Presidents can designate national monuments unilaterally. But as WW reported last year, Oregon’s senior Democratic U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden declined the opportunity to ask Biden to make the Owyhee Canyonlands a monument because he preferred a wilderness designation ( “Canyon Standoff,” Sept. 25, 2024 ).

Duing the confirmation hearing for Scott Bessent in the Senate this week, Senator Ron Wyden went scorched earth on nominee to be Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent.

Senate confirmation hearings for President-elect Trump’s Cabinet finished its first week with as many questions as it started with for some Democratic senators. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., gives his thoughts on the hearing of Trump Treasury Secretary pick Scott Bessent,

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) says Congress sometimes resembles a “poorly produced WWE wrestling match,” and getting the House and Senate out of the ring and working together is going to take a whole lot of chutzpah.

As Trump returns to the White House with Republicans in charge of the House and Senate, Democrats are searching for a way forward. Ron Wyden, the second-most senior Senate Democrat, offers strategies in a new book,

During the confirmation hearing for Scott Bessent this week in the U.S. Senate, Senator Ron Wyden pressed Bessent on whether "Direct File" will be operative for Americans this tax season.

Sen. Ron Wyden, the Oregon Democrat who is the ranking minority member on the Senate Finance panel, said that voters won't get the economy change they want from the Trump economic team. In his opening statement,

Scott Bessent testified before the Senate Finance Committee, where the expiring Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was a major point of conversation.

Everyone agrees defense matters. How to do it is up for debate Feature The Trump administration came to office this week without a detailed information security policy, but analysis of cabinet nominees’ public remarks and expert comments suggest it will make significant changes in the field.

The Senate gained the replacements for former Sens. Marco Rubio and J.D. Vance on Tuesday with Florida's Ashley Moody and Ohio's Jon Husted getting sworn in.

In response, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden took to Bluesky — the social media platform that many have joined as an alternative to X — to weigh in on the gesture. “I’m the son of Jewish refugees that fled the Nazis,” Wyden wrote. “I know exactly what I’m looking at.”