Editing Ron Wyden (section)

===Trade and business===
====Bailouts====
During the [[2008 financial crisis]], Wyden voted against the [[Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008]] backed by the [[George W. Bush administration]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wyden.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=303357|title=Wyden Issues Statement on Administration Proposal to Address Financial Crisis|website=wyden.senate.gov|publisher=Office of Senator Ron Wyden|date=September 22, 2008|access-date=November 16, 2017|archive-date=March 4, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100304110606/http://wyden.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=303357|url-status=dead}}</ref> He did not vote on the [[Automotive industry crisis of 2008–2010#Senate rejects bailout|automobile industry bailout]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.congressmatters.com/storyonly/2008/12/14/9547/4978/806/213|title=A look at the Senate auto bailout vote|website=congressmatters.com|access-date=January 26, 2009|archive-date=March 13, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313042550/http://www.congressmatters.com/storyonly/2008/12/14/9547/4978/806/213|url-status=dead}}</ref> but said he would have voted for [[cloture]] if he had been present. Wyden added, "While I continue to have concerns about ensuring that taxpayers are protected if this loan is to occur, I believe that if the President can unwisely provide $750 billion of taxpayer money for the investment banks who took horribly unacceptable risks and helped trigger an economic collapse, we certainly have a duty to attempt to preserve a cornerstone domestic industry and the jobs of hundreds of thousands of working people whose personal actions are in no way responsible for the current economic crisis."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wyden.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=305865|title=Congressional Record: Wyden Statement on Auto Bailout Vote|website=wyden.senate.gov|publisher=Office of Senator Ron Wyden|date=December 12, 2008|access-date=November 16, 2017|archive-date=March 4, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100304111517/http://wyden.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=305865|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In early January 2009, Wyden was among several moderate Democratic senators who criticized President-elect [[Barack Obama]]'s [[Obama stimulus plan|stimulus plan]], calling for a greater emphasis on "tangible infrastructure investments" and warning that an effort had to be made to differentiate it from the Bush bailouts Wyden had opposed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090109/pl_politico/17264|title=Doubts arise over Obama stimulus plan}}</ref> Wyden ultimately voted for the bill and mostly voted with his party on various amendments to the bill.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/853-Senate-Stimulus-Amendments |title=Senate Stimulus Amendments|website=[[OpenCongress.org]] |date=February 3, 2009 |access-date=August 29, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120906193942/http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/853-Senate-Stimulus-Amendments |archive-date=September 6, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

====Bankruptcy====
Wyden voted against the [[Class Action Fairness Act of 2005]], a Republican effort to restrict the number of class actions suits against businesses, and the [[Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005]], a bipartisan change in bankruptcy law designed to make it more difficult to file for bankruptcy and to make those in bankruptcy pay more of their debts. He voted for the previous Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2001 (S-420, substituted by amendment into H.R. 433),<ref>"{{cite web|url=http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.00420:|title=Bill Summary & Status 107th Congress (2001 - 2002) S.420|website=thomas.loc.gov|access-date=December 31, 2008|archive-date=October 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016235057/http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107%3As.00420%3A|url-status=dead}}"</ref> which contained many of the same provisions.

====China====
American video game company [[Activision Blizzard]] punished a [[Hong Kong]]-based professional gamer for supporting the pro-democracy [[2019–20 Hong Kong protests]].<ref name="bbc">{{cite news |title=Call of Duty: Modern Warfare arrives amid China controversy |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50166898 |work=[[BBC News]] |date=25 October 2019 |access-date=September 27, 2020 |archive-date=October 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191027143738/https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50166898 |url-status=live }}</ref> Many felt that Blizzard was cautious about potential repercussions from [[China]]'s government, which had censored any support for the Hong Kong protests. Wyden accused Blizzard of [[censorship]] and tweeted: "Blizzard shows it is willing to humiliate itself to please the Chinese Communist Party. No American company should censor calls for freedom to make a quick buck."<ref>{{cite news|title=Here's a timeline of Activision Blizzard's terrible week, as it faces fan protests after an esports athlete was punished for voicing support for Hong Kong|first=Kevin|last=Webb|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/blizzard-boycott-hong-kong-protests-activision-blitzchung-blizzcon-2019-10|work=[[Business Insider]]|date=October 12, 2019|access-date=September 27, 2020|archive-date=August 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807034415/https://www.businessinsider.com/blizzard-boycott-hong-kong-protests-activision-blitzchung-blizzcon-2019-10|url-status=live}}</ref>

====Cuba====
Wyden supports lifting the [[United States embargo against Cuba]] as a more viable way to reach the Cuban people. In 2016, he and Senator [[Byron Dorgan]] offered an unsuccessful amendment to end funding for [[TV Martí]], an anti-Castro broadcasting project of the U.S. government aimed at Cuba. Dorgan and Wyden argued that the U.S. should "pull the plug on U.S. government television broadcasts to Cuba, broadcasts even the American government acknowledges Fidel Castro routinely [[Radio jamming|jams]] and the Cuban people can't see", calling it a "complete and total waste of taxpayers' dollars" and noting that the transmissions would cost $21.1 million in the next year, but would "reach virtually no one in Cuba." The amendment was not adopted.<ref>"[http://epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm?party=rep&id=236110 Dorgan and Wyden Ask Senate to Stop $21 Million Boondoggle] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401103242/http://epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm?party=rep&id=236110 |date=April 1, 2016 }}" (press release).  Majority Staff, U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Katie|last=Harr|url=http://www.coha.org/radio-and-tv-marti-washington-guns-after-castro-at-any-cost/|title=Radio and TV Martí: Washington Guns after Castro at Any Cost|website=coha.org|publisher=[[Council on Hemispheric Affairs]]|date=March 29, 2006|access-date=January 20, 2012|archive-date=April 26, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160426131909/http://www.coha.org/radio-and-tv-marti-washington-guns-after-castro-at-any-cost/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

====Free trade====
Wyden supports [[free trade]]. In the House, he voted for the [[North American Free Trade Agreement]], and he has supported many trade deals in the Senate, one of very few Democrats to vote for the [[Central America Free Trade Agreement]]. He has voted against free trade agreements with [[Chile]], [[Singapore]], and [[Oman]].

Wyden supported [[Canada–United States softwood lumber dispute|the reimposition of tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber]] in 2017, saying, "Canadian policies ... distort trade and hold American lumber businesses back from fully realizing their potential."<ref>{{cite news|title=Wyden welcomes tariffs on unfairly traded Canadian lumber|url=http://www.ktvz.com/news/wyden-welcomes-tariffs-on-unfairly-traded-canadian-lumber/461310935|access-date=May 5, 2017|work=KTVZ|date=April 25, 2017|archive-date=May 3, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170503160410/http://www.ktvz.com/news/wyden-welcomes-tariffs-on-unfairly-traded-canadian-lumber/461310935|url-status=dead}}</ref>