Elizabeth Warren

You build something great in this country, good for you. But you did it using workers all of us help pay to educate.

President Biden should do this today.

Congress should make good on the President's promises and strengthen SSI now.

When the pandemic hit and Social Security offices across the country had to close their doors, millions of Americans faced delay in receiving their benefits.

We need to make it easier for people to access the benefits they desperately need, and we need to rewrite the rules of SSI so that recipients have a fighting chance at building some real economic security for themselves.

We need to improve SSI so that Americans who are most in need have access to this support.

Our laws should afford dignity for every worker, and when companies try to get around those laws, we need to strengthen the laws.

Employers can change someone's schedule without any prior notice.

Our Schedules That Work Act would guarantee that workers had the right to rest between shifts.

The 40-hour work week was intended to ensure that workers, no matter their occupation, had time for rest.

So unions and working people spent decades fighting for a fair work week.

I think what you are saying to me is the OCC will be tough on banks.

The idea of protecting borrowers from usury dates back to the Code of Hammurabi, to the Bible, to the Koran...

Under the previous Administration, banking regulators wrote rules the way the banking industry wanted, created loophole after loophole for bad actors, and put the interests of the wealthy and the powerful ahead of families and small…

And because banks have an exemption from State usury caps, there would essentially be no limit as to what the payday lender could charge a borrower if it just funnels its loan through a bank.

The new rule you have put in place says let us look at the paperwork, and if the bank's name is on the paper, that is what is going to control.

Well, I see what you are trying to do with the language about who is originating.

Under your rule, if a payday lender arranges a loan for a consumer, it is subject to State usury laws.

A two-cent wealth tax changes this country fundamentally because it means we say as a nation, we are going to invest in the next generation.

Stop asking for them, stop spying on her, stop asking questions! It is none of your business quite frankly!

We are constantly treated as not even second class citizens. We are constantly and structurally deprived of opportunities.

If you want to keep your American citizenship, you pay the wealth tax and it doesn't matter where you put your assets.

The U.S. has no right to tax my house in a foreign country paid for by foreign currency, from a foreign job!

It's more than fair that they be asked to pay a small percent of their wealth--and I just can't understand why the wealthiest and luckiest people in the world would be complaining about it being such a hardship.

Whenever the discussion comes up--that we must close the tax gap. Make people pay their fair share, something usually gets lost.