. >>> senator ron wyden, senior democrat on the senate finance committee, talks now about possible changes to corporate tax policy proposed by president trump. also, a panel on corporate taxes and remarks from douglas holtz aiken, economist and former congressional budget office director under the george w. bush administration. >>> morning, everybody. welcome to today's event sponsored by the tax policy center. my name is mark mazur. i'm the director of the tax policy from which is co-sponsored by the urban institute and the brookings institution. i've been at the tax policy center just over a month now and i'm excited to be part of this fantastic organization. we have a wonderful program today covering prospects for corporate or business tax reforms and featuring a number of perspectives. we have senator ron wyden, alan auerbach, who will discuss the destination based cash flow tax as a major step toward reform, followed by a panel of experts to discuss the pros and cons of this approach. we'll finish up today with the american action forum providing his views on the need and prospects fo

so let me turn to the formal part and introduce the keynote speaker, senator ron wyden, the senior senator from oregon and after distinguished house career. senator is currently the ranking member of the senate finance committee. federal policy, trade policy, social security, medicare, medicaid, many other programs. senator wyden is well known for work ethic and commitment to developing bipartisan solutions to our nation's problems including broad-based tax reform. for example, several years ago, senator wyden teamed up with senator gray to a tax reform that analyzed and determined would be approximately revenue neutral as advertised. and subsequently updated and senator wyden look for bipartisan solutions. senator wyden and i have more in common than a long standing interest in tax and both have degrees from stanford university and an interest in been. though the senator is by far a more skilled player. i'm pleased to get to kick off today's event from senator ron wyden. >> thank you. >> while keeping this basketball a analogy, i think we got the nba all-stars here of the tax reform debat

have so let me turn to a formal part of the program today and it is our keynote speaker senator ron wyden. senator wyden is a senior center from oregon having served over two decades in the exit soon after distinguished house career. senator wyden is currently the ranking member of the senate finance committee which oversees federal policy, trade policy social security, medicare and medicaid in many other programs. senator wyden is well known for his work ethic and his commitment to developing bipartisan solutions to our nations problems including broad-based tax reform. several years ago senator wyden teamed up with then centigrade for a bipartisan tax reform to determine approximate reveling neutral as advertised. it was updated with senator coats. senator wyden and i have more in common that a long-standing interest in tax. we both have degrees from stanford university and an interest in basketball. the senator as by far a more skilled labor i'm pleased we get to concoc concocted a fit with s of senator ron wyden. >> thank you. [applause] >> keeping this basketball analogy in perspecti

senator ron wyden, the senior democrat on the finance committee talked about the trump tax policy from the center in washington, dc, this is half an hour. >> good morning, everybody. welcome to today's event sponsored by the tax policy center. i'm mark mazur. i'm director of the tax policy center. been here over a month now and excited to be part of this organization. we have a wonderful program today with prospects for corporate or business tax reform and featuring a number of perspectives. we have senator ron wieden to provide a legislative professor, alan arback to discuss the major step towards reform and a panel of experts to discuss the pros and cons of this approach. and we'll finish up today with doug holtz with his views on the need for corporate tax reform. as we go through the program today, i encourage the audience to use the hashtag "live at urban" with today's event and on webcast, if you want to ask questions of the speakers, go to events@urban.org. we'll have someone mon orriitor the e-mail box so they can be folded into the discussion. for people today, the comment car

we are ron wyden, and a panel of experts to discuss the pros and cons of his approach. we will finish up with the american action forum providing views on the need and prospect for corporate tax reform. i encourage the audience to use the #liveaturban who commenting. in addition, those watching the web cast who want to ask questions send e-mails to eve @ event@urban.o event@urban.org. for people in the audience, comment cards on your chair with questions to senator wyden. all the other q&a sessions we will pass around a microphone. let me introduce our keynote speaker. senator wyden is the senator from oregon. he is currently the ranking member of the senate finance committee that oversees federal tax, trade policy, social security, medicare and many other programs. senator wyden is known for his work ethic. for example, a couple years ago, senator wyden and i have more in common than a long standing interest. we both have degrees from the same university and play basketball. [applause] >> keeping this basketball analogy in perspective, i would say i think we have the n

