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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 rise today to support an independent constitutional amendment offered by Senator Udall of New Mexico which would restore to Congress and the States the authority to rein in the enormous sums of money that are flooding into our political…
Now, as Judge Rakoff of the Southern District of New York has noted, the law on this is clear.
I believe that public companies should not be able to spend huge sums of shareholder money on political communication without informing investors.
So, we are not going to be back here a year from now having this same conversation again.
So, no one should be above the law. If you steal a hundred bucks on Main Street, you are probably going to jail. If you steal a billion bucks on Wall Street, you darn well better go to jail, too.
I am pleased to have joined Chairman Harkin in introducing the Schedules that Work Act.
Thank you for your willingness to serve and thank you, in particular, for your willingness to serve at the NLRB so that we can have a Board that fairly represents the people of this country.
If struggling borrowers cannot discharge their loans in bankruptcy, and if your banks will not give them loan modifications, Mr. Hunt, what are they supposed to do?
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