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Wyden Encourages States to Create Self-Employment Assistance Program as Labor Department Releases Guidelines
The U.S. Department of Labor issued guidelines today for state workforce agencies to create Self-Employment Assistance Programs (SEA) that would give their state’s unemployed an opportunity to not only get back to work but to become job creators themselves. The...…Read More
Posted on 05/24/12 | -
Markey, Wyden to CFTC: Are Commodity Investment Funds Skewing Oil Market?
Two Democratic lawmakers today asked the government agency tasked with regulating the nation’s commodities markets -- which includes crude oil futures and other derivatives trading -- to investigate whether commodities index funds are artificially inflatin...…Read More
Posted on 03/30/12 | -
Wyden, Carper, Casey Self-Employment Assistance Bill Included in Payroll Tax Agreement
In a victory for would-be entrepreneurs throughout the country, legislation to give unemployed Americans an opportunity to use their skills to build their own small businesses was included in the agreement on the payroll tax extension. Introduced by U.S. Senator...…Read More
Posted on 02/16/12 | -
Bipartisan Coalition of Lawmakers Urges Colleagues to Consider TRIP Bonds as an Additional Way to Fund Transportation Infrastructure Projects
Following today’s Congressional Budget Office (CBO) announcement that the Federal Highway Trust Fund has a much deeper deficit than previously believed, a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers from both houses of Congress are urging their colleagues to look at...…Read More
Posted on 01/31/12 | -
ADVISORY: Former CBO Director Holtz-Eakin to Join Bipartisan Coalition at Press Conference Calling for New Ways to Fund Infrastructure Projects
With the Congressional Budget Office’s expected announcement tomorrow that the National Highway Trust Fund’s deficit will continue to grow, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), former-CBO Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin and a bipartisan, bicameral coalition...…Read More
Posted on 01/30/12 | -
Wyden Response to the President’s State of the Union Address
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) released the following statement in response to President Obama’s State of the Union Address: “President Obama laid out his plan to help hard working Americans get back on their feet and...…Read More
Posted on 01/24/12 | -
Wyden and Moran Respond to the Postponing of Protect IP Vote in the Senate
Following the announcement from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that the vote on the Protect IP Act scheduled for Tuesday will be postponed, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Jerry Moran (R- Kan.) released the following statements. Wyden and Moran are the l...…Read More
Posted on 01/20/12 |