Elizabeth Warren

I want to explore whether this industry self-regulation really works.

I want to know what you plan to do about it.

I think something should be done about brokers and dealers who put customers at risk.

How can there be so many?

It is hard to support building any more of them.

That the regulations here just are not working that leaks occur, sometimes large and dangerous ones, and that we are not doing enough to fix them.

Yet we have seen the Federal regulators out in California just hand this over to the states.

I am very concerned about the lack of information about natural gas leaks because it permits the problem to go on without being fixed.

It was the worst natural gas leak in history, the climate equivalent of the BP oil spill.

For months the massive gas leak at Porter Ranch, California spewed methane from an underground storage facility into the air.

Our letter asked the Department not to use this new authority until the Department can demonstrate with data that robocalling is in the best interest of student loan borrowers and taxpayers and will not result in abusive debt collection…

Not only does this jeopardize the students' future, but also puts the taxpayers' investment at risk.

I hope if you are confirmed that you will use that authority to ensure that the students get every dime of relief that they deserve without making them jump through a bunch of unnecessary hoops.

We potentially have hundreds of thousands of students who have been cheated here.

I want to remind us that Congress gave the Secretary of Education broad authority to cancel the loans of students who attend colleges that broke the law.

I don't understand why this takes long. This isn't hard, what we're trying to do here.

It is the Department of Education's job to stand up for students, not for the student loan companies.

The Department's bank thinks that it is doing such a great job that in 2014 they gave dozens of their own senior officers--those are your Department's employees--bonuses, and some of those bonuses were as high as $75,000.

Millions of Americans are being crushed by student loan debt.

It is irresponsible not to study the science. We cannot be afraid of conducting basic medical research.

I have sent multiple letters to HHS, to DEA, to ONDCP, asking that they reduce these barriers, but so far, these agencies have taken virtually no action to expand research opportunities.

States like mine are stuck, and that is why Senator Capito and I are introducing bipartisan, bicameral legislation today.

In 2013, CMS reported that more Medicare beneficiaries received prescriptions for generic Vicodin, a powerful opioid, than any other drug.

We have called multiple times for the FDA rescheduling to Schedule 2.

Thank you very much for holding this hearing. It is powerfully important.