Ron Wyden News

The 2009 election ended Tuesday, and the first 2010 election TV ad by a local candidate aired Thursday when Sen.

Yesterday, I wrote how former Vice President Al Gore will do a fund-raiser in Oregon for Bill Bradbury , who's running in the Democratic gubernatorial primary next year along with ex-Gov. John Kitzhaber and former Hewlett-Packard exec Steve Shields .

President Barack Obama has mostly stayed behind the scenes on health care reform, meeting privately with lawmakers like Sen.

As always, the devil is in the details . But it sounds like Congress is punting to the states on more than the public option - and since our states are smaller and our local officials more amenable to bribery contributors, this could be a real disaster.

Wall Street keeps saying it's sorry. It's sorry for those bad bets on subprime mortgages.

With last week's appearance of a single House health care bill, we are now closer than ever to putting millions more Americans into the health care system.But we're still a way from finding the thousands more doctors and nurses to care for them.

Why no surgeon general? A A Oct. 29: In the midst of swine flu outbreak, the U.S. is still without a surgeon general, as the nomination of Dr.

Pfc. Nathan Jones of Portland asks Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., whether soldiers who extend their deployments also will be eligible to benefit under his "soft landing" legislation.

An Oregon company that makes electric motorcycles thinks it has a solution to the nation's energy woes.

"There will be a cap on annual expenditures, out-of-pocket expenditures," Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., the majority leader in the House of Representatives, declared this week.

So Senator Harry Reid has given Senators a health reform bill to chew on. Forget noxious Joe Lieberman's egocentric grandstanding.

Ron Wyden's office has announced the finalists for U.S. attorney for Oregon whose names are being forwarded to President Obama.

David Schiff, who rides an electric motorcycle, smiles while talking about his recent ride to Washington, Tuesday, Oct.

Some of the nation's top political commentators, legislators and intellectuals offer their insight into the biggest question burning up the blogosphere today.

Government-run health care is back where it should be -- on the table. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid put it there Monday when he said health care legislation headed to the Senate floor will include a public option.

Oregon's senators backed a preliminary Senate plan released Monday that would give states the option to go with a public health care program as part of a massive medical overhaul.

It's not just all politics that's local. So is all medicine, and all health care reform.

A nationwide alarm several years ago about the ready availability of an ingredient used in producing methamphetamine led to a host of state and federal laws restricting access to over-the-counter medicines.

Extolling the economic benefits of a free and open Internet provided by the policy of net neutrality, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden released a statement today in response to the Federal Communications Commission's vote to begin writing net neutrality regulations.

Legislation approved by the Senate Finance Committee last week would create insurance exchanges that supporters say would aid small businesses by spreading risk among a greater number of participants.