i think a ron wyden would, too.i read some in the others, what happened to the good liberals around here? you can, i think, even somebody was not progressive, they are honestly good or good on civil liberties. the president was when he was in senate. he was much better on civil liberties than he is now. >> next question from the audience. [laughter] if elected president, how would you respond to the recent increase of executive power? >> one of the biggest problems in the last 100 years, not for public or democrat, has been increase in power of the executive. we have thousands of orders written by the executive. montesquieu wrote and was big on the separation of power and checks and balances as said when the executives begin to legislate, that it becomes a part of tyranny. the president not allowed to legislate him on a legislature -- legislate, only a legislature can. it's a messy process. everybody has to come to grips and it is not easy.

that is basically the ron wyden view of the world. have at that you progressive and conservative viewing things in this context and a of people of those it , that isthose ilk's good news. on some level it is going to have to acknowledge that. important because you can't to a grand bargain on the budget. you can't even do a mini grand bargain on the budget unless you fundamentally reform our tax laws, eliminate the laws and exemptions, and to generate some revenues along the line. camp's tax bill is a starting point. but it is a good starting point. he steps on everybody's toes. was on the ways and means committee in 86, when this was done between president reagan and officer witkowski. it started with bill bradley and jack kemp. it took a while to the bulk -- a while to bubble to the surface. they were talking about major tax reform until 83. we are further down the starting point than usual because you have the chairman of the committee and you have ron wyden as the chairman of finance, who is putting forward his proposal. the opport

ladies and gentlemen, i want to welcome my friend, the chairman of one or -- ron wyden. [applause] >> what an inflationary introduction. and chip, thank you. without making this a brocade tossing contest, let me tell you what you already know. you are so lucky to have chipcom who has enormous credibility. there was a reason that i called him back when i was a young congressman and had a full head a fair and rugged good looks. he is a straight shooter, and we are lucky to have him. thank you for that kind introduction. let me start by saying at think it would be cruel and unusual punishment to give you a big filibuster. a lot of you had to brave the elements. i thought what i would do is offer a few thousand particularly well chosen words. my staff wrote this wonderful speech. i can put it in the congressional record and mail it to you, but to give you a little bit of a sense of where i think that we are on health policy and then throw it open to questions. suffice it to say, most of health policy really is not health policy and all. it is essentially budget policy. and s

i want to welcome my friend, senator chairman ron wyden. [applause] >> what an inflationary introduction. a bouquetking this tossing contest, let me tell me what you know. you are so lucky to have chip. there is a reason that i called him back when i was a young congressman and i had a full head of hair and rugged good looks. he is a straight shooter. we are lucky to have him. thank you for that kind introduction. i think it would be cruel and unusual punishment to give you a big filibuster. 11 you had to rave the elements. -- a lot of you had to brave the elements. i thought i would offer a few thousand particularly well-chosen words. my staff wrote be speech. i can mail it to you. to give you a little bit of a sense of where i think where we are on health policy. suffice it to say most of health policy really is not health policy at all. it is essentially budget policy. ducks on the big put something that washington might be called a patch. maybe it is an extension. maybe it is called a stopgap. the big issue. it repeatedly ducks of the b

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. >> joining me now is democratic senator ron wyden of oregon.anks so much for joining us. senator feinstein has taken the helm on this issue and you've been heavily involved as well. there is a rather cryptic issue. >> does the federal computer fraud and abuse act apply to the cia? it seems to me that's a yes or no question. >> i would have to look into what that actually calls for and it's applicability to the authorities. >> it seems clear that you were responding to this. brennan responded that the letter does not, quote, prohibit investigative protective or intelligence activity of an intelligence agency. feinstein made it clear that she thinks the cia may have violated the constitution. what do you think? >> mr. brennan did also say that in fact the computer fraud law does apply to them and the reality is that those computers, in effect, belong to the cia but were reserved exclusively for the committee's youth and what this goes to, the fundamental question here is whether the congress of the united states is going to be able to do effectiv

