73-688: The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee ( PRAC ) is an independent oversight committee within the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency , created by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020 to ensure that the $ 2.2 trillion of the CARES act, plus 5 other pandemic-related pieces of legislation totaling over $ 5 trillion in government funds, were not misspent. The provision creating
146-544: A town hall meeting in Holyoke, Massachusetts , on September 29, 2018, Warren said she would "take a hard look" at running for president in the 2020 election after the 2018 United States elections concluded. On December 31, 2018, Warren announced that she was forming an exploratory committee to run for president. On February 9, 2019, Warren officially announced her candidacy at a rally in Lawrence, Massachusetts , at
219-488: A September 20, 2016, hearing, Warren called on Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf to resign, adding that he should be "criminally investigated" over Wells Fargo's opening of two million checking and credit-card accounts without the customers' consent. In December 2016, Warren gained a seat on the Senate Armed Services Committee , which The Boston Globe called "a high-profile perch on one of
292-549: A debate opponent of Warren's during their school years. She helped draft the commission's report and worked for several years to oppose legislation intended to severely restrict consumers' right to file for bankruptcy. Warren and others opposing the legislation were not successful; in 2005, Congress passed the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 , which curtailed consumers' ability to file for bankruptcy. From 2006 to 2010, Warren
365-780: A fine and you go home and sleep in your own bed at night." In May 2013, Warren sent letters to the Justice Department , the Securities and Exchange Commission , and the Federal Reserve questioning their decisions that settling would be more fruitful than going to court. Also in May, saying that students should get "the same great deal that banks get", Warren introduced the Bank on Student Loans Fairness Act, which would allow students to take out government education loans at
438-555: A great idea. God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is, you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along. President Obama later echoed her sentiments in a 2012 election campaign speech . Warren ran unopposed for the Democratic nomination and won it on June 2, 2012, at the state Democratic convention with a record 95.77% of the votes of delegates. She encountered significant opposition from business interests. In August,
511-477: A lecturer at Rutgers University, Newark School of Law (1977–1978). She then moved to the University of Houston Law Center (1978–1983), where she became an associate dean in 1980 and obtained tenure in 1981. She taught at the University of Texas School of Law as visiting associate professor in 1981 and returned as a full professor two years later (staying from 1983 to 1987). She was a research associate at
584-480: A matter of days. At a March Banking Committee hearing, Warren asked Treasury Department officials why criminal charges were not brought against HSBC for its money laundering practices . Warren compared money laundering to drug possession, saying: "If you're caught with an ounce of cocaine, the chances are good you're going to go to jail ... But evidently, if you launder nearly a billion dollars for drug cartels and violate our international sanctions, your company pays
657-418: A pay cut because he could not do his previous work. After leaving his sales job, he worked as a maintenance man for an apartment building. Eventually, the family's car was repossessed because they failed to make loan payments. To help the family finances, her mother found work in the catalog-order department at Sears . When she was 13, Warren started waiting tables at her aunt's restaurant. Warren became
730-728: A position created for her. The appointment added to speculation that Warren would run for president in 2016. In early 2015, President Obama urged Congress to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership , a proposed free trade agreement between the United States and 11 Asian and South American countries. Warren criticized the TPP, arguing that the dispute resolution mechanism in the agreement and labor protections for American workers therein were insufficient; her objections were in turn criticized by Obama. Saying "despite
803-658: A possible presidential candidate, but she repeatedly said she would not run for president in 2016. In October 2013, she joined the other 15 women Democratic senators in signing a letter that encouraged Hillary Clinton to run. There was much speculation about Warren being added to the Democratic ticket as a vice-presidential candidate. On June 9, 2016, after the California Democratic primary , Warren formally endorsed Clinton for president. In response to questions when she endorsed Clinton, Warren said that she believed herself to be ready to be vice president, but she
