I truly believe the title of this hearing today and really the GOP efforts in general should be: Let's pretend the financial crisis never happened.
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.
There was an astonishing abuse of power, of confirmation power in the Senate.
As Congress has known since the middle of the 1800's when they made the decision in the establishment of the first bank regulator to make the funding for that regulator outside the appropriations and political process, we knew that we…
Our job is to be there on the front end, and we are taking enormous strides in that direction right now.
community banks work hard to be trusted long-term partners with the families they serve.
We have provided advice to Federal and State officials regarding a potential servicing settlement.
Well, it is obvious. If we had not done these things, we would have been back in the Stone Age.
Her insistence that the TARP was created to help every American, not just those on Wall Street, remains the guiding principle of our work.
It seems clear that these efforts have had an important impact: markets have calmed greatly since the turbulent fall of 2008.





