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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.

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Oct 12, 2021

They need to pay their fair share.

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Oct 4, 2021

I agree it is time to have a sanctions policy that does not make it more difficult for the Afghan people to have a chance to rebuild.

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Oct 4, 2021

I wish they had been interested 5 years ago, or 10 years ago, when it might have made a real difference

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Oct 4, 2021

I believe that President Biden made exactly the right decision to withdraw from Afghanistan

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Oct 4, 2021

The military designed the withdrawal, and executed the withdrawal, they were given every resource and every bit of support that they asked for

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Oct 4, 2021

The same military leaders who have basically been wrong about Afghanistan for nearly 20 years now, wanted to leave troops in Afghanistan but leave them there forever

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Sep 29, 2021

I appreciate that you have conducted this review because credit union customers are counting on NCUA to protect them from unsafe financial practices and products.

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Sep 29, 2021

Our financial institutions need to be built around meeting consumers' needs, not taking advantage of them

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Sep 29, 2021

I am concerned that NCUA is not doing enough to ensure that credit unions are living up to their responsibilities.

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Sep 29, 2021

The continued removal of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children from their families and Native communities under modern-day assimilation practices

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Sep 29, 2021

The good thing about this big package is how many different ways we attack the climate crisis.

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Sep 29, 2021

If you care about women, then you care about this bill. If you care about babies to being taken care of, you care about this bill. But also, if you care about child care workers who are so often paid barely above poverty wages, you care…

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Sep 29, 2021

This one has it all. And we understand the only way it`s going to go forward is if all of it goes forward if the things that all of us have been working on have a chance to be in there and to move forward.

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Sep 29, 2021

We`re still working on it. You know, I think of it this way. We`ve got 50 Republicans who`ve said no, they don`t want any part of this. But we`ve got 50 Democrats who are all in their own boats trying to row in the same direction.

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Sep 28, 2021

Look, you remember what happened in the early 2000s. And that is we had Federal Reserve that was unwilling to rein the giant financial institutions. So a bit at a time they deregulate here, they turn a blind eye there. And those financial…

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Sep 28, 2021

The elephant in the room is whether you are going to be renominated for a second term as Fed chair. Renominating you means gambling that the next five years with a Republican chair who has regularly voted to deregulate Wall Street won`t…

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Sep 28, 2021

I appreciate your looking at it as a fighter. But I would also add one more year of propping up a corrupt government and an army that would not fight on its own would not give us a better outcome, and anyone who thinks differently is…

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Sep 28, 2021

So, let me ask you one more question, Secretary Austin. Knowing what we know now, if we would have stayed for one more year, would it have made a fundamental difference?

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Sep 28, 2021

I believe President Biden had it exactly right, withdrawing was long overdue. The withdrawal was conducted in accordance with the advice of his military advisers who planned and executed every step of this withdrawal.

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Sep 28, 2021

Right. Well, literally for months now, Democrats in the Senate, Democrats in the House have been operating with one goal in mind and one understanding, and that is there is going to be a lot that needs to be done in the reconciliation…

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Sep 28, 2021

That it was actually an amazing undertaking. It was done under chaotic circumstances because the government had collapsed, because the party had melted away the Afghan army and that even in the midst of all of that, our military was able…

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Sep 27, 2021

The debt limit is not about future spending--it's about meeting obligations we've already made, like the bipartisan, overwhelmingly popular CARES Act.

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Sep 27, 2021

So let me just ask, do you regret slashing liquidity requirements designed to protect markets from crashing like they did in 2008?

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Sep 27, 2021

I just do not think that is a risk worth taking.

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Sep 27, 2021

Given the Archegos collapse, do you regret weakening the Volcker rule?

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