Issue Position: Bipartisanship

Issue Position

As Washington, D.C. has grown increasingly obsessed with political point-scoring and gamesmanship, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden has consistently shown that there is a better way. From comprehensive health reform legislation that attracted more than a dozen bipartisan cosponsors to the first bipartisan tax reform bill in twenty-five years, to laws that have improved infrastructure financing, expanded wilderness protections, brought greater transparency in our national security programs and even reformed senate procedure, Wyden routinely demonstrates that when they spend less time looking for ways to score political points and more time working towards real solutions, Democrats and Republicans can not only find areas of agreement, they can achieve far more for the count

Putting Words into Action

Wyden doesn't just talk about bipartisanship, during his tenure in the U.S. Senate, he has been the lead author on more than 150 bipartisan bills, in addition to thousands of other cosponsored bills. And while Congress doesn't always follow Wyden's bipartisan lead, his efforts to find consensus has yielded some notable results

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