ms. warren: thank you, mr. president. i've come to the floor of the senate five times over the past week to talk about how the bank lobbyist act puts american families in danger of getting punched in the gut in another financial crisis. i've talked about how it rolls back important consumer protections and how, if it passes, 25 of the 40 largest banks in this country, banks that suck down collectively almost $50 billion of bailout money during the crisis -- nobody went to jail -- could be regulated like tiny, little community banks. i also talked about how the bill will roll back the rules on the very biggest banks in this country. j.p. morgan chase, citigroup and the rest of them, banks that broke our economy in 2008, banks where no one went to jail, banks where the taxpayers coughed up $180 billion to bail them out. and i talked about how washington is poised to make the same mistakes it has made many times before. deregulating giant banks while the economy is cruising only to set the stage for another financial crisis.

ms. warren: thank you, mr. president. i've come to the floor of the senate five times over the past week to talk about

ms. warren: ok. reuters recently reported on a saudi coalition air strike in late february that killed five civilians and wounded 14. including four children. according to witnesses that were interviewed by reuters, the coalition conducted two additional air strikes that hit paramedics who were trying to save civilians in the rubble. when you receive reports like this from credible media organizations or outside observers, is centcom able to tell whether u.s. fuel or u.s. munitions were used as part of that strike? mr. votel: i don't believe we are. ms. warren: ok. so, the reason i ask about this is, the yemeni people are suffering and this is a humanitarian crisis. that's why i co-sponsored the sanders-lee resolution that directs president trump to stop our involvement in saudi military operations in yemen. unless congress provides specific authorization. the bill would allow our counterterrorism operations against al qaeda and its affiliates to continue. but it would ensure that the united states i

ms. warren: madam president, are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we are. ms. warren: i ask that the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. warren: ten years ago today at breakfast tables all around the country, americans read a shocking headline. fed assumes the role of lender of last resort. the biggest investment banks on wall street were getting their first taxpayer bailout, but some of the banks were so addicted to poisonous scam mortgages that even that bailout wasn't enough. within a week, bear stearns, and 85-year-old fixture on wall street would fall and the financial crisis would begin. within a year, american workers retirement accounts had lost $2.7 trillion. almost a third of their value. no one bailed them out. within two years, 8.8 million americans had lost their jobs. no one bailed them out. within three years more than four million homes had been lost to foreclosures, millions more were in danger. no one bailed the homeowners out. and now to mark the tenth anniversary of that devastating crisis, the senate is on th

ms. warren: mr. president, i want to commend senator brown for leading the fight to oppose rollbacks for wall street banks. he has been tireless in the fight on behalf of ohio families and on behalf of families all across this country, and i thank him very much for his work. this is a tough fight. mr. president, this week nearly ten years to the day, after we first discovered that big banks crashed our economy, washington is about to take many of those same giant banks off the government watch list. i doubt that this makes any sense to any of the millions and millions of americans who experienced firsthand the economic horrors of the financial collapse. oh, but it makes perfect sense in weaker where -- washington where people can erase their memories. this would protect consumers and prevent another economic meltdown. i talked about how this scraps a lot of consumer protections for a lot of families buying homes. in addition to squeezing consumers, it loosens the hold on some of the same banks that w

ms. warren: mr. president, are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we are not. ms. warren: good. thank you, mr. president. mr. president, on friday, i held a town hall in springfield, massachusetts, and on saturday we had another town hall this time in weymouth, mass. i met with kids at weymouth high who are forming a never again group who want us to pass some sensible gun regulations. and dreamers who want us to pass daca. i met with people who fled the hurricanes in puerto rico and want to see a comprehensive plan for rebuilding the island. i met with people who live along the south shore and who are deeply worried about rising oceans and the need for building resilience into our coastline housing and infrastructure. i met people alarmed by the rising cost of health care and about republican efforts to roll back obamacare and medicaid and medicare. i met someone who wants to see us focus more on criminal justice reform. there is so much that congress could do. there are so many problems the american people are asking us to solve. but not one single person at any of

ms. warren: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. ms. warren: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i rise today to join the citizens of massachusetts who are making their voices heard and sending a clear message to president trump. the commonwealth of massachusetts stands strong in opposition to his reckless proposal to expand offshore drilling. we stand strong in opposition to yet another handout to big oil executives who are willing to put corporate profits ahead of the health of our coastal families, and we stand strong in opposition to this administration's willful ignorance of climate change and the world's ongoing clean energy revolution. president trump may say that his drilling plan is about jobs, but the truth is that this offshore drilling proposal is a slap in the face to every hardworking coastal family. president trump is willing to put corporate profits for his big oil buddies ahead of shipping crews in boston, ahead of the fishermen from gloucester to new bedford, ahead of the mom and pop diners all along the cape, ahea