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#1732776395915876-642: A prime-time speaking slot at the 2012 Democratic National Convention on September 5, 2012. She positioned herself as a champion of a beleaguered middle class that "has been chipped, squeezed, and hammered". According to Warren, "People feel like the system is rigged against them. And here's the painful part: They're right. The system is rigged." Warren said Wall Street CEOs "wrecked our economy and destroyed millions of jobs" and that they "still strut around congress, no shame, demanding favors, and acting like we should thank them". On January 6, 2017, in an email to supporters, Warren announced that she would be running for
949-570: A rare public rebuke of the firing. The next day, legislation was introduced to allow Fine to continue as chair the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, while Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn) released a letter urging Horowitz to take the PRAC chair himself, stating, "with the exception of firing a score of Inspectors General and replacing them with handpicked toadies, there
1022-419: A second term as a U.S. senator from Massachusetts, writing, "The people of Massachusetts didn't send me to Washington to roll over and play dead while Donald Trump and his team of billionaires, bigots, and Wall Street bankers crush the working people of our Commonwealth and this country. ... This is no time to quit." In the 2018 election, Warren defeated Republican nominee Geoff Diehl , 60% to 36%. Warren won
1095-416: A star member of the debate team at Northwest Classen High School and won the state high school debating championship. She also won a debate scholarship to George Washington University (GWU) at the age of 16. She initially aspired to be a teacher, but left GWU after two years in 1968 to marry James Robert "Jim" Warren, whom she had met in high school. Warren and her husband moved to Houston , where he
1168-620: A third Senate term in 2024 against Republican nominee John Deaton. Warren was born Elizabeth Ann Herring in Oklahoma City on June 22, 1949. She is the fourth child of Pauline Louise (née Reed, 1912–1995), a homemaker , and Donald Jones Herring (1911–1997), a U.S. Army flight instructor during World War II , both of whom were members of the evangelical branch of the Protestant Methodist Church. Warren has described her early family life as teetering "on
1241-536: A third Senate term, defeating Republican nominee John Deaton, an attorney, 59.6% to 40.4%. On November 6, 2012, Warren defeated Brown with 53.7% of the vote. She is the first woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts, as part of a sitting U.S. Senate that had 20 women senators in office, which was the most in Senate history at the time, following the November 2012 elections . In December 2012, Warren
1314-646: A website to collect oversight data and reports conducted by the PRAC, individual IGs, and the Government Accountability Office , as stipulated in the CARES Act, as well as a Twitter account. Former inspector general David C. Williams expressed concern that the dismissals of several inspectors general with seats on the PRAC may negatively affect the functioning of the committee. Some replacements are political appointees that will retain their current positions reporting to officials within
1387-570: Is little that President Trump can do to prevent the PRAC from doing its job of overseeing the federal government's coronavirus response." Horowitz became acting chair of the PRAC. Fine resigned from government service on May 25. On April 27, 2020, CIGIE Chair Horowitz named Bob Westbrooks , who had been Inspector General of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation from May 2015, to be the executive director responsible for day-to-day functions. Horowitz also announced
1460-435: Is not required to provide information about who is receiving funds under the CARES Act's Division A. The PRAC heads stated, "If this interpretation of the CARES Act were correct, it would raise questions about PRAC's authority to conduct oversight of Division A funds. This would present potentially significant transparency and oversight issues because Division A of the CARES Act includes over $ 1 trillion in funding." This followed
1533-642: Is the executive chair of the council. The chair of the council is elected by the council members to serve a two-year term. The chair appoints a vice chair from other than the category from which the chair was elected. Other statutory members of the CIGIE include: the inspectors general of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency , the controller of
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#17327763959151606-537: The Notre Dame Law Review , argued that public utilities were over-regulated and that automatic utility rate increases should be instituted. But Warren soon became a proponent of on-the-ground research into how people respond to laws. Her work analyzing court records and interviewing judges, lawyers, and debtors, established her as a rising star in the field of bankruptcy law. According to Warren and economists who follow her work, one of her key insights
1679-591: The Architect of the Capitol . Prior to the establishment of the CIGIE, the federal inspectors general operated under the auspices of two councils, The President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency (PCIE) and the Executive Council on Integrity and Efficiency (ECIE) from the time they were established by Executive Order 12805, May 11, 1992, until the signing of P.L. 110–409. To accomplish its mission,
