Posts Tagged ‘Warren’

Al Franken and Elizabeth Warren join fight against chained CPI

Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Al Franken added their very strong and very progressive voices to the fight to stop the chained CPI, and any cuts to Social Security, in a summit this week organized by Social Security Works. Along with Sens. Bernie Sanders and Jack Reed and Reps. Keith Ellison, Raul Grijalva, Peter DeFazio and [...]

Rick Warren Says Late Son Got Illegal Gun on Internet

Pastor Rick Warren said Thursday that his son, Matthew, purchased an unregistered gun over the Internet. It was that weapon that he used to take his own life last week after years of battling mental illness. “Someone on the internet sold Matthew an unregistered gun. … Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post

Why Elizabeth Warren is Untouchable

David Bernstein says Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) “has an independence and authority that frees her to be outspoken without getting alienated. She can embarrass the Barack Obama administration for failing to send bankers to jail without fear. She can also react with righteous outrage when I asked about Obama’s recent support of ‘chained Consumer Price [...]

Warren Shopping a Book Proposal

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) “plans to start shopping a book proposal to publishers, seeking to enhance her national political stature while promoting what she considers the cause of her public and legal career: protecting the middle class from abusive financial practices,” the Boston Globe reports. Tweet This Post

Elizabeth Warren takes on the NRA and the GOP

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Elizabeth Warren Wants HSBC Bankers Jailed for Money Laundering

Elizabeth Warren has a question: How much money does a bank have to launder before people go to jail? Warren, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts and financial-regulatory maven, posed that question numerous times to financial regulators at a Senate Banking Committee hearing Thursday on banks… Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post