Honorable Ron Wyden
United States Senator, Oregon, Democrat
Senator Wyden was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1980 to 1996. He sits on the following committees: Budget; Finance, where he chairs the Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness; Energy and Natural Resources, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests; the Select Committee on Aging; and the Select Committee on Intelligence. The following is from a May 26, 2011, statement by Senator Wyden announcing a hold on the motion to proceed on S. 968, the PROTECT IP Act. Consistent with Senate Standing Orders…