Looking to leverage private investment and an untapped market for tax credit bonding to rebuild America’s transportation infrastructure, U.S. Senators Wyden (D-Ore.), Hoeven (R-N.D.) and Mark Begich (D-Alaska) have introduced legislation to create a tax credit bond program—Transportation and Regional Infrastructure Project bonds or TRIPs.

NEW: Bipartisan Coalition of Lawmakers Urges Consideration of TRIP Bonds as an Additional Way to Fund Transportation Infrastructure Projects. Details.

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Building on the existing legal framework for resolving trade infractions of tangible goods to enforce copyright and trademark infringement of digital goods, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Jerry Moran (R-Kansas) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) introduced legislation—The Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade (OPEN) Act—that both fights the unauthorized sale of digital goods and protects Internet security, commerce and speech.

UPDATE: New York Times Editorial Board endorses the OPEN Act.

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Senator Wyden kicked off his 17th year of holding town hall meetings in every county every year starting with Linn & Marion counties on Jan. 6th, Tillamook & Lincoln counties on Jan. 7th; Lane & Douglas counties on Jan. 8th; and Coos & Josephine counties on Jan. 9th.

Town halls in Crook, Jefferson, Deschutes, Klamath, and Lake Counties are scheduled for late January.

Senator Wyden has been holding town halls in every Oregon county every year since 1996 with his 600th town hall held in August 2011.

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Recognizing the need to improve programs that support farming and access to healthy food, Senator Ron Wyden introduced the Fresh Regional Eating for Schools and Health Act (FRESH) to ensure that federal nutrition spending helps promote healthier eating and increases consumption of fruits and vegetables while helping local agriculture.

News release, Bill Summary, Frequently Asked Questions and Bill Text here.

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U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and U.S. Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) introduced a new proposal that represents a major advance in the effort to build a more secure future for the millions of seniors who rely on Medicare.

News release, Wyden-Ryan White Paper, Fact Sheet and Joint Op-Ed from Wyden & Ryan published in the Wall Street Journal here.

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U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) have teamed up to write the Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance (GPS) Act which creates a legal framework to give government agencies, commercial entities and private citizens clear guidelines for when and how geolocation information can be accessed and used.

UPDATE: Senator Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) joined Wyden as the Senate cosponsor.

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