Elizabeth Warren is looking for more than incremental change. She wants generational.The Massachusetts senator is pushing the Biden administration to implement a multi-part response to lowering the student debt burden on the nation’s young adults and seeks free options for future generations.Federal student loan payments and interest are set to resume Oct. 1 following a pause implemented by the Trump administration during the pandemic. The administration’s pause was extended through Sept. 31 by President Joe Biden who signed an executive order on his first day in office.… Continue Reading
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has asked the Federal Trade Commission to take a tougher look at defense industry mergers, questioning a proposal from Lockheed Martin that would allow it to buy the biggest independent maker of rocket motors, Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings.The Democratic senator, who has a keen interest in corporate behavior, asked the FTC to examine the premise and efficacy of internal firewalls like those Lockheed proposes to prevent it from gaining a competitive advantage over peers once the deal closes, according to a July 16 letter seen by Reuters.… Continue Reading
Fighting racial discrimination needs to be at the forefront of everything the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau does, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and the agency’s current head CFPB Acting Director David Uejio said Monday.Their assertions came at a webinar on the agency’s 10th anniversary hosted by a number of groups that helped lobby it into being including Americans for Financial Reform, U.S. PIRG, the Consumer Federation of America, and the National Consumer Law Center.Discrimination gets to the heart of the bureau, said who came up with the idea for the consumer bureau when she was a Harvard University law professor.… Continue Reading
After the Senate Armed Services
Committee’s mark-up of the FY 2022 defense budget concluded, United States
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released the following statement on the
Committee’s bipartisan adoption of her amendment to raise the recusal standard
for Department of Defense employees. Under her amendment, Pentagon officials
will be prohibited from participating in matters that affect the financial
interests of their former employer, former clients, or former direct
competitors… Continue Reading
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United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released the following
statement on President Biden’s nomination of Jonathan Kanter to lead the
Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division:“The
Biden administration’s nomination of Jonathan Kanter to lead the DOJ’s
Antitrust Division is tremendous news for workers and consumers. Jonathan has
been a leader in the fight to check consolidated corporate power and strengthen
competition in our markets. At this critical time, the … Continue Reading
Military
Housing Oversight and Service Member Protection Act | Department
of Defense Climate Resiliency and Readiness Act | Department
of Defense Ethics and Anti-Corruption Act | Make
Taxpayer-Funded Department of Defense Medical Interventions Affordable ActWashington, D.C. — As the Senate begins negotiations on the
National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), United States Senator Elizabeth
Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today
announced key priorities f… