"The Outsider" (Politico interviews Warren re Hillary)

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1. Not surprised at the outcome, HRC was against the bill before she was for it.

...Clinton greeted her briskly, then tucked into a hamburger and fries as Warren launched into a passionate presentation against the bill: Tell the president to veto the damn thing, she said; it was a travesty designed to squeeze “the last couple-tenths of a percent” profit out of hard-pressed women and children who had fallen on tough times as a result of divorce, financial ruin or medical catastrophe.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/elizabeth-warren-profile-115489.html#ixzz3Tuq2fINq


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Three years after the hamburger summit, in 2001, Hillary Clinton, by then the junior senator from New York, had her own chance to weigh in on the bankruptcy bill. She voted in favor of a modified version (that provided limited protections for women and children) over the vehement objections of Warren and other consumer advocates. It passed, yet when Clinton was running for president in 2007 she glossed over that “yes” vote and claimed, during debates, that she “fought the banks” on bankruptcy reform. Warren has complained about it ever since, one of the reasons Bill Clinton refused to campaign for her during her 2012 Senate campaign. Another is Warren’s attacks on Clinton’s former Wall Street allies, a former Clinton aide tells us.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/elizabeth-warren-profile-115489.html#ixzz3TupkcsgU