mr. wyden: mr. president. the presiding officer: recognize the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: mr. president, when the republican majority is going to the floor, what they're doing is hiding trillions of dollars in handouts to corporations and the wealthy. trillions of dollars. if you measure this bill the way we measure every other reconciliation bill, it simply doesn't comply with the rules. but the republican majority has figured out a trick that allows them to sidestep the parliamentarian, violate the congressional budget act, and lift the filibuster for trump's entire legislative agenda in one fell swoop. it is fakery. the budget numbers are a fraud. but the deficits will be very real. the prospect of a catastrophic death spiral is very real. the hardship this terrible bill is going to inflict on tens of millions of americans will be very real. my parliamentariany inquiry will proceed now. does the score of the financed title of the senate substitute, by the chayman asserts -- the chairman asserts complies with the instruction, rely on current policy for taxes and current law

mr. wyden: mr. president. the presiding officer: i recognize the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: mr. president, i have a motion to commit at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from oregon, mr. wyden, moves to commit the bill, h.r. 1, to the committee on finance with instructions to report back forthwith. mr. wyden: mr. president, i ask that further reading be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. wyden: mr. president, this is a motion supported by all finance democrats to send the bill back to the finance committee to strike all the medicaid cuts and ensure that big corporations and the ultra wealthy pay their fair share in taxes. it is now clear that there is bipartisan opposition in the senate to the medicaid cuts in this bill. that's because it's the biggest medicaid cut in history and represents the largest transfer of wealth in history. it is caviar over kids, hedge funds over health care, mar-a-lago over the middle class. thes

mr. wyden: mr. president, before she leaves the floor, i want to thank my colleague in particular for putting a human face on what this is all about. that small child, the senior you were talking about. i'm going to pick up on what you said, and i thank you for your leadership. mr. president, i'm going to get into the specifics of this horrifying bill in a moment, all the details, the health care carnage and clean energy bloodbath republicans are dragging america toward. first i want to spend a few minutes on the state of the senate and our democracy. as of a few hours ago, the rules of the senate are whatever republicans feel like when the day begins. it's democracy defying, plain and simple. the bill before the senate is lo loaded, loaded, with fraudulent budget math that hides trillions of dollars in handouts to corporations and the ultra wea wealthy. it's a violation of the rules that used to be followed for years, for the reconciliation process. it's a violation of the congressional budget act.

mr. wyden: i was on my way to the floor to talk about clean energy policy this afternoon, but i have got to join my colleagues in addressing the shocking video out of los angeles. i've now looked at it after following at home senator mr. padilla: was carrying out his responsibilities to conduct over -- senator padilla was carrying out of his responsibilities. he was pushed to the ground and handcuffed at a press conference held by christie nominee. -- kristi noem. this is not about it happening to a united states are senator. here is what it's about. if they'll do this to a sitting united states senator in front of a room full of media, imagine what is being done to powerless people in secret. in portland, in my hometown, we've had first hand experience with this kind of activity, faceless unidentitiful agents, staring down peaceful protesters. in portland, it was a wall of moms, my neighbors. we all said then it's un-american, and i say it again this afternoon what we have seen on our screens

mr. wyden: i would ask unanimous consent, mr.president, my friend from social security, for three additional minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. wyden: i thank my colleague. social security, as i say, refused to provide me with a shred of evidence, because we already know from the social security watchdog that social security fraud, and colleagues, this is the relevant number, represents 0.009% of payments. we have known for some time this effort is part of the trump plan to cut americans' social security benefits. i believe in the long-term objective is to privatize the program to be sold off to billionaires and you can weaponize social security to go after groups it wants to target. this effort is also part of what donald trump, mr. musk, and peter thiel made a broad, effort to compile a master list of personal information on each american, pulling from the irs, departments of homeland security, education, and social security. i close by saying, thankfully, federal courts have slowed doge's access to social s

