wyden: i am going to be very brief.nd i think we ought to understand what that story about lucas is all about. and that is, is this country going to turn back the clock to the days when lucas was unprotected and health care was for the healthy and the wealthy? and we are here to tell you,it it is not going to happen on our watch. now, they have been plotting and scheming to come up with a new glide path to turn back the clock. it is, in effect, using a good law, which gave the states the chance to do something better, to strip away the protections so , so you would not have coverage for hospital visits or prescription drugs or maternity care or any of the essentials for lucas. what we are going to do is make sure that we have a blockade at every step of the way to prevent this from happening. going to do our best to take up the legislation that came from the house that blocks this idea of making health care again for the healthy and wealthy. and here is our message to mitch mcconnell. since when did the united states se

>> ron wyden was in the white house meeting. ron wyden is a veteran.ery president since ronald regan. he thought it was plan and a scene created. but he's never seen an american president do what donald trump did today in the white house. and it disturbs him. his argument too is this gets back to russia. that nothing's happening. there's all this noise and talk of impeachment and the president pushing back. ron wyden's very worried about russian interference in the eelection and another expert said they're worried about left wing people, right wing people, hack nothing to emails or creating fake online. we're not preparetic as government because we're so divided. >> sounds like you want to weigh in. >> absolutely. there's a substantive reason why donald trump should be tough on putin. it's because of 2016 and the vulnerabilities taken advantage of by the russians to essentially manipulate both our public discourse as well as our elections. not ready eto protect our election systems in 2020s. we know this because vulnerabilities were exposed in 2018. we

when you're done i'll go to senator wyden. >> okay. great. the part-time proposal is an idea that's been around for a long time. you would have to be part-time for consistently over a period of several years. our employer plan sponsor members, they have had some administrative concerns in the past over this but they're very comfortable with the idea that going forward, we need to give access to people that are working part time, especially over a consistent period as more people do have part-time jobs for longer periods of time. we're comfortable with the approach taken in the secure act with respect to part time -- respect to part-time employees but there are other things you can do as well. there are things like automatic enrollment, making it easier for people to participant as soon as they do reach those, you know, threshold hours. you can also create opportunities like open things where part-time employees can participate. there are other things you can do but overall i think that we support the package and we support getting the work do

passage remains a top priority for senator wyden and me. centerpiece expansion, it's centerpiece expansion of other common sense changes would make it more feasible for businesses of all sizes to offer retirement plans by harnessing economies of scale and reducing unnecessary burdens on employers. i hope the house will send its version over to us at some point this month. and i will continue to work closely with senator wyden and other committee members to reconcile the differences and get this important bill to the president. now, for the purpose of this meeting, there is still work to be done and still gaps to fill in the retirement system. our focus today will be exploring all of those issues. what more can we do to improve coverage in the existing system? how can we encourage more people to save and what approaches should we take to help workers plan, save and critically live in retirement? the workplace retirement system is the primary way workers save for retirement. whether it is through a defined benefit pension plan or an employer-

defazio and ron wyden. democrat.op we came with commitment and knowledge and shared vision of this and spirit of president eisenhower, when he instituted the interstate highway system. it was important for jobs and mobility. it was a national security initiative. and it was bipartisan. lyndon johnson and sam rayburn in the house and senate, president of the united states, dwight eisenhower, we thought we could do something comparable. unfortunately, the president isn't ready for that. thank you very much. [indistinct conversations] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org. [indistinct conversations] >> c-span's newest book, the president's, noted historians rank america's best and worst chief executives. providing insight into the lives of the 44 american presidents. two stories gathered by interviews with noted presidential historians. explore the life event

senator ron wyden. senator chris murphy. so we are pleased to welcome them back. we're very, very proud of how they were trained on this side. [ laughter ] [ applause ] and one way they were trained, we'll see if it works, is that on the house side, we speak for one minute. guided in our house by our outstanding freshmen class and with the leadership of course committee's house democrats, moving forward to hold legislation to do just what we have promised to the american people. in their name we are moving forward with our legislation. last week we passed representative annie custer's protecting americans with preexisting conditions act, and we'll hear from her. [ applause ] and we passed bipartisan legislation to move generic versions of prescription drugs to market. tomorrow we will be strengthening the health care, and lowering prescription drug costs with even more action to protect preexisting conditions and bringing drug prices down. i want you to know, mr. leader, i'm eliminating the third card, in the interest of time. we are passing these bills because we

