Elizabeth Warren

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.

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

on Friday, ISIS terrorists massacred 129 people in Paris. Just the day before, ISIS terrorists massacred 43 people in Beirut. While these are merely the latest in a series of horrific attacks launched by ISIS over the last few years, these…

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

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.

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

before long, two must-pass pieces of legislation will come to the floor, a highway bill and a government- funding bill. It is like ringing the dinner bell for Wall Street banks. The lobbyists are swarming this place. They want to roll back…

exactly 3 weeks ago the Social Security Administration made a very quiet announcement. Next year, for just the third time since 1975, seniors who receive Social Security won't be getting an annual cost-of-living increase. Two-thirds of…

I thank the Presiding Officer and thank Senator Durbin for calling us together to discuss this important issue. Our higher education system is broken. Right now a student borrows money to go to college, and the college gets paid in full…

I ask unanimous consent that Joshua Delaney, a staff member in my office, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of this session of Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

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

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

Thank you, Mr. President. I would like to thank Senator Merkley for organizing this event this afternoon and Senators Blumenthal and Markey for their work on this. Smoking produces corporate profits, period. There is the heart of the…

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…

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.