Elizabeth Warren

Affordable housing goals have been scapegoated by those who have been itching to get rid of the goals for a long time, but I think it's time to drop that red herring.

To increase that quality of life as we continue to age, to be productive and healthy, do you have any magic potions?

I want to commend the Chairman. The Aging Committee, my sense is, we want to be your partners.

We need to treat every child like a gold nugget. Polish them up and get maximum value out of them.

I wish I could stay for another two or three hours.

We do not want to increase lifespan at all costs. We do not want to live to be 130 and feel like we are 130.

I would ask, Mr. Chairman, that I want to add my concern that this shutdown on top of the sequester is harming American science and our innovation economy very badly.

The public now sees what the government does and to a certain extent they're increasingly understanding that the Affordable Care Act is going to make to sure that every poor child in America has health care.

We cannot do this every year, every 2 years, every 6 weeks since what I hear you saying is the very threat is costing us money.

We have got to pay them.

Accountability means voting to close tax loopholes so that wealthy individuals and big corporations are going to pay a fair share here.

It is unacceptable for Congress to ever voluntarily default on the debt and that continual short-term extensions of the debt limit increase unnecessary market uncertainty.

A U.S. default is the economic equivalent of a nuclear bomb.

I am very concerned about this, but I see that I am over my time, so I am going to--I very much want to hear from the others.

Yes. So let me just ask, Mr. Hughes, do you agree as an issuer of private label securities that the Government should address the inherently procyclical nature of private label housing finance market?

So you would support some regulation in this area.

I believe it is important for regulators to have the authority to exert countercyclical pressure on the housing market.

Mandatory newborn screening saves lives, however some parents have concerns with the mandatory nature of newborn screening.

When Senator Manchin talks about the difference between using a Chained CPI for some people and perhaps not for others, what you are really doing is just acknowledging that, at least as the Chained CPI has been laid out, we are just…

I just think that is wrong. I do not think we can do that, and I do not think we should be looking in that direction.

Thank you very much.

Being against simplification, I think, is un-American.

I am never going to object to having more disclosure.

And that is whether we are talking about 40 percent of the employees of small businesses not having any employer-sponsored plan or whether we are talking about 70 percent not having them, it is still way too many.

We saw 150 percent increase in the percentage of people over the age of 65 who were forced to file for bankruptcy.