The Latest Breaking News from Ron Wyden

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle want to restore a pandemic-era employee retention tax break for small businesses and nonprofits.

U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) published a letter to the U.S. labor secretary on Feb. 15 arguing against the outsourcing of facial recognition and identity verification for unemployment insurance benefits to the private sector.

Two Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee say the CIA has a secret, undisclosed data repository that includes information collected about Americans

WASHINGTON— Las elecciones de 2022 pondrán a prueba si el sector de las criptomonedas, cuyo valor se quintuplicó a finales de 2020 y que aumentó gracias a una disposición fiscal promulgada en noviembre, impulsará el gasto para las campañas políticas.

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) asked senators to help them complete the marijuana legalization bill expected to be filed in April.

WASHINGTON — The 2022 elections will test whether the cryptocurrency industry, now more than five times its value in late 2020 and fired up by a tax provision enacted in November, will boost spending on political campaigns.

Senate Finance Committee leaders said they aim to put together a bipartisan legislative package addressing mental health.

The crypto currency industry contributed far more money to candidates in 2021 than in 2019, a sign of its growing market value.

A senior Senate Democrat is urging the Internal Revenue Service to abandon the use of a facial recognition software for taxpayers to access their documents online.