Not only does this jeopardize the students' future, but also puts the taxpayers' investment at risk.
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.
the Department's bank thinks that it is doing such a great job that in 2014 they gave dozens of their own senior officers--those are your Department's employees--bonuses, and some of those bonuses were as high as $75,000.
It is the Department of Education's job to stand up for students, not for the student loan companies.
I don't understand why this takes long. This isn't hard, what we're trying to do here.
I want to remind us that Congress gave the Secretary of Education broad authority to cancel the loans of students who attend colleges that broke the law.
In 2013, CMS reported that more Medicare beneficiaries received prescriptions for generic Vicodin, a powerful opioid, than any other drug.
I have sent multiple letters to HHS, to DEA, to ONDCP, asking that they reduce these barriers, but so far, these agencies have taken virtually no action to expand research opportunities.
States like mine are stuck, and that is why Senator Capito and I are introducing bipartisan, bicameral legislation today.
I believe it is critical that in Zika-affected countries we do everything we can to ensure women have access to the full range of reproductive health care, including access to family planning services.





