Under Chair Yellen's leadership for the last 4 years, the Fed has adopted a number of rules to reduce the risk of another financial crisis.
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 appreciate your making the point that the opioid epidemic and the lack of paid family leave are holding back workers, and that Congress has to do something on both fronts.
Millions of families are going to pay the price while the banks end up, once again, getting bailed out and with record profits.
I am deeply concerned that you believe that the biggest regulatory problem in the country right now is that the rules are too hard on Wall Street banks.
You know, I really couldn't believe it, that there he was at a ceremony to honor Native Americans, men who have really put it all on the line, to save American lives, to save lives of people, our allies during World War II, really amazing…
If this is a new age of accountability, where Donald Trump wants to be held accountable to the dozen or so women who came forward and said that Donald Trump had forced himself on them in various sexual ways and he thinks it's time to get…
This is just a way for Donald Trump to be able to try to get somebody talking about something other than what he's doing, which is advancing a terrible tax plan, trying to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
The Dodd/Frank law that was passed by Congress provides for succession.
The Congressional Budget Office score has now come out, more information about this tax bill, how it's going to be a big giveaway to billionaires, giant corporations run up the debt by $1.4 trillion and raise taxes for people making less…
You know, he thinks that somehow he's going to shut me up with that. And it's just not going to happen. It didn't work in the past. It's not going to work in the future. I'm going to keep fighting for all the issues I'm fighting for.
Republicans have apparently decided that it is not enough for their tax bill to raise taxes on millions of middle class families.
But we need to underline that a person's chances of growing up healthy or staying healthy or getting help when they need it should not depend on their zip code, and help should not be reserved for the wealthy few and the well connected.
Do you agree that improving health outcomes in this country and addressing these disturbing trends that we're talking about is going to take economic policies as well as public health policies?
Republicans should not use their tax bill as a way to take away people's health insurance.
This will destabilize the insurance market, and it will hurt people, plain and simple.
I echo my colleague's concerns about yesterday's decision by the Senate Republicans to use their tax bill to rip healthcare coverage away from 13 million Americans.
Our bill requires the NIH to issue certificates of confidentiality to all federally funded researchers.
I strongly support the data sharing requirements for federally funded research.
You said that the Bank 'embodies the corruption of the free enterprise system.' Those were your words.