ms. warren: mr. president, congress does not have the courage to act on gun violence, but young people across this country are showing the way. they are speaking up and they are demanding action. i honor them and i commit to fight alongside them. i'm going to read the names of some of those lost from massachusetts. they didn't get a chance to join this fight before they died from gun violence, so i take this opportunity to join them to the young people who are fighting today for sensible gun reforms. jared brown, 16 years old. anthony skarita, 6 years old. angel swazzo, 16 years old. al hando laurente, 11 years old. tenzin kakian, 16 years old. marcos pena, 9 years old. chantelle matiosis, 16 years old. latoy graham, 15 years old. brian croyle, 12 years old. lacare jefferson, 8 years old. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. mr. blumenthal: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. blumenthal: thank you, mr. president. today is a momentous one in the capitol beca

ms. warren: mr. president, i want to commend senator brown for leading the fight to oppose rollbacks for wall street banks. he has been tireless in the fight on behalf of ohio families and obehalf of families all across this country, and i thank m ry much for his work. this is a tough fight. mr. president, this week nearly ten years to the day, after we first discovered that big banks crashed our economy, washington is about to take many of those same giant banks off the government watch list. i doubt that this makes any sense to any of the millions and millions of americans who experienced firsthand the economic horrors of the financial collapse. oh, but it makes perfect sense in weaker where -- washington where people can erase their memories. this would protect consumers and prevent another economic meltdown. i talked about how this scraps a lot of consumer protections for a lot of families buying homes. in addition to squeezing consumers, it loosens the hold on some of the same banks that wrecked

ms. warren: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i'm here today to commemorate the 50th anniversary of robert f. kennedy's monumental campaign for president. kennedy's brief, tragic run at the presidency has had an enduring impact on so many generations of americans. and the reason i think is because robert kennedy had the courage to challenge a divided nation to face up to its failings, to challenge a divided people to acknowledge their own contributions to our nation's ills, to challenge us to step back from the stale, cheap politics of the moment, to challenge us to do better by each other. history may not repeat, but it often rhymes. conditions are different now, but a lot of anxiety that swept through the country in 1968 echoes the anxiety of today, especially the economic anxiety felt by millions of americans who are working harder than ever but feel opportunities slipping away from themselves and from their children. too often our political and business leaders refuse to see this. instead they hide behind macroecon

ms. warren: mr. president, i want to commend senator brown for leading the fight to oppose rollbacks for wall street banks. he has been tireless in the fight on behalf of ohio families and on behalf of

ms. warren: mr. president, this week, we're considering a bill to roll back the rules on some of the biggest banks in the country. over the course of this week, i will be spending a lot of time on the senate floor talking about the problems with this bill and how it threatens working families and american taxpayers, but i want to start by looking back to 2008. the reason that we have these rules in the first place. ten years ago next week, americans started holding our breaths. for years, financial institutions, boy, they have been riding high, selling dangerous products to consumers and making risky bets, all the while washington looked the other way, cozying up to big banks, loosening rules left and right, and shrugging off rules that they couldn't get rid of. and no wonder. the revolving door was spinning like crazy. bank officials became regulators and then went back to the banks, getting richer and richer. bank profits were sky high and getting higher. but business built on scams and hype can't

ms. clifford in the arbitration to stop from talking about an alleged 2006 sexual encounter with mr. trump. warren, massachusetts, and we say good morning to keith on our parents and students line. caller: how are you doing today? i am just curious -- i am having a hard time with all of this. what i am hearing after the shooting was these kids are not old enough to do this or do that . they cannot drink, smoke. what the problem is, in my opinion, the teachers are telling them what to say at these rallies. they are telling them to exercise their first amendment right, to take away other rights that they may have, and they may look at it differently when they get older. the left just seems out of hand. they are giving people free out and given safe places to shoot heroin. the whole thing is messed up. if you had a couple of trained trained teachers and some smart guns, it really just bothers me, the whole walkout. these kids think they are being empowered, but they are just being used. host: we had video yesterday from capitol hill. many students as well as politicians. here is one of the student sp

ms. warren: mr. president, are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we are. ms. warren: i ask the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. warren: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, ten years ago millions of american families were on the verge of devastation. the failure of bear stearns in march of 2008 was the first major signal of a coming financial crisis that would cost nine million people their jobs and millions more people their homes or their savings. lives and plans and dreams would be crushed, and even after the economy began to recover its footing, millions of american families would have to spend years just to get back to where they started before 2008. a lot of those families have given up the dream of homeownership forever, and many are still struggling today. but in the next few days, with broad support among republicans and far too much support among democrats, the senate is on the verge of passing a bill that puts american families in danger of that same devastation all over again. over the last few days i've talke