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Elizabeth Warren
stated on August 25, 2024 in an interview:

“JD Vance actually sent a letter last year to the Department of Justice saying, ‘enforce the Comstock Act.’”

By Samantha Putterman • August 30, 2024
Elizabeth Warren
stated on August 28, 2022 in an interview on CNN:

"40% of the folks who have student loans do not have a college diploma, four-year diploma. These are people who are truck drivers and who are nail technicians and nurses’ aides.”

By Jon Greenberg • September 13, 2022
Elizabeth Warren
stated on February 19, 2020 in a debate:

"Amy, I looked online at your (health care) plan. It’s two paragraphs."

By Louis Jacobson • February 21, 2020
Elizabeth Warren
stated on February 19, 2020 in the Las Vegas debate:

“Mayor Bloomberg was busy blaming African Americans and Latinos for the housing crisis in 2008.”

By Amy Sherman • February 20, 2020
Elizabeth Warren
stated on February 7, 2020 in a debate in Manchester, N.H.:

“Everyone on this stage except Amy (Klobuchar) and me is either a billionaire or is receiving help from PACs that can do unlimited spending.”

By Louis Jacobson • February 11, 2020
Elizabeth Warren
stated on February 5, 2020 in a CNN town hall:

“We have an America where … hard-working families have flat wages.”

By Louis Jacobson • February 6, 2020
Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 26, 2020 in comments made while campaigning in Davenport, Iowa.:

"The president of the United States already has the legal authority to reduce the price of many commonly used prescription drugs."

By Victoria Knight • January 29, 2020
Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 4, 2020 in a speech:

"We were living outside of Houston and that’s when I found it: a commuter college, 45 minutes away that cost $50 a semester."

By Madlin Mekelburg • January 17, 2020
Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 14, 2020 in a debate:

"Look at the men on this stage. Collectively, they have lost 10 elections. The only people on this stage who have won every single election that they’ve been in are the women, Amy and me."

By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2020
Elizabeth Warren
stated on December 19, 2019 in comments made during the December Democratic presidential primary debate.:

"Last year, 36 million Americans didn’t have a prescription filled because they couldn’t afford it."

By Shefali Luthra • December 20, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
stated on December 10, 2019 in a policy white paper:

"Roughly one in four fish eaten in the United States was caught here and sent to Asia for processing before being re-imported for American consumers."

By Jon Greenberg • December 13, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
stated on November 20, 2019 in a debate:

"Today in America — a new study came out — 20 years out, whites who borrowed money, 94% of them have paid off their student loan debt; 5% of African Americans have paid it off."

By Tom Kertscher • November 21, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
stated on November 4, 2019 in in an Instagram post:

"If we make no changes over the next 10 years, Americans will reach into their pockets and pay out about $11 trillion on insurance premiums, copays, deductibles and uncovered medical expenses."

By Shefali Luthra • November 12, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
stated on October 15, 2019 in comments made during the Oct. 15 Democratic presidential primary debate:

"Back when I was studying it, two out of three families that ended up in bankruptcy after a serious medical problem had health insurance."

By Shefali Luthra • October 16, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
stated on October 10, 2019 in a Facebook ad:

"If Trump tries to lie in a TV ad, most networks will refuse to air it. But Facebook just cashes Trump’s checks."

By Amy Sherman • October 15, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
stated on September 12, 2019 in a Democratic debate in Houston:

"54 senators said, let's do background checks, let's get rid of assault weapons, and with 54 senators it failed because of the filibuster."

By Amy Sherman • September 13, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
stated on September 4, 2019 in a CNN town hall on climate change:

"70% of the pollution of the carbon that we're throwing into the air comes from three industries."

By Jon Greenberg • September 6, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
stated on August 27, 2019 in an op-ed in the Washington Post:

"We lag behind many other developed nations in connectivity and speed, while also paying more for that service."

By Jon Greenberg • August 29, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
stated on July 11, 2019 in a public forum:

"The law says that mental health must be treated the same as physical health," but coverage by health insurers is unequal.

By Mica Soellner • August 20, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
stated on July 22, 2019 in a post on Medium:

"The country is now in a manufacturing recession."

By Jon Greenberg • July 26, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
stated on June 21, 2019 in a policy proposal to ban private prisons:

"Prison phone companies charge as much as $25 for a 15-minute call."

By Jon Greenberg • July 1, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
stated on April 22, 2019 in a CNN town hall in New Hampshire:

Speaking of the financial crisis that gained traction in 2007, "I talked about it to anyone who would listen, a crisis is coming."

By Miriam Valverde • April 30, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
stated on March 27, 2019 in a policy paper posted on Medium:

Mergers and integration in agribusiness "squeeze" family farms, and "the result is that farmers are getting a record-low amount of every dollar Americans spend on food."

By Jon Greenberg • April 4, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
stated on March 12, 2019 in a press release:

The Boeing 737 Max 8, the type of plane that crashed in Ethiopia, continues to fly in the United States, despite the FAA saying "software updates are likely coming."

By Jon Greenberg • March 12, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
stated on March 7, 2019 in a tweet:

"Trump's campaign manager, Paul Manafort, commits bank and tax fraud and gets 47 months. A homeless man, Fate Winslow, helped sell $20 of pot and got life in prison."

By Jon Greenberg • March 11, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
stated on February 19, 2019 in a policy announcement on Medium:

"The high cost of child care is the No. 1 reason people give for having fewer children than they’d like."

By Jon Greenberg • February 25, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
stated on February 4, 2019 in a Facebook post:

"By rubber-stamping the Bayer-Monsanto merger, the Justice Department is handing control over one quarter of the world's seeds and pesticides market to one ginormous agribusiness."

By Jon Greenberg • February 14, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 29, 2019 in a tweet:

"The top 0.1 percent ... own about the same wealth as 90 percent of America."

By Jon Greenberg • January 31, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 2, 2019 in an interview on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show:

With the Republican tax law, "the rich folks got $1.5 trillion."

By Jon Greenberg • January 9, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
stated on July 13, 2017 in a video:

"One in three people who’s receiving treatment for (opioid) drug problems gets some help from Medicaid to pay for that."

By Manuela Tobias • July 18, 2017

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