BASIC SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH opens doors to understanding our world from the smallest nanoparticles to the largest faraway universes. New discoveries can improve lives and help us confront the extraordinary challenges we face. Research is also an engine of innovation and economic development. Basic scientific research quite literally lays the foundation for our future. Those of […]
Elizabeth Warren
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Warren: GOP trying to ram through health care bill
Sen. Warren sent the following message to her supporters on Friday. I LEARNED SOME SCARY NEWS yesterday: the Senate Republicans are going to try to repeal the Affordable Care Act by the end of the month. And here’s the terrifying part: They seem to think they have the votes in the Senate to do it. […]
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Warren makes case against Gorsuch
The following is an appeal sent out Tuesday afternoon by Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s campaign committee. WHEN JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA died last year, giant corporations and their right-wing buddies spent millions of dollars to slime President Obama’s consensus nominee and steal a Supreme Court seat for Donald Trump. President Trump then returned the favor – picking […]
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Warren running again
Sen. Elizabeth Warren emailed supporters Friday morning to announce she will run for reelection in 2018. This is her message. HELLO, NOBODY EXPECTED 2017 to start this way. This isn’t the fight we were expecting to fight. But this is the fight that’s in front of us. And the people of Massachusetts didn’t send me […]
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Warren sets rules of engagement
THIS WASN’T A PRETTY ELECTION. In fact, it was ugly, and we should not sugarcoat the reason why. Donald Trump ran a campaign that started with racial attacks and then rode the escalator down. He encouraged a toxic stew of hatred and fear. He attacked millions of Americans. And he regularly made statements that undermined […]
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It’s time to act on gun violence
THE REPUBLICANS WHO CONTROL CONGRESS Congress have had all the time in the world to do something about gun violence in America. I mean that. If the GOP spent a teeny, tiny fraction of the time they waste voting again and again to repeal the Affordable Care Act or defund Planned Parenthood on sensible gun […]
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Warren: We can’t abandon Syrian refugees
OVER THE PAST FOUR YEARS, millions of people have fled their homes in Syria, running for their lives. In recent months, the steady stream of refugees has been a flood that has swept across Europe. Every day, refugees set out on a journey hundreds of miles, from Syria to the Turkish coast. When they arrive, […]
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Social Security recipients deserve more
What follows is a slightly edited version of a message Sen. Elizabeth Warren sent out on Thursday to supporters via email. Three weeks ago, the Social Security Administration made a quiet announcement. Next year, for just the third time since 1975, seniors who receive Social Security won’t be getting an annual cost of living increase. […]
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Warren: US faces retirement crisis
The following is a transcript of Sen. Warren’s speech on the Senate floor on Monday. I rise today to talk about the retirement crisis in this country – a crisis that has received far too little attention, and far too little response, from Washington. I spent most of my career studying the economic pressures on […]