Elizabeth Warren

Last year, I introduced an amendment to the Education Sciences Reform Act reauthorization bill to require the Secretary of Education to protect student privacy but to make these data available.

This is nuts. The data are already collected and the Education Department will not turn them loose.

If we are serious about speeding up biomedical innovation, about improving health, about reducing long-term costs, we start by investing in NIH.

Energy efficiency technologies can be a pretty good deal. They protect the environment. They fight climate change. They save money for consumers.

Energy efficiency programs, I think we all agree, are critical to reducing carbon emissions and fighting global climate change.

What alarms me is that if regulatory changes are included in a future trade deal with the EU, that opportunity for tailoring disappears.

One of my concerns about fast track is that a future President could use it to negotiate a TTIP agreement that weakens our financial rules or disrupts our regulatory system.

It will take only 51 votes in the Senate to make those changes the law.

Congress is debating whether to give the President fast-track authority, that would reduce Congress' ability to shape major trade agreements.

Public-private partnerships will not solve that problem, and if governments are going to turn to public-private partnerships, the need to exercise the kind of careful oversight our witnesses have talked about is critical to ensure that…

We need more up-front taxpayer investments in infrastructure, period.

Do you agree that there should be strong Federal oversight to evaluate the costs, the risks, and the benefits of these programs?

Giving into the temptation of a short-term fix with private money and then paying for it with long-term taxpayer money not only does not create any new resources for infrastructure; in fact, it makes the problem worse over time.

The profits are privatized, but when something goes wrong, sometimes taxpayers end up having to deal with the consequences.

I believe that the solution here starts with transparency.

You know, that is a lot of money going to agent kickbacks instead of returns to customers who are just trying to provide for their retirement.

It is not an accident that objective fee-only advisers hardly ever recommend annuities, while commissioned sales people seem to love them.

I have been looking at a problem that is costing American families about $17 billion a year.

If we want medical innovation in this country, we need to double down on support for NIH.

It is irresponsible and short-sighted, not prudent, to let financing for basic research dwindle.

Medical research funding in this country is in crisis.

Real innovation comes from NIH. A recent analysis by Harvard researchers found that most of our truly transformative drugs are based on insights gained through federally funded research.

I support looking for new solutions, but I am very concerned about the assumption in some places that privatizing transit operations will save money.

According to this study, safety is a particular concern, for example, with replacement drivers 70 percent more likely to have collisions, which, of course, is very costly.

A GAO study on the impacts of privatization stated that, quote, 'savings come almost entirely from cutting wages and benefits, not from service efficiencies.'