For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families.

Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.

The economy, virtually all the new income has gone to the top 10 percent, and we need to find those areas where we can actually make a change in that. And that includes enhancing manufacturing jobs in this country, it includes the ability to go to community college for free, it includes the ability to have debt-free higher education, it includes career technical education in our high schools. It also includes taking on the pharmaceutical companies on the extravagant prices that they`re charging for the drugs. Americans need to stay healthy.

We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet to our children and grandchildren in better shape than we found it.

Real choice is clear information and the right to walk away from a bad deal without leaving your wallet behind.

For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families.

I wont stop fighting to make life better for working Americans and give those who are just trying to find a decent job the opportunity to do so.