If China is helping its domestic industries charge an artificially low price for solar panels and other environmental goods, then China is violating international trade rules that it agreed to when it became a member of the World Trade Organization. – Ron Wyden
As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world. – Ron Wyden
It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryans plan to inject market forces into the American health care system, they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law. – Ron Wyden
For the amount of money that the country is going to spend this year on health care, you can go out and hire a doctor for every seven families in the US and pay the doctor almost $230,000 a year to cover them. – Ron Wyden
Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies. – Garrett Hardin