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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., speaks during a hearing with United States Trade Representative Katherine C. Tai on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. The hearing is to examine President Joe Biden's 2021 trade policy agenda. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

Senator asks DOD to release details about warrantless surveillance of Americans

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 18, 2021, file photo, Mary Claire Lane, 86, left, a resident at Hellenic Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, in Canton, Mass., is greeted by her daughter Anne Darling, of Attleboro, Mass., center, during a visit, at the nursing home, in Canton. Nursing homes have to publicly disclose their vaccination rates for flu and pneumonia, but there’s no similar mandate for COVID-19 shots. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Lawmakers: Require nursing homes to disclose vaccine data

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., walk the halls during a break in the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump at the Capitol on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. (Joshua Roberts/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Kevin Brady rips ‘stay jobless’ unemployment aid incentives as Ron Wyden seeks increase

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

President-elect Joe Biden's pick for national intelligence director Avril Haines speaks during a confirmation hearing before the Senate intelligence committee on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021, in Washington. (Joe Raedle/Pool via AP)

Avril Haines, DNI nominee, pledges to submit unclassified report on killing of Jamal Khashoggi

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., speaks during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on &quot;COVID-19/Unemployment Insurance&quot; on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, June 9, 2020. (Leah Millis/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Ron Wyden, Oregon Democrat: IRS should investigate whether tax-exempt groups fueled Capitol riot

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden plans to seek reelection in 2022

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This June 6, 2013, file photo, shows the sign outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Senator: Treasury Dept. email accounts compromised in hack

By ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press

The U.S. Treasury Department building viewed from the Washington Monument, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, in Washington. Hackers got into computers at the U.S. Treasury Department and possibly other federal agencies, touching off a government response involving the National Security Council. Security Council spokesperson John Ullyot said Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020, that the government is aware of reports about the hacks. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Ron Wyden: Treasury Department officials email hacked

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

FILE - This Feb. 19, 2013, file photo shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. A bipartisan congressional investigation released Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, found that key players in the nation’s opioid industry have spent $65 million since 1997 funding nonprofits that advocate treating pain with medications, a strategy intended to boost the sale of prescription painkillers. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

Senate report: Opioid industry has paid advocacy groups $65M

By GEOFF MULVIHILL - Associated Press

This Thursday, June 6, 2019, photo shows the U.S. Treasury Department building at dusk, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) **FILE**

Democrats demand Treasury probe of political influence on Trump’s tax return audit

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, listens during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on &quot;COVID-19/Unemployment Insurance&quot; on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, June 9, 2020. (Leah Millis/Pool via AP)

Outcry as some nursing homes try to grab stimulus checks

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

In this May 18, 2018, file photo, White House adviser Jared Kushner speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Jared Kushner hacked? Wyden asks NSA for assessment, citing Trump adviser’s reported chats with MBS

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Bipartisan Medicare drug bill gets makeover to lower copays

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 9, 2019 file photo, Senate Finance Committee ranking member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. A report by Wyden, based on an 18-month investigation by the finance panel’s Democratic staff, found that NRA leaders &quot;engaged in a years-long effort to facilitate the U.S.-based activities&quot; of Russian nationals Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Dem senator: NRA acted as Russian ‘asset’ in run-up to 2016

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

In this June 15, 2018, file photo, pharmaceuticals are seen in North Andover, Mass. Two senior senators — a Republican and a Democrat — unveiled compromise legislation Tuesday to reduce prescription drug costs for millions of Medicare recipients, while saving money for federal and state health care programs that serve seniors and low-income people. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Senators unveil compromise to reduce drug costs for seniors

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar - Associated Press

In this March 5, 2019, file photo, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., pauses during a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Rand Paul-Ron Wyden Republic Act aims to undercut Donald Trump emergency powers

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Portland Trail Blazers center Enes Kanter hangs on the net before the first half of Game 7 of an NBA basketball second-round playoff series against the Denver Nuggets Sunday, May 12, 2019, in Denver. (AP Photo/John Leyba)

US senator seeks safe passage for Turkish Trail Blazers star

By ANDREW SELSKY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2019, file photo, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., is seen on a cell phone as he speaks during a meet and greet with local residents in Marshalltown, Iowa. Congress is starting to show interest in prying open the “black box” of tech companies’ artificial intelligence much the same way the federal government checks under car hoods and audits banks. One proposal introduced Wednesday, April 19, and co-sponsored by Booker, would require big companies to test the “algorithmic accountability” of their high-risk AI systems, such as technology that detects faces or makes important decisions based on your most sensitive personal data. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Democrats want feds to target the ‘black box’ of AI bias

By MATT O'BRIEN - Associated Press

In this June 29, 2007, file photo Nare Ratnapala, front, and Jia Jiang, explore the features of the new Apple iPhone, as they wait at an Apple store in Tysons Corner, Va. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Bipartisan cybersecurity bill would safeguard personal devices of Senate, staff

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

This Oct. 19, 2017, file photo shows a new voting machine which prints a paper record on display at a polling site in Conyers, Ga. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Election security bill would let DHS set cyber standards

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times