Elizabeth Warren Fast Facts

[RiverLover]

Elizabeth Warren Fast Facts
1/9/2015

(CNN)Here's a look at the life of Democratic U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.

Personal:
Birth date: June 22, 1949

Birth place: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Birth name: Elizabeth Ann Herring

Father: Donald Herring, salesman and maintenance man

Mother: Pauline (Reed) Herring, department store worker

Marriages: Bruce Mann (July 12, 1980-present); Jim Warren (1968-1980, divorced)

Children: with Jim Warren: Alex, 1976; Amelia, 1971

Education: Attended George Washington University, 1966-1968; University of Houston, B.S. Speech Pathology and Audiology, 1970; Rutgers University, J.D., 1976

Religion: Methodist

Other Facts:
She was a state high school champion in debate.

Before the mid-1990s, Warren was a registered Republican.

Warren is an expert on bankruptcy law and was an adviser to the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the 1990s.

Warren has co-authored two books with her daughter Amelia Warren Tyagi, "The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke" and "All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan."

During Warren's 2012 Senate race, a controversy erupted over Warren's claims of Native American ancestry. Warren listed herself as a minority in a directory of law teachers from 1986-1995, based on, she says, stories of her family's Cherokee heritage. Opponent Scott Brown claimed she did this to advance her career.

Timeline:
1966-1968 - Warren attends George Washington University on a debate scholarship. She drops out after two years to get married.

early 1970s - After graduating from college, Warren works as a speech pathologist at a New Jersey elementary school.

1977-1978 - Law lecturer at Rutgers School of Law.

1978-1983 - Assistant and later associate professor at the University of Houston Law Center.

1983-1987 - Professor of law at the University of Texas Law School in Austin.

1987-1995 - Law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

1989 - Warren, along with co-authors Teresa Sullivan and Jay Westbrook, writes her first book, "As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America."

1992-1993 - Visiting professor at Harvard Law School.

1995-2012 - Professor at Harvard Law School.

2007 - Warren writes an article outlining her idea for a federal agency designed to protect consumers from fraudulent or misleading financial products, like mortgages and credit cards.

November 14, 2008 - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid appoints Warren to a Congressional Oversight Panel overseeing the $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program.

September 17, 2010 - President Barack Obama appoints Warren as assistant to the president and special adviser to the Treasury secretary in order to launch the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

July 2011 - Due to opposition from Republicans and some Democrats, President Obama declines to nominate Warren as permanent director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

August 1, 2011 - Warren steps down as a special adviser to President Obama.

September 14, 2011 - Warren announces she's running for Senate in Massachusetts.

September 5, 2012 - Warren speaks at the Democratic National Convention.

November 6, 2012 - Wins the race for Senate in Massachusetts, defeating incumbent Scott Brown.

November 13, 2014 - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid taps Warren to join his leadership team.

December 15, 2014 - In an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep, Warren repeats four times that she is not running for president.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/09/us/elizabeth-warren-fast-facts/index.html

[pscot]

1. My only problem with Warren

is that I have no idea where stands on any issue except bank regulation. I admire her greatly, but so far she's a one trick pony.

[CTyankee]

2. some of it is in her newest book, A Fighting Chance, which I just read. It's very good. I came away

completely satisfied with her as a progressive and someone who would be very comfortable in the presence of so many of us here. When I read about her struggles and her strong family, who helped her finish her degrees while she was her raising two small children and was both exhausted and struggling financially. She tells her story simply but it is powerful in its forthright admission of experiencing great setbacks and just getting up and trying again and again. I admire her greatly.

[pscot]

3. I'd still like to know what she thinks

about the American Empire and our accelerating progress toward planetary carbon death.

[eridani]

4. Doubt if she will come out against it. However,

--post WW II American imperialism has been a jolly bipartisan project, and I don't think it's possible to change that by changing presidents. That would have to be a bottom-up movement.

[RiverLover]

6. FYI-"Elizabeth Warren Comes Down Hard Ag Global Warming, Separates Herself From Hillary Clinton"

Elizabeth Warren Comes Down Hard Against Global Warming, Separates Herself From Hillary Clinton On Climate Change
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-zuesse/elizabeth-warren-comes-do_b_4483753.html

[RiverLover]

5. If you read through the posts here in the EWG, you'll learn more. Much more than one trick.

But if that's too much work, more will come out about her views when/"if" she's runs for president.

[pscot]

7. I have looked at her website

which seems to be a work in progress. I found very little in the way of policy positions outside the financial area. I like Warren and the need for economic reform is obvious. I'd just like to see greater breadth of vision. That HuffPost article was just a teaser; suggestive but not very satisfying. I'm waiting for someone to tell the truth about climate change. Ultimately, nothing else matters. Maybe breaking the strangle hold of the 1% is the only way to get at it. I honestly believe our survival is at risk and time is very short.

[RiverLover]

8. I agree, and its terrifying.

I was reading so much about it for a while there, I had to stop focusing on it. It was effecting my work production. It zapped my joy, and I'm not good to anyone homeless & without joy.

But I still read things, like I've been reading how that climate agreement with China is just smoke & mirrors and actually hurts the fight ag climate change. (Smoke and Mirrors Will Not Save Us From Anthropogenic Climate Disruption )

So anyways pscot, about how Elizabeth Warren stands on the urgency & importance of climate change, this video and article might make you feel better about her stance, but not about how the majority of Americans feel about it...

Mar 2014

On Tuesday, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren spoke on the Senate floor to keep battling against the negative effects of climate change. In a seven-minute video, Senator Warren referred to morphing weather patterns as "a climate crisis, a point of no return." The only problem is that the good Senator's efforts may be in vain as a new poll shows that Americans don't care about the issue.

"We are at a moment of great danger and great opportunity," pleaded Senator Warren, urging listeners to continue innovating cleaner, greener products and lifestyles. But in general, her pleas are falling on deaf ears.

A new Gallup Poll conducted between March 6 and March 9 of of 513 adults living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia shows that climate change is of the least of Americans' worries, as is the state of the environment.

(This speech on our climate & the entrenched forces fighting alternative energy ROCKS, wish everyone would SEE it!!)

Elizabeth Warren Talks Climate Change But Americans Don't Care [Video]

[pscot]

9. Thanks I'll have to come back to it tomorrow.