It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make things. Rather, it seems, Wall Street is using government bailouts to lever up.
Maria CantwellThe Export-Import Bank is one of the most important tools America has to create jobs.
Maria CantwellThe federal government would give money to the states. States would be able to negotiate at local rates. It's not Medicaid. People didn't want it to be Medicaid in Washington, either.
Maria CantwellWall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning.
Maria CantwellThe United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury.
Maria CantwellBecause you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it's worth having a public plan. You could get private insurers to cover this population, but you couldn't without giving the population leverage in the marketplace.
Maria Cantwell