Ron Wyden
U.S. Senate · Democrat · Oregon
Official U.S. Senate photograph. Public domain.
Record at a glance
Counts are the promise cards on this page. Not yet rated means the sentence has no target, or the pages opened so far do not show a result the rubric can grade.
Health
Let Medicare negotiate drug prices and cap senior costs
Not yet ratedThe promise, in their own wordsI'm thankful that the Build Back Better agenda includes my historic drug pricing agreement that will allow Medicare to negotiate drug pricing directly with Big Pharma and end their price-gouging at the pharmacy counter.
Why no rating yet
The same post lists terms he wanted in that agreement, including a $2,000 annual out-of-pocket cap for Medicare Part D drugs and a $35 monthly insulin cap. The post is about an agenda item. This card does not grade whether a later law matched those terms.
Post: Ending Big Pharma's Price-Gouging
The statute, if a later card grades it
Forests
End the wildfire funding shortfall
Not yet ratedThe promise, in their own wordsThese infernos are threatening lives and burning up Oregon's forests and homes. I will continue to work with the U.S. Forest Service and the State to ensure all the resources that are available are deployed as quickly as possible. When I get back to Washington DC, my first order of business is to finally end the terrible trifecta that makes these fires worse: underfunding firefighting budgets, stealing money from fire prevention to make up the shortfall and letting hazardous fuels build up as a result.
Why no rating yet
The statement is dated by the page as August 17, 2015. His rural-issues page says Congress passed his provision in 2018 that ended the practice of paying for firefighting by borrowing prevention funds. That later page is his office's account of one piece of the 2015 statement. The statement also covers deploying resources and hazardous fuels, which this card does not grade.
Statement published on his Senate site
His site says a firefighting-budget provision passed
Education
Keep Secure Rural Schools funded
Not yet ratedThe promise, in their own wordsThis investment keeps local schools funded, communities safe with law enforcement resources, and roads maintained – and it's why we have to keep this lifeline intact.
Why no rating yet
He said that on July 30, 2023, in a joint release with Sen. Merkley and Rep. Hoyle about reintroducing a Secure Rural Schools bill. Congress.gov shows a later bill, S. 356, the Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act of 2025, became Public Law 119-58 on December 18, 2025. This card is not marked Kept: the 2023 bill text was not compared with the 2025 law.
Joint release on reintroducing an SRS bill
S. 356 became Public Law 119-58
Voting
National vote-by-mail
Not yet ratedFrom his official Senate issues pageThat is why Senator Wyden introduced his plan for national vote-by-mail. The Vote by Mail Act builds on Oregon's system and bills he introduced in 2007 and 2010. It would allow every registered voter to receive a ballot in the mail.
Why no rating yet
This is his office's description of a bill, not a speech quote, and the page does not give a Congress number or a result. It stays Not yet rated.
Vote by Mail Act described
A bill number and a vote
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