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cal04

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Tue Aug 4, 2015, 02:56 PM Aug 2015

Sen. Warren Hammers GOP again, this time For Wasting Huge Amounts Of Time

She accused Republicans of pushing a fruitless partisan agenda at the expense of working Americans.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) rolled out a fresh attack against Republicans on Tuesday: They're wasting huge amounts of time.

Pointing to recent GOP efforts to defund the Department of Homeland Security and Planned Parenthood and to attach abortion legislation to a human trafficking bill, among other examples, Warren said Republicans were spending their time chewing through partisan menu items that went nowhere.

"In the past six months, they have burned huge amounts of time as they try to shut down Homeland Security, tried to build a pipeline to help a Canadian oil company, tried to turn a human trafficking bill into a referendum on abortion and now tried to defund Planned Parenthood," Warren said. "All this instead of working on the kind of issues that would help level the playing field for hardworking people."

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After making the case for her favored policies, the Massachusetts Democrat suggested Republicans were not pursuing such proposals because they were too busy helping lobbyists, oil companies, bankers and other wealthy, well-connected interests.

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Sen. Warren Hammers GOP again, this time For Wasting Huge Amounts Of Time (Original Post) cal04 Aug 2015 OP
She has a solid point Kber Aug 2015 #1
It's a sad world when just speaking the obvious truth is seen as some kind of amazing thing. Dark n Stormy Knight Aug 2015 #2

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)
2. It's a sad world when just speaking the obvious truth is seen as some kind of amazing thing.
Tue Aug 4, 2015, 05:28 PM
Aug 2015

But, being as rare as that is, especially in politicians, I'm going to say what Warren does is amazing. Thank goodness there are at least a few like her.

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