And, by the way, that is one more reason that we should be pushing forward on the For the People Act. It has great provisions to protect voting, great provisions to get rid of gerrymandering, great provisions, though, to beat back the…
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.
I think that's exactly right. You know, this is a man who just thought he was bulletproof in every meaning of that word. The rules just don't apply to him. They only apply to the little people.
We have got to go forward on For the People as well, that we cannot let it fall behind. That For the People is about protecting the vote, about getting rid of gerrymandering, about beating back the influence of big money.
We need to protect the right of our citizens to go to the polls and vote but we also need to make sure that when they get there, they have candidates who will work for them.
I am always worried about the influence of money on Washington. Money flows through this place like a snake slithering around.
If foreign governments want to try to influence the United States, let them send over their delegations. They don't have to hire people here in the United States to lobby our government.
We cannot allow the biggest banks to funnel their extra cash into stock buybacks that juice their profits instead of investing in the real economy.
The question is whether or not they are strong enough to withstand the next crisis.
I see one move after another to weaken regulation over Wall Street banks, and that worries me.
So let us move to another regulation, the Volcker Rule, the rule that works sort of like Glass-Steagall 'light' to separate commercial banking from Wall Street risk taking.
It is the job of the Federal Reserve... to make sure that banks remain strong and that taxpayers will never be called on again for a bailout.
So the Chairman of the Federal Reserve has two basic jobs: monetary policy, which everybody likes to talk about, and regulatory oversight, which is often way down in the weeds but keeps our economy safe from another banking meltdown.
We need to strengthen the Community Reinvestment Act so that banks serve the communities still scarred--still scarred--by the legacy of Black Codes and Jim Crow and redlining.
In 2019, you changed the rules so that the 13 banks with $250 billion to $700 billion in assets could submit full living wills only once every 6 years instead of every year.
Wall Street destroyed our economy, costing families their jobs and their homes and their savings--and then came roaring back, while families limped along.
Stable prices, moderate long-term interest rates are not enough if every decade a financial crisis hits and strips away what people have worked so hard for.
We can't allow the biggest banks to funnel their extra cash into stock buybacks that juice their profits instead of investing in the real economy.
There are few, if any, more knowledgeable or qualified people that the president could have nominated for this position.
He pursued investigations that sought justice for some of our Nation's most vulnerable workers.
He will return with a deep understanding of the Division's tools, with a well-known strategy to protect workers.
Instead of making sure that American workers could compete on a level playing field, the U.S. Trade Representative worked with corporate lobbyists to make offshoring U.S. manufacturing jobs to China as cheap as possible.





