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.
Is there any reason why a company that rakes in millions and millions of dollars from buying up small businesses and closing them down should not have to disclose their general practices to their investors?
If we say we`re going to get rid of the filibuster, we`re going to go with majority rule the way the constitution holds for the House and the Senate, and we can actually pass the things we need to pass, then this isn`t an issue.
It’s not just minimum wage. It’s voter protection. It’s environmental crisis issues. It’s immigration. It’s universal child care. It’s college. It’s gun safety. It’s the things we need to pass to make this country work.
We need this money. And it’s exactly as you said at the beginning. This is the money we need for vaccines. This is the money we need to help people who are struggling and this is the money we need to get our schools open. This is…
All we’re asking -- is 2 cents, 2 cents to help build a future for the rest of America.
This is wildly popular because people get it that the system today is unfair and rigged.
Look, I’m going to be pushing for more, not less, help for people. I think that’s critically important.
Americans didn’t send us to Washington to be some kind of debating society. They sent us here to get things done and that’s what we should do.
Too many people in low- and middle-income countries may have to wait years to get vaccinated because of the high prices being charged for COVID-19 vaccines.
We need to give the public an opportunity to actually see and evaluate the trade agreement that will have such a huge impact on their lives and on their communities.
If the administration will not ensure that the interests of American workers and American families are prioritized over corporations when we are writing trade deals, then we are never going to get beyond a trade policy that leaves American…
We need to make sure that representatives from labor and consumer and environmental groups, not just from corporations, are the ones who are filling the seats at the table.
We need to get to work to invest in them and ensure that those places, America's Main Streets, not Wall Street, are the center of our recovery.
We need to rethink our economy and how we value the people and the places it is made up of.
Racial equity should be a part of every public health issue that you approach as HHS Secretary.
Racial health disparities are not coincidences or aberrations in the data. They result from structural racism.
If you and the administration are committed to taking a whole-of-government approach to advancing economic and racial equality, then Treasury cannot be a bystander in this.
So the Trump administration did not even pretend to have a strategy for containing the coronavirus and rebuilding our economy, and it is why we surpassed half a million deaths and unemployment is currently around 10 percent.
The Biden-Harris administration has laid out the most comprehensive policy platform for Puerto Rico in history.