earlier today oregon senator ron wyden on the senate finance committee, former budget director discussed corporate tax policy. this conversation runs about one hour. >> will to the event sponsored by the tax policy center. my name is mark, i'm, the director of the tax policy center cosponsored by the brookings institution. i've been here for over a month and i'm excited to be part of this organization. we have a wonderful program covering prospect for tax reform. we have senator ron wyden, professor l to discuss the destination -based tax followed by a panel of experts to discuss the pros and cons of the approach. to finish up the american action form. as we go through the program encourage the audience choose the # live at urban. in addition for those viewing please send the questions via e-mail to events at urban..org. some monitoring e-mails to be folded into the discussion. people people in the audience today there, cards on your chairs, all the other q&a sessions will pass run a microphone. that is it for the housekeeping announcements. will talk to our keynote speaker. senator sena

. >> coming up on c-span to will hear from ron wyden. a former congressional budget office director and other experts on corporate tax policy. later some some highlights from last weekend's conservative political action conference in national harbor maryland. first capitol hill. floor votes on defense spending for this year. >> one of the headlines is help details emerge over secret drafts. kelly joins us who is a reporter for look at the health care bill. we might look at it is the wrong or because not many are getting a look at it. the republican plan to repeal and replace what can you tell us about the status and when will be committees be marketed up? >> they are revising this legislation they'll be used to repeal and replace the affordable care act.

joined now by democratic senator from oregon and member of the select committee on intelligence, ron wyden. senatorwiden, welcome back-- wyden welcome back to the program. a quick question what is going on on the house side, that is a disclosure today that it was white house aidees who provided the house intelligence committee chairman or help provide him with surveillance reports on the trump campaign, trump transition. how do you see this affecting the ability of this investigation to go forward? >> judy, i would just say the new news in the house of representatives is really bizarre. and it seems to me the chairman over there, mr. nunes really doesn't have an occupation of credibility left. from all that we have been able to gather, he has sort of conveyed this impression that this information he got was from something like a whistle-blower, a real independent intelligence source. now it really looks like just plain old white house spin. >> woodruff: and we also learned today that it was individuals close to the president, steve bannon, the president's son in law jared kushner who were

. >>> senator ron wyden, senior democrat on the senate finance committee, talks now about possible changes to corporate tax policy proposed by president trump. also, a panel on corporate taxes and remarks from douglas holtz aiken, economist and former congressional budget office director under the george w. bush administration.

oregon senator ron wyden, top democrat on the finance committee, spoke on the floor about the congressional budget office report showing 24 alien 24 million people will lose insurance coverage under the republican bill to repeal the affordable care act. he spoke about what he called care" to be cms administrator, who was confirmed by the senate monday. mr. wyden: the hard numbers are now in on trumpcare and there is no sugar coating them for the american people. 24 million americans get kicked off their insurance plans. $880 billion is slashed from medicaid in the first decade. a payday worth hundreds of billions of dollars goes out to the wealthiest and the special interests. that is what is going to be dropped on her plate if she is confirmed and if the bill passes. it is her nomination for debate right now. we should make no mistake that she is going to be in charge of the the specifics. if trumpcare passes under section 132, the new administrator would give states a greenlight to push sick patients in the high-risk pool when the historical record shows these high-risk pools are a failur

