Elizabeth Warren

One way to tackle the problem of loneliness and isolation and depression for some older adults is to cut the cost of hearing aids.

The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine have recommended changing regulations to permit over-the-counter sales of hearing aids to bring down prices dramatically.

It is hard to maintain social relationships when you cannot communicate very well, and a big reason that older adults have trouble communicating is hearing loss.

I just want to say they should not be reserved for the privileged few who can afford $5,000 in order to have some assistance.

Assistive technology has to be affordable, and it is not.

Thanks in part to the pressure from Congress, the Trump administration is currently enforcing those sanctions.

We have talked a little bit about pending legislation here, but let me ask, Ambassador Burns, given the questionable ties between the Trump administration and Russia...

I think we need to signal to our allies that our commitment is firm, that it is unshakeable.

India is the largest democracy in the world and an important partner for us in the region.

The United States-India relationship has evolved over the past decade from one of distance to a close strategic partnership.

For almost two-thirds of seniors, Social Security makes up the majority of their income in retirement.

We should be talking about expanding Social Security across the board.

I have supported the proposal advanced by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors to require that researchers share data as a condition of publication in major medical journals.

Senators Grassley, Isakson, Hassan, and I recently introduced bipartisan legislation that would make certain types of hearing aids available over the counter.

If confirmed, I will ensure FDA remains engaged on this important public health issue.

I think it raises the very real question of whether someone who seems to oppose the FDA's basic safety mission should be running the agency.

I want to get innovative products to market as fast as possible, and I support more resources for the FDA to be able to do that.

Following that episode, public outrage led Congress to strengthen the FDA so that drug company profits would never be put ahead of the safety of our children.

The result will be a crippled agency, a cop that is severely underfunded and whose ability to enforce the law will be at the mercy of whatever the regulated companies do or don't want to see enforced.

President Trump seems to think that user fees are a substitute for Congress doing its job. He's wrong on this.

In addition to the hiring freeze, President Trump's budget blueprint calls for cutting congressional support by as much as a billion dollars for the FDA next year.

Does it worry you that at the same time that we're trying to boost the number of staff implementing the FDA's mission that the President is trying to cut the number of FDA staff by preventing the agency from filling vacant positions and by…

I don't understand why one of the first things that President Trump did when he took office was to start cutting the number of people at the FDA.

We will lose our researchers if we do not fund them.

We need more money for NIH, not less.