mr. wyden: -- the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the yeas and nays are ordered. the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: the blackburn amendment penalizes innocent people eligible for medicaid coverage and are waiting to cut through a thicket of red tape and get health care. this can go on for months and months, and defies basic fairness and common sense. the parliamentarian has already ruled that the federal government, if it does this, it would be coercive and not acceptable under the reconciliation rules. this is a distraction from republican attempts to doecimat the medicaid benefit. i therefore raise the point of order that the pending amendment violates the byrd rule 313(b)(1)(e) of 1974 and ask for the yeas and nays. mrs. blackburn: pursuant to 904 of the congressional budget act of 1974, i move to waive and ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the question is on the motion to waive. vote: t

mr. wyden. mr. young. senators voting in the affirmative -- alsobrooks, baldwin, blumenthal, blunt rochester, booker, cantwell, cortez masto, duckworth, heinrich, kaine, kelly, kim, king, lujan, markey, merkley, murray, ossoff, padilla, peters, rosen, sanders, schatz, schumer, shaheen, slotkin, warner, welch, whitehouse, wyden. ms. hassan, aye. mrs. gillibrand, aye. ms. hirono, aye. mr. murphy, aye. senators voting in the negative -- banks, barrasso, blackburn, britt, budd, capito, cassidy, collins, cornyn, cramer, crapo, cruz, daines, ernst, fischer, graham, grassley, hoeven, pay 10% more on your electric bill because of this it will also kill a million healthcare jobs please put it all together there is no other way to put it, very last-minute site republican made the bill more extreme to cater to the radicals in the house and the senate. republicans want to hide the truth so badly that they are even ready to blow up the senate rules. to get it done. senate republicans are doing something that has never

mr. wyden: mr. president, mr.cott admitted before the finance committee that he signed the illegal subpoena and expressed no remorse for his actions. he appears so unfazed by these allegations of brazen lawlessness that it seems inevitable he will sanction similar abuses of power if he is confirmed to lead customs and border patrol. since donald trump took office, on far too many occasions cbp has shown contempt for the constitutional rights of americans. for example, in texas a ten-year-old u.s. citizen was left in mexico with her family after being stopped by cbp on her way to a doctor's appointment for brain cancer treatment. in washington, cbp detained a family of six, including a pregnant mother who was still breast feeding her baby, a u.s. citizen. cbp held them in a windowless cell for 24 days. they had no access to due process or ability to contest their detention. in arizona, a 19-year-old u.s. citizen with intellectual disabilities who has difficulty speaking, writing and reading was arrested by cbp and

mr. wyden: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: thank you. i want to make sure that the country and this institution knows that the leadership of our new colleague from the state of delaware is making a difference already. she's been doing yeoman work on this for quite some time. in fact, in the other body, as it's called, the house of representatives, she stood for the values that have been expressed here today, and we so appreciate her leadership, and i thank her personally for including me. mr. president, we're on the floor to mark an anniversary of what was essentially the end of women having power over health care decisions. before roe v. wade was overturned, many of my democratic colleagues and i warned that it would be deadly for women. we were labeled liars and gaslighters and fearmongers. unfortunately for the women of america, you don't have to take our word for it. since the dobbs ruling was handed down three years ago, 22 states have passed restrictive near or total abortion bans, and countless women have died as a direct result o

mr. wyden i ask that kyrta from our staff be granted floor privileges. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. wyden: i rise to speak on a nomination before the senate as republicans push ahead on an agenda that is going to cut americans' health care by more than a trillion dollars and cause 16 million americans to lose their health coverage. the legislation is filled with ideas straight out of the for-profit insurance industry's playbook. republicans are rolling out more red tape at a time when americans are already sick of jumping through hoops so that insurance companies can continue their profits. the legislation in my view, is also a disaster for america's senior citizens. a million low-income seniors are going to see their premiums go up by nearly $200 a month. the legislation is going to make nursing homes less safe for frail, older people. in a word, they are going to start taking the nurses out of nursing homes. if mehmet oz has his way, nursing homes would replace staff with a.i

mr. wyden: mr. president, in a few minutes the senate will vote on whether to put somebody who's up to their eyeballs in tax scams, corruption, and coverups in charge of the irs. this ought to be an easy no. it is one corruption bombshell after another with the former congressman billy long. fake tax credits, scam tax advice, shadowy political donations that went straight into his pocket, promises of personal favors, no-show jobs with high-paying federal salaries. yesterday came the latest revelation. my finance committee staff investigators have determined that long appears to be implicated in a major bribery scheme in his old congressional district. the scandal unfolded while he was in office. 12 people in missouri and arkansas pled guilty or went to jail when these crimes were prosecuted. it was a criminal case the size of the ozarks. court documents identified him in one guilty plea as, quote, u.s. representative number one, unquote. that's the guilty plea of a man named donald andrew jones, d.a

