Senator Elizabeth Warren (US-D) has always been an outspoken politician standing up for what she believes will best serve her constituency. On June 19, 2017, Senator Warren made news demanding that the Federal Reserve remove twelve of Wells Fargo’s directors to make them accountable for their poor risk-management practices. This is in response to a September 2016 scandal when Wells Fargo fired over 5300 employees for creating over two million fake accounts. She is trying to make not only the company accountable but trying to counter the Trump administration’s deregulation of the financial sector.
Warren grew up in Norman, OK. Her family was very hard-working, but suffered hard times when her father suffered a heart attack. To cope with the difficult economic times, she got her first job at nine years old babysitting and moved on to waiting tables at the age of 13 while attending grade school. At the age of 16, she won a debate scholarship which allowed her to attend George Washington University (GW) when she graduated high school. She never graduated from GW instead opting to marry, her high school sweetheart.
Together, they moved to Texas, and Warren attended University of Houston with a Bachelor’s of Science in Speech Pathology in 1970. She taught in special education and had two children and eventually resumed her studies. In 1976, she graduated from Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey with her law degree. She soon began practicing law from her living room but soon returned to teaching to eventually an expert on bankruptcy law and become a professor at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. In 1980, Senator Warren married Bruce Mann, a legal scholar at Harvard, and they have been together for over 35 years.
In more recent years, Warren has stood out as major player in politics during the 2008 recession. She testified before congress on financial topics and wrote several books including three national best sellers. She worked to keep strict financial oversight on both the Bush and Obama Administrations. During the Obama years, Warren selected as the chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). In addition, she advocated for the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (established under the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act). She acted as its interim director.
In 2011, Warren sought the Democratic nomination US Senator for Massachusetts senator and won by a landslide at the party convention. In November 2012, she defeated incumbent Scott Brown. In January 2013, she was sworn into office becoming the first woman to represent Massachusetts in the US Senate. Since her election, she has worked to stand up for her constituency and America as a whole.
Senator Warren has taken a firm stance on several decisions made in both the Obama and Trump Administrations. Particularly, she is most noted for her opposition of the nominations of Jeff Sessions, US Attorney General under the Trump Administration. She was silenced as she read a letter from civil rights activist, Coretta Scott King about Sessions election to the Senate. This action received a lot of buzz on social media.
Senator Warren can be followed on Twitter @SenWarren, Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/senatorelizabethwarren/ and on her official websites: US Senate Official Site and Elizabeth Warren for Senate
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