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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) Elizabeth Warren came out swinging against both Republicans and fellow Democrats in a fiery speech to an AFL-CIO conference on Wednesday, an address that included some apparent jabs at Hillary and Bill Clinton.

Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat who some liberals want to draft to run for president, gave a wide-ranging speech in which she claimed headlines about the economy improving dont jibe with the lives of Americans who are struggling with student loans and mortgage payments. She pressed to raise the federal minimum wage from its current $7.25 an hour, an idea long pushed by Democrats.

But the speech may have been most notable for what The Wall Street Journal called not-terribly-veiled references to Hillary Clinton and attacks on Bill Clintons record in the White House. Hillary Clinton is the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, though she hasnt yet declared her intention to run. Warren has insisted she isnt running for president.

Heres one line from Warrens speech in which she blasts both parties: Pretty much the whole Republican Party and, if were going to be honest, too many Democrats talked about the evils of big government and called for deregulation. It sounded good, but it was really about tying the hands of regulators and turning loose big banks and giant international corporations to do whatever they wanted to do.

As The Journal points out, part of Hillary Clintons argument is that Bill Clintons presidency presided over the economic growth of the 1990s. And as The Journal notes, Warren was harking back to President Clintons 1996 State of the Union address and its signature line The era of big government is over.

Warren has carefully couched her statements about a presidential run, saying she isnt running now. Her supporters hope her keeping a decision about a run in the present tense means shell run in the future. They were newly energized Wednesday.

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Capitol Report: Elizabeth Warren doesnt spare Democrats in fiery speech