Elizabeth Warren says Scott Brown stands with millionaires

In their third head-to-head match up, Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown and his challenger Elizabeth Warren battle over Washington's priorities, with Brown vowing not to increase taxes and Warren charging that his uncompromising approach protects the pocketbooks of the wealthy.

"I've never voted for a tax increase and I'm not going to be raising taxes on any American," Brown declared in Wednesday's night hour-long debate in Springfield, Massachusetts. "We need to have a balanced budget amendment."

While Brown insisted that he won't raise taxes, he promoted his ability to work with Democrats, noting that he voted with his party only 54 percent of the time.

Warren, however, said Brown has the wrong priorities and would sacrifice national investments in education and infrastructure to save money for "millionaires, billionaires and oil companies."

"Senator Brown made it clear... where he stands," Warren said. "He stood with the millionaires; not those who are out of work," referring to jobs bills that failed to pass Congress.

The Massachusetts Senate race is one of the closest contests in the country, and if Warren wins, Democrats will have a much easier time holding on to control of the Senate. But the contest in one of the bluest states in the country is between a newcomer to politics who made her name as a consumer watchdog and a moderate first-term Senator who won his special election to fill the seat of the late Senator Ted Kennedy in 2010, which was during the height of nationwide fury with the Democrats.

Absent from the debate was any mention of Warren's ancestry, which she says is Native American based on family stories. Brown had made it a dominant issue this campaign and pounced on the issue in the first debate.

Brown to Warren: I'm not a student in your class

Personal slights, however, were still part of the discussion. In response to a question about the rising cost of higher education, Brown blamed administrative costs, including Warren's $350,000 salary for teaching "one course" at Harvard.

"I want to talk about the issues," Warren said. "Senator Brown wants to launch attacks."

Warren also said she is "proud" of her success and said she only had to bay $50 per semester for her community college education because American invested in education, allowing students to obtain relatively cheap schooling.

Bringing the discussion back to her broader theme, Warren said Brown supported tax loopholes "for millionaires over college loans for our kids." She was referring to a bill that would have extended subsidies for student loans. A compromise version eventually passed, which Brown supported.

While he said he supported a repeal of the president's health care bill, Brown boasted about the Massachusetts health care bill, which the federal health law was modeled after. He said the federal government, instead, should "incentivize" states to implement Massachusetts' law.

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[Brundi2012]

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[Renewable216]

How do we know if Elizabeth Warren is telling the truth about her brother having 288 combat missions in Vietnam ?

[tsigili]

That's better than standing with Islamists, as is the case with Warren.

[walkthetalk]

Forget! politics but i think that doubtful female person has a pronounced list, NO! i didn't say lisp.

[Martha12345]

Until Warren came on the picture I never even imagined a socialist Native American. The vast majority of Native Americans are solid citizens. Where did Warren come from ?

[dante805]

Warren is a felon...she has admitted SHE has NO MA Law license. She practiced law for years and she advertised her legal resume and advocated for CORPORATIONS for money!!! She is done...put a fork in her.

[tsigili]

In this debate Warren simply told the truth about Obama.......he has destroyed the middle class, in America.

To imply that Brown would do the same, is nonsense. Warren is the Democrat, and it is the DEMOCRATS that are destroying the middle class in America!

[Mick_from_Amsterdam]

"While liberal groups and consumer advocacy groups pushed for Obama to nominate Warren as the agency's permanent director, Warren was strongly opposed by financial institutions which had criticized Warren as overly aggressive in pursuing regulations, and by the Republican members of Congress"...Wikipedia



Anyone who can arouse such opposition and fear among those self-serving, avaricious jGOP ackals MUST serve in national office...

Especially as her opponent, Scott Brown, can only seem to focus on her ticking a box on a form that may or may not be accurate...regardless of whether or not she believed it to be or not...

Indicates to me that he really doesn't have a helluva lot to say about the actual issues...

And that these attacks clearly illustrate Ms Warren's exemplary character and spotless personal history...

If that's the worst thing those vicious character assassins were able to "get on her"

A ringing (if unintentional) endorsment!

[GOP-R--Con-Men]

Funny how no republican supporter can cite ANY republican policy, bill/legislation that favors ordinary Americans over corporations, big oil, big pharma and the super rich. That questions has been asked for months and NO ONE HAS ANSWERED It YET

[stormerF69]

And you can name one from the Democrats? By the way where is their budget?

[all-gores]

Warren is just another creepy Marxist.
America needs a repeat of the 2010 midterm elections.

[josephp5]

You wouldn't know a Marxist if you tripped over one in Red Square.

[stormerF69]

No,.. Joseph it would be a communist in Red Square.