. >> oregon senator ron wyden, the top democrat on the senate finance committee spoke on the floor about the congressional budget office report showing 24 million people will lose an insurance coverage over the next decade under the republican beale to repeal the affordable architect. he spoke about what he called trump care to be cms administrator, confirmed are the administration monday. mr. wyden: the hard numbers are now in on trump care hands there is no sugar coating them for the american people. 24 million americans get kicked off their insurance plans. $880 billion will be slashed from medicaid in the first decade. a payday worth hundreds of millions of dollars goes out to the wealthiest and the special interests. that is what is one

oregon senator ron wyden, top democrat on the finance committee, spoke on the floor about the congressional budget office report showing 24 alien 24 million people will lose insurance coverage under the republican bill to repeal the affordable care act. he spoke about what he called care" to be cms administrator, who won

ron wyden reportedly says that he has not had any conversations with the trump administration about healthe yet. genuine, sincerity, the words that pop in my head when i hear things from chuck schumer saying he would never allow the supreme court nominee to go for. we are now going to trust the democrats will come on board. >> bill: on board with what? there is a breach that can't be healed. the democratic party once free health care for those who cannot or will not pay for it. that's what they want. they will not back off that. republican party says no, we're not going to approve another entitlement. that's going to bankrupt the nation and cause working americans to pay for their insurance, higher premiums. that breach is impossible. if you're going to stay where you are, and both parties well, you won't get any democratic support. what the republican pinheads have to do -- >> sandra: are they all pinheads? >> bill: the republican party is in disarray. trump didn't win because of the republican party, he won because of the populace. he won because of his ability to reach the voters. >> me

one member of the intelligence committee ron wyden saying that mr. nunes may have disclosed classified information, appears that he may have revealed classified information which quote would be a serious concern. >> manu raju on capitol hill. this adding a layer of controversy to president trump's campaign that he was wiretapped by president obama. let's check in with jeff zeleny. you had a chance to ask the president about all this. >> we did, wolf. this is coming in terms of a lifeline here at least an immediate one here for the white house which has been under siege for the week. we asked the president his opinion. >> doubtful vindicated by chairman nunes coming in there. >> i somewhat do. i very much appreciate the fact that they found what they found. >> they found what they found. but we tried asking him as he was meeting with other lawmakers what they found and he was not answering questions, wolf. this whole extraordinary development from capitol hill really shocking all of washington is simply raising more a certain about all of this. it is

. >> also senator ron wyden, top democrat on the finance committee, urged the intelligence panel to dig into ties between president trump, is his associates in russia. devin nunes has been under intense pressure with democrats and republican congressman walter jones of north carolina calling on him to recuse himself from this probe. critics are accusing him of acting as a surrogate for the white house and not an independent investigator. today nunes fired back. >> we are going to do an investigation with or without them. >> and nunes accused democrats of not being serious about the investigation. >> as far as i know, they've done very little to look through the documents the intelligence agencies have provided. so i think at the end of the day, we are going to get to the truth and we're going to find out who is doing a real investigation. you will find out that we are very much doing an investigation and have been for a long time. >> spokesman for adam schiff says he's been reviewing documents. "the minorities submitted a list of witnesses to the majority yesterday. this list represents

millions of americans, even though he got that question in advance about that issue from senator ron wydenten. >> does the nsa collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans? >> no, sir. >> it does not? >> not wittingly. there are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect but not wittingly. liz: james clapper later admitted that, yes, the nsa does, in fact, collect data on americans on their phones, possibly e-mails. in fact, the nsa can track our phones right now, according to judge napolitano. let's bring in the attorney who won one of the most, if not the most important lawsuits against nsa data collection. he's freedom watch founder larry claman. judge, what do you make of james clapper is now saying? >> well, what he's saying is obviously false. you know, that was under oath. if it had been you or me, liz, we would be at a minimum indicted for perjury. and the fact that he was head of national intelligence illegally swaling millions of americans would get you in jail probably for the rest of your life. and if you look at his demeanor yester

oregon democratic senator ron wyden is calling for u.s. treasury secretary steven mnuchin to face a government ethics violation investigation after mnuchin told parents to "send all your kids to "lego batman," a film that was financed by one of mnuchin's companies. in a letter to office of government ethics director walter shaub, senator wyden called the comments troubling and wrote -- "i am concerned that sec mnuchin's comments may be seen to have a predictable effect on the financial interests of the entity. i request that you review sec mnuchin's comments and report any findings to me and the treasury department." in a historic moment in britain's history, prime minister theresa may has officially begun the process of written leaving the european union known as brexit. this morning, british diplomat handed the letter to donald tusk, the president of the european council. the letter known as article 50 will now trigger two years of negotiations about the terms of britain's departure from the european union. the first minister of scotland

