Elizabeth Warren

It seems to me that means that people today are a whole lot worse off, on average, if they have to borrow money to go to school.

This is a huge increase in the debt to income ratio, and yet you say in your published work that you believe borrowers are no worse off than their counterparts were 20 years ago.

The question is whether or not people who are trying to do it now are in a much tougher spot than people who were trying to do it a generation ago.

I am concerned about the Bank's performance in this area.

I believe that we should push the Bank to do more for small businesses, and I would think the people who represent small businesses would be strong supporters of that.

In fact, by law, at least 20 percent of the Bank's spending each year must go directly to supporting small businesses.

I believe that Eximbank helps create jobs in Massachusetts and across America, the kinds of good manufacturing jobs that we are losing to other countries far too often.

CMS needs to implement an auditing system that is less disruptive, more effective, and...far more targeted.

I think, knowing the impact on beneficiaries' costs is critical information for CMS to look at

We need to address this observation status problem. Seniors need to be notified of their admission status

The current three-day inpatient stay required for skilled nursing facility care to be covered by Part A is certainly a problem

The care that a patient receives when the stay in the hospital is the same whether they are classified as inpatient or outpatient under observation.

Simple, structural rules to help this market work better is something that both Democrats and Republicans should support.

One important part of the solution is to give colleges some skin in the game on student loan repayment.

This easy access to student loan dollars give colleges far less incentive to contain costs, far less incentive to improve educational quality.

Right now, colleges that offer a high-quality education and colleges that offer a low-quality education have essentially the same access to Federal loan money.

Over the long haul the Federal Government collects on most of these debts one way or the other.

We shouldn't just rip out the regulations without thinking about it.

I wish that all Americans could apply for jobs and go to work, confident that they would not be passed over because of their age.

We have more work to do, including passing long overdue LGBT anti-discrimination legislation.

Until we get there, our continued efforts to address this issue are an important part of who we are as a people.

I realize that investments in high quality research cannot solve all our problems, but this research represents a very important opportunity to reduce our reliance on unreliable, foreign mineral sources.

I am pleased that the bill we are talking about today takes steps to address these concerns, and I look forward to working with the Chairman on this.

That is why it is so important that we invest in developing alternatives to critical materials and finding other ways to reduce our reliance on oversea suppliers.

I hope that Chairman Alexander and Ranking Member Murray will work with me to make sure that we use the data we are collecting