Elizabeth Warren

These plans are deliberately designed to avoid the important protections that are there in the ACA.

I worry that we are moving in exactly the wrong direction with Association Health Plans.

One of the driving motivations behind the Affordable Care Act was to improve insurance coverage for small businesses and for entrepreneurs. It worked.

I think it is really important for CFIUS to be proactive and not just reactive in identifying these emerging technologies.

We endorse setting the goal of a world free of nuclear weapons and working energetically on the actions required to achieve that goal.

That is why Senators Hatch, Cassidy, Whitehouse, and I have introduced the bipartisan College Transparency Act.

I think that the key to innovation is to start with having better data.

So before we have a conversation about making it easier for those schools to put more students in debt, I think students need to know more about the options that are available to them.

But this same population has been a prime target for fly by-night for-profit and online colleges looking to suck down more Federal student loan and Federal student aid money without actually teaching these students anything.

I support the whole idea that we can innovate and find more ways to serve nontraditional students.

I believe all students have the right to a high-quality education and that families should have a range of options to best meet the educational needs of their children irrespective of their zip code.

I'm going to ask you in the follow-up questions for a commitment that what we're going to get is we're going to encourage the states to strengthen their oversight of charter schools, not to weaken their oversight of charter schools.

I believe that the evidence is clear that more oversight and more accountability works for our kids.

Boston's public charter schools are among the best-performing charter schools in the Nation.

I appreciate your unambiguous confirmation that we're going to follow the law in reporting these data.

I fought hard in that law to make sure that Federal election dollars go to the schools and the students who need them most.

It is clear to me that the Social Security Administration's work is very important and that the field offices are critical to making sure that Americans get the benefits that they are entitled to.

I believe, though, we need to look beyond the bare minimum and to stop lurching from crisis to crisis just to try to keep the lights on.

So, Mr. Borland, despite years of underfunding, Senate appropriators have proposed a more than $400 million cut to the Social Security Administration budget for this year.

Here is how I see it: Social Security and Medicare are contracts that we make with each other.

Government should invest in our seniors. And that starts with making sure that the Social Security Administration offices are fully funded.

As painful as it is to have arbitrary rules, sometimes those arbitrary rules really serve an important function.

All the children are above average.

One of the central aspects of the military culture is an inability to say no.

I think you want to have a way to perhaps retain some more of those people who may be at the peak of their professional abilities.