chair wyden: thank you. mr. craig johnson. >> thank you for the opportunity to testify today regarding the south dakota versus wayfarer decision and allowing me to share what our member states have done to make implementation of the decision easier for remote sellers nationwide. i am executive director of the streamlined sales tax governing board, referred to as sst, make out -- made up of 24 states committed two simplification and uniformity. sst represents a collaboration between states, local governments and the business community to simplify taxes and level the playing field for sellers. the result is a streamlined sales and use tax agreement, a voluntary agreement that represents a blueprint for allstate to reduce the burden of tax compliance. in 2016, south dakota enacted legislation to require remote sellers who engaged in 200 or more transactions or who had one of the thousand dollars revenue in a calendar year, to collect and remit tax. the wayfarer decision determined remote sellers who exceeded south

senator wyden. mr. wyden: thank you very much, senator brown. i see in the chair another strong supporter of social security, the distinguished senator. the presiding officer: massachusetts. for colleagues who aren't aware, senator brown is our chair of the subcommittee on social security and the senate finance committee. this is a crucial subcommittee for all the reasons that senator brown just mentioned, and i'm just going to make a couple of points and if my colleague is still on the floor, maybe we can have a little bit of a colloquy. what senator brown -- the presiding officer: without objection. mr. wyden: thank you. what senator brown has illustrated again is the differences between the two parties on social security and medicare. and my colleague was kind enough to go back to my past as codirector of the oregon great pan -- gray panthers. ever since those days, the difference between the two parties has been that on our side of the aisle, we're very blunt when we get asked about social security and medicare. as senator brown just said, o

>> yes, senator wyden, i think there should be an independent board. i think the division of the responsibilities of the board, and by the inherent way that they are structured to post conflicts. it would be like if you had an organization there was as warning organization you would want to hold it accountable for its performance, and the current structure limits that opportunity. >> mr. friedman? >> chairman wyden, they actually changed, hrc, is requiring transplant individuals in the same thing can be employed here as well. as we make our location changes, people win, people lose, and what we have done in this country, through the efforts of this board, is really allowed individuals to express their opinion at the board level and the executive board level, that our base more towards individual needs. this has to change. that is why i continuously, at our region three meetings, continuously recommend that we separate that out and allow the membership of units. this is a membership driven organization, to bring us up to speed so that we have transparen

louis senator wyden and senator crapo for your help. we have not only bipartisan support, we have support from both branches of government. but i want to acknowledge the work that mr. roberts and his organization, the national association of housing lenders have done in developing this legislation. we developed it as a need to be deal with affordable housing. covid-19 has underscored this need even greater. inflation has made it even more urgent that we do something in this regard. we are talking about the appraisal gap for communities that need investments. that need for affordable housing. but the cost of building or renovating -- and therefore it cannot be done under regular, commercial circumstances. this leads to the decline of neighborhoods, as well as to making words the wealth gap in america. mr. roberts, can you elaborate as to how the current market, which is anything but predictable -- and investors willingness to go into communities, how the neighborhood home investment act would help us deal with that challenge? >> yes. and

i partnered with senator wyden to introduce the tax credit act. this bill is intended to complement la q.c. and make sure extremely low income renters don't have to pay more than 30% of their income towards housing. what happens in families like that, everything is upside down on their addicted. my first question is for mr. rogers. in cleveland, we have a group who have -- these homes, many of them need repairs. some of you have heard me on this committee as i say that the zip code my wife and i live in had more foreclosures in 2007 than any zip code in america. that does include in cleveland. when homeowners can make these repairs themselves, the house is empty or they are snapped up out of state investors who exploit the tax code to turn a profit. and that problem is evident. so mr. roberts, how can the neighborhood homes investment act -- i know he referred to it, help address the shortfall of affordable single family homes and keep homes in the hands of lower income and aspiring homeowners? >> well, thank you so much, senator, for your leaders

brown: thank you, senator wyden. and i will yield back my time in 30 seconds. mr.nt, thank you for your indulgence and senator leahy will be speaking in a moment, and senator wyden, the chair of the finance committee, we're just asking for cosponsors. we have a number of our colleagues that have cosponsored colleagues that have cosponsored we have a number of our colleagues have cosponsored this to make sure social security ish with us, strong good so security system as long as we are a nation. so yield the floor, thank you. >> 's senate today voted to advance a bill seeking to fund the federal government through december 16. current money runs out at midnight on september 30. today's vote followed an announcement by majority leader schumer offered by west virginia west virginia the temporary funding bill. mcconnell's decision to support momentarily more life senate coverage here on cspan2. x now available c-span shop, c-span's 2022 congressional directory. to order a copy of the congressional directory. the spiral-bound books as your guide to the federal governmen

