Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR), speaking April 1 at the annual member meeting of the National Council of Nonprofits, made his clearest statement of support for charitable giving tax incentives and for the work of charitable nonprofits in their communities. Reiterating that he sees the charitable deduction as a “lifeline, not a loophole,” Wyden stated his conviction that reforming the tax code “does not mean throwing overboard the charitable deduction.” He went on to state that he is troubled by the concept of a “giving floor,” rejecting a proposal in the discussion draft from House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) to require giving of at least two-percent of a person’s adjusted gross income before claiming a charitable deduction.