Elizabeth
Warren
Background
Elizabeth Warren was born on
June 22, 1949 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She was the youngest of three older
brothers in a middle class family. When Elizabeth was young her father, a
janitor, had a heart attack and the family went through many financial
difficulties and the family car was repossessed. However, this did not stop her;
she acquired a job as a waitress, became known as “Oklahoma’s top high-school
debater” and earned a scholarship to George Washington University.
Elizabeth then moved to Houston
and got married to Jim Warren, who was a NASA engineer, and taught children
with disabilities. The two later moved to New Jersey where Elizabeth became
pregnant and eventually had two children. She then began to work as a lawyer
and later divorced her husband and remarried to a Harvard law professor, named
Bruce Mann.
Political Background
Political Background
After teaching at many
different Universities, Warren was asked to advise the National Bankruptcy
Review Commission to help create a report that would restrict the right of consumers
to file bankruptcy, and in 2005 the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer
Protection Act was passed. She was part of the FDIC advisory committee for four
years and is still part of the National Bankruptcy conference to this day. She
was also a vice-president of the American Law Institute and part of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Warren was later appointed, in 2008, to
chair the Congressional Oversight Panel. She was later named, “Assistant to the
President” and “special advisor” to the Secretary of the treasury by President
Obama in July 2010.
Warren considered herself a
Republican until 1996, when she began to support the Democratic Party. In 2011
she declared that she will run for the Democratic nomination for the
Massachusetts election in 2012 for the US Senate. On November 6, 2012, she
defeated Scott Brown with 53.7% of the votes, “She is the first women ever
elected to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts” (Tenure-Wikipedia). She was then
sworn in in January of 2013, by Joe Biden, and “became the state’s senior
senator after serving for almost month. After the election, Warren was “appointed to become the first
ever Strategic Advisor of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, a
position that was created just for her” (Tenure-Wikipedia).
Warren
supported the healthcare legislation (Obamacare) and supports marriage
equality, the DREAM Act and enforcing/toughening gun control laws. She is also
working to reduce student loan interest rates and to rid of gay descrimination in
our schools. Warren has also been a strong activist for womens rights
throughout her years by working toward womens equal wages and the rights to
free contraceptives, as well as, safe abortion clinics for women to have access
to.
Overall, Elizabeth Warren has based much of her campaign on helping the average
middle class citizen and helping small business. With her 20 plus years of experience in
many different fields serving the United States and her many achievements, Warren is more than
qualified to run as a presidential candidate.
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