. >> this weekend on c-span, senator ron wyden on the challenges facing medicare and hospitals.urday at 10 a.m.. on c-span three is american history tv, the grounds and architecture of george washington's mount vernon, sunday night at 8:00. >> we do not have a criminal investigation role. we have a vast, unfortunate role. we make sure wall street abides by the rules. sets the rules for wall street and broker dealers and advisers. we do not have criminal authority. we have the power to bring, with the approval of our commission, civil actions and negligence actions against those who violate the federal securities laws. we can't send anybody to jail, but we can assess civil penalties. our level of penalties is not as , we canwe would like it require those who commit wrongdoing to discord should their ill-gotten gains, and we have the power in an appropriate case to bar somebody from the securities industries so they can't live another day to defraud again. -- sec chairman mary joe white on sunday at 8:00 p.m.. to show you some of the speakers from day two of the event. we begin wi

. >> we know congressional hearings on the budget begin ron wyden. what do you expect to hear on that? >> talking about leaving room for more priorities. heen is new to the panel and has his own ideas on tax policy. forum, it is a for them -- for airing out ideas. you will not see the senate democrats doing their own budget plan because they feel the agreement already put the spending caps in place. meanwhile, house republicans will have their plan pitted against their blueprints and that is the opening salvo, shall we say. >> house republicans met and talked about alternatives to the health care law and there is a bill scheduled on the house floor on the individual mandates. what about that bill and current republican strategy? they've moved away from just trying to repeal it. same effect of the bill they passed last year and they are giving relief from the overhaul and causing them to delay for a year . last time this came up, almost two dozen democratic votes and it will be interesting to see if some of them go along with it. nancy pelosi said it

intelligence committee, the director of national intelligence james clapper was asked by senator ron wydenare you collecting data on millions of americans? moreover, senator wyden had issued that question 24 hours in advance so he could deliberate on it. mr. clapper answered no. a clearly perjurious statement. you are talking about the rule of law? in a democracy the people have a right to know what their government is doing, because we get to decide what the policy is going to be. and when the snowden revelations came forth, the american people have forced changes from what the nsa was doing on a because of mr. snowden's revelations. this cannot not be found without the revelations because before that because of speculations, it would have been thrown out of court. you're just guessing that the government is doing this to you. he needed a rule of law function which was nonfunctioning before that time. i wanted to say about all the members of the senate intelligence committee who did not have the courage to do what a 29-year-old had to do for them. and it is especially outrageous -- they h

i think a ron wyden would, too. i think he is an honest progressive.hat happened to the good liberals around here? you can, i think, even somebody was not progressive, they are honestly good or good on civil liberties. the president was when he was in senate. he was much better on civil liberties than he is now. >> next question from the audience. [laughter] if elected president, how would you respond to the recent increase of executive power? >> one of the biggest problems in the last 100 years, not for public or democrat, has been democrat,ublican, not but the last 100 years has been the increased power of the executive. we have thousands of orders written by the executive. montesquieu wrote and was big on the separation of power and checks and balances as said when the executives begin to legislate, that it becomes a part of tyranny. the check and balance is the president not allowed to legislate and only a legislature can. it's a messy process. everybody has to come to grips and it is not easy. that's what you convince people of the other side of t

. >> yeah, and this is sort of the point that senator ron wyden, a critic of the bulk collection program today. which is that for years, we've been told or i guess for months since the revelation, that these were absolutely critical to combatting terrorism. that you needed to three hops. that you couldn't wait for a fisa approval of the request, that any time like that would be the difference of an explosion happening or not. and now, we get today that in fact, intelligence community can apparently live with having to go to the fisa court to get a request granted. with not housing the data itself, with allowing the phone companies to house it and allowing the phone companies to get rid of it after 18 months, so there is a bit of egg on the face here, or at least a little exposure from past statements made by the intelligence committee. >> to follow on sam's point there, it feels like we are in the middle of sort of a broad examination, if not a re-examination of the war on terror and just what sort of these, how these programs benefitted ut in terms of keeping the country safer and i poi

