Elizabeth Warren

Federal law allows individuals, non-profits and small businesses who sue the government and win to recover their costs in a lawsuit if they can show that the Government's legal position wasn't substantially justified.

I am going to press forward with this bipartisan proposal again in this Congress because far too often the critical details of these settlements are hidden from the public.

Our bill would have required Federal agencies to disclose some basic information about the settlement and post a copy of the agreement online, but because we haven't passed the Truth in Settlements Act yet the public can't even see a copy…

The only way we fix that is if we change the rule and say that all of the investment advisors have to put the clients' best interest first.

Last Congress former Senator Tom Coburn and I introduced a bill called the Truth in Settlements Act which would require the Government to take these settlements with big corporations and make them public, and this bill was blocked from…

Let us just stay focused on this question about cost.

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…

The support has dried up.

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…

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…

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.

The Nation owes you a great debt.

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

I come to the floor today with strong support of the National Labor Relations Board's new effort to make workplace union elections more efficient and more effective. I come to the floor today in opposition to Republican efforts to preserve…

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.

the United States is in the final stages of negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a massive free-trade agreement with Mexico, Canada, Japan, Singapore, and seven other countries. I come to the floor today to ask a fundamental…

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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