American Conversations: Senator Ron Wyden

Ron Wyden is the senior Senator from Oregon. As the Top Democrat on the powerful Senate Finance Committee, with jurisdiction over trade, health care and tax policy, Wyden is focused on lowering health care costs and working to ensure billionaires pay their fair share.

Wyden is also the longest-serving member of the Select Senate Committee on Intelligence. Through his position on Senate Intel and as Ranking Member of the Finance Committee, he has used his power to launch numerous investigations into fraud and corruption within the Trump administration, and blow the whistle on mass domestic surveillance operations.

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Keywords: Senator Ron Wyden on following the money behind the Epstein files, Treasury Department resistance and withheld financial records tied to Epstein’s banking activity, the role of major Wall Street banks in facilitating and obscuring illicit financial flows, Senate efforts to obtain suspicious activity reports and impose new accountability measures, the expansion of federal surveillance infrastructure through data aggregation and private contractors, Palantir’s role in law-enforcement dragnet technologies and immigration enforcement, data brokers and the sale of personal information through DMV records and mobile devices, stalled national privacy legislation and debates over data ownership, concerns over voter data access and election manipulation through targeted advertising, Democratic priorities on health care reform and the influence of corporate middlemen, proposals to tax billionaire wealth and close loopholes in capital gains and borrowing practices, renewed scrutiny of Citizens United and corporate political spending, and grassroots whistleblowing as a tool for forcing transparency and institutional reform