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2014-07-22 Sen. Elizabeth Warren Tells Netroots: 'Push Back And Fight Hard'

===2014-07-22 Sen. Elizabeth Warren Tells Netroots: 'Push Back And Fight Hard'===

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren Tells Netroots: 'Push Back And Fight Hard'
Posted: 21 Jul 2014 09:00 AM PDT
Senator Elizabeth Warren took her fight against a rigged system to the Netroots Nation gathering in Detroit Friday morning, saying that she is fighting back, and if We the People "push back and fight hard, we can win." Outside the hall, people were passing out "Ready for Warren" hats and signs. Inside the hall, the hats and signs were everywhere. Fighting back against a rigged system was the theme of Warren's rousing speech to Netroots. She began by briefly telling the story of how the about Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) came to be. She had the idea for the agency, started talking about it, people told her it was a great idea and badly needed, but said to her, "Don't do it because the biggest banks in the country will hate it and you will lose." She said they had that half right. "They spent more than a million dollars a day for more than a year lobbying against financial reforms. But we fought back and we won. We won because you and a zillion other people across the country got in the fight. We said we the people will have this agency and we won." And now we have the CFPB and it has already returned $5 billion to people that the big financial firms tried to steal, she said.
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