Elizabeth Warren

Breakthroughs will not happen if we are not funding our scientists and keeping in the fight as they push every day to make progress.

This disease is also wildly expensive. I know that the Chair talked about this. The United States spends $259 billion a year on health care related to Alzheimer's disease, including $175 billion for Medicare and Medicaid.

A lot of Americans have known for a long time that the financial sector has gotten too big, too complex, and too powerful.

It is clear that a robust, well-functioning financial sector can help grow the economy.

A growing financial sector does not necessarily mean a growing economy.

Our job here on this Committee is to advance policies to make the economy grow, not policies just to make big banks even bigger.

There is no tradeoff here between regulation and growth. They work hand in hand if done right.

To me, that means one of the best things we can do to promote economic growth in this country is to make every effort to provide basic banking services to the 40 million unbanked households in this country.

After a certain point, financial sector growth sucks money away from the real economy.

We have a current system right now that's completely focused on longevity. Everything is about longevity. And so that is not going to breed the best productivity out of our people.

I appreciate this because it just seems to me we have got to have both compensation structures and opportunity structures that really help our civilian employees that recognize all they have done, but also help them develop and be all they…

We do not do the same with civilian managers.

We need to treat them as one workforce and respect them as one workforce.

We have to worry about demoralizing the civilian workforce.

Our civilian workforce has become accustomed to hiring freezes, to furloughs, even a Government shutdown, and it is getting worse.

They may not wear the uniform, but civilian workers are an essential part of our national defense effort.

And the Democrats wanted more enforcement.

I think we have a New York Times analysis showing in the 48 cases where Mary Jo White recused herself that the Republicans wanted less enforcement.

I do not understand how we can have someone who continues to trade in a market and is influencing regulatory policy simultaneously.

We will see some real enforcement of the law on insider trading.

That creates a conflict of interest that just--is just beyond what we are even talking about everywhere else.

The American people should not be on guess about that.

I would like you to upgrade that 'may be inappropriate' to you believe it is inappropriate.

Holding Wall Street firms accountable is a major job of the SEC's mission

Your recusal problems seem to be even more severe than Chair White's.