. >> chairman wyden, ranking member, crapo, members of the senate finance committee, thank you for this opportunity to testify today and allowing me to show what our member states have done to make implementation of this decision easier for sailors nationwide. i'm craig johnson, executive governor streamlined sales tax. s s t is made up of 24 member states committed to simplification and uniformity. it represents a long term and successful collaboration between the states, local governments, and the business community, to simplify the sales tax systems throughout the country and level the playing field for all types of sellers. the result of this current collaboration is a streamlined sales tax agreement. a voluntary agreement to represent the blueprint for all states to follow to a substantially reduce the burden of tax compliance. in 2016, south dakota enacted legislation to require remote sellers who engage in 200 or more transactions or had $100,000 or more a gross revenue in the calendar year to collect and remit its tax. in 2018, the supreme court in the wayfair decision said that

i wasn't in the committee room at the time for the cosponsorship on this and certainly senator wyden and senator crapo we have support from both branches of government. but i want to acknowledge the work mr. roberts in his organization has done with regards to developing the legislation. we developed it as a needed to deal with affordable housing. covid-19 has underscored this even greater. inflation has made it even more urgent in this regard and we are talking about the appraisal gap but the cost of building and renovating exceeds the value and therefore cannot be done under the regular commercial circumstances. this leads to the decline of neighborhoods as well as making the wealth gap in america. so, can you just elaborate as to how the current markets which is anything but a predictable and investors willingness to go into communities and how the neighborhood home investment act would help us to deal with that. >> thank you so much for your leadership on this, senator. neighborhood homes provide states with van allocated amount of tax credits. they would set their own strategies

as senator wyden -- chairman wyden spoke earlier, when we took on big pharmaceutical to lower -- pharma to lower prescription drug prices, not one republican voted yes. when we took on big oil to lower energy costs and tackle the climate crisis, not one republican voted yes. when we took on corporations that pay zero in taxes, not one republican voted yes. the american people deserve to know why. how much dark money's coming in from those powerful interests to protect their profits? dark money could also be coming from foreign actors who wish to harm our country. what has been reported, though, again, is dark money is coming in from one really rich guy, one really rich guy who wants to make our nation a little bit towards his liking. american voters deserve to know who's spending huge -- huge, huge sums of money to influence our democracy. and under the disclose act, they will know that. it will strengthen the foreign money band to make sure foreign actors can't influence our elections. it requires corporations and other groups to disclose their donors right, left, democrat, republican,

. >> thank you, senator wyden. >> lindsey graham's bill is yet another exam it will how out of touch the republicans are with issues that really matter to the american people. so focusing on the inflation reduction act and lowering of prescription drug costs, they're about close to 300,000 seniors in hey who rely on medicare and lowering prescription drug costs in medicare and enabling us to negotiate this cost is something that so many of us are here with the affordable care act being first enacted and something we've been pushing for for over so years and it -- 10 years and took us that long for this life to negotiate and it's the largest healthcare system in our country has been doing for decades and also capping out of pocket costs for seniors at $2,000 and it'll enable over a million seniors in our country to have those costs capped and one thing that will make a difference to so many seniors right now is that those seniors to get their vaccinations free and especially for example shingles vaccine, one out of three older americans are affected by shingles and a lot don't get the

i'm glad that what senator wyden and senators are doing to schedule the hearing to work on this. i partnered on the tax credit to make sure that extremely low income renters don't have to pay more than 30% of their income towards housing and what happens in families like that everything is upside down when they are evicted. my first question for mr. roberts we have a lot of homes that can provide good affordable first generational opportunities. many of them some of you heard me on this committee as it could my wife and i lived in had more foreclosures in 2007 van any in america. when homeowners can't make the repairs themselves where they are snapped up by out-of-state investors the problems are evidence so how can the neighborhood and i know he referred to it to address the shortfall on single homes to keep those in the hands of aspiring homeowners. >> thank you senator for your leadership and everything you do in the banking committee is remarkable to see the comprehensiveness of your strategy. to fill the gap to build or rehab a home. it's not feasible for private developers

