Elizabeth Warren

The standard prescription is that Americans should put more money aside. This recommendation glosses over a critical driver of unpreparedness. Wall Street is bleeding savers dry.

Because I want to direct this, because one consequence of the shift from defined benefit pensions to 401(k)'s and IRAs was that Americans had to rely on investment advisors and broker-dealers who can legally take kickbacks for selling…

Our health care system currently rewards private industry only for drugs that can be sold either at high cost or in very high volume.

Nearly everyone in Congress says they support funding that agency. Talk is cheap, and Congress has decimated the NIH's budget, singlehandedly choking off support for projects that could lead to the next major breakthrough in Alzheimer's…

I want to say I am certain there are changes we could make at the FDA to help speed up the approval process and get rid of unnecessary bureaucracy.

Given how important this issue is, you'd think our first priority here would be to figure out how to get the NIH the resources it needs to replenish the pipeline of great research that is the foundation for better treatments and reliable…

The support has dried up.

The Nation owes you a great debt.

But if the Fed fails to do that, I believe Congress should act.

If big financial institutions know that they can rely on the Fed to save them if they start to falter, then they have every incentive to take on more risk and to threaten the entire system.

Protecting our forests from threats has so many benefits, soil erosion, protect habitats for wildlife, take in atmospheric carbon.

Climate change is already altering our nation's forests in significant ways and those alterations are likely to accelerate in the future.

According to Forest Service's assessments, more than half our nation's fresh water comes from forest ecosystems.

We're falling behind in our preparation for known threats, and we're not laying the intellectual and the scientific groundwork to prepare for the next round of threats.

If Congress is truly concerned about the very real threat of contagious diseases, then we need to start making some smart decisions right now.

We need to have sustainable funding that people can count on year after year.

Congress is terrible about spending money to make sure we're ready for these crises before they occur.

Infectious diseases pose an enormous threat to human health and to the world economy.

The Fed is our first line of defense against another financial crisis.

The biggest banks in the country to continue to receive taxpayer protection for some of their riskiest derivatives and swaps.

There have been no consequences for the most recent leak.

One of the key purposes of Federal investments in higher education is to make college more affordable for people who can't afford to spend tens of thousands of dollars every year to get an education.

We're putting $160 billion into universities all across this country. ... we want to see something on the other side.

The cost is too high. Part of the reason the cost is too high, you're telling us, is because of regulations imposed by the Federal Government.

We have got to get back to investing in our kids so they get a chance to get a decent education without being crushed by student loan debt.