Editing Ron Wyden (section)

==U.S. House of Representatives==
[[File:Ron Wyden, official 97th Congress photo.png|thumb|Wyden in 1981]]
Wyden ran for the [[United States House of Representatives]] in 1980.  In the Democratic primary, Wyden, who was just 31 at the time, upset incumbent Representative [[Robert B. Duncan|Bob Duncan]] in {{ushr|Oregon|3}}, which includes most of Portland.<ref name=nyt>{{cite news|url=https://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F0091FF6385C12728DDDAB0A94DD405B8084F1D3|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130104121347/http://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F0091FF6385C12728DDDAB0A94DD405B8084F1D3|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 4, 2013|work=[[New York Times]]|access-date=December 21, 2007|title=Five-Term Congressman is Defeated in Oregon|date=May 21, 1980}}</ref> Later that fall, Wyden defeated his Republican opponent, Darrell Conger, with 71% of the vote. The 3rd has long been the most Democratic district in Oregon, and Wyden was reelected seven times, never with less than 70% of the vote.

In the House, Wyden played an influential role in the passage of [[Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act]] of 1996.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Stewart|first=Emily|date=2019-05-16|title=Ron Wyden wrote the law that built the internet. He still stands by it — and everything it's brought with it.|url=https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/16/18626779/ron-wyden-section-230-facebook-regulations-neutrality|access-date=2020-12-01|website=Vox|language=en|archive-date=February 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210209065913/https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/16/18626779/ron-wyden-section-230-facebook-regulations-neutrality|url-status=live}}</ref>