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.
Are there other more achievable near-term technologies that we should be investing in right now to put us on the right path?
I think that these new domains may well be decisive in any future conflict and we should be putting a lot of attention on them.
Our potential adversaries are more interested in challenging us through cheap and asymmetric means.
But what the data actually show is that they do not save money, that we have a workforce that is just more stressed, more inefficient.
Almost 20,000 people died waiting for a disability eligibility discussion in fiscal year 2016.
But instead of staffing up the workforce that cracks down on scammers and fraudsters that hurt our seniors, on his first full day in the Oval Office, President Trump issued an Executive order freezing Federal hiring and starving our…
The President's Chief Economic Adviser is wrong about that pretty basic fact.
President Trump has called Dodd-Frank Act a 'disaster,' and he has vowed to 'dismantle' it.
When he unveiled his Executive order, President Trump said he hoped to 'cut a lot out of Dodd-Frank Act' because 'friends of mine that have nice businesses cannot borrow money.'
Do you believe that the CFPB's Office of Servicemember Affairs has benefited military servicemembers and their families, and if so, why?
Yes, CFPB should continue to look out for the best interests of servicemembers and their families to make sure they're not overcharged by banks or student loan companies that break the law.
Do you believe that the CFPB should continue to look out for the best interests of servicemembers to make sure they're not overcharged by banks or student loan companies that break the law, and if so, why?
While the Military Lending Act did a lot to stop lenders from exploiting servicemembers through payday loans and unfair terms on other loans, some lenders used loopholes in the law to continue to offer predatory terms for other financial…
In just 5-1/2 years, the CFPB has forced companies to return $12 billion dollars directly to consumers they cheated.
Congress created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) after the financial crisis so there would be a government agency that had the tools and the authority to protect consumers from being cheated on their mortgages, credit…
I think we can fix this problem, and I look forward to working with you on it.
What concerns me right now is that too many servicemembers are being roped into expensive credentialing programs by predatory, for-profit colleges.
We train them to do these jobs with precision, to do them without mistakes, to do them in Active combat situations.
I definitely do not want to change or lower civilian certification standards. That is not the problem here.
So we have got a State, a national licensing problem here, and we cannot take the world's best truck drivers and just automatically move them into truck driving jobs.