1752-573: The Democratic Party and regarded as a progressive , Warren has focused on consumer protection , equitable economic opportunity, and the social safety net while in the Senate. Warren was a candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries , ultimately finishing third. Born and raised in Oklahoma , Warren is a graduate of the University of Houston and Rutgers Law School and has taught law at several universities, including
1825-498: The Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.), those that are presidentially-appointed with Senate confirmation and those that are appointed by agency heads (designated federal entities). This includes the inspector general of federal agencies such as the U.S. Department of Defense , the U.S. Department of Labor , and the U.S. Agency for International Development . The 2008 Inspector General Reform Act combined
1898-802: The Office of Federal Financial Management , a senior-level official of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) designated by the Director of the FBI, Director of the United States Office of Government Ethics (OGE) Special Counsel of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), the deputy director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the inspectors general of the Library of Congress , United States Capitol Police , Government Printing Office (GPO), Government Accountability Office (GAO), and
1971-492: The University of Houston , the University of Texas at Austin , the University of Pennsylvania , and Harvard University . Warren has written 12 books and more than 100 articles. Warren's first foray into public policy began in 1995, when she worked to oppose what eventually became a 2005 act restricting bankruptcy access for individuals . During the late 2000s, her national profile grew after her forceful public stances in favor of more stringent banking regulations after
2044-450: The bar examination shortly thereafter. Shortly before graduating, Warren became pregnant with their second child, Alexander. In 1970, after obtaining a degree in speech pathology and audiology, but before enrolling in law school, Warren taught children with disabilities for a year in a public school. During law school, she worked as a summer associate at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft . After receiving her Juris Doctor and passing
2117-433: The bar examination , Warren offered legal services from home, writing wills and doing real estate closings. In the late 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, Warren taught law at several American universities while researching issues related to bankruptcy and middle-class personal finance . She became involved with public work in bankruptcy regulation and consumer protection in the mid-1990s. Warren began her career in academia as
2190-679: The financial crisis of 2007–2008 . She served as chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel of the Troubled Asset Relief Program , and proposed and established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau , for which she served as the first special advisor under President Barack Obama . In 2012 , Warren defeated incumbent Republican Scott Brown and became the first female U.S. senator from Massachusetts. She
2263-646: The professionalism and effectiveness of personnel by developing policies, technical standards , and approaches to aid in the establishment of a well-trained and highly skilled workforce in the Office of Inspector General . CIGIE was established in October 2008 as an independent entity within the United States executive branch by the Inspector General Reform Act (IGRA) . The CIGIE is composed of all federal U.S. Inspectors General whose offices are established under section 2 or section 8G of
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2336-569: The CARES Act. On April 1, 2020, CIGIE Chair Michael Horowitz and inaugural PRAC Chair Glenn Fine announced the below additional inspectors general would serve as members of the PRAC. According to Pandamic Oversight website, Department of Interior's inspectors general is also included in PRAC. Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency The Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency ( CIGIE ) addresses integrity , economy , and effectiveness issues that transcend individual Government agencies; and increase
2409-532: The CIGIE and Inspector General of the United States Department of Justice , as authorized by the CARE Act, appointed Glenn A. Fine , acting Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Defense , to be the chair of the PRAC. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) praised Fine's appointment. On April 1, Horowitz and Fine announced that Paul K. Martin , Inspector General of NASA ,
2482-470: The CIGIE: [REDACTED] This article incorporates public domain material from the US Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency Elizabeth Warren [REDACTED] Elizabeth Ann Warren ( née Herring ; born June 22, 1949) is an American politician and former law professor who is the senior United States senator from Massachusetts , serving since 2013. A member of
2555-473: The Defense Department. Although Fine retained his position as principal deputy IG for the Defense Department, his removal as acting IG made him ineligible to chair the PRAC. Fine, who had filled various inspector general positions for 15 years under both Democratic and Republican administrations, was not given a reason for his dismissal. Former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis immediately released
