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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Sep 16, 2014

Congress could pass, for example, the Employee Free Choice Act and make sure that there is more collective bargaining power in our economy.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Sep 16, 2014

I have to say, and to think about what it would mean if that million workers made $5 more an hour in terms of what they could buy elsewhere in the economy.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Sep 16, 2014

If we cannot count on CEOs and senior management to reinvest at least some of the corporate profits in their workers like they used to, what steps should the Government take to fill that void?

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Sep 16, 2014

corporate profits in America are at an all-time, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average continues to hit new records.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Sep 16, 2014

Thank you very much for having this hearing, for pulling together such an illustrious panel.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Sep 16, 2014

Congress could stop giving preferential treatment to this kind of income, to wealth income--stocks and dividends--over work.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Sep 16, 2014

We should be closing tax loopholes and havens and ensuring that corporations, which are at an all-time high in profitability, are sharing some of that revenue.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Sep 16, 2014

Mr. President, I wish to commend all of the incredible work that the Senator from Michigan has done on the ``fair shot'' agenda, how she really has been out there working hard for families across this country. For middle-class families…

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Sep 16, 2014

Mr. President, what is dysfunctional is a Republican filibuster of a bill on which 58 Senators want to move forward and debate. Allowing an unlimited number of amendments on any topic, going on forever, is not a reasonable way forward. We…

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Chris Coons
@chriscoons· Democratic · DE· Sep 16, 2014

I think reconciliation between Shia and Sunni in the formal government and in the underground conditions in Iraq is absolutely essential to our having a prospect of success.

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Chris Coons
@chriscoons· Democratic · DE· Sep 16, 2014

I am very concerned about the stability, security, safety of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

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Chris Coons
@chriscoons· Democratic · DE· Sep 16, 2014

I share your grave concern about ISIL, the threat it poses to our regional allies and to the United States.

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Chris Coons
@chriscoons· Democratic · DE· Sep 16, 2014

if we have a Shia-only government and military, it is not sustainable, and that is in some ways what created the vacuum.

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Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Sep 16, 2014

I never had an opportunity to ask him a question where he had to answer.

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Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Sep 16, 2014

Do you believe that raising taxes on alternative energy and raising their cost of doing business will lead to job losses?

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Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Sep 16, 2014

I am going to ask Mr. McDowell to comment on something that was in Mr. Burnham's testimony.

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Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Sep 16, 2014

I am highly skeptical about the prospects of expansive FCC regulation over every aspect of the Internet.

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Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Sep 16, 2014

Then for the two of you again--and this will be my last question--in your opinion, has there been any widespread anti-competitive behavior within the Internet ecosystem that would warrant a prescriptive regulator solution imposed by the…

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