wyden: mr. chairman, if i could, clean energy is in the reconciliation bill. chair crapo: not the one we mark ed up. sen. wyden: we had a big debate about it, and essentially it is those issues that republicans are against, and we debated it in open session. i want to do that and that is what my colleagues want to do. chair crapo: as you can see, mr. secretary, there are different points of view up here. we are here to hear from you, and you may proceed with your statement. sec. bessent: thank you chair crapo, ranking member wyden, members of the committee. i am grateful to join you here today. treasury is committed to working with congress to improve our nation's finances, create new jobs, and strengthen the economy. we look forward to coordinating with you on the president's budget and his tax priorities in the coming weeks. as part of this effort, i wish to highlight today the treasury department's efforts to advance president trump's economic agenda on tax and trade. first, tax. i am pleased to report the treasury has just concluded its most successful fili

mr. wyden: i was on my way to the floor to talk about clean energy policy this afternoon, but i have got to join my colleagues in addressing the shocking video out of los angeles. i've now looked at it after following at home senator mr. padilla: was carrying out his responsibilities to conduct over -- senator padilla was carrying out of his responsibilities. he was pushed to the ground and handcuffed at a press conference held by christie nominee. -- kristi noem. this is not about it happening to a united states are senator. here is what it's about. if they'll do this to a sitting united states senator in front of a room full of media, imagine what is being done to powerless people in secret. in portland, in my hometown, we've had first hand experience with this kind of activity, faceless unidentitiful agents, staring down peaceful protesters. in portland, it was a wall of moms, my neighbors. we all said then it's un-american, and i say it again this afternoon what we have seen on our screens

wyden. >> thank you very much, mr. leader. let me pick up on where the leader stopped. the legislation is rapidly, and anti-senior bill. and let me walk you through why that was the case. a million low income seniors are going to see the medicare premiums go up by nearly $200 a month. the bill makes nursing homes less safe for frail seniors because it rolled back safety standards. for example, members are some of thinks that ai is going to take care of everything that seniors need and rest homes. we pointed out to him fast i could help and 85-year-old was up in the middle of the night and asked to make their way to the bathroom. the bill is going to hurt hundreds of thousands of seniors by reducing services for those who count on medicaid to lose care at home. and then the american people have heard things about medicaid in this bill and being so harmful. they are also going to learn that this bill would trigger $500 billion in medicare cuts. this is going to hurt rural hospitals like a wrecking ball. now, if you're an older person in america, this is also going to come

wyden. thank you, mr. this morning's hearing could be the only opportunity democratic senators have to question a top trump official about the truly dismal, disastrous bill. republicans are writing behind closed doors. robert kennedy jr. has been invited to appear. it looks like he's ducking us as is waffling on the promise he made in this room to hear from rural oregonians about this bill's catalysts. traffic medicaid cuts. there is a legislative wrecking ball about to davos state. the lives of millions of americans that needs to be the focus of this hearing. while senate republicans are making these small tweaks to their bill, countless millions of people across the country feel like they're living on a knife edge. nurses and fire fighters, teachers and machinists. they're living paycheck to paycheck. barely staying ahead of the bills. they're overworked and they're concerned about providing for their kids or caring for an older loved one. they see a rigged economy that creates enormous prosperity at the

kim, klobuchar, markey, merkley, murray, padilla, sanders, schatz, schiff, slotkin, warner, and wyden e . mr. booker, no. the clerk: mr. cotton, aye. the clerk: mr. whitehouse, no. mr. wicker, aye. the clerk: mr. budd, aye. in order to have money for more handouts for people in the upper portions of the top. according to the nonpartisan joint committee on tax the price tags for the trump republican tax agenda is now up to $7 trillion. in the biggest winners will be the corporations and the wealthy. republicans have blocked our side of the aisle out of this debate. there's no discussion the biggest economic challenges americans are facing today. they are not talking about how to build more housing which is why i hear about it in all of my town meetings rent, mortgage, housing. we don't talk about it here though. lots of talk in my town halls. the trump people aren't talking about creating more good-paying jobs and how to help americans find affordable health care and not talking about helping parents with the astronomical costs of childcare. but they are spending plenty of time on the agendas