2628-577: The PRAC, Section 15010, was offered by Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Chair of the United States House Committee on Oversight and Reform , and Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs . The CARES Act also specified a new position of Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery within the United States Department of
2701-550: The Population Research Center of the University of Texas at Austin from 1983 to 1987 and was also a visiting professor at the University of Michigan in 1985. During this period, Warren also taught Sunday school . Warren's earliest academic work was heavily influenced by the law and economics movement, which aimed to apply neoclassical economic theory to the study of law with an emphasis on economic efficiency. One of her articles, published in 1980 in
2774-654: The President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on the CFPB to set up the new agency. While liberal groups and consumer advocacy groups urged Obama to formally nominate Warren as the agency's director, financial institutions and Republican members of Congress strongly opposed her, believing she would be an overly zealous regulator. Reportedly convinced that Warren could not win Senate confirmation as
2847-621: The Republican Party because it is no longer "principled in its conservative approach to economics and to markets" and is instead tilting the playing field in favor of large financial institutions and against middle-class American families. On September 14, 2011, Warren declared her intention to run for the Democratic nomination for the 2012 election in Massachusetts for the U.S. Senate . Republican Scott Brown had won
2920-676: The Senate Banking Committee, Warren called on him to resign, saying, "At best you were incompetent, at worst you were complicit." On July 17, 2019, Warren and Representative Al Lawson introduced legislation that would make low-income college students eligible for benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) according to the College Student Hunger Act of 2019. In November 2020, Warren
2993-455: The Treasury . President Donald Trump signed the legislation into law on March 27, 2020, but objected to stipulations that involved congressional oversight citing constitutional concerns regarding separation of powers. The PRAC was created within the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE). On April 1, 2020, the CIGIE released a statement that, "The PRAC will promote transparency and support independent oversight of
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3066-534: The Trump administration. Williams expressed doubt that "the career investigators on the committee will feel comfortable discussing sensitive matters with political appointees still working in other roles within the administration" and that the PRAC may thus be of limited value. On June 11, Horowitz and Westbrook revealed that attorneys in the Treasury Department had concluded that the Trump administration
3139-399: The agencies that we oversee. This includes CIGIE’s Pandemic Response Accountability Committee and its efforts on behalf of American taxpayers, families, businesses, patients, and health care providers to ensure that over $ 2 trillion in emergency federal spending is being used consistently with the law’s mandate." On April 7, 2020, President Trump removed Fine from his position as acting IG for
3212-586: The attack, Warren joined the entire Massachusetts Congressional delegation to call for Trump's immediate removal from office through the invocation of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution or impeachment. Warren was rated among the top 10 most popular senators in an April 2024 poll by Morning Consult. In the run-up to the 2016 United States presidential election , supporters put Warren forward as
3285-399: The awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge. This simply cannot be allowed to happen." Senate Republicans voted that by reading the letter from King, Warren had violated Senate Rule 19 , which prohibits impugning another senator's character. This prohibited Warren from further participating in
3358-621: The bureau's first director, in January 2012, Obama appointed former Ohio attorney general Richard Cordray to the post in a recess appointment over Republican senators' objections. A close high-school friend told Politico in 2019 that in high school Warren was a "diehard conservative" and that she had since done a "180-degree turn and an about-face". One of her colleagues at the University of Texas in Austin said that at university in
3431-460: The chamber's most powerful committees" that would "fuel speculation about a possible 2020 bid for president". During the debate on Senator Jeff Sessions 's nomination for United States attorney general in February 2017, Warren quoted a letter Coretta Scott King had written Senator Strom Thurmond in 1986 when Sessions was nominated for a federal judgeship. King wrote, "Mr. Sessions has used
3504-430: The debate on Sessions's nomination, and Warren instead read King's letter while streaming live online. In rebuking Warren, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor, "She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted ." McConnell's language became a slogan for Warren and others. On October 3, 2017, during Wells Fargo chief executive Timothy J. Sloan 's appearance before
