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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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Sep 20, 2021

The time for climate action is now, and I know from your work that you take these issues seriously.

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Sep 20, 2021

During the past 5 years, following the signing of the Paris Agreement, the world's biggest banks have put $3.8 trillion into financing fossil fuel exploration, drilling, and trading.

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Sep 20, 2021

The Earth's climate is truly in crisis, but there is good news. We are not powerless here.

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Sep 20, 2021

This so-called 'corporate greenwashing' lets giant banks get these great headlines without doing the serious work that we need to protect our environment.

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Sep 20, 2021

The science is clear. Climate change is an existential threat to every living thing on this Earth.

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Sep 20, 2021

Advocates have been calling for long-overdue reforms like increasing SSI asset limits, which were included in the SSI Restoration Act that Senators Brown, Sanders, and I reintroduced earlier this year.

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Sep 20, 2021

SSI is meant to be a lifeline for millions of low-income seniors and people with disabilities, but decades-old eligibility rules are forcing Americans who rely on SSI to live in poverty.

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Sep 7, 2021

Governors matter too. Just consider this week what we`ve seen in Texas, a state legislature, a Republican governor, who are willing to set vigilantes loose to prey on vulnerable women who want to make their own decisions about their bodies.

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Sep 6, 2021

I will fight with everything I've got to keep from putting one more Donald Trump Republican in office.

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Sep 1, 2021

This enables people to target abortion providers, people who give advice, people who try to help, everything to say we are going to isolate and make life as hard as possible for those who don`t have resources. They are not going to get the…

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Aug 31, 2021

How much Republican help are we getting on this? Zero.

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Aug 31, 2021

So, everybody out there who is outraged today, help Planned Parenthood. Help those who are trying to help people who are dealing with a difficult decision. But also push your senators, push your representatives and say, it is time that our…

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Aug 31, 2021

It turns out that they were not in violation of the statute. So think what that means, Joy. That means just get out there and shoot in any direction you want. And if it lands, you get money, and if it doesn`t land, you don`t get hurt. That…

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Aug 31, 2021

Do you know how many Republicans we have who are willing to help us on that? Zero.

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Aug 31, 2021

They’re leaving all of these people behind that they want born but they don’t care about them when they are born.

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Aug 31, 2021

This law says, it’s clearly trying to push in the direction, they’re going to do everything they can if you are vulnerable, if you don’t have alternatives to make sure that you are forced into carrying a pregnancy that you do not want to…

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Aug 31, 2021

When abortion is illegal, rich women still get abortions. Women with resources still get abortions.

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Aug 22, 2021

They have got too much power. And they get to use that power now to dominate markets, to chew up competitors, and, ultimately, to change the consumer experience. We have got to change that.

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Aug 4, 2021

This was a policy that was great for the Blackstones of the world, great for giant investors, but it shut out families, and it shut out community organizations.

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Aug 4, 2021

I strongly support all of your nominations and look forward to our making that happen quickly.

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Aug 4, 2021

I enthusiastically support your nomination and I look forward to your swift confirmation.

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Aug 3, 2021

I`m so happy for you. I`m so happy for all of us. When I came here, I never thought about running for elected office. And when I came here, I used to ask myself, does it matter that I`m here. Is there somebody else? And you`ve now answered…

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Aug 3, 2021

We`re going to take a little more time and spend the money that Congress has already allocated, protect the landlords, and protect the tenants. I think what we saw happen is power to the people on this one.

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Aug 3, 2021

Look, it is always possible in a big administration that there are lawyers who get ahold of things. And I say that with all deference to lawyers who worry about this pace, who worry about that pace, or what happened the last time we were…

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