said we will crush the russian economy, well, the most striking and unfortunate statement was made by wydenout the dollar for 200 rubles the economy did not work out, and then a whole series of statements went out that russia should be defeated on the battlefield. yes, but here too let's understand what she doesn't mean. they don't mean some kind of thoth military rout of a nuclear powers a huge strong combat-ready russian army, they mean precisely a local defeat, somewhere some kind of defeat achieved in some way and an inflated medina, and they do this not in order to really undermine the military power of russia, but in order to undermine military spirit consent within russia they are betting on the february coup d'état remembered their history 1917 there were difficulties at the front, but russia was not defeated by military means at the moment when it matured in petrograd treason. this is what they are driving at, but a military defeat should become a kind of trigger for internal discord, discord, weakening of the country, therefore, in our country, as it happened many times. the main

wyden: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: i'd like to discuss the amendment that came up during the budget discussion. senate democrats made it very, very clear we were strongly against taxing those in our country with incomes under $400,000. the problem with the amendment that republicans offered is they used the word taxable income. so while we strongly oppose raising taxes on the middle-class people and others, under $400,000, the wording of the republican amendment, which talked about taxable income, could have immunized billionaires from being subject to an audit. that's because, mr. president, as you and i have talked about, billionaires often lives by this buy, borrow, and die philosophy, and they have little or no taxable income for years on end. my colleagues probably saw some of the stories, for example, about billionaires who were claiming the child tax credit because their taxable income was actually low, under the way it is defined. so, just to make sure the record is clear, we're all in on this effort of

wyden: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to vacate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. wyden: mr. president, i'm on the floor this afternoon with a request to confirm a highly l qualified nominee with bipartisan support, whose nomination was stalled for 210 days since it was approved by the finance committee. my understanding is there may be an objection to the unanimous consent that i would like to offer, and hopefully any senate republican who seeks to object will come to me. we'll be here, and i hope whatever concern they have, if in fact it is the case, that we can work it out in this very, very qualified individual can serve as commissioner of children, youth, and families within the department of health and human services. i'm talking about rebecca e. jones gaston. my view is this agency is a hugely underappreciated part of our government. its whole mission is to help vulnerable kids a

doctor jamie locke is next. >> chairman wyden embers of the committee, my name is dr. jamie locke and i am the director of the division of transportation surgery at the university of alabama and birmingham. i do a, b we currently have 1022 patients waitlist for kidneys and the majority self identified as african american or black. transportation is only supposed to be about the patient, but the system that we operate now has almost a complete lack of ownership and responsibility. where is a failing opioid, or unos failing at the most basic responsibilities are getting recovered organs mashed and safely to their intended recipients, these are the government's own contractors. my patients, your, constituents need your help. we know that thousands of kids are recovered and discarded every year, and thousands more are never recovered at all. this cards of increased since the most recent allocation change as the new system increased complexity and to date unos has shown no ability to manage even simple logistics. the most powerful thing to know about this is that every orga

among those who have attended the westminster hall today a bit earlier was president wyden, who was oneeaders and dignitaries who arrived for the funeral on monday. —— was president biden. let's begin with our coverage from nicholas witchell. it is ten days now since the news came of the queen's death. the new king, charles, arriving at buckingham palace earlier today with a wave to the crowds, has led the country's mourning in the days since. in a message tonight he said he'd been deeply touched by the many messages from around the world. "as we all prepare to say our last farewell, he wrote, i wanted simply among the hundreds of world leaders in london for the state funeral, the president of the united states. his motorcade arrived at the palace of westminster. a few moments later, president biden and the first lady of the united states, drjill biden, stood quietly on a balcony inside westminster hall. like so many thousands of others over the past four days, struck by the intensity of the scene. i think what she gave is a sense of maybe above all, the notion of service. we all owe so

. >> where are ron wyden and aoc on this.stand with libertarians and some conservatives against things like mass surveillance. why do you hate people's freedom so much? [laughter] >> i don't hate people's freedom at all. i think this is a very bad move by their credit card companies. i have done a lot of reporting around the gun holders in this country. what we know from a lot of recent statistics, african-american women. i think this is a very bad move by the credit card companies. it's not like they are being pushed by lawmakers to make these decisions. it is sort of goodwill, maybe bad well. if we want to have a conversation about how we proliferate guns in this country, that's talk about how we get illegal guns off of our streets. making sure people with mental illness do not get guns. tracking lawful citizens going out to protect their home and family to me seems to be indeed problematic. >> there is our honest liberal. >> libertarian richard is the best richard. every once in a while he surprises and delights. so, spike

you and i both know that wyden ran as somebody who could supersede the differenceness this country. instead he has run into a buzz saw that included the january 6th insurrection. he's had to readjust his thinking about what could be done and accomplished in partnership with the other side. we read some of the pretty strong quotes. is that going to be the tenor of the entire speech? >> you've got some excerpts, joy, of something in the speech something to give the american people and your viewers essentially a little bit of what the president is going to talk about. it's going to be an important moment, an important speech. what you are going to hear are core themes that you've heard from him the last three years. as you know, joy, we've talked about these, the need to protect our democracy. the need to protect our right, our freedom, how important that is. he's going to do it at independence hall where those core democracy, our rights were debated, they were drafted and that is so important to him to this this important conversation right now. look, for about two centuries now, more

