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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Sep 27, 2021

When the tests were first set up, bank supervisors could restrict stock buybacks and dividend payments to strengthen the bank's balance sheet.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Sep 27, 2021

We cannot play politics with the full faith and credit of the United States.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Sep 27, 2021

Your job, the Fed's job, members of Congress' job is to serve the public, not their stock portfolios.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Sep 27, 2021

Let me ask you the question then. I take it you do not have any regrets about any changes to the stress test?

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Sep 27, 2021

The debt limit is not about future spending--it's about meeting obligations we've already made, like the bipartisan, overwhelmingly popular CARES Act.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Sep 27, 2021

We cannot declare the recovery complete until all workers can find a job that pays them fair wages and treats them with dignity.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Sep 27, 2021

So today I want to talk about three instances of that and ask you to think about them in hindsight.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Sep 27, 2021

So let me just ask, do you regret slashing liquidity requirements designed to protect markets from crashing like they did in 2008?

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Ayanna Pressley
@ayannapressley· Democratic · MA· Sep 24, 2021

Abortion care is a fundamental human right. Texas' unconscionable abortion ban is further evidence that lawmakers who aim to do harm will stop at nothing to attack our reproductive rights and bodily autonomy. But not on our watch. It is…

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Katherine Clark
@katherineclark· Democratic · MA· Sep 24, 2021

It is the Constitution that says women have the right to make their own decisions regarding their bodies. It is the Constitution that gives people the right to make a decision about abortion with their families, their doctor, and in…

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Lori Trahan
@loritrahan· Democratic · MA· Sep 24, 2021

My generation and every generation of women after us has grown up with the freedom and the security under Roe v. Wade. Today those protections are under attack from lawmakers and activists, many of whom have never had to make the tough…

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Lori Trahan
@loritrahan· Democratic · MA· Sep 23, 2021

I was in a meeting. Had I been present, I would have noted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 286. Members Recorded Pursuant to House Resolution 8, 117th Congress Babin (Nehls) Boyle, Brendan F. (Jeffries) Carter (TX) (Calvert) DeFazio (Brown)…

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Sep 23, 2021

I would like to speak in support of Ms. Monica Medina's nomination to be Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. I have known Monica for more than 30 years and can say…

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Jake Auchincloss
@jakeauchincloss· Democratic · MA· Sep 22, 2021

On Wednesday, September 22, 2021, I was unable to vote. Had I been present, I would have voted: ``Yea'' on rollcall vote 269, on agreeing to Amendment No. 5 offered by Rep. Dean printed in H. Rept. 117-125. MEMBERS RECORDED PURSUANT TO…

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Jake Auchincloss
@jakeauchincloss· Democratic · MA· Sep 22, 2021

I thank the chairman for including my two amendments so that we may learn from the mistakes of the forever wars and ensure the Taliban cannot benefit from our financial system. I served in Afghanistan's Helmand Province. I saw what began…

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Sep 22, 2021

Are we hostage to Republicans who are threatening to blow up a part of the economic system because they want to do that for politics? That’s just not where we should be as a nation.

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