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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.
I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, June 3, 2014; that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of proceedings be approved…
What we are talking about here is an established complaint system that has only been established since January.
I appreciate the Senator's comments about a complaint system that is in place.
Collecting data across the board for individuals in higher education? Extremely important.
I want to thank you for your advocacy on behalf of the Green Line, but also your advocacy on behalf of the whole transit system.
Transportation infrastructure is powerfully important because this is how we help our economy move forward.
it is extremely important that workforce development at all levels is not an afterthought
Not just for veterans and active duty military, but we should also have a complaint system for all students.
Without a transportation infrastructure or with a decaying transportation infrastructure, the whole economy is in trouble.
You know, you have had amazing growth, gone from zero hard rail to miles and miles of a system in 30 years.
But we still have many who are in programs that are happy to take the military member's Federal benefits, but do not deliver on their promise of providing a good education.
Mr. Chairman, thank you, and thank you for calling this hearing. I have questions for the next two witnesses, so I will just hold until then.
Increasing the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would save $46 billion in food stamps and would lift a lot of women, obviously, out of poverty.
Actually, I should add to that people who are trying to work two jobs and how impossible that becomes for many.
As you know, women hold a disproportionate number of low-wage jobs, making up about 76 percent of the workers in the 10 biggest low-wage job categories in America.
We could change this if Congress would raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.
Minimum wage workers have not received an increase in their wages in 7 years.
It's time to talk about where we could make changes that would help families.
We've heard today how the deck is stacked against women, particularly working moms, and about how it's getting worse.
if we would raise the minimum wage, it would be good for the economy, that it would reduce Federal spending at least to the tune of $46 billion, that it would affect one in five working mothers, and from the data we already know, it would…
I am pleased to join Senator Murray on the floor to stand up for America's women because it is time for a tough conversation about the economics of being a woman. I applaud her leadership, and I am very pleased she is bringing the women of…
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