Senator Elizabeth Warren
reiterated her call for Rick Perry to resign from his role with Energy Transfer
LP, citing recent media reports that he pushed for a
deal involving the company while he was U.S. Energy Secretary.“Your actions raise even more questions about
your behavior during your time in government service,” Warren said in a letter
dated Wednesday that was seen by Bloomberg. She referred to stories published
by Time and ProPublica that said Perry worked to advance an
ultimately unsuccessful natural gas transaction with Ukraine that would have
involved Energy Transfer. “You should rectify your mistake and immediately
resign from your position on the board of directors of Energy Transfer,” she
said....
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A statement of intentJust days before Election Day, four Democratic
senators — Tammy Baldwin, Tom Carper, Mark Warner and Elizabeth Warren — are
banding together to “fundamentally reform” capitalism. DealBook’s Lauren Hirsch
got a first look at their working group, which will be announced today. Above
all, it suggests growing Democratic unity around pushing corporate America to
focus less on shareholders and short-term profits. And it signals an early
priority for lawmakers if their party performs as well as the polls imply.Why this matters: Attention is growing on who
would have Joe Biden’s ear about steering the economy (again, if the election
goes his way). Although the Democratic Party’s left and center wings are
jostling for position in many ways, the new Senate group suggests that this is
an issue that both can agree on....
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Sen.
Elizabeth Warren often calls President Donald Trump’s administration the “most
corrupt” in the country’s history — and not just because of the
headline-grabbing stuff.
In
a report Thursday shared exclusively with Boston.com, the Massachusetts
senator’s office put together a list of all the confirmed and alleged
violations of the Hatch Act by Trump administration officials, finding a
pattern of disregard for the law with “almost no consequences.”...Read the full article on Boston.com here.… Continue Reading
The COVID Community Care Act
would empower trusted organizations in medically underserved communities to
address mistrust, communicate timely information, and provide services to
combat COVID-19.Bill
Text | One-PagerWashington, DC - United States Senator Elizabeth Warren
(D-Mass.), member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Committee (HELP), will be introducing a Senate version of Congresswoman Barbara
Lee's (D-Calif.) bill
to provide emergency funding for community orga… Continue Reading
A 2017 survey conducted by the
National Guard Association of the United States found that nearly half of
respondents reported delays in promotions - the COVID-19 pandemic has only
exacerbated these delays.
A modified version of Warren's
and Daines' bill in the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act seeks to
address these delays.Text
of LetterWashington, DC - United States Senator Elizabeth Warren
(D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC),
Representatives Elis… Continue Reading
U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) and Ed Markey
(D-Mass.) led their colleagues in sending a letter requesting information from
the Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding its settlement agreement with Purdue
Pharma (Purdue) and the Sackler Family, including a proposal for Purdue's
reorganization into a "public benefit company" (PBC). The letter was also signed by Senators Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Chris Van
Hollen (D-Md.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).Last month, DOJ… Continue Reading
(CNN) As millions of Americans cast their ballots in the most important presidential election in recent history, and as Native communities grapple with the disproportionate toll of a once-in-a-century pandemic, Senate Republicans are focused on one thing: installing a right-wing judge on our nation's highest court.Make no mistake: The Trump administration and Senate Republicans are trying to force a justice onto the court to finish the job they could not finish in Congress. They want to destroy the Affordable Care Act (ACA). We can be sure of it because, right now, Republican state attorneys general are in court trying to do exactly that....Read the full article on CNN here.… Continue Reading
For the 61 million Americans who live with a disability, there’s an important date on the calendar this fall: November 10, the day the Supreme Court will hear a case about whether to overturn the Affordable Care Act. President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans have picked a Supreme Court nominee whose position is clear: she doesn’t like the ACA, or the previous court rulings that upheld it. There is so much at stake.Before the ACA, the disability community faced critical barriers to high-quality medical care. Health insurers could deny or cancel coverage for people with pre-existing conditions — including millions of people with disabilities. Insurers regularly imposed “lifetime limits” on their coverage, a gut punch for people with disabilities whose medical needs cost a lot of money. For babies born prematurely and children with disabilities, this sometimes meant hitting their lifetime caps before they were even old enough for school....Read the full article from WBUR here.… Continue Reading
Over ten years ago, President Barack Obama signed the
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law. Since then, we’ve
made progress. Millions of Americans now have high-quality, affordable health
insurance. We no longer have to worry about being denied coverage because of
pre-existing conditions. Millions of young adults can stay on their parents’
plans until 26. States were given the option to expand Medicaid eligibility —
providing coverage to more than 12 million low-income Americans.But now, the ACA is at risk because Republicans are trying
to ram through Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to serve as the next Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court. They are trying to push through her confirmation
at breakneck speed, because just one week after the November elections, a case
to overturn the ACA will be in front of the Supreme Court. And Republicans want
Barrett to have their back, cast the deciding vote, and deliver a deathblow to
the law.…
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