wyden isnator interested in this issue.i think that is very important and we talked about it earlier. mr. reid and others are supportive of that. workers, coulde you talk just briefly about that and why it is so important? talk about why aarp so strongly supports that provision? >> thank you very much. , that is the, 58% amount of the retirement income that most women had compared with men. they also have longer life spans. a lot of that comes because of lower wages and caregiving. aarp is very concerned about caregiving, the financial and emotional cost of caregiving. that is one of the reasons where -- why we look at it from a financial security standpoint. >> thank you. is that onlyhave 22% of part-time workers participate in a plan now. so there is an enormous opportunity here. this would make a big difference in terms of the retirement savings numbers. i have so many other questions. we have 52 provisions that many of you have been involved in. and what to work with you on getting a recent done, but also expanding what

stand up and say we have a certain policy that we're going to enforce wyden and it's going to be legal in wherever we we operate or we're going to. just knuckle under and you know and what the people who are running each of these countries tell us exactly how we have to run everything and use facebook's platform to their own advantage he may very well have gotten to that point now you may have been told this is what you're going to have to do if you want to stay in business earlier this week facebook was also accused of also generating extremist content here are some images. wiil by internet uses showing a power and extremist content it's believed to facebook's algorithms automatically generated a short anniversary clip the 1st checking would come to facebook itself claims its keeping a strong stance like stream missed by taking down their posts. terrorist content for example where we now have ai systems that can identify. and take down 99 percent of the al-qaeda and isis related content in our system before someone human even flags it to us well i disagree with that it works better i

stand up and say we have a certain policy that we're going to enforce wyden and it's going to be legal and wherever we we operate or we're going to. just knuckle under and you know and what the people who are running each of these countries tell us exactly how we have to run everything and use facebook's platform to their own advantage he may very well have gotten to that point now you may have been told this is what you're going to have to do if you want to stay in business facebook's policies have been under particular intense scrutiny since the mosque shootings which were live streamed and then widely circulated on the platform and then again earlier this week the site was accused of also generating extremist content through compiling anniversary videos on the pages of dubious groups is not a magic thing but here is some images of that sort of content that's being revealed by internet users obviously with very limited what we can show you here is believed facebook's algorithms automatically generated a short anniversary clip without 1st checking the content basically facebook itself

but my colleague senator wyden and i have sent a letter to the head of the fcc asking for them to make sure that we're not impacting what would be the 24 gig ahertz band that would impact that vital information. so do you think that it is possible to give us basically by which band we're talking about and access to impact our weather forecasting? >> that's, i think, an important question. i would answer it this way. the 24 gig ahertz band is critically important for our ability to characterize the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere. nasa is sensing the earth in every part of the electromagnetic spectrum all the time. 24 gig ahertz gives us the opportunity to characterize the quantity and the energy state of the water vapor in the atmosphere, and that ultimately is what helps us make determinations as far as weather prediction. now y now, nasa does not do weather prukts production. we build satellites for noaa so they can do the weather prediction. there is a risk if we do not have access to that spectrum, that our weather forecasting could be degraded. we are working right now wit

wyden: thank you, mr. president. and while she's on the floor, i want to commend my northwest colleague and friend senator murray and all of her leadership constantly coming to the floor and leading us on this enormous health challenge, a challenge that is existential for so many women across the country. mr. president, across the land republican lawmakers are passing extreme bills that throw in the trash can 45 years of settled law on reproductive health. this is an open, coordinated attack on roe v. wade and a woman's right to choose the health care she needs. these republican lawmakers are passing bills that are not only harmful, but they are overwhelmingly opposed by the public, bills with harsh criminal penalties for women and doctors, bills with no exceptions for cases of rape or insist, bills that explicitly compare women getting medical care to the holocaust. let me just repeat that. bills that explicitly compare women getting medical care to the holocaust. so i want to be clear what this is all about. the pa

and the top democrat on the finance committee and the united states, senator ron wyden. so we came with heft, commitment, knowledge, and hopefully a shared vision of greeting this great jobs , iniative for our country the spirit of president eisenhower when he instituted the interstate highway system. it was important for jobs and mobility. it was a national security initiative, and it was bipartisan. lyndon johnson and sam rayburn in the house and senate, president of the united states, dwight eisenhower. we had hoped that we could do something comparable. unfortunately, the president is not ready for that. thank you very much. we have been listening to speaker pelosi and minority doder schumer, and improv news conference where they responded to the earlier comments from president trump in the rose garden. there was supposed to have been a meeting between those people today to go forward with an infrastructure plan. apparently president trump went into the room and said it would not happen because of the investigations being pressed. nancy pelosi called it a cover up. t