of that is the ron wyden and my view of the world and with a progressive and conservative working in this context. that is good duse's some point the cbo at some level will have to acknowledge that. you cannot do a of a grand bargain on the budget if you don't fundamentally reformed the tax law eliminates deductions and exemptions and generate revenue like what simpson-bowles proposed. the tax bill from dave camp is the starting point but it is a good starting point he steps on everybody's toes. that is the way to start. when this was done in remember it did not start with reagan but with bill bradley and jack kemp to start talk about major tax reform renato 1986 and you also have ron wyden to put forward his proposal the opportunity is there and should be taken. and president obama wants to have their legacy. the third issue of what secretary haig goalpost -- hegel proposed is thinking about it a term that has not been thought about what are the threats and how do you respond? and i cited a great farewell speech the biggest threat is the defense industrial complex to stratifies the

i read senator ron wyden of oregon, a friend of mine, he wants to extend all 50 billion of the tax extendersthere's so many special-interest carvous, i'm a simple tack guy. i thought the senate financial committee was moving in a different direction, so i asked you, is tax reform dead? >> well, i hope -- hopefully senator wyden will take a look at some of these things in smaller chunks. if some of these tax extenders are such good policy, why didn't you make it permanent law? of course you don't, because companies keep having to run to congress. from my standpoint, if you could treat every corporation, tax corporate income at the shoulder level, treat them all like llcs and subchapter -- imagine incentivizing that. that's how you strengthen the mid sell class. >> especially the corporate tax. >> absolutely. >> i think wyden is pretty good. i was surprised to see him go down this road. >> we'll work on him. >>> all right. >> he understands economic growth. >> all right. i like that. bob lutz, thank you very much, sir. as always we appreciate it. >> i'll miss you, larry. >> thanks, i'll still

. >> now senate finance committee chairman ron wyden talks about his bill to avoid cuts in medicare payments to doctors. he spoke on the senate floor for 15 minutes. >> mr. president, i am rising this afternoon to talk about the medicare program. which, of course, is a lifeline, a guarantee for 50 million older americans. and in particular what the senate wants to do is make sure that those older people have asked us for primary care doctors, nurse practitioners, specialists and other providers in their local communities because they provide critically needed care to our seniors day in and day out. mr. president, colleagues, many of those seniors have no idea that by march 31, just a few weeks from now, congress has to act on their behalf to preserve access to the care that seniors depend on. and suffice it to say, those providers would much rather be delivering the care than waiting for this congress to act. now, fortunately, mr. president, there's a roadmap for getting this done. and getting good care to seniors not just for a short period of time, but colleagues once and for all. and i wa

three senators paul mentioned by name during speech all caucus with the democrats, dianne feinstein, ron wydend the independent bernie sanders. texas senator ted cruz continues to distance himself from rand paul. in iowa, he was asked whether he agrees with rand paul that the gop can agree to disagree on social issues so that they don't alienate younger voters. >> there are some who say the republican party should no longer stand for life. i don't agree with them. there are some who say the republican party should no longer stand for traditional marriage. i don't agree with them, either. i think we should deny to def d defend -- continue to defend our shared values. >> it sounds like you disagree with senator paul? >> i'll let him characterize his views. >> joining me now on the msnbc contributor chris aliza. there are a lot of people running stories about clinton's noncandidacy. without, apparently, seeing what's in front of them. it's not an un-candidacy. she's all over the place. >> how can you argue she's not running? >> i don't know if she would even argue she's not at this point. >> ther

hearings on the budget again next week, including one wednesday with the finance committee chairman ron wyden. >> talking about breathing room for more -- he is new to the tax-writing panel. he has his own ideas about tax policy. again, it is a forum for airing ideas about the broader economy. you want be seeing the summit -- senate democrats be doing their own budget plan. the field the december agreement put the spending caps in place. the republicans will do their own plan, which will contrast with the administration's blueprint. >> house republicans met and talked about alternatives to the health care law. next week, there is a bill scheduled. what about the bill and what is the current republican strategy? >> they obviously still object to obamacare. i think they have moved away from trying to repeal it. now they are going after individual pieces. the measure coming up next week has the same effect the bill the house passed has. it draws on the gop administration that they are giving relief for the mandate. last time this came up, it attracted almost two dozen democratic votes. it will b

