't consider signing on to health care reform, he got together with Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, to co-sponsor an alternative health care bill. He crossed party lines to become the sole Republican supporter in the Judiciary Committee of Sonia Sotomayor, Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court. And he's been reaching out to Dems on social security reform and immigration - an issue expected to be tackled next year. Do a search on Congress's legislative database and more than 200 hits come...
...against the radical excesses of his party's demagogues. Let's hope that other honorable conservatives rise to join Frum and Graham in rebuilding an intellectually supple and civil, and essential, Republican Party. (No health care reform Teddys will be issued until the final vote, although Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon certainly deserves one for his bipartisan efforts over the years, the most creative work on health reform that I've seen.) (See TIME's "Making of America" cover story on Teddy Roosevelt...
...clear that the trend with workers for a lot of plans is spend more, get less," says Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, a member of the Senate Finance Committee who has pushed, so far unsuccessfully, for the reform bills in Congress to give employees and employers more choices by allowing them to shop for coverage in the insurance marketplaces that would be established under reform...
...Going one step further, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden got an amendment passed that would allow states to opt out of parts of federal health reform if they could "provide health-care coverage that is at least as comprehensive" as provided for in the Baucus bill and prove their state proposal "would lower health-care-spending growth, improve the delivery-system performance, provide affordable choices for all its citizens, expand protections against excessive out-of-pocket spending, provide coverage to the same number of uninsured and not increase the federal deficit." Another Finance Committee member, Delaware Senator Thomas Carper, is reportedly...
...Senator Wyden said he plans on offering amendments to increase the subsidies. "I continue to be concerned about affordability for hardworking middle-class families," Wyden told reporters just off the Senate floor. "A lot of them can't get by now, and the prospect of paying significantly more or getting an exemption [from the requirements that all individuals have health insurance] or being penalized, that is not going to meet their test of health-care security." The problem, of course, is paying for more subsidies. In its current version, the bill actually shrinks the deficit by about $50 billion over...