What is Stand Tall For America?
Stand Tall for America is a website in progress - and we're just getting started.
With your help, it will be the online organizing center for Americans who care about progressive policy change that tackles the tough problems facing our country -- including health care, tax reform, net neutrality, and more.
It's sponsored by Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and paid for by Wyden for Senate, but it's really about you.
We really can tackle the tough problems. But only if we stand together. Only if we Stand Tall for America.
To Contact Us:
Stand Tall for America
P.O. Box 3498
Portland, OR 97208
Phone: 503-230-7115
Fax: 503-230-1128
Paid for and authorized by Wyden for Senate.
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Federal rule change proposal threatens women’s health care choices
A rule proposal under the Bush Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services could severely curtail health and reproductive choices for women.
The proposal would essentially broaden the definition of abortion to include the use of contraceptives. This very broad definition would allow health-care corporations or individuals to classify many common types of birth control as abortions. The proposal is under review and not yet in effect.
Senator Ron Wyden has sent a letter—co-signed by 27 of his Senate colleagues—to HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt, asking for him to abandon the policy change. The proposal would have the effect of encouraging health-care institutions and individuals to refuse to provide birth control to patients who need it.
The rule would also effect the nation’s 500,000 hospitals, clinics and other medical facilities that accept federal funding. Federal rules require facilities which collect public money to certify that they comply with standards relating to abortion. Expanding the definition of abortion in this way would jeopardize billions of dollars in federal funding.
Read more in The Oregonian and The Register Guard.
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Fixing Health Care: What’s different now?
In an article for Health Affairs - a health policy journal - Senators Ron Wyden and Robert Bennett ask a key question:
Can the president and Congress, in a political climate so divided, stop business as usual, come together, and fix health care?
The answer, the Senators argue, is yes.
The two Senators identify six reasons:
- The bipartisan support for the Healthy Americans Act.
- An ideological truce between those who argue for universal coverage and those who argue for market-based solutions.
- Common ground between labor and business.
- A recognition that federal action is required, but states need latitude to tailor health programs.
- The realization that our employer-based health care system needs modernizing.
- A commitment to simplicity and accessibility in the crafting of the Healthy Americans Act.
In its summary, Health Affairs notes that:
The bill has bipartisan support, and it is a model of clarity and brevity compared to the Health Security Act of the 1990s.
Read the full article at Health Affairs.
Learn more about the Healthy Americans Act and watch Ron’s funny two-minute video at CareYouKeep.com.
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Federal rule change proposal threatens women’s health care choices - Federal rule change proposal threatens women's health care choices - August 18 -
Rising energy prices stoke natural gas proposals - Ted Sickinger, The Oregonian - August 7 -
Wyden wants panel to delay LNG decision - The Bend Bulletin - August 7
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Wyden calls for more health-care workers - Christian Gaston, Forest Grove News Times - August 6
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Democrats Hit The Streets In Support Of Candidate’s Energy Policy - Andrew Theen, OPB News - August 6
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Rail hearing Aug. 21 in Eugene - John Sowell, The News-Review - August 6
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Wyden wants LNG delay - Associated Press - August 6
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Senators Seek New Route To Bar CIA From Using Torture - The National Journal - August 4
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Measure creates single uniform standard for all government interrogations, complies with U.S. law an - All American Patriots - August 3 -
Healthy Americans Act sounds like a good idea - Claire Mitchel, The Miami Herald - August 3
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Editorial: Health Care - The Philadelphia Inquirer - August 2
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Wyden takes day trip to three counties - The East Oregonian - August 1
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Wyden’s forest plan hopes to bridge extremes - Robin Doussard, Oregon Business Magazine - August 1
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Sen. Wyden takes aim at oil and gas speculation - Keith Chu, The Bend Bulletin - August 1
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Congress Lays Ground for 2009 - Jay Newton-Small, Time Magazine - July 29
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Rep. Cooper pushing ‘Healthy Americans Act’ - Christine Buttorff, Nashville City Paper - July 29
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Senate panel to debate radio rules, royalty rates - Forbes.com - July 29
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Redefining abortion proposed rule change could hurt women’s health - The Register Guard - July 28
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Funds added to bill to remove port near Arlington - The Associated Press - July 27
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U.S. Senate bill could help area farmers find secret to better yields - Lauren Dake, The Bend Bulletin - July 26
The Healthy Americans Act would guarantee every American universal, affordable, comprehensive, portable, high-quality, private health coverage that is as good or better than Members of Congress have today.
All 46 million uninsured Americans would be covered, for the same funds currently spent by Americans on health care. The Act includes tough cost containment measures that will save Americans $1.45 trillion over the next decade.
And every American will feel secure, knowing that your health care won't ever go away.
Powerful interests who own the pipes and access to the Internet are trying to break the Net. These special interests want to expand their control over Internet access to the limitless world of content, and discriminate among providers of online games, tv, music, and high-bandwidth applications.
This isn't how the Internet should work. The network should be neutral. Royalties should be equal. And there shouldn't be special taxes targeting the Internet.
Net Freedom will help the Internet thrive, enables small businesses to thrive on the Internet, and allows anyone to start small and dream big.
The Internet is a force for economic growth, access to information, and a better democracy. We will stand tall to protect the Internet from those powerful forces who would seek to limit access, build barriers, and turn back the clock.
Read More: Net Freedom
Our tax laws have been hijacked - and common sense has been left behind.
Our tax code is complex and mind-boggling, and it hammers hard-working, middle-class Americans. And every year, it gets worse.
Instead, let's get rid of the special interest tax breaks, let everybody file their taxes on a one-page form, and make sure that a dollar earned through work is taxed the same as a dollar earned through investment.
That's Senator Wyden's "Fair Flat Tax" idea.
Read More: Tax Reform
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Reducing Benzene in our Air
Benzene causes leukemia. And for years, some residents of the Pacific Northwest have suffered from dangerously high benzene levels in our air - primarily from high-benzene gasoline.
When the oil companies won the right from the Bush Administration to continue producing high-benzene gasoline for the Pacific Northwest, Senator Wyden stood tall for Oregon and asked the EPA to implement rules that will reduce benzene in our gasoline and in our air. Recently, the EPA came around to Senator Wyden's point of view.
Here's what happened...
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Protecting County Payments
Unless Congress acts, local governments in Oregon will lose massive amounts of funding. Over $149 million for schools, crime prevention, libraries, and more -- funds that are part of a 100-year old promise.
At issue is a program called the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act. The Act guarantees federal funds to rural counties that used to benefit from timber sales from logging on federal lands. The law expired at the end of 2006, and unless Congress acts, the funds will dry up in the summer of 2007.
How did this happen?
Read More: Protecting County Payments