. >> when somebody's joined by ron wyden on the floor and mark udall, they get a certain kind of coveragemember john mccain going to college campuses when he was a presumptive nominee. i've seen this before where the press finds the bridge-building aspects of a candidate interesting. once they actually run for president, they start to get covered for how they actually govern. and it's interesting, beck has tried to reestablish himself. his reputation suffered a lot as he was on his way out of fox news. tried to reestablish himself as the kind of libertarian who builds these bridges between ideologies. paul can do that for now. he's good at it. he's a very natural politician. once he starts to become a presidential candidate, which is going to happen maybe in flnine months, i do think that's going to shift. it will be interesting to see if the young liberals and libertarians who like him now stick with him when he has to compete in iowa and change what he's focusing on. >> well, he does have the -- he's the first republican to assemble a network in all 50 states. >> yes. >> bridge building

. >> this weekend on c-span senate finance committee chair ron wyden on the challenges facing medicare and hospitals this morning at 10 eastern. and on booktv the historical and cultural ties between russia and ukraine, sunday at 5:45 on c-span2. and on c-span3's american history tv, the grounds and architecture of george washington's mount vernon, sunday night at 8. >> here's a look at some books that are being published this week. george soros presents his thoughts on the mistakes the european union has made but argues that it still has the ability to keep europe peaceful of and productive in "the tragedy of european union." in "the people have spoken and they are wrong," nationally-syndicated columnist and senior editor of federalist, david harsanyi. in "busted," philadelphia daily news reporters wendy ruderman and barbara laker recount the operations of a rogue narcotics squad in philadelphia. paul marks provides a personal account of cancer research and reports on his growing optimism for finding a cure in "on the cancer frontier: one man, one disease and a medical revolution." in

senator senator ron whied wydide for hi n -- i want to thank senator ron wyden for his support and look forward to working with him and all members of the community on both sides. members of this committee attended numerous meetings to consider the 2005 energy act. and we discussed the need to import more natural gas to meet our growing energy demands. thanks to a extraordinary and swift advances in technology to locate, capture and produce natural gas, this committee will talk about the expanded opportunities to export liquidified natural gas and create high paying jobs in america and support allies in europe and budding demomeracies across the world. when president bush signed e-pac the price of was $13 less than in october and by the end of the year it was $15 higher. this forced factories to head oversees. this affected michigan, louisiana and other industrial states and they did so in droves. the fact that less than ten years later, we are in a four-year period of domestic gas prices at $5 or less is stunning with only a long-term favorable outcome ahead of us. because of this pric

this weekend on c-span, ron wyden on the challenges facing medicare and hospitals. saturday morning at 10:00 eastern. andbook tv," the historical cultural ties between russia and ukraine. on c-span3 "american history tv," george washington's mount vernon. sunday night at 8:00. do not have a criminal investigation role. we have a vast enforcement role, enforcing the federal securities there.make sure that is we also write the rules for wall street and the investment advisers, but we don't have criminal authority. power to bring civil fraud actions and negligence actions against those who violate federal securities laws. we cannot send anybody to jail, but we can assess civil penalties. frankly, our level of penalties is not as high as we would like to be, and there is some legislation in congress to give us the ability to assess higher penalties. we can require people do discords of their ill-gotten gains from their wrongdoing and we have the power to bar somebody from the securities industry so they cannot basically live another day to defraud again. exchangety and

budget also begin next week, including one wednesday with the new senate finance committee chairman ron wyden what do you expect to hear from him on the budget and what you think will happen in those hearings? >> talking about reading room for more priorities with the economy improving. wyden is new to this tax-writing panel, and he has his own ideas on tax policy. forn, it is kind of a forum ideas about the broader economy. you won't be seeing senate democrats doing their own budget land for fiscal year 2015, because they feel the december agreement already kind of put the spending caps in place. meanwhile, the house republicans will do their plan, and i will be pitted against the ministrations blueprints. that is the opening salvo, shall we say. >> republicans met this last week and talked about alternatives to the house -- the health care law. there is a bill scheduled for the house floor on the laws individual mandate. what about that bill and what is the current republican strategy on health care? >> they obviously still object to obamacare. i think they have moved away from just trying

senate finance committee ron wyden spoke tuesday about health choices facing the united states. at a conference hosted by the federation of american hospitals. the chairman and president also spoke eared this is about one hour. -- spoke. this is about one hour. [applause] good morning. it is hard to follow ray charles. if that does not bring a chill down your back, nothing will. i and the president

