Elizabeth Warren

I think one of the most important parts of this is the consumer agency said--when credit card companies, for example, got caught cheating people, it said to those credit card companies: Look, you have people's addresses to be able to cheat…

Well, the Senator raises the right question, but I think it is pretty obvious. If these proposals were debated out in public, where everyone in America could see and hear them, they wouldn't pass. People don't want to line up to vote for…

I think the American people are right to be a little skeptical of oil industry claims.

We cannot afford the environmental or the economic cost of another BP spill.

The BP oil spill was a massive catastrophe by any measure, and we are here today to make absolutely sure this catastrophe does not occur again.

If they're not safe and effective, then no one is any better off.

Many in the pharmaceutical and device industry spend a lot of time and money arguing that the FDA is just too tough, that we should lower the FDA standards on safety and effectiveness, and, unfortunately, they have a lot of friends in…

Keeping that academic independence, we think, is a critical part of the effort.

I know this is common practice for principal investigators of clinical trials, but it naturally raises questions about your relationship with the drug industry.

Gun violence is tearing apart our families and our communities, and we cannot turn away from that.

The idea that Congress would witness children, bystanders, spouses, people watching movies, people going to church die by gun violence and refuse to take any action is irresponsible in the extreme and clearly a sellout to a powerful gun…

The deaths continue to add up with more than 30,000 people lost to gun violence during 2013 alone.

With every mass shooting in this country, the American people call for action and the U.S. Congress does nothing.

Could you estimate how much your institution has saved in total assessments because of this change?

In the Dodd-Frank Act, Congress directed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to change how it calculates deposit insurance assessments.

This Committee should legislate based on the facts, not on a make-believe narrative that is pushed by lobbyists.

Dodd-Frank included a tradeoff. It imposed new rules to protect consumers and our markets, necessary rules to stop the kind of behavior that led to the last crisis.

I have joined with all of my Democratic colleagues on the Banking Committee to introduce a bill that would provide targeted relief to small lenders without rolling back the rules on big banks that pose a real threat to our financial system.

We need to move past the idea that Dodd-Frank has crushed community banks. It is just not true.

The estimate was that over a 3-year period it would save community banks about $4.5 billion.

Dodd-Frank changed the law on how FDIC calculated what banks owe in deposit insurance assessments.

So it seems to me that a strong stream protection rule will make a real difference in protecting areas immediately surrounding coal mining, but this rule does not cover some of the most devastating public health effects of mining and it…

While the rule is a step in the right direction, let's not kid ourselves about the scope of this rule, what kind of impact it is going to have on the coal industry.

The damage that coal mining can cause to surrounding waters, to the wildlife that depend on those waters, is well documented and it is serious.

In your view, does the existing rule...sufficiently protect water sources? No, it does not.