WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, released the following remarks from a Sept. 15, 2026, confirmation hearing for Gerard Klomp to be deputy secretary and Ge Bai to be an assistant secretary of Health and Human Services, James Gadwood to be chief counsel for the Internal Revenue Service and an assistant general counsel in the Treasury Department, and Andrew A. De Mello to be a judge of the U.S. Tax Court:

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