Elizabeth Warren

	Elizabeth Warren
	U.S. Senate, Massachusetts
	Incumbent
	In office
	January 3, 2013-Present
	Term ends
	January 3, 2019
Years in position	0
Party	Democratic
Predecessor	Scott Brown (R)
	Compensation
Base salary	$174,000/year
	Elections and appointments
Last election	November 6, 2012
First elected	November 6, 2012
Next election	November 2018
Campaign $	$42,506,349
Term limits	N/A
	Education
Bachelor's	University of Houston
J.D.	Rutgers University
	Personal
Birthday	June 22, 1949
Place of birth	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Net worth	$9,652,512
Religion	Methodist
Websites
	Office website
	Campaign website
	Elizabeth Warren campaign logo

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Biography

Warren was born on June 22, 1949 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She graduated from high schoool at age 16 and earned a BS in speech pathology in 1970 from the University of Houston. She earned her JD from Rutgers School of Law in 1976. She has taught at the University of Texas, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University.^[3]

In January 2012, Warren was named a "Top-20 US Progressive" according to The New Statesman, a magazine based in the United Kingdom. Other members of the list include Paul Krugman, Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky and Rachel Maddow.^[4]

Committee Assignments

U.S. Senate

2013-2014

Warren serves on the following Senate committees^[5]:

United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
- Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment
- Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection Members
- Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation and Community Development
United States Senate Committee on Aging (Special)
United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
- Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging
- Subcommittee on Children and Families

Issues

Minimum wage

Warren discusses the minimum wage during a March 2013 committee hearing.

During a March 2013 panel hearing for the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, entitled "Keeping up with a Changing Economy: Indexing the Minimum Wage," Warren spoke in favor of raising the minimum wage.^[6] Speaking to Arindrajit Dube, an assistant professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, about the correlation between worker productivity and minimum wage, she asked, "If we started in 1960, and we said [that] as productivity goes up … then the minimum wage was going to go up the same … if that were the case, the minimum wage today would be about $22 an hour. So my question is, Mr. Dube, with a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, what happened to the other $14.75?"^[7] She later proceeded to make an argument for the figure of $10 an hour, saying, "During my Senate campaign, I [frequently] ate a Number 11 at McDonald’s. It cost $7.19. If we raised the minimum wage to $10.10 over three years, the price increase on that item would be to about $7.23. Are you telling me that's unsustainable?"^[6]

Marijuana

During the 2013 annual St. Patrick's Day Breakfast, Warren took a jab at one of the Republican contenders for the 2013 special election to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Winslow, for his positions on guns and the legalization of marijuana, saying, "I advise everyone to pay very close attention to Dan Winslow’s platform...He has a 100 percent ranking from the gun lobby and he’s for the legalization of marijuana. He wants us armed and stoned."^[8]^[9] While Warren previously expressed firm disapproval for efforts to legalize marijuana, most notably during a debate in October 2011, ^[10]she has more recently expressed qualified support for legalizing certain medical applications of the drug, provided that there is regulation and careful control exercised.^[11] Medical marijuana was legalized in Massachusetts by a voter approved ballot question in 2012.^[12]

Elections

2012

See also: United States Senate elections in Massachusetts, 2012

Warren ran in the 2012 election for the U.S. Senate, representing Massachusetts. She ran unopposed on the Democratic ticket.^[13] The signature filing deadline for candidates was June 5, 2012. She defeated incumbent Scott Brown, who was seeking re-election on the Republican ticket. The general election took place on November 6, 2012.

The University of Virginia's Center for Politics published an article called Sabato's Crystal Ball on March 22, 2012 detailing the 8 races in the Senate in 2012 that would decide the political fate of which party will end up with control in 2013.^[14] The seat rated as a toss-up that the Sabato's Crystal Ball believes was second most likely to end up Republican, second only to Montana, was the Senate seat in Massachusetts.^[14] The article notes that Scott Brown has had recent campaigning success in Massachusetts, and despite mixed polls, Brown’s "blue-collar appeal"^[14] might have been enough against his opponent, Democrat Elizabeth Warren.^[14]

U.S. Senate, Massachusetts, General Election, 2012
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	Elizabeth Warren	53.3%	1,696,346
	Republican	Scott Brown Incumbent	45.8%	1,458,048
	N/A	All Others	0.1%	2,159
	N/A	Blank Votes	0.9%	27,643
Total Votes				3,184,196
Source: Massachusetts Secretary of State "Return of Votes"

Campaign donors

Comprehensive donor information for Warren is available dating back to 2012. Based on available campaign finance records, Warren raised a total of $42,506,349 during that time period. This information was last updated on April 24, 2013.^[15]

Elizabeth Warren's Campaign Contribution History
Year	Office	Result	Contributions
2012	U.S.Senate (Massachusetts)		$42,506,349
Grand Total Raised			$42,506,349

2012

Warren won election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012. During that election cycle, Warren's campaign committee raised a total of $42,506,349 and spent $42,211,677.^[16]

U.S. Senate - Massachusetts, 2012 - Elizabeth Warren Campaign Contributions
Total Raised	$42,506,349
Total Spent	$42,211,677
Total Raised by Election Runner-up	$28,159,602
Total Spent by Election Runner-up	$35,058,354
Top contributors to Elizabeth Warren's campaign committee
EMILY's List	$484,528
Moveon.org	$403,742
Harvard University	$275,250
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	$69,200
Brown Rudnick LLP	$68,077
Top 5 industries that contributed to campaign committee
Retired	$3,191,579
Lawyers/Law Firms	$2,059,677
Women's Issues	$1,502,150
Democratic/Liberal	$1,205,088
Education	$1,198,528

Analysis

Lifetime voting record

See also: Lifetime voting records of United States Senators and Representatives

According to the website GovTrack, Warren missed 1 of 96 roll call votes from Jan 2013 to Apr 2013, which is 1.0% of votes during that period. This is better than the median of 1.7% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving.^[17]

Net Worth

2011

Based on congressional financial disclosure forms and calculations made available by OpenSecrets.org - The Center for Responsive Politics, Warren's net worth as of 2011 was estimated between $4,609,025 and $14,696,000. This averages to $9,652,512, which is lower than the $20,795,450 average net worth of Democratic senators in 2011.

Personal

Warren was married to Jim Warren from 1968-1978. They had two children together. Warren married Bruce Mann in 1980.^[3]

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