. >> i'm going to interrupt if you don't mind and give my colleague ron wyden who i know has been interested and acted on this issue and give him a few moments to make comments. we've just donna busche just finished explaining her situation. and then the other two witnesses, we're going to give an informal presentation and we're just going to have informal questioning between -- >> chairman mccaskill, thank you first of all for doing this. this is extraordinarily important. because if we're going to have the kind of safety agenda that we need in this country, we've got to get the truth out. that's the bottom line and i'm particularly pleased that you have three individuals that i've had a chance to talk to in the case of mr. carpenter for practically two decades now, and dr. tamacitis and mrs. busche as well. getting the real story at the department of energy's hanford site is tujly important for our part of the world. as some of you know, hanford essentially adjoins the columbia river. which is our life blood. for our quality of life, and recreation, and business, and a whole host of needs.

interpreting it in the widest possible manner, and some people in congress like senator ron wyden said we never thought this was going to happen. a cosponsor of the patriot act said it exceeded what he thought would happen. host: what was the message when yahoo! lost the battle? guest: the message to the other companies was we have to cooperate. they pushed back and said he wanted tell our customers the kind of information we are handing over and how much. they can only do this in limited ways that did not give a whole picture for what is going on. after president obama announced reforms, modest reforms of the surveillance ask, this january, there is a little more play in what the companies can say. even so, we do not have a complete picture of the nate church of the information they are handing over and how wide the scope is. in a way, it is less relevant now that we know from the back and, the nsa is getting massive amounts of information, and what the companies want to do in those cases is encrypt the information so the government cannot easily access it and read it. >> what does th

. >> i'm going to interrupt if you don't mind and give my colleague ron wyden who i know has been interestedand acted on this issue and give him a few moments to make comments. we've just donna busche just finished explaining her situation. and then the other two witnesses, we're going to give an informal presentation and we're just going to have informal questioning between -- >> chairman mccaskill, thank you first of all for doing this. this is extraordinarily important. because if we're going to have the kind of safety agenda that we need in this country, we've got to get the truth out. that's the bottom line and i'm particularly pleased that you have three individuals that i've had a chance to talk to in the case of mr. carpenter for practically two decades now, and dr. tamacitis and mrs. busche as well. getting the real story at the department of energy's hanford site is tujly important for our part of the world. as some of you know, hanford essentially adjoins the columbia river. which is our life blood. for our quality of life, and recreation, and business, and a whole host of needs.

. >> this weekend on c-span, senate finance committee chair ron wyden on challenges facing medicare and hospitals. saturday morning at 10 eastern, and on book technocrats, historical and culture ties between russia and ukraine sunday at 5:45 on c-span2, and on c-span3, american history tv, george washington's mount vernon sunday night at eight. >> state department officials on capitol hill thawrs to discuss u.s.-russia relations after intervention in ukraine, and the support of the president. he testified before the senate foreign relations feet when are two hours. >> this hearing will come to order. let me think the deputy secretary of state for coming. this was planned well before the current state of v.s, understanding the challenges of the schedule, we so appreciate you being here with us and panelists to provide per speck titch on the increasingly violence spillover from the op going conflict in syria and hear from the secretary from russia's military intervention in the ukraine. as a cautionary note, we have a vote that will be taking place at 11:20, and we'll see where we are at

. >> this weekend, senate finance committee chair ron wyden on the challenges facing medicare and hospitals saturday morning at 10 a.m. eastern. on booktv the historical and cultural ties between russia and ukraine sunday at 5:45 p.m. on c-span2. on c-span3's american history tv, the grounds and architecture of george washington's mount vernon sunday night at 8 p.m. >> dan pfeiffer, senior advisor president obama sat down for an interview yesterday with political correspondent mike allen at the top explained the administrations new sanctions over russia's intervention in ukraine. he also spoke about the white house communication habits, including the reliance on twitter and what the president likes to read. this is about 50 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome politico's chief white house correspondent mike allen. [applause] >> good morning and welcome to the playbook breakfast. thank you for bearing with us as we rescheduled the time and place because of the ice. i think my political colleagues and the white house are making this new gig available and for you all for coming. wa