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there we see some democrats, of course, ben parden, al franken, and ron wyden of the democratic party of the senate. >> we're going to see a whole bunch of democratic house members, women, wearing white tonight. our viewers are going to see that. see it a little bit already. and it's sort of an act of support for women's issues, a lot of the women in the movement in the 1900s wore white and we're going to see a lot of democratic house members wearing white. >> act of support, also something of an act of defiance. they are not wearing the pink hats that we saw during the women's rally a few weeks ago, but along those lines. i think it's meant to send a message to president trump. >> but they don't want to do away with, for example, planned parenthood, funding for planned parenthood, that's an important issue that they are hoping by wearing white they are reflecting that. >> that's right. we just saw senator richard burr of north carolina, the chairman of the senate intelligence committee. he's been facing something of a controversy, having agreed to talk to reporters to push back on a

what we need is someone, as ron wyden has pointed out, and the chairman pointed out, who will hustle and get things done and work out the differences. again, that's my friend, bob lighthizer. thank you. mr. hatch: thank you, senator. [applause] thank you, senator dole. mr. lighthizer, you couldn't have a better person come and refer to you and support you than senator dole. we all love him, respect him. we'll turn to senator brown now at this point. the senator. mr. brown: thank you, mr. chairman. i'm not sure why rob and i are doing this after the distinguished senator dole did such a good job of introducing him. senator dole, thank you so much. it was a pleasure to get to hear about ohio and rob and i were both hoping we would get to mention it first. that your great-grandfather was born there. i appreciated the comments of the ranking member. and i want to say, take a moment before introducing mr. lighthizer, to acknowledge the coal miners in my state and across the country on the verge of losing their health care and the retirement they earned over a lifetime of back-breaking wor

i'd like to ask that -- i'd like to yield the remainder of my postcloture debate time to senator ron wyden of oregon. the presiding officer: the senator has that right. mr. carper: thank you. i so yield. the remainder of my postcloture today to senator wyden. thank you. the presiding officer: the senator from arkansas. mr. boozman: thank you, mr. president. when president trump began his campaign for the white house, he made national security and in particular homeland security a cornerstone of his platform. his calls to secure the border keep terrorists off u.s. soil and to protect our communities struck a chord with the large majority of americans who for years felt that washington ignored their very real concerns about our porous borders and broken immigration system. as expected, the president has moved quickly to deliver on his promises to fix this broken system. this week, the trump administration rolled out a revised version of its executive order aimed at restoring confidence in the procedures we have used to vet refugees fleeing from nations that are known to harbor radical and vi

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what we need is someone as ron wyden pointed out, and the chairman pointed out, who will hustle and work out the differences and that is my friend, bob lighthizer. thank you. >> thank you, senator. [applause] >> you could not have a better person come and refer and support you. we all love and respect him. turn to senator brown now at this point and then to senator. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i am not sure why rob and i are doing this after the distinguished senator dole did such a good job introducing you. it was a pleasure to here about montpelier, ohio. rob and i were both hoping we would get to mention your great grandfather was born in montpelier. i want to take a moment before introducing mr. lighthizer in my state and the retirement they earned over a lifetime of work. many of the minors were scheduled to be in the room until the snowstorm hit. two and a half months into this here and the committee hasn't even held a hearing on this issue. these minors can't food to wait. we must act sooner rather than later. today we are hear to consider robert lighthizer nomination to the trade

