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Elizabeth Warren is the senior U.S. senator from Massachusetts, serving since 2013, and is widely regarded as a progressive focused on consumer protection, equitable economic opportunity, and the social safety net. She is credited with proposing and helping establish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and was a candidate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, finishing third behind Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders.
Elizabeth Warren received her Juris Doctor from Rutgers Law School in 1976. She went on to teach law at the University of Houston, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University, becoming the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard in 1995.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is a federal agency established by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, signed into law in July 2010. Warren's scholarship and public advocacy were the driving force behind its creation, and in September 2010 President Obama named her Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury to set up the new agency, making her its first special advisor.
Warren won her first Senate election on the 6th of November 2012, defeating Republican incumbent Scott Brown with 53.7% of the vote. She became the first woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts and raised $39 million for the campaign, more than any other Senate candidate that year.
Warren began her academic career influenced by law and economics theory but shifted her views after conducting on-the-ground research. She concluded that rising bankruptcy rates were caused primarily by middle-class families trying to buy homes in good school districts, not by reckless spending, and that the legal framework for bankruptcy was poorly designed. She published these findings with colleagues Teresa A. Sullivan and Jay Westbrook in the 1989 book As We Forgive Our Debtors.
In February 2017, while reading a letter Coretta Scott King had written in 1986 about Senate nominee Jeff Sessions, Senate Republicans ruled that Warren had violated Senate Rule 19 and barred her from further participating in the debate on Sessions's nomination for attorney general. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell explained the ruling with the words "She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted," a phrase that became a widely used slogan and was taken up as the Women's History Month theme in 2018.