Elizabeth Warren

Neither the idea nor the number is based on any concrete research. I think this is just trying to roll back part of the EPA rules without having to tell the American people about it.

Now the auto industry complains about ambitious fuel economy standards because it costs money to make cars more efficient and to reduce their pollution.

In 2014 more than 32,000 people were killed in motor vehicle crashes, as you rightly pointed out. That is 32,000 reasons right there to encourage the adoption of promising safety technologies like automatic emergency braking.

I would like to work with you, Chairman Alexander and Ranking Member Murray, on making sure that consumers have a central place to turn to for help when they are denied coverage.

Today, for most insurance plans, mental health parity is the law, but it sure doesn't feel that way for people who need help.

It is long past time to confirm Adam Szubin to be Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Crimes.

If we are serious about taking down ISIS we need to aggressively target its use of the international financial system to sell oil and to move money around.

Cash is critical to their operations.

We want to use any tool that we can to try to disrupt the flow of cash.

One way to weaken ISIS is to cutoff access to its source of funding.

We need to support the investments and we might want to figure out how to do that differently.

It is time for Government to step in on the side of the American people to stop this extortion.

This is a market failure and when there is a market failure, the Government has a role in addressing it.

I think Government has a real important role here.

If our health care system is being cheated, that has consequences for all Americans in the form of higher premiums and higher costs to Medicare and Medicaid.

The system is rigged in a lot of ways and this Committee is right to open an investigation into drug practices.

The best answers are likely to be found when many people are asking questions.

We would like to see improved coverage (both in terms of scope and parity); improved access to treatment resources...

Federal agencies need to coordinate----

I'll be sending a letter to the DEA with Senator Markey to request that the agency clarify these regulations.

This Gloucester program is a great example of local leaders understanding what it takes to treat substance use disorders on the ground.

We know that addiction is a disease. We know that we're not going to be arresting our way out of it.

Fighting this epidemic will take smart, creative ideas like the efforts of Chief Campanello of the Gloucester Police Department.

The opioid epidemic is a health crisis. In Massachusetts alone, there were more than 1,000 confirmed opioid-related overdose deaths in 2014.

I only want to add that I am grateful for all the work my colleague has done on behalf of American consumers and all the work he did to get the consumer agency through Congress and now to protect it when the big banks were coming after it…