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Elizabeth Warren
Showing Original Post only (View all)Senator Warren is already more bipartisan and more effective than Scott Brown ever was [View all]
From our local (and very insightful) Liberal site, Blue Mass Group:
Three months in, Senator Warren is already more bipartisan and more effective than Scott Brown ever was
Scott Brown sure did talk a great game about being Mr. Bipartisan, didn’t he? But if you stop to think about it, he was a remarkably ineffective Senator. His widely-noticed penchant for waiting until the last possible second to make up his mind on anything deprived him of the ability to have much significant influence on important legislation. Perhaps the exception to that is the Dodd-Frank bill, which he voted for only after weakening it for the benefit of some of the biggest financial institutions around. Well, bravo.
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Compare that to Senator Elizabeth Warren’s early track record. Of course, she has already made national headlines for her aggressive questioning of bank regulators (including some within the Obama administration) and of folks opposed to raising the minimum wage (some videos of those hearings have become YouTube sensations garnering hundreds of thousands of views; one has almost hit a million). But you know what else she’s done? She did this:
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Also, earlier this month, Warren joined forces with very conservative Senators Corker (R-TN) and Vitter (R-LA) (along with Mark Warner (D-VA)) to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Scott Brown sure did talk a great game about being Mr. Bipartisan, didn’t he? But if you stop to think about it, he was a remarkably ineffective Senator. His widely-noticed penchant for waiting until the last possible second to make up his mind on anything deprived him of the ability to have much significant influence on important legislation. Perhaps the exception to that is the Dodd-Frank bill, which he voted for only after weakening it for the benefit of some of the biggest financial institutions around. Well, bravo.
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Compare that to Senator Elizabeth Warren’s early track record. Of course, she has already made national headlines for her aggressive questioning of bank regulators (including some within the Obama administration) and of folks opposed to raising the minimum wage (some videos of those hearings have become YouTube sensations garnering hundreds of thousands of views; one has almost hit a million). But you know what else she’s done? She did this:
The U.S. Senate today passed a bipartisan amendment introduced by Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) to help provide critical disaster relief funds for fishermen. The amendment was the first introduced and passed by Senator Warren since she took office in January.
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Also, earlier this month, Warren joined forces with very conservative Senators Corker (R-TN) and Vitter (R-LA) (along with Mark Warner (D-VA)) to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Go get 'em!
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MannyGoldstein
Mar 2013
OP
So why did your champion of the people vote to repeal the Estate Tax?
unrepentant progress
Mar 2013
#2
Exactly. Skinner made it clear that he didnt "want to empower the zombie hunters, troll hunters, and
rhett o rick
Mar 2013
#20
I fully support MIRT but consider that they are more closely like police and not a NeighborhoodWatch
rhett o rick
Mar 2013
#26
I'd like more info on this as well. So far, she has been a champion of the people, until proven
mother earth
Mar 2013
#7
"As stated, one of two posts & both only on EW group, you certainly aren't a supporter, more likely.
unrepentant progress
Mar 2013
#12
Only seeking clarity, it's one thing to converse, quite another to be trolled. I suspect there's
mother earth
Mar 2013
#15