i think part of the issue is, part of issue is they were concerned, senator wyden and mr. bush cox, then representative cox, were concerned they had this new industry and didn't know where it was going to go but thought it had a lot of potential and didn't want to steiff it will. what would stifle it? let's say facebook or google or whomever or any service at that time was responsible for everything published on their platform for libel. how do you respond to that kind of danger if you're a business leader? after all, a libel finding can go into the millions and millions. it could destroy your business. that's your attitude about it, right? in 1996 or 1998. what do you do? two choices really. one is you do nothing. and you let everybody on there. is that going to make a successful business? what are these companies going to look like now if that had been the case? probably not. the other alternative is what i would call the take no chances. right? you can see this in a facebook board meeting or whatever. take no chances. if it looks like it might had defamatory, if it look

and my friend senator wyden, the current democratic ranking member of the finance committee, voted for final passage in 2003. by the way, we're having very good bipartisan cooperation in our finance committee on hopefully legislation debated in our committee in june in regard to lowering drug costs. the noninterference provision expressly prohibits medicare from, one, negotiating drug prices. two, setting drug prices. and three, establishing a one-size-fits-all list of covered drugs. that list is called a formulary. i remember that many of my friends on the other side of the aisle voted for this policy and yet some are now pushing for repeal of that provision. here's a lot of democrat leaders who supported and voted to ban medicare from negotiating drug prices when he was? the senate, senator biden, senator kennedy, senator baucus, senator reid, the former majority leader, senator schumer now in the senate, leahy, durbin, stabenow, cantwell. on the other side of the capitol, the list included speaker pelosi and chairman of the ways and means committee chairman neal. there's something e

defazio, and the top democrat on the finance committee in the united states senate, ron wyden. so we came with heft, with commitment, with knowledge, we hoped with a shared vision of creating this great jobs initiative for our country. and the spirit of president eisenhower, when he substituins the interstate highway system. it was important for jobs and mobility. it was a national security initiative and it was bipartisan. lyndon johnson and sam rayburn in the house and senate, the president of the united states, dwight eisenhower, we had hoped that we could do something comparable. unfortunately, the president isn't ready for that. thank you all very much. >> well, joining me now, peter alexander, nbc's kelly o'donnell on capitol hill, joyce vance, former u.s. attorney and an msnbc contributor, matt miller, former chief spokesperson to attorney general eric holder and an nbc justice and security analyst, "usa today" washington bureau chief, susan page, and "washington post" political reporter, eugene scott. peter alexander, first to you. it does appear that this was pre-plann

senator wyden and i were pleased to see the fix to fire borrowing. do you support extending that fix beyond a two-year period? chief christiansen: absolutely. we are going to do everything we can to show that we are a good investment and that we can make a difference on the ground. you did not do it out of the kindness of your heart, you expect to difference. sen. merkel: it makes a big difference when these organization is not -- we need to work together to try to refund the deficit run up of the for service in that fashion, but interrupting this programs makes no sense. this also frees up, and the discretionary budget, hundreds of millions of dollars. do you think we should put those into preventing fires in the first place through thinning and treatments in our forests? chief christiansen: we clearly need to focus and get more work done on the ground. i don't think there's any denying that. in this budget proposal we have had to make some very difficult choices and trade-offs. in the following administration's reductions of 5%, and we put the focu

senator wyden is the ranking democrat, the top democrat. he also is a former gray panthers executive director and also has a provision in our bill that's very important with regard to student loan debt a as senator cardin talked about. so we have the constellations are kind of properly aligned, you know. the ability for us to get this done, i think, is one that might be counter to a lot of partisanship and the gridlock we see here in this town because this is bipartisan stuff. always has been. we spent our time, we did it right. we used input from all sorts of outside stakeholders. we have the opportunity here to improve our national savings which everyone says is important, including the congressional budget office, and to help people have peace of mind in retirement. what could be more important? again, i thank my colleague from maryland for allowing me to join him on the floor today to talk about the importance of this legislation. i urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle take a look at it, i hope you'll sign up and cosponsor this

