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Warren assigned to Senate Banking Committee
Sen.-elect Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), an ardent critic of Wall Street practices, will be assigned a seat on the Senate Banking Committee once the 113th Congress convenes in January. Progressive and liberal groups had urged Democratic leaders to place Warren on the committee, which considers legislation regarding the nation’s financial institutions.…
Warren to sit on Senate Banking Committee: Reports
Multiple sources are confirming that Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) will be appointed to the Senate Banking Committee, according to reports published Tuesday. The former Harvard professor helped create President Barack Obama’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which she was set to lead before Senate Republicans blocked her confirmation. While the appointment…
Transparency: It’s What’s For A Bitter, Bitter Dinner
S.E. Cupp writes today that because transparency is not the end-all, be-all solution to problems, we should just end transparency altogether. Or something. I don’t know. She’s as sharp a thinker on this as she is on atheism, and I’m sure you all have followed her many sermons on that…
Warren: Americans ‘understand the game is rigged’
Speaking to MSNBC host Chris Matthews on Wednesday evening, Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren (D) said that in her time on the campaign trail, she’s realized that most Americans “understand the game is rigged,” and that “they’re ready for somebody to get out there and talk to them about it.”…
New ad paints Elizabeth Warren as tough political outsider
Democratic Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren released her second video advertisement on Monday, which portrays her as a “gutsy” political outsider with “fresh ideas.” “I have not been a politician for the last 21 years,” she says at an event in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston in the two-minute YouTube…
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