what is incredible about these accusations is they are not coming from is senator ron privacy is important wyden or senator rand, don't kill me with a flying robot paul. they are coming from diane so the n.s.a. is looking at your data feinstein. >> the surveillance activities conducted under fisa and other programs operated by the national security agency are lawful. it has not been abused or misused well. need this capability to keep people safe. >> jon: she doesn't mind as far as security apparatus is looking at your stuff because your stuff is (bleep). but her stuff (bleep) is stuff. [cheers and applause] there we go. drop that in there that's any time i use that i always gotta -- [laughter] -- i miss you. i miss you. i miss you. [cheers and applause] c.i.a. director john brennan what do you have to say in your defense? >> as far as the allegations of, you know, c.i.a. hacking into senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth. we wouldn't do that i mean that's -- that's just beyond the, you know, the scope of reason. [ laughter ] >> jon: here is my favorite part about that -- i l

people ask me how do i get along with ron wyden. i said everybody gets along with him. you might not agree with him. everybody gets along with him. that's rare in these times. mr. secretary, one of the issues senator burr referred to and senator isakson, i'm always asked on my visits home whether anybody will be held accountable for the scandals at the irs. i have introduced legislation along with senator flake -- let me get to that here. the bill would stop the irs from intimidating or targeting groups for their beliefs. 40 other senators have co-sponsored this bill last week, the house passed very similar legislation. i hope this is on the fast track. it would simply halt further action on the irs's proposed regulations until ongoing investigations are completed by the justice department, house, ways and means committee and this committee, the finance committee. i don't think it's controversial, just let the full light of day shine on these practices before allowing the irs to move to new restrictions on any political activity. the bill freezes further irs action for

. >> this weekend on c-span, senate finance committee chair ron wyden on the challenges facing medicare and hospitals. saturday morning at 10 eastern. and on booktv, the historical and cultural ties between russia ask ukraine, sunday at 5:45 on c-span2. and on c-span3's american history tv, the grounds and architecture of george washington's mount vernon, sunday night at 8. >>> c-span2, providing live coverage of the u.s. senate floor proceedings and key public policy events. and every weekend, booktv. now for 15 years, the only television network devoted to nonfiction books and authors. c-span2, created by the cable tv industry and funded by your local cable or satellite provider. watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> officials from the state department, usaid and the treasury department testified on capitol hill thursday about russia's actions in ukraine. after the hearing the committee took up a resolution condemning russia's intervention there. this portion is two and a half hours. [inaudible conversations] >> i'm going to call the chao to order at this ti

interpreting it in the widest possible manner, and some people in congress like senator ron wyden saidever thought this was going to happen. patriot actof the said it exceeded what he thought would happen. host: what was the message when yahoo! lost the battle? the other message to companies was we have to cooperate. they pushed back and said he wanted tell our customers the kind of information we are handing over and how much. they can only do this in limited ways that did not give a whole picture for what is going on. after president obama announced reforms, modest reforms of the surveillance ask, this january, there is a little more play in what the companies can say. even so, we do not have a complete picture of the nate church of the information they are handing over and how wide the scope is. in a way, it is less relevant now that we know from the back , the nsa is getting massive amounts of information, and what the companies want to do in those cases is encrypt the information so the government cannot easily access it and read it. >> what does the government say about encryptio

used by senate aides to write and prepare the study and in retrospect it now seems like senator ron wyden another member of the intelligence committee was trying to get the cia to admit the illegality of its actions back in january yes cia director john brennan if the federal computer fraud abuse act applied to his own agency that law makes it a criminal act to intentionally acts as a computer without authorization and in fact other parties have faced decades in prison for violating it shockingly brennan who promised last year to make declassification of the report and top priority finally admitted five days ago that the act did indeed apply to the cia essentially indicting someone in his agency now since these revelations the cia inspector general has requested that the justice department now get involved but the white house has remained largely silent and that's not much of a surprise considering the white house is in its own feet with it but the intelligence committee refusing to give up certain top secret documents related to the investigation because the cia is claiming executive pri