Elizabeth Warren
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Elizabeth Ann Warren is an American attorney, academic, and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Massachusetts since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she has been a prominent advocate for consumer protection, economic equality, and corporate regulation. Warren gained national recognition for her work in establishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and has focused on issues such as student debt relief and healthcare reform during her tenure in the Senate.
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.
Would you commit if we reduce these regulations to giving a cost estimate and to passing those savings on along to our students?
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.
I actually just want to add my voice to yours about the importance of supporting public education.
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.
the biggest banks in the country to continue to receive taxpayer protection for some of their riskiest derivatives and swaps.
We're putting $160 billion into universities all across this country. ... we want to see something on the other side.
Let's be clear. If Republicans in the Senate don't change course, they will shut down the Department of Homeland Security and compromise the safety of the American people, and they will have done it because a handful of extremists in the…
over the last two weeks Republicans in Congress have insisted on playing political games with funding for the Department of Homeland Security. The same agency that supports States such as Massachusetts when disasters hit, the same agency…
the grid is a real vulnerability of America, particularly in the cyber aspects of it.
The basic design elements of the grid date back to Thomas Edison, and major parts of today's grid were built right after World War II.
These extreme weather events threaten our electricity infrastructure and make it even more important that we invest in upgrading and protecting the grid.
But a huge part of our energy structure is the electric grid, the system we use to transmit electricity to our homes and businesses.
The impact of extreme weather on the grid reliability is a problem for everybody who uses electricity, and we're facing more extreme weather events.
The NLRB does not answer to them. Congress has directed the NLRB to make sure that election disputes can be solved fairly between employers and employees.
When the polio and measles vaccine became available for the first time, parents lined up to make sure their kids would be protected.
So nearly all of the banks that you are supervising, community banks are going to be under $1 billion, much less under $10 billion.