Senator Wyden

Ronald Lee Wyden was was born in 1949 in the small town of Wichita, Kansas in which he lived under the roof of two Jewish immigrants who fled from Nazi Germany. Wyden grew up in Palo Alto, California and he later joined the Palo Alto varsity basketball team. In his college years he attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, and later transferred to Stanford University, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in the year of 1971. 
    Wyden withal accommodated as the director of the Oregon Legal Accommodations Center for the Elderly, which was a nonprofitable law accommodation. In the fall of 1980, Wyden ran for the house of representatives and crushed his opponent assuming his position as the senator of Oregon. 

Senator Wyden fixates on many key issues that the US is currently facing such as healthcare, the environment and maintaining a free internet. As Chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Senator Wyden withal has perpetuated to push for a national energy policy that fixates on domestic engenderment, renewability, carbon reduction and protections for energy consumers.  

Committees:

• Committee on the Budget
• Committee on Finance
• Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure
• Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight
• Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness (Chairman)
• Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (Chairman)
• As Chairman, Senator Wyden is an ex-officio member on all subcommittees.
• Cull Committee on Astuteness
• Special Committee on Aging
• Joint Committee On Taxation

     
Questions for the Senator?
a) What made you want to run for the Senator of Oregon?
b) How do you keep up with all the committees that you are involved in?
c) Why didn't you ride out your basketball scholarship if you were good enough?