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Help Push to Get Elizabeth Warren on the Senate Banking Committee
Now that Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) was elected against all of Scott Brown’s Wall Street money (5.5 million from the financial services industry alone), the woman one banker called “akin to the antichrist” may get to sit on the powerful Senate Banking Committee. That is, if the powers waging a quiet war against her don’t get their way.
On the Senate Banking Committee, Warren could do some serious damage (read: regulation) to the banking industry. The Senate Banking Committee oversees banking, insurance, financial markets, securities, housing, urban development and mass transit, international trade and finance, and economic policy. They write the legislation focusing on our banks. From their website:
The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs is one of twenty Senate committees tasked with conducting Senate business related to specialized areas of legislative interest.
Warren, who created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and was chair of the Congressional TARP oversight panel, campaigned against big banks and lobbyists. She’s a natural fit for one of the two open seats on the committee, but as a freshman Senator (freshwoman?), it’s not a given that she’ll get one of them.
Even though Warren hasn’t said yet if she wants the spot, lobbyists and staffers who serve senators on the committee are fighting against her already. They don’t want her on the Senate Banking Committee, because she might actually push for change that would be beneficial to the people.
President Obama said of Warren, “Elizabeth Warren will be a strong, tireless and determined advocate for the people of Massachusetts, building on her remarkable record of working to help middle class families get ahead. Her life’s work has been helping ordinary Americans get the fair shot they need and deserve. Elizabeth’s passionate advocacy on behalf of consumers led to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The agency is now protecting people from being taken advantage of by powerful companies.”
Warren has been dubbed the “New Sheriff of Wall Street” by Time magazine and the Boston Globe defined her as “… the plainspoken voice of people getting crushed by so many predatory lenders and under regulated banks.”
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, along with Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee, will make the appointment. If you want to push back against the lobbyists and the entrenched powers that be, let Harry Reid know that you want him to appoint Warren to the Senate Banking Committee. Yes, there’s a petition for that.
Image credit: Reuters/Gretchen Ertl
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14 Responses to Help Push to Get Elizabeth Warren on the Senate Banking Committee
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Paws
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 7:51 am
Sign, sealed and hopefully soon-to-be delivered. She’s awesome. I really am glad she won this seat; we need more people like her in government. I feel bad that she was attacked so personally though by Scott Brown and the fright wing PAC machine. She didn’t deserve that.
buckeyewill
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 8:21 am
I have signed. I hope she makes it to the committee.
Sandra
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 2:28 pm
Signed. This Canadian would love to see her on the committee, she’s an awesome lady who fights for justice and the 99%. Go EW.
Will pass petition on to friends and family in the States.
Reynardine
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 8:29 am
I already signed.
garfunkle
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 9:56 am
liz warren for pres 2016……. she’s going to be bankbusters!
luciboo
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 10:17 am
Absolutely Elizabeth should be on the banking committee. It is her area of expertise and she will work for all of us including the bankers to do the right thing for this country.
Isn’t that what is important?
Anne
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 10:41 am
I am absolutely thrilled at Elizabeth Warren’s victory over Scott Brown and feel she would be an asset in Congress, especially on the Senate Banking Committee. That would be one of the best uses of her expertise.
A Walkaway
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 11:08 am
Signed. She needs the power to go along with her obvious ability (and we need the rich and powerful brought to heel).
Blow Meandonlyme
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 3:18 pm
I love indians!
Josefa Barrios M. de Sugaste
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 3:39 pm
I´m sorry that i´m not an “american” to fill the form, but my brother´s and sister are, so here´s hoping that my calling this to their attention helps Warren. I could like to see more women empowered.
Carmen Sammut
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 8:35 pm
Signed, hope she makes it!!!
Joe Milner
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 10:40 pm
Signed
Nancy in Illinois
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 2:23 am
I signed the petition too. I’m so happy she won her senate race, she’ll be a great addition to the chamber. And, while we’re at it, how about some indictments for the banksters who wrecked the economy in ’08? If she could accomplish that, I might move to Mass. so I can vote for her in 6 yrs. She’ll do what’s right for the country and not what will get her $ for her next election run. I think it’s so sweet that she’ll now be serving alongside the righties who wouldn’t approve her running the consumer protection bureau, you know, the bureau she set up! You go, Elizabeth!
Jo Marie Griesgraber
Nov. 26th, 2012 at 2:37 pm
We need a major petition drive to promote Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren to serve as a member of the Senate Banking Committee. Do you know of such a campaign? Can we get MOVEON or similar group to push?