Will you commit to using your authority to undo the rollbacks that your predecessor initiated and to strengthen the rules?
Elizabeth Warren
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Elizabeth Ann Warren is an American attorney, academic, and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Massachusetts since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she has been a prominent advocate for consumer protection, economic equality, and corporate regulation. Warren gained national recognition for her work in establishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and has focused on issues such as student debt relief and healthcare reform during her tenure in the Senate.
I hope that from now on, those who have no problem with Government intervention to protect their own livelihoods will think a little bit harder about what their warped version of the free market has done to workers in Ohio.
Or we can crack down on the abuses and use this money to pay for the dental care that people actually need.
Executives at SVB and Signature took wild risks and must be held accountable for exploding their banks.
Since Medicare was established in 1965, it has not covered routine dental benefits.
We need better laws here in Congress but let us also talk about how we can strengthen the rules today even before Congress acts.
That is why I will be introducing legislation to strengthen regulators' ability to impose fines and penalties, to clawback bonuses, and to ban executives who caused bank failures from working at another bank ever again.
Will you commit to using your authority to undo the rollbacks that your predecessor initiated and to strengthen the rules?
Executives at SVB and Signature took wild risks and must be held accountable for exploding their banks.
We need better laws here in Congress but let us also talk about how we can strengthen the rules today even before Congress acts.
I urge you to use that authority and I urge my colleagues here in Congress to do our part to protect American families and small businesses from yet another banking crisis.