. >> as democratic senator ron wyden, a member of the intelligence committee, calls for a briefing as soon as possible. >> i definitely want to know what's in there. given the fact that you have a number of agencies looking at these issues, the briefing probably needs to be conducted by more than one agency. >> senator mark warner, who is the chair of senate intel told our colleague manu raju he is hoping to get a briefing from the intelligence community soon but it's not likely to happen before the house returns to washington next week, jake. >> sara murray, thanks so much. joining us to deiscuss, donald ayer, and former cia chief of russia operations, steve hall. steve, how dangerous theoretically is this type of information if it were to fall into the wrong hands? >> yeah, this is some of the most sensitive stuff, jake, that one can imagine. i mean, our primary adversaries in today's world are those rogueinations that have nuclear weapons, russia, china, iran, north korea. and it's incredibly important, obviously, for us to know what they're doing with those nuclear weapons. and yo

wyden: mr. president, i note this has gone on longer than expected. i ask unanimous consent to move the vote until 1:50 so i can complete my remarks. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. wyden: the senate is several weeks on from passage of the inflation reduction act. this legislation is transform national and will transform the lives of millions. it is a big dose of affordable medicine, cheaper energy bills for homeowners and our businesses. the largest investment in fighting climate and a crackdown on tax cheats -- wealthy tax cheats who rip off the american people for billions of dollars every year and ensuring corporations pay a fair share. i'm proud to be able to say that a vast majority of this bill came from the senate finance committee majority. our team collectively spent thousands and thousands of hours developing these proposals, building support for them under zero margin for error and guaranteeing that they could pass under the challenging senate rules. senate democrats spent a full year debating what would go into the bill befo

i introduced legislation a couple of days ago with senator wyden and some of our colleagues on, and the marketplace that allows every voice to be heard and every competitor to compete. >> net neutral is important to prevent harmful gate keepers to the internet. for years now we've had providers committing to adhere to those principles, but we still have a number of examples over the years while we've not had clear net neutrality rules that should be looked at, that should be investigated by an expert agency like the fcc and unfortunately, they don't have the authority to do so right now so restoring the rules and that authority, i think, is essential. >> i agree with you. i think that net neutrality, it just means ondiscrimination, another way of saying it and we just can't allow discrimination on the net and that's going net neutrality and i'm going to continue with senator wyden with so many more of my colleagues. thank you, mr. chairman, the opportunity to be here. >> next, we'll hear from senator cap capito. >> i know this was asked earlier, but i would like to can, imposing 15% boo

let me read from senator ron wyden.ecord profits rewarding their ceo's and wealthy shareholders with massive stock buybacks and using special loopholes and tax codes to pay next to nothing in taxes. >> wind fall profits taxes have been tried before in this country. they doesn't achieve the goal desired. it is pretty basic that if you want more of something, you tend not to tax it. if you want less of something, you put taxes on it. >> that would make you produce less, you're saying? >> if you tax our industry, it does not incentivize investment. it zdiscourages investment. we work around the world and our capital is mobile and so a win fall in one country is likely to move that investment somewhere else. >> my thanks to chevron ceo michael wirth for that. i would note a brand-new report from the u.n. today says the climate heading into unchartered territory of destruction and the secretary general saying yet each year, we as a global, as a civilization, double down on this fossil fuel addiction. >> that is the point and

just a few people most notably, paul pelosi, husband of house speaker nancy pelosi, but also nancy wyden, gop senator john barrasso has an estimated $9 million in the market most of that is in broad, widely held funds, although he does own shares of beckershire hathaway but his office told me that he hasn't traded a stock in 15 years. so that's really the heart of the debate over whether just owning the stock is a potential conflict of interest >> i mean, it doesn't seem hard. i mean, we can't own stocks. i own one stock, comcast, and that's it. and my wife, the same way. we cannot own equities that is our rule here at cnbc. congress can trade options and then make legislation that would benefit the companies in the options they hold. it's insane! >> the answer so far from congress has been around disclosures, right at least let the public know what we're doing the reality, though,is someone -- >> because the public has so much time to dig through congressional stock trading records. >> the reality is as someone who has spent time looking through those disclosures is they're a mess they'