wyden. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. mr.hairman, and colleagues let me stipulate for purposes of this morning that this witness is a very entertaining individual. that's not what is at issue this morning. what's at issue are the facts and that's what want to go through with you, mr. long. after leaving, she city $5000 referring your friends to tax promoters who claim that they acquired income tax credit issued to a native american tribe and then sold these credits to investors. there's a problem. the irs said in march that the credits do not exist. they are fake. they are a scam. now you are asking to be put in charge of the irs, and irs confirms that these are not real. tell the committee you believe the so-called tribal tax credits actually exist? >> thank you for the question. my only involvement in this matter, like i said numerous times in the written correspondence back and forth with members of the committee, was to connect interested friends of mine, not robocall, not paying kids toy five dollars an hour to call but

mr. bozzella, more and more car companies are collecting sensitive data, tracking visits to psychologists, places of worship, and even revealing when americans cross state lines to seek abortion care. an investigation by senator wyden found several car companies do not require a warrant before they turn over location data law enforcement and he found several car companies sold dated a data brokers, some for pennies on the dollar. what responsibilities do you believe car companies have to protect the privacy of vehicle owners, including handling requests from law enforcement and the sale of consumer data. mr. bozzella: this is a very important issues for the reasons you mentioned. they are computers on wheels. they collect the data for critical reasons. much of the data is used to manage the safety systems of the vehicle. the biometric data, my weight, it indicates the power of the airbag. telematics data allows first responders to know where my car is even if i cannot respond to a phone call. these are important things. manufacturers are responsible. we have since 2014 had privacy principles, voluntary privacy principles which were groundbreaking at the time where companies committed to protect the data of their cu

mr. bozzella, more and more car companies are collecting sensitive data, tracking visits to psychologists, places of worship, and even revealing when americans cross state lines to seek abortion care. an investigation by senator wyden found several car companies do not require a warrant before they turn over location data law enforcement and he found several car companies sold dated a data brokers, some for pennies on the dollar. what responsibilities do you believe car companies have to protect the privacy of vehicle owners, including handling requests from law enforcement and the sale of consumer data. mr. bozzella: this is a very important issues for the reasons you mentioned. they are computers on wheels. they collect the data for critical reasons. much of the data is used to manage the safety systems of the vehicle. the biometric data, my weight, it indicates the power of the airbag. telematics data allows first responders to know where my car is even if i cannot respond to a phone call. these are important things. manufacturers are responsible. we have since 2014 had privacy principles, voluntary privacy principles which were groundbreaking at the time where companies committed to protect the data of their cu

mr. wyden. mr. young. the clerk: senators voting in the affirmative -- barrasso, blackburn, boozman, britt, capito, cotton, cramer, cruz, daines, fischer, husted, justice, moody, moreno, scott of south carolina, thune, young. senators voting in the negative -- baldwin, blumenthal, cantwell, durbin, heinrich, king, ossoff, rosen, schiff, schumer, shaheen, tillis, warner, welch, wyden. mr. coons no. mrs. murray, no. the clerk: ms. blunt rochester, no. the clerk: mr. sullivan, aye. mr. whitehouse, no. mr. van hollen, no. the clerk: mr. fetterman, no. the clerk: mr. ricketts, aye. the clerk: mr. marshall, aye. the clerk: mrs. hyde-smith, aye. the clerk: mr. lujan, no. mr. schatz, no. mr. kaine, no. the clerk: mr. sheehy, aye. mr. rounds, aye. mr. lankford, aye. the clerk: mr. merkley, no. the clerk: mr. kim, no. the clerk: ms. warren, no. the clerk: mr. crapo, aye. mr. reed, no. the clerk: mr. mullin, aye. mr. murphy, no. the clerk: mr. booker, no. mr. curtis, aye. mr. gallego, no. the clerk: ms. cortez masto,