Editing Ron Wyden (section)

====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>