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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 send a question to the desk. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Massachusetts has a question for the House managers. The clerk will read the question. The legislative clerk read as follows: The defense's presentation highlighted…
We cancel $50,000 worth of student loan debt, and what that will mean is that 85 percent of those who are struggling with student loan debt right now, about 40 million people, will see their student loan debt completely wiped out.
Wealth tax, Social Security, the money that we need in order to have child care, Medicare, it’s all right there in the Finance Committee. You know, we talk a lot in this country, we talk a lot on your program, about inequality in our…
The number one thing he can do to help close the black/white wealth gap, is cancel $50,000 worth of student loan debt. It would be transformative for families and transformative for this nation.
Well, keep in mind, Joe Biden ran on the most progressive agenda ever. And now, he is meeting the moment. And we need to continue to hold everyone accountable to the promises that have been made. It’s a good time.
The number one thing that President Biden can do right now for this economy, cancel $50,000 worth of student loan debt.
One route that I am going to continue to urge you to take is administrative cancellation of student loan debt.
About 43 million people--that is one in five adults in America--have Federal student loan debt.
But, today, students face a very different situation, so I want to talk with you today about student debt.
Will you commit to developing a plan to reform FSA so that it works for student borrowers instead of for big corporations?
Student loan debt is one of the biggest contributors to rising debt loads by seniors.
I am reminded by this how difficult it is right now for our students and for our teachers, who are having to deal with technical glitches that interrupt their education every day, and why this package is so important to get the resources…
Let me ask you, will you commit to doing everything you can to use those tools to provide borrowers with immediate relief?
All of a sudden, the billionaires and some hedge funds are yelling because they`re not the ones, the only ones, who make money when the manipulation works, but remember the other half of this. There are going to be a lot of people who are…
We live in an America today where a typical White family has eight times the wealth of a typical Black family and five times the wealth of a typical Latinx family gaps that have not budged in decades.
Canceling $50,000 in Federal student loan debt is the single biggest thing the Administration could do on its own to narrow the racial wealth gap.
We need to take action before the pandemic widens the home ownership gap even more.
It has well past time for the SEC and other financial regulators to wake up and do their jobs.
It is well past time for the SEC and other financial regulators to wake up and do their jobs.
How about if we're unified against insurrection? How about if we're unified for accountability? Unity starts with accountability.
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