RSN: Elizabeth Warren Makes a Case for Democrats to Be the Anti-Corruption Party

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RSN: Elizabeth Warren Makes a Case for Democrats to Be the Anti-Corruption Party

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Warren was speaking at Georgetown University, at an event called The War on Regulation, and her speech was a robust defense of federal agencies such as the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau—the parts of the government that keep lead paint out of toys, insecticide out of medicine, and bad brakes out of cars.

The point seems obvious, but it bears repeating: while much of the press, and therefore the country, is preoccupied by the President’s daily outbursts on Twitter and by the leaks and twists of Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress have been aggressively rolling back regulations of all kinds. The effects of some of these changes may not be directly felt by the voting public for years, when a major health crisis, a financial collapse, or some other catastrophe suddenly arrives, but the risks are being created right now.

POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: WARREN’s bipartisan pot protection — SENATE takes up ‘red flag’ bill today — BROWNSBERGER backs L’ITALIEN

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POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: WARREN’s bipartisan pot protection — SENATE takes up ‘red flag’ bill today — BROWNSBERGER backs L’ITALIEN

PUTTING THE "POT" IN BIPARTISANSHIP — Sen. Elizabeth Warren unveils a high-profile, bipartisan bill in Washington today that's designed to protect legalized state marijuana industries from federal government meddling.

Warren's Republican cosponsor is Colorado's Sen. Cory Gardner, who's familiar with the issue — Colorado was one of the first states to legalize marijuana for recreational use. While Warren and Gardner are on opposite sides of the aisle, they're on the same side in wanting to protect their states' lucrative legalized marijuana industries. Gardner did not sign on to Warren's bipartisan letter in January asking AG Jeff Sessions to protect states' existing marijuana laws, but Gardner did say that Sessions had " trampled on the will of the voters" by rescinding the Obama-era marijuana policy that allowed states to have legalized marijuana while it remained federally verboten.

The stakes are high for both Warren and Gardner's constituencies. Colorado so far has brought in $4.8 billion in tax revenue from its marijuana legalization since January 2014. Massachusetts is on the verge of opening its first marijuana dispensaries this summer as state regulators work to begin issuing licenses so dispensaries can begin to open on July 1.

THE WARREN REPORT —

- "Elizabeth Warren: Trump's regulatory cuts are a 'big, greasy baloney sandwich,'" by Lauren Gambino, The Guardian: "Elizabeth Warren has declared war on the Trump administration's own 'war on regulations.' In a speech in Washington on Tuesday, the Massachusetts senator and potential 2020 challenger to Donald Trump delivered a liberal rejoinder to the president's aggressive deregulatory agenda, which she said was really just evidence of a determination to 'let the rich guys do whatever they want.'"