Merging the ability to conduct surveillance that reveals every aspect of a person's life with the ability to conjure up the legal authority to execute that surveillance, and finally, removing any accountable judicial oversight, creates the opportunity for unprecedented influence over our system of government.
Ron WydenThis house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.
Ron WydenThe Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.
Ron WydenMany health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.
Ron WydenIn order to do vigorous oversight, the leadership of the intelligence community has got to be straight with the American people and straight with the Congress. For there to be vigorous oversight, the intelligence community's got to be straight with the American people and the Congress and that has not been the case.
Ron Wyden