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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.

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Jul 16, 2014

If your hospital is high, you shouldn't be accredited.

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Jul 16, 2014

In other words, I just want to start with what we already know. We know how to make patients safer.

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Jul 16, 2014

Does anybody else want to weigh in on this?

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Jul 16, 2014

that's entirely preventable, in my view, and entirely unacceptable.

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Jul 16, 2014

We are as concerned about safety as finance.

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Jul 16, 2014

We need to have patient friendly labels on prescription drugs.

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Jul 16, 2014

I am. This time I'll introduce Dr. Gandhi.

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Jul 16, 2014

The system needs to be fixed so that that cannot happen so these young adults don't die.

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Jul 15, 2014

I would not draw any lessons and apply them to all banks.

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Jul 15, 2014

Republicans are on the attack once again, trying to put women's fundamental rights on the chopping block. I stand with my colleagues to fight back. Senator Patty Murray of Washington, Senator Mark Udall of Colorado, and 40 other Senators…

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Jul 15, 2014

I find that hard to believe, particularly for banks in the United States.

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Jul 15, 2014

So we cannot win the battle against too-big-to-fail just by attempting to make banks safer.

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Jul 15, 2014

It is unquestionably true that, on average, larger banks are involved in riskier activities.

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Jul 15, 2014

I am a little skeptical on the point, but I want to open it up to the panel.

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Jul 15, 2014

We cannot imagine this happening to a $2.4 trillion institution.

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Jul 15, 2014

I want to hit the very last part of this, and that is the intersection of size with risk with cost.

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Jul 14, 2014

One of the tools that Congress has given the Fed to combat too big to fail is Section 165 of Dodd-Frank.

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Jul 14, 2014

Can you honestly say that JPMorgan could be resolved in a rapid and orderly fashion as described in its plans with no threats to the economy and no need for a taxpayer bailout?

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Jul 14, 2014

I think the language in the statute is pretty clear that you are required, the Fed is required to call it every year on whether these institutions have a credible plan.

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Jul 14, 2014

I remind you, there are very effective tools that you have available to you that you can use if those plans are not credible, including forcing these financial institutions to simplify their structure or forcing them to liquidate some of…

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Jul 14, 2014

the Fed must act prudently and protect the public.

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Jul 14, 2014

I hope you would urge greater transparency by these large financial institutions that are required to submit these plans.

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Jul 14, 2014

I am not quite sure whether you are saying the plans are not credible and you are continuing to talk with them and asking them to change their plans.

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Jul 7, 2014

high-frequency trading is not really trading in the traditional sense.

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