3577-564: The earlier refusal by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to provide the names of recipients of the Paycheck Protection Program . In response, House Oversight Committee chair Carolyn Maloney said, "If the Trump administration is committed to full cooperation and transparency with taxpayer dollars, it is unclear why it is manufacturing legal loopholes to avoid responding to legitimate oversight requests." There are nine statutory inspectors general specified as PRAC members in
3650-434: The early 1980s Warren was "sometimes surprisingly anti-consumer in her attitude". Gary L. Francione , who had been a colleague of hers at the University of Pennsylvania , recalled in 2019 that when he heard her speak at the time she was becoming politically prominent, he "almost fell off [his] chair... She's definitely changed". Warren was registered as a Republican from 1991 to 1996 and voted Republican for many years. "I
3723-578: The former PCIE and ECIE into CIGIE. As of 2012, the CIGIE consisted of 73 Federal Offices of Inspector General. In March 2020, the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) was created within the CIGIE to oversee the $ 2.2 trillion in government funds designated for response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States . The Deputy Director for Management of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
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#17327763959153796-583: The funds provided by the CARES Act and two prior emergency spending bills, the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act and the Families First Coronavirus Response Act " and, more generally, "prevent and detect fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement [and] mitigate major risks that cut across program and agency boundaries." On March 30, 2020, Michael E. Horowitz , chair of
3869-433: The highest-paid professor at Harvard University who was not an administrator, with a $ 181,300 salary and total compensation of $ 291,876, including moving expenses and an allowance in lieu of benefits contributions. As of 2011 , she was Harvard's only tenured law professor who had attended law school at an American public university. Warren was a highly influential law professor. She published in many fields, but her expertise
3942-565: The impact of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) on the financial markets, government guarantees, the automotive industry and other topics. Warren was an early advocate for creating a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The bureau was established by the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act , signed into law by President Obama in July 2010. In September 2010, Obama named Warren Assistant to
4015-663: The impetus for establishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2011. On November 14, 2008, U.S. Senate majority leader Harry Reid appointed Warren to chair the five-member Congressional Oversight Panel created to oversee the implementation of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act . The panel released monthly oversight reports evaluating the government bailout and related programs. During Warren's tenure, these reports covered foreclosure mitigation, consumer and small business lending, commercial real estate, AIG , bank stress tests,
4088-435: The political director for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce commented that "no other candidate in 2012 represents a greater threat to free enterprise than Professor Warren". Warren nonetheless raised $ 39 million for her campaign, more than any other Senate candidate in 2012, and showed, according to The New York Times , "that it was possible to run against the big banks without Wall Street money and still win". Warren received
4161-517: The progress we've made since 2008, the biggest banks continue to threaten our economy", in July 2015 Warren, John McCain , Maria Cantwell , and Angus King reintroduced the 21st Century Glass–Steagall Act , a modern version of the Banking Act of 1933. The legislation was intended to reduce the American taxpayer's risk in the financial system and the likelihood of future financial crises. In
4234-453: The ragged edge of the middle class " and "kind of hanging on at the edges by our fingernails." She and her three older brothers were raised Methodist . Warren lived in Norman, Oklahoma , until she was 11 years old, when her family moved back to Oklahoma City. When she was 12, her father, then a salesman at Montgomery Ward , had a heart attack, which led to many medical bills as well as
4307-434: The roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or
4380-503: The same rate that banks pay to borrow from the federal government, 0.75%. Independent senator Bernie Sanders endorsed her bill, saying: "The only thing wrong with this bill is that [she] thought of it and I didn't". During the 2014 election cycle, Warren was a top Democratic fundraiser. After the election, Warren was appointed to become the first-ever Strategic Adviser of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee,
4453-583: The seat in a 2010 special election after Ted Kennedy 's death. A week later, a video of Warren speaking in Andover went viral on the Internet. In it, Warren responds to the charge that asking the rich to pay more taxes is "class warfare" by saying that no one grew rich in the U.S. without depending on infrastructure paid for by the rest of society: There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. ... You moved your goods to market on
