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.
If someone's credit report drops by, say, 25 points, they could have a rental application turned down.
So the three of you who are testifying here today are the CEOs of the largest credit reporting bureaus in the Nation.
It is important that we do this, and it is important in red States, blue States, everywhere in America.
I look forward to working with my colleagues to get this bill passed and to start making good on our Nation's promise to Native people.
We have too many Republicans who have said they will not support meaningful housing investments.
Addressing this challenge is going to take major Federal investment to expand the supply of housing, and the longer we hold out on this the harder it is going to be to solve this problem and help families.
So our country faces a shortage of over 7 million homes, and families across this country, in cities, in suburbs, in rural areas have seen their rents and their mortgage payments skyrocket.
In 2018, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights published a report called 'Broken Promises', which found that the Federal Government has woefully underfunded programs for Native people across the board.
It is important that we do this, and it is important in red States, blue States, everywhere in America.
We have too many Republicans who have said they will not support meaningful housing investments.
I look forward to working with my colleagues to get this bill passed and to start making good on our Nation's promise to Native people.
In 2018, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights published a report called 'Broken Promises', which found that the Federal Government has woefully underfunded programs for Native people across the board.
Addressing this challenge is going to take major Federal investment to expand the supply of housing, and the longer we hold out on this the harder it is going to be to solve this problem and help families.
So our country faces a shortage of over 7 million homes, and families across this country, in cities, in suburbs, in rural areas have seen their rents and their mortgage payments skyrocket.
If the CFPB concluded that this data was so problematic that it does not belong on credit reports, would TransUnion remove medical collections from consumers' reports?
It is time to start holding every link in this chain accountable, and that includes the credit reporting agencies.
I am asking you. You are the CEO. Is it appropriate then to just take it off?
So the three of you who are testifying here today are the CEOs of the largest credit reporting bureaus in the Nation.
So if the Federal Consumer Protection Agency said, 'These data are so inaccurate they should not be on credit reports,' would you then remove them from the credit reports?
If the CFPB were to conclude that data on medical debt is so full of errors that it does not belong on credit reports, would you support all credit reporting agencies removing it entirely?
We have Republicans now who are threatening to default on our national debt unless they can get cuts to housing resources.





