Elizabeth Warren

Three months after Hurricane Maria, a bipartisan group of nine Members of this Committee wrote to the Chairman to ask for a hearing on Hurricane Maria's impact on health and education systems.

Hurricane Maria killed about 3,000 American citizens, had a crippling impact on health and education systems in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

We reach out. We take care of people who need help for as long as they need it.

When disasters hit, they do not affect only the communities that are directly hit by the eye of the storm.

We do not work for the N.R.A. We work for the people.

Allowing schools to use scarce Federal dollars to put guns in classrooms is an idea that is dangerous and dumb, and it clearly was not our intent when we wrote ESSA.

I just want to join my colleagues who have expressed concern with allowing school districts to use Federal education dollars to buy guns for their teachers.

I think a lot of my constituents and constituents for pretty much everybody here would be uncomfortable with the idea of even more companies getting access to our financial data without our effective consent and without strict rules on how…

I am concerned that this Treasury report consistently ignores real concerns that could arise both for consumers and for the industry.

I think it is critical that the Government move methodically on a regulatory approach to FinTech

If we're going to improve healthcare coverage in this country, then I think we've got to look at all the pieces together and try to make them work together.

When a health plan has all the power over whether or not you can get quality care, information on price and transparency alone are not going to solve the problem.

Twenty-eight million people in this country have no health coverage at all. Forty-three percent of those who do have coverage struggle just to pay their deductible.

Most Americans don't have enough money to pay cash out of pocket for a hip replacement or an expensive--any of these expensive procedures. They need affordable insurance coverage.

So transparency is part of any competitive market. If a consumer doesn't have good information, like price or quality, then let's just be frank. It's impossible to shop around at that point.

Last year, people stood up and spoke out against the mean-spirited Trump Care Bill which would have hurt families by spiking premiums, gutting Medicaid, and denying protections for preexisting conditions.

From day one, President Trump has made every possible effort to restrict access to healthcare and roll back protections for preexisting conditions.

Sabotaging the healthcare system and raising costs for families have become standard practice for this Administration.

If we want to squeeze Putin and his cronies, we need to follow the money and expose the assets so that these corrupt individuals have fewer ways to hide their assets and keep themselves rich at everyone else's expense.

President Trump's mixed signals send the message to Putin that he will not face maximum punishment for trying to interfere in our democracy.

We need a strong leader in the White House who clearly understands this threat and is willing to confront it.

I think you are right on this, and you rightly point out that President Trump's own National Director of Intelligence said publicly that Russia keeps trying to undermine our electoral process, our energy grid, and other critical…

Congress wants to push harder against Russia. Last summer, we overwhelmingly passed tougher sanctions on Russia, and over a year later, the Trump administration has not implemented seven mandatory sections of this Russia sanctions law.

We do not permit other countries to punish our diplomats for doing their job.

If senior administration officials think that the president of the United States is not able to do his job, then they should invoke the 25th Amendment.