Elizabeth Warren

So for the past few years, Republicans have been very clear that they want to limit families' access to health care by slashing Medicaid and by cutting tax credits that families use to buy health insurance.

I don't support either move, but if I did, I'd have real problems with the Republicans' first proposal on health care, which would let corporations drop health care coverage for anyone working under 40 hours a week.

I'm against adding $53 billion to the deficit so that corporations can push their costs and responsibilities onto the government.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Republican proposal would increase the number of people on government health programs, including Medicaid and the subsidized exchange plans, by at least half-a-million people.

Do you think the Congressional Budget Office just made up these numbers?

Throwing billions of Federal dollars at the States with no accountability for the States for how they spend taxpayer money is not what we were sent here to do.

after 9/11, Congress passed TRIA, the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, to make sure commercial developers could afford the high costs of insuring their properties against the possibility of a devastating terrorist attack. This is a bill for…

I have an amendment at the desk and I ask for its consideration. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Massachusetts, [Ms. Warren], for herself and Mr. Schumer…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Amendment No. 1 (Purpose: In the nature of a substitute.)

I am disappointed but not surprised that there is an objection to this request because although there is bipartisan support for this bill and only one outside group has raised concerns--that group is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a…

I came to the floor last week to ask a simple question: Who does this government work for? Does it work only for the billionaires and the biggest corporations or does it work for all of us? I asked that question last week as Congress…

Congress passes 'Smart Savings Act' to Strengthen Retirement Savings for Federal Employees.

I thank the Senator from Maryland and the senior Senator of Vermont. They both show extraordinary leadership and we learn from them every day. I am back on the floor to talk about a dangerous provision slapped in a must-pass spending bill…

yesterday I came to the floor to call on House Democrats to withhold their support from the omnibus spending bill until one provision is removed. The provision was slipped in at the last minute to benefit Wall Street. In fact, it was…

I come to the floor today to ask a fundamental question: Who does Congress work for? Does it work for the millionaires, the billionaires, the giant companies with their armies of lobbyists and lawyers, or does it work for all the people…

a future cyber attack could paralyze the financial sector with devastating consequences for our economy.

I think that we cannot just make this about the banks. It has got to be the whole chain here.

I am sorry. So, your monitoring of the chain is limited to telling the financial institutions to take a look at the chain? Is that what you are saying?

Thank you for the very engaged, very open way that you have run this Committee and given us an opportunity to explore so many issues.

Your leadership has always been knowledgeable, thoughtful, principled, and it has been a great honor to serve with you.

Oh, I am not talking about telling them which vendors to use. What I am just trying to understand is the process by which you are monitoring--the risk comes in all the way up and down the chain.

Access to mortgage credit is very tight.

Well, that is right, and the data would suggest they are not using them.

Fannie and Freddie have gone in the other direction.

Home ownership remains the principal way for most families to build economic security.