Elizabeth Warren

In 1996, when Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, it set important privacy standards, and it made clear that patients have a right to see their own medical records.

The Federal Government has spent more than $30 billion supporting the adoption of electronic health records, and we did it because we know that exchanging health information and providing patients with access to their data can reduce…

In 2009, Congress expanded those rights with the HITECH Act, encouraging hospitals and doctors to set up electronic health record systems.

Patients want access to their own health data, and they should have an easy way to do that.

I remain very concerned that these policies leave the door open for dangerous antibiotic regimens to continue.

I ask unanimous consent that at a time to be determined by the majority leader, following consultation with the Democratic leader and no later than Friday, October 30, the HELP Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. 1772…

I come to the Senate floor today to talk about something that has been bothering me. Who is this Senate supposed to be working for? For years now, this economy has been great for those at the top, but for everyone else, it is getting…

One way the Federal Government could help in this process is providing greater incentives to States that maintain tuition to their public institutions at rates significantly below the national average.

A nuclear-armed Iran threatens the United States, threatens Israel, threatens the entire world.

I believe that a mix of funding is important.

The question now before Congress is whether the nuclear agreement represents our best available option for preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

The deal is the deal, and Congress has two choices: accept it or reject it.

We just have to go back to the fact that the Federal Government is shelling out $150 billion every year to help students attend college.

No one can say for certain that this deal will prevent a nuclear-armed Iran, and I will not say it.

$100,000 in debt and very little credit that will actually transfer. For-profit colleges seem more interested in shareholder success than in student success.

I just want to underline what I'm hearing you say about this is putting financial incentives in place so that schools have a reason to invest not just in getting students in through the door, but in having them succeed.

With the Federal Government spending billions of dollars each year on the Pell grant program, understanding how these students are succeeding is an important component.

If we reject this deal, Iran's breakout time will go down, and that will increase the pressure to take military action very soon.

We all know that helping students should be a high priority, and I know that you all see this.

When we talk about improving student success, we aren't just talking about getting students through a graduation ceremony--getting them in the row and walking them across the stage. We're talking about making sure that students leave…

I come to the Senate floor to ask my Republican colleagues a question: Do you have any idea what year it is? Did you fall down and hit your head and think you woke up in the 1950s or the 1890s? Should we call for a doctor? Because I simply…

No financial institution should be too big to fail, and to me, that means three things.

They bailed out the biggest financial institutions.

In 2008, did we have a law that said that the Federal Government would bail out the biggest financial institutions if they threatened to bring down the entire economy?

I am absolutely in favor of holding them accountable, and just to add a small fact to this, the corporate executives of the top 14 U.S. financial companies made $2.5 billion in compensation between 2000 and 2007.