Elizabeth Warren

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Thank you, Mr. President. I want to start by saying thank you to Senator Brown for his extraordinary leadership on this issue and his determination that voices be heard around this country on this trade debate, that the people who are…

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

a budget is about building for the future. A budget is about what it takes for our families, our businesses, and our economy to grow and prosper. The basics are pretty simple: Our kids need access to a good, affordable education. Our…

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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