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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Senators Wyden, Merkley win $5.4 million for low-income Oregon families to help pay utility bills
Today, Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley announced that the Department of Health and Human Services and its Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) will send $5.4 million to low-income Oregon families to assist in paying utility bills. Wyden praised the allocation as vital in a critical time of need for many Oregon families:
“This funding will literally keep the lights on for thousands of Oregonians struggling right now to pay their utility bills,” Wyden said. “Injecting funds into the LIHEAP program will provide a direct positive effect for Oregon families; helping them stretch their household budgets and freeing up money to cover the cost of other essentials like food and medicine.”
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- Wyden praises Facebook coming to Prineville, creating more than 200 Central Oregon jobs - January 22
- Senator Wyden, Attorney General Kroger, local DAs and law enforcement fight for tougher national anti-meth laws - January 19
- Wyden takes strong stand against Ugandan anti-homosexuality bill, asks for review of country's trade status - January 12
- Wyden: No Cuts to Roseburg VA Medical Center - January 12
- Wyden to Energy Secretary: 'Knock heads' on clean energy exports - The Hill - February 4
- Sex trafficking a real Oregon problem - Editorial, Salem Statesman-Journal - February 3
- Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden pushes for federal law based on Oregon's meth controls - The Oregonian - January 15
- Ron Wyden seeks to protect services at Roseburg VA hospital - Roseburg News-Review - January 14
- Wyden Asks for Review of Ugandan Trade Status in Light of Anti-Gay Bill - Willamette Week - January 12
- Wyden protests Roseburg vets' medical cuts - Albany Democrat-Herald - January 12
- Wyden pitches bill to "beat the pimps" - Portland Mercury - January 11
- "Reform" is Wyden's Town Hall Theme - Yamhill County News-Register - January 9
- Tell Senator Wyden what you think - Editorial, Newberg Graphic - January 5
- Wyden bill no panacea, but it's a step - Editorial, La Grande Observer - December 30
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...
Read More: Reducing Benzene in our Air -
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
