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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.

Jun 14, 2016

We just need to put up the money to do it, and, today, that's just not happening.

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Jun 14, 2016

Child care and early childhood education is one of the areas where we really know that Federal investment pays off.

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Jun 13, 2016

Traditionally they are financed by the companies that are actually going to burn the gas, industrial manufacturers, gas distribution companies, gas-fired plants, who enter into long-term contracts with the pipeline company.

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Jun 13, 2016

they found that it's not in their economic interest to be paying for pipeline capacity every day when their needs are limited and only during certain specific periods of the year.

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Jun 13, 2016

giant pipeline companies that cannot make an economic case for these projects should not be allowed to force someone else to pay for them.

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Jun 13, 2016

The SEC is an investor protection agency, so when you launched your project, what evidence did you have that information overload was a real problem that investors wanted you to solve?

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Jun 13, 2016

I have never heard of the concept of information overload in the context of investing in stocks.

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Jun 13, 2016

Last month the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the state is not on track to meet its legal obligation to reduce carbon emissions from fossil fuels.

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Jun 13, 2016

the SEC's job is to look out for investors, not for big companies.

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Jun 13, 2016

The National Chamber of Commerce, which represents the giant companies that have to do the disclosing.

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Jun 13, 2016

I am frustrated that, at your direction, the SEC has voluntarily spent 2 years trying to address a problem that you have no evidence exists.

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