what we need is someone ron wyden pointed out at the chairman pointed out who will hustle and get things done and work out the differences. and again, that is my friend bob lighthizer. [applause] thank you, senator. you couldn't have a person better to come and be sure to you and support you then senator dole. we love and respect him. senator brown at this point and then --. >> thank you mr. chairman. i am not sure why we are doing this after the distinguishedin senator did such a good job. thank you so much.d it was a pleasure to get to hear about montpelier ohio. we were hoping we would get to mention first that your great-grandfather was born in montpelier. i appreciate the comments that the ranking member and i want to take a moment before introducinm mr. lighthizer to acknowledge the coal miners in my state and across the state on the verge of losing their health care over a lifetime of backbreaking work. many were scheduled to be in the room toda today until the snow m hit. these are the people we work for right now congress is failing them. into this year the committee is asked to

think about ron wyden in the senate also. i think what ryan is concerned about is having trump do the outreach with democrats without trump having any real agenda. you go from that house bill cutting a trillion dollars spending a trillion dollars in taxes. that is not what democrats in the senate want to work with them are going to propose. >> they can be adversarial. they say it conversation needs to happen. dagen: they don't think anything was wrong with nancy pelosi. that's going to give us a window of where we are in this economy. it's expected around one, 1.5% of the gdp. san francisco fundraiser president john libs will be you're talking about economic impact of president trumps policy. you want to stay with us for the president of the san francisco federal reserve, john libs coming out. a high-stakes reboot for sam's reboot for samsung. with the launch of the galaxy will mean for the aftermath of the exploding note seven scandal. reaching across the a score aspirin which you have to do to get your starbucks fix for fre

. >> reporter: ron wyden thinks the problem is so serious, he is introducing legislation, requiring searchf the government wants to search the phones of americans at the border. >> what's going on at the border has the potential to be a real digital dragnet. i think this really puts at risk both the security and the liberty of the american people. >> reporter: the inspector-general at the department of homeland security is investigating the case of our buffalo couple. meanwhile, dhs points out, electronic searches affect less than 1% of travelers. and they say the increased searches are in response to new threats. >> a lot of people is going to be surprised this is perfectly legal at the moment. say it happened to you. >> the first thing to do is stay calm, which for a lot of us would be difficult. stay calm. do not be aggressive. ask for a supervisor. sometimes supervisor can downgrade the situation. you do not have to turn overyour pa password. you get to sit there for a long time while they take it in the back and make a clone of it. regardless of if you give the password, they get acce

brian: democratic senator ron wyden asking that question.ey: then we know edward snowden revealed all that information that that was not the truth. brian: now let's take a look at what the intelligence community wants you to know and doesn't want you to know. in fact, in terms of what the obama administration did or didn't do, in up ending the trump administration as it became -- as he was president-elect and a nominee. keep in mind, too. as you look at what the president does and hasn't done, we know for sure that the president was able to look at dialogue, at intercepts of benjamin netanyahu's conversation with u.s. congressman and women as it relates to the iranian deal and it relates. steve: president obama. brian: president obama. so if he was actually going back and forth on that and also kind of interesting that senator coons says transcripts exist from the trump tower, he believes and some type of russian source, then he later walked that back yesterday. then in comes josh earnest and he was asked about that. now, before, let me back

that is what senator ron wyden expressed so much concern about to congress about the latitude that some on the original target or original intent. you're name is caught up in it an your name is not involved but they can still see. >> i been told by a source that was surveiled i was not on a fisa warrant but a different way they surveiled. steve: maybe that is what devin nunes talking about incidental collection. russian ambassador talks to michael flynn on the phone but appearing masked as u.s. citizen number one, somebody in the government removed that, saw it was flynn, leaked it to the papers, he got ruined. >> here is a really strange thing a source first-hand told me, presidents can issue directives that make legal or allow people to do things that are otherwise illegal, almost anything. and that means, we would never know about it because the directive i'm told comes with a cover story and indemnity for those involved and permission for them to lie about it if ever caught. steve: like "mission: impossible." holy cow. ainsley: if the president didn't like your reporting he could su

we have senator ron wyden, professor l to discuss the destination

ron wyden earlier today, a former congressional budget office, and others discussed corporate tax policy at the urban institute. this conversation runs about an hour. >> morning and welcome to