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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.

Nov 19, 2014

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and welcome, Ms. McFerran.

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Nov 19, 2014

One way that regulatory opponents often track FDA oversight is by looking at the number of warning letters that the agency sends out.

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Nov 19, 2014

Actually, my staff checked with the FDA this week, and it turns out that almost none of those letters went to drug manufacturers.

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Nov 19, 2014

I understand that individual enforcement actions may temporarily affect the price or availability of a particular drug, but data demonstrating decreasing enforcement over manufacturers does not justify a price spike of 40 percent.

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Nov 19, 2014

let's be clear, India is producing 40 percent of our generic drugs, and the FDA's supposedly burdensome oversight team in that entire country consists of 10 full-time employees.

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Nov 18, 2014

This looks like a program to me that you do not need to spend another year on. It is a program that needs to be severely cut back.

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Nov 18, 2014

How many more people have to lose their homes before we get there?

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Nov 18, 2014

But they are not principal reductions, so let us just be----

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Nov 18, 2014

It has been 6 years since Congress created FHFA, and in all that time, your agency has never, not once, permitted a family to reduce its principal mortgage through Fannie or Freddie.

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Nov 18, 2014

You have not helped a single family, not even one, by agreeing to a principal reduction.

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