this is for our town hall for senator wyden. you all to stand for the singing of our national anthem by a student at a local high school. ♪ o say can you see byç the dawn's early light what do proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o, say, does that star-s pangled banner yet wave? o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ♪ [applause] >> let's give him a big round of applause -- give kim a big round of applause. again, let me welcome you to the town hall meeting. i would also like to welcome some special guests, representative sarah gelser, the sheriff, the district attorney, mayer tomlinson, a district court judge john holcomb, a former senator cliff -- >and a number of other people in the audience. i know once iw3 start listing everyone, i know i will forget someone. so i wil

this is for our town hall for senator wyden.all to stand for the singing of our national anthem by a student at a local high school. ♪ o say can you see by the dawn's early light what do proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave? o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ♪ [applause] >> let's give kim a big round of applause. again, let me welcome you to the town hall meeting. i would also like to welcome some special guests, representative sarah gelser, the sheriff, the district attorney, mayer tomlinson, a district court judge john holcomb, and a number of other people in the audience. i know once i start listing everyone, i know i will forget someone. so i will stop right there. i also want to mention there will be another opportun

this is for our town hall for senator wyden.e singing of our national anthem by a student at a local high school. ♪ o say can you see byç the dawn's early light what do proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o, say, does that star-s pangled banner yet wave? o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ♪ [applause] >> let's give him a big round of applause -- give kim a big round of applause. again, let me welcome you to the town hall meeting. i would also like to welcome some special guests, representative sarah gelser, the sheriff, the district attorney, mayer tomlinson, a district court judge john holcomb, a former senator cliff -- >and a number of other people in the audience. i know once iw3 start listing everyone, i know i will forget someone. so i will stop right there. i al

ron wyden seeking reelection. republicans waline.caller: i hear a lot of political talk about one party or another, and you are reading numbers about the disenfranchised. i'm a working guy, have been laid off, and what everyone of us is talking about, what everyone is saying, what does not seem to be getting hurt on the political level is that there is no real change. the change we're talking what is jobs coming back, seeing the people here are actually having their lifestyles getting better, not worse, with health care that is affordable, not just an option, but something real and affordable so that we are now trapped in ones we don't like. guest: this is a problem the president has. the congress has been doing a lot of different things, but the results have not been there. people do not see the results. if the economy were improving, even if the president had not done anything, he would get credit for it. and that is the change, the change for how people feel, that they're happy with the way their lives are improving. this is the p

i would like to introduce senator ron wyden.e did the work you put in it to setçó up a healthy forest issue for east side forcest. so we can make short that we do not let our forests burn out. -- so we can make sure we do not let our forests burn up. >do we need to wire you? >> i'm fine. thank you so much for that gracious and inflationary introduction. we are going to go with questions with commissioner dickson in a minute. how many of you have never been to one of our town hall meetings? raise your hands. before i go to questions, i usually start with a couple of comments, an hour or so possy worth. ççó's worth. he thinks some serious. the gentlemen in the third row, his face got all pale. that is not what we are going to do at all. this is part of the pledge that i made to organ back in 1995. i said if i was chosen as the first new united states senator in 30 years, we would have an open community meeting in every county every year that i served in the senate. so that is what we have done. we have met more than 500 times. fo

. >> thank you so much, senator wyden for coming today and especially for coming to the middle schooland as a parent of two student that is attend here, i could assure you as beautiful as this building is, the staff led by principal james wickman and the students here are far more impressive. >> a round for the staff. where's the principal? congratulations, mr. principle ball. thank you. >> my question also is about the health care reform bill. i mentioned i have children and among them are three daughters and they and i benefit from the work of generations of women that came before us. and so we have opportunities and politician and business and in sports that my mother and grandmother could not have dreamed of. that includes the chris, the at some point to mick choices about our own future as mothers and reproductive health choices. what is the future of -- for my daughters, in terms of their ability to make their oin choices about their reproductivive health and access to the full range of choices and their ability to afford to pay for them, even in privately paid insurance plans a

ron wyden seeking reelection. republicans waline.aller: i hear a lot of political talk about one party or another, and you are reading numbers about the disenfranchised. i'm a working guy, have been laid off, and what everyone of us is talking about, what everyone is saying, what does not seem to be getting hurt on the political level is that there is no real change. the change we're talking what is jobs coming back, seeing the people here are actually having their lifestyles getting better, not worse, with health care that is affordable, not just an option, but something real and affordable so that we are now trapped in ones we don't like. guest: this is a problem the president has. the congress has been doing a lot of different things, but the results have not been there. people do not see the results. if the economy were improving, even if the president had not done anything, he would get credit for it. and that is the change, the change for how people feel, that they're happy with the way their lives are improving. this is the pr

senator wyden and i have a proposal called to build america bonds, which i think is sort of theater whiching about. it's a way of bonding for capital improvements. i agree entirely that the way that we budget around here defies any sort of common sense or, you know, rational basis for making these types of decisions. it's clearly not the way that the decisions need to be made in the dirt if you're running a private business. so i appreciate your observations about that. and i would say to mr. skancke that if brett fired his blame for the vikings next year, there will be a lot more people who want to get from sioux falls to minneapolis and preferably quickly and without having to drive through blizzard. [laughter] if i might direct a question, this would be to mr. szabo and ms. fleming. the problem with developing reliable questions for ridership in cost. the concern is that overly optimistic project proponents are going to overestimate cost and if the federal government makes investment decisions based on faulty forecast, we are going to fund projects that won't be successful. so, i guess