Elizabeth Warren

I think that accessible materials are critical. We already have laws about requirements, and clearly they are not being met.

Today, Senator Hatch and I are introducing legislation to establish guidelines to ask an independent agency to develop guidelines.

I want to thank you for your leadership and all that you have done to expand access for people with disabilities.

It is not enough to say to our students, 'We are trying to make college accessible, but when you get here, you are not going to be able to deal with the material.'

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I think this is really important because this is about accountability. We want to be able to hold our financial institutions accountable, but it also means accountability for our regulatory institutions.

Well, thank you very much, and I will look forward to our continuing to track those data.

So 2 weeks ago, Congressman Cummings and I sent a letter to you recommending that the Fed change its rules so that the Board would have to vote before any major settlement.

So long as the markets believe that too-big-to-fail has not ended, and they demonstrate that by reducing capital costs for the banks that are perceived to be those that the Government would rescue, do we still have a too-big-to-fail…

And voting is a good way to do that.

But I think current Fed practices do not reflect those values.

So, in other words, this is just a giveaway program from the U.S. Government that you are not pricing for now?

It has given us commercial development. It has not cost the taxpayers a dime.

TRIA has served an important function in this market. It has given us certainty when we would not have had it.

I appreciate--I am afraid I am going to be out of time here, but I really do have to say on this; this whole thing is premised on the fact that the U.S. Government will be called on to backstop if there is an event of terrorism.

You are not pricing for the risk that the American taxpayer is absorbing.

But you are not pricing for the fact that under TRIA the U.S. Government is supposed to come back and collect for you.

What kind of market impact would it have if we collected a modest fee on the front end for TRIA?

I will work with my colleagues to try to get adequate funding for the program.

I just want to say thank you both very much. You both bring a lot of energy and a lot of innovative ideas to these jobs, and I hope you will be quickly confirmed.

As long as teacher pay remains so low for our youngest learners, we're going to have difficulty attracting and keeping teachers in this area.

It's clear to me that our country needs a strong early childhood education system. Investments in our children are investments in the future.

Qualifications are important. One of the ways that they're important in issues like compensation is that we have a terrible situation with the average pay of preschool teachers.

So if we want to increase investments in early education, we need to be very careful that we're investing only in high-quality models.

Increasingly, State and Federal policymakers are considering measures to require preschool teachers to get at least some college training.