Elizabeth Warren Hammers GOP For Wasting Huge Amounts Of Time [View all]

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) rolled out a fresh attack against Republicans on Tuesday: They're wasting huge amounts of time.

Pointing to recent GOP efforts to defund the Department of Homeland Security and Planned Parenthood and to attach abortion legislation to a human trafficking bill, among other examples, Warren said Republicans were spending their time chewing through partisan menu items that went nowhere.

"In the past six months, they have burned huge amounts of time as they try to shut down Homeland Security, tried to build a pipeline to help a Canadian oil company, tried to turn a human trafficking bill into a referendum on abortion and now tried to defund Planned Parenthood," Warren said. "All this instead of working on the kind of issues that would help level the playing field for hardworking people."

Instead, she said, the GOP should at least be willing to consider Democratic proposals aimed at helping working people, such as guaranteeing workplace schedule flexibility and raising the minimum wage.

Watch Warren's full remarks, here:

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