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#17327763959154526-570: The system or had been irresponsible in incurring debts, but that she concluded that such abuse was in fact rare and that the legal framework for bankruptcy was poorly designed, describing the way the research challenged her fundamental beliefs as "worse than disillusionment" and "like being shocked at a deep-down level". In 2004, she published an article in the Washington University Law Review in which she argued that correlating middle-class struggles with over-consumption
4599-656: Was a Republican because I thought that those were the people who best supported markets", she has said. But she has also said that in the six presidential elections before 1996 she voted for the Republican nominee only once, in 1976 , for Gerald Ford . Warren has said that she began to vote Democratic in 1995 because she no longer believed that the Republicans were the party who best supported markets, but she has said she has voted for both parties because she believed neither should dominate. According to Warren, she left
4672-581: Was a fallacy. Warren joined the University of Pennsylvania Law School as a full professor in 1987 and obtained an endowed chair in 1990, becoming the William A. Schnader Professor of Commercial Law. In 1992, she taught for a year at Harvard Law School as the Robert Braucher Visiting Professor of Commercial Law. In 1995, Warren left Penn to become Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. In 1996, she became
4745-684: Was a member of the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion. She is a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference, an independent organization that advises the U.S. Congress on bankruptcy law, a former vice president of the American Law Institute and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Warren's scholarship and public advocacy were
4818-522: Was appointed Vice Chair of PRAC. They further announced that the nine statutory members of the PRAC would be joined by twelve non-statutory members, for a total of 21 members. In response to President Trump's removal on April 3 of Inspector General of the Intelligence Community Michael Atkinson , CIGIE Chair Horowitz stated, "The Inspector General Community will continue to conduct aggressive, independent oversight of
4891-610: Was assigned a seat on the Senate Banking Committee , which oversees the implementation of Dodd–Frank and other regulation of the banking industry. Vice President Joe Biden swore Warren in on January 3, 2013. At Warren's first Banking Committee hearing in February 2013, she pressed several banking regulators to say when they had last taken a Wall Street bank to trial and said, "I'm really concerned that 'too big to fail' has become 'too big for trial'." Videos of Warren's questioning amassed more than one million views in
4964-445: Was employed by IBM . She enrolled in the University of Houston and graduated in 1970 with a Bachelor of Science degree in speech pathology and audiology. The Warrens moved to New Jersey when Jim received a job transfer. She soon became pregnant and decided to stay at home to care for their daughter, Amelia . After Amelia turned two, Warren enrolled at Rutgers Law School . She received her Juris Doctor in 1976 and passed
5037-567: Was in bankruptcy and commercial law . From 2005 to 2009, Warren was among the three most-cited scholars in those fields. Warren began to rise in prominence in 2004 with an appearance on the Dr. Phil show, and published several books including The Two-Income Trap . In 1995, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission's chair, former congressman Mike Synar , asked Warren to advise the commission. Synar had been
5110-410: Was named a candidate for Secretary of the Treasury in the Biden Administration . Warren was at the Capitol to participate in the 2021 United States Electoral College vote count when Trump supporters attacked the Capitol . She called it an "attempted coup and act of insurrection egged on by a corrupt president to overthrow our democracy", and the perpetrators "domestic terrorists." The day after
5183-477: Was not being vetted. On July 7, CNN reported that Warren was on a five-person short list to be Clinton's running mate . Clinton eventually chose Tim Kaine . Until her June endorsement, Warren was neutral during the Democratic primary but made public statements that she was cheering Bernie Sanders on. In June, Warren endorsed and campaigned for Clinton. She called Donald Trump , the presumptive Republican nominee, dishonest, uncaring, and "a loser". At
5256-409: Was reelected by a wide margin in 2018 , defeating Republican nominee Geoff Diehl . On February 9, 2019, Warren announced her candidacy in the 2020 United States presidential election . She was briefly considered the front-runner for the Democratic nomination in late 2019, but support for her campaign dwindled. She withdrew from the race on March 5, 2020, after Super Tuesday . She was reelected to
5329-460: Was that rising bankruptcy rates were caused not by profligate consumer spending but by middle-class families' attempts to buy homes in good school districts. Warren worked in this field alongside colleagues Teresa A. Sullivan and Jay Westbrook, and the trio published their research in the book As We Forgive Our Debtors in 1989. Warren later recalled that she had begun her research believing that most people filing for bankruptcy were either working
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