U.S. State Attorneys General

Moving forward, this new law gives us the right to finally negotiate lower prescription drug prices for Americans.

It would strengthen Medicare's negotiating authority and lower the price of more prescription drugs and extend Medicare's solvency for 25 years.

I applaud New York for their approach.

I agree with you. And the statistics I pointed to in Hawaii, where we have some of the strictest gun safety laws--and there is a cause and effect as to the use of guns in Hawaii in violent situations.

In 2020, Hawaii had the lowest gun death rates and the third-lowest rate of gun ownership in the entire country.

I think that Representative Foster made a great point. Would it be a good idea to be able to go to the Fed and say, 'Raise interest rates or we are going to cut your budget.'? That is a bad idea.

We believed that it would be good to consolidate that responsibility in one place, and we also concluded that we didn't want the agency to be subject to agency capture.

This idea that they are unaccountable makes no sense.

If we are really talking about the CFPB, let's talk about how we can strengthen it and make sure that the consumers have a voice.

I am a big advocate of homeownership. That is the way to wealth, to create wealth for everybody.

Let the people have a voice. Let there be some decisions.

The CFPB has been an indispensable partner in helping working- and middle-class people pay their bills.

Consumers know what a junk fee is. It is a fee that when you signed up for the service or you engaged the company they didn't disclose it, they didn't tell you about it, you didn't know, you didn't have any reason to anticipate it.

It is simply wrong that the appropriations process is the only way Congress has to do oversight.

Let me be clear, the CFPB is a critical partner, and we certainly believe that their continued success is essential to protect consumers and families.

We don't have a CFPB because somebody just thought it would be a great idea. We are here because of a financial crisis.

The CFPB is part of our response to that financial crisis, and the CFPB has been a wonderful partner to State Attorneys General and to American families.

I introduced My Body, My Data Act to help individuals protect private sexual health data.

These tech platforms can currently just hide behind Section 230.

Well, when you talk about not focusing on certain types of bad behaviors, but to look at the sort of the general problem with Section 230, so how would you make the kind of changes that you're talking about to protect vulnerable…

It's very clear that we want to make changes to Section 230, but there are always unintended consequences whenever we attempt to do that.

Will you have that commitment?

I am glad that we now have this opportunity to do the right thing because it is really crazy that at a time when small businesses are in need of the support of the SBA that this position has been vacant for many years.

It is incredible to believe in this country that women are dying right after giving birth.