senator wyden and i have a bill to require a warrant for a u.s. citizens coming back home because we think there is a great danger that if you have brown skin or a different accent or a funny last name that does not look so-called american, that all of a sudden they will say, give us your cell phone. if you have evidence someone is calling a terrorist, by all means, stop them. but just random american citizens coming home being asked for the password of their cell phone is intrusive without any kind of -- we just think they look suspicious that is not enough. we are troubled by the reports we hear on this, and we will keep pushing the issue. it is important for us to convey to you that we do not think a cell phone is a shipping container. you have a right to go through luggage and shipping containers, but you don't really have a right to look at my google searches and everything i have stored on my phone, pictures etc. and download that to a computer. when you take phones and getting passwords, are you downloading contents to a database? sec. mcal

defazio, and the top democrat on the finance committee in the united states senate, ron wyden. so we came with heft, with commitment, with knowledge, we hoped with a shared vision of creating this great jobs initiative for our country and in the spirit of president eisenhower when he instituted the highway, interstate highway system. it was important for jobs an mobility. it was a national security initiative. and it was bipartisan. lyndon johnson and sam rayburn in the house and senate, president of the night, dwight eisenhower, we hoped that we could do something comparable. unfortunately the president isn't ready for that. thank you all very much. [reporters shouting questions] neil: there you have it. the two branches of government, the executive, legislative, are essentially not talking to each other. they're not going to deal with each other. they're not going to so much propose a single piece of legislation with each other. democrats say they came to the white house in good faith to follow up on a plan the president hatch ad little more than a few weeks ago, to at least

i cosponsored empowering medicare seniors to negotiate drug prices act and three bills by senator wyden that would cap out-of-pocket cast cost and deal with exorbitant price increases. and that would provide for transparency for rebates for pharmacy benefit managers. as someone who is a big believer in the value of the american patent system, i'm also concerned that we not take rash actions that cause harm outside of the pharmaceutical industry and other areas where patents are critical. there is a reason that our patent system is the world's gold standard and that very strong patent protections incentivize innovation and reward ingenuity across a wide range of industries. i think we have to make sure we are being careful about how we try and reduce prescription drug costs without putting at risk the next generation of innovation whether it is in 5g or healthcare or in pharmaceuticals. let me just ask an open question if i could. some have decided pharmaceutical companies for seeking pull patent that expressly provide protection for improvements. current patent law doesn't allow you to

and i very much thank ranking member wyden for his cooperation on this effort.actually, we have a lot of cooperation on a lot of different subjects within the finance committee. now, unfortunately, we're still waiting on house democrats to send us a tax bill that includes those provisions so that taxpayers who have relied on an extension can finish their 2018 tax returns. i've had some discussions with the chairman of the ways and means committee, and i don't have any reason to believe that he doesn't believe some of these extenders should be extended but i suppose because they are new to running the house of representatives and they have dissension within their own caucus, it takes a while to get a -- an active group of people pushing for this particular legislation. but it ought to be easy to have happen because these tax provisions have traditionally been extended every two or three years over the last 20 years, maybe longer than that in some cases. i remind my colleagues in the house of representatives that taxpayers have all but run out of time. part of my

top -- fee fazz and ron wyden. we came with commitment and knowledge and shared vision of of president eisenhower, when he instituted the interstate highway system. it was important for jobs and mobility. it was a national security initiative. and it was bipartisan. lyndon johnson and sam rayburn in the house and senate, president of the united states, dwilet eisenhower, we thought we could do something comparable. unform, the president isn't ready for that. thank you very much. indiscernible chatter] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its captn content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org

in addition to what senator wyden said about mr. tobias, he was elected state treasurer in 2016. in 2006 he was elected to oregon house of representatives and became speaker pro tem and held several key committee chairmanships and the senator has already referred to his sponsorship of the oregon retirement savings plan. mr. reed is originally from missoula montana and has earned a bachelors degree and his mba from michael g foster school of business university of washington. ms. joan ruff serves as chair of the association of retired persons. after more than 10 years as x attorney she joined william mercer ink where she consulted on employee benefits and compensation. from there she held executive positions at zérich financial services and went on to chair the aarp audit and finance committee. she holds a juris doctorate degree university of kansas mba rockhurst university master of laws taxation new york university and ambassadors degree in journalism university of kansas. finally ms. dudley senior vice president of global retirement and compensation policy for the american bene