“Sen. Elizabeth Warren failed to stop a change in bank regulations last weekend, but she raised her profile yet again.
The Massachusetts Democrat tells NPR that her fight over a provision in a spending bill was a “warning shot.” She intends to continue her fight against what she describes as the power of Wall Street, even though that fight brought her to oppose leaders of her own party.
In recent weeks, Warren challenged one of President Obama’s nominees to a senior post at the Treasury Department, arguing that he was too close to powerful banks. Then, last week, she denounced a $1.1 trillion spending bill that had been passed by the House and approved by Senate leaders as well as Obama.
Warren, a hero to many among her party’s liberals, objected to a provision that would undo a new financial regulation.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2014/12/15/370817279/-warning-shot-sen-elizabeth-warren-on-fighting-the-banks-and-her-political-futur
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