for women in our state today because of what the supreme court has done and i am supported by ron wydenonents to say a conspiracy there is an on the words of the capital in dc in january 6. so they are very out of step with the oregonians and what i can say is i would work hard to fight for you and the choices do we go to the right to make progress and solve her problems together? thank you. >> thank you to all candidates ever taking on the question i really appreciate it and thank you to the partners who made the governors debate possible on those to partner with news channel 21 to make this happen and if you reminders the deadline to register to vote is october 18 ballots are going out we hope what you heard tonight will help you make an informed decision on november 8. thank you for joining us "washi" continues. host: we welcome julie rovner back to the washington j the chief washington correspondent for kaiser health news and getting reaction to president biden yesterday on his remarks on lowering the cost of social security and strengthening those programs where the reactions to th

wyden, and i, say right? current law already waves certain provisions and prohibitions taken by doj against drones. this proposed bill waves all of title 18. why do you need to waive all of title 18 and why not keep the existing waivers in place? >> a couple of things d.o.d. and do we have a broad waiver. it helps us into robert with them. if we have the same authority. that is one. to, while you are correct that our current authority for dhs and doj only extends to certain provisions in title 18, we have been able to use that effectively thus far. we can't predict, this is a changing technology landscape, other statutes could come into play the future. we would be back in congress asking, again, if there's some new technology that's going to give the might a difference that you are not thinking. up we think the cleanest approach, given that we don't think that law enforcement officials using this technology, that you talk about here today to prevent threats from drones, it should not be criminal at all. vete

for women in our state today because of what the supreme court has done and i am supported by ron wydenonents to say a conspiracy there is an on the words of the capital in dc in january 6. so they are very out of step with the oregonians and what i can say is i would work hard to fight for you and the choices do we go to the right to make progress and solve her problems together? thank you. >> thank you to all candidates ever taking on the question i really appreciate it and thank you to the partners who made the governors debate possible on those to partner with news channel 21 to make this happen and if you reminders the deadline to register to vote is a lot of ballots will be going out on october 19th. we hope some of what you heard tonight will help you make informed decisions on november 8th. thanks for joining us, i am kathy marshall for news channel 21. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government funded by these television companies and more including spark light. >> the greatest town on earth is a place you call home. at spotlight it is our home too and right now we are all

wyden: mr. president, i just went over to our colleague from kansas and told him i would much rather be on the floor this afternoon working in a bipartisan way on something like this, and i hope that can be part of senate proceedings in the future. here's what i think is important for the public to know about this proposal. it is in the real world, the marshal proposal is a prescription for less flexibility and more red tape in american health care, and i want to be very specific. every member of this body understands that america has a serious shortage of nurses and health care providers. every single time we go home -- i'm sure this is the case for our colleague from kansas, a physician. he hears from physicians and providers. every time we're home, we hear from health care providers -- i see the president of the senate who's been a very strong advocate for health care improvements, for patients and providers -- every time we're home, we hear about the need for more health care providers. now,

you are correct, senator wyden. every minute counts, every second counts when we hear about downtown -- downtime as a i.t. issue. those are lives that are lost, patients dying, while i.t. systems are down. so, again, heartbreaking issues that we feel should be addressed. >> again, because you are on the front lines, tell us your experiences with unos systems. let's talk for example about something like donor net. why has that not been modernized? >> the response, that we were provided with the committee day i was chairing. i asked about improvements, if there was bandwidth that the i.t. department would address. >> you did not have current technology? >> i cannot say what started the response. but that was the response. >> bandwidth, that is a priority. your technology is not up-to-date. ok. let's go opio failure rates. again, like everywhere in our society there are performers that do well and some that do not. a range of organs is massive. the high-performing opio successfully recovered in transplant, as the poorl

wyden: madam president, i come to the floor to discuss the new graham legislation to create a national abortion ban. now, the centerpiece of the senator's argument is that senator graham wants our country to believe that his national abortion ban is a moderate proposal. his words. wrong, wrong, wrong. a moderate bill would not institute criminal penalties for doctors providing lifesaving medical care. that's what this so-called moderate bill does. a moderate bill would not take rights away from american women, no matter where they live. that's what this so-called moderate bill does. a moderate bill would not create a presumption of women's guilt by requiring them to report a rape or seek counseling before they get an abortion. this so-called moderate bill does that too. so just think about that last point. if you're trying to assess our colleague from south carolina's argument that his bill is, quote, moderate. under senator graham's new restrictions, a 12-year-old rape victim, regardless of the terror she feels or the danger she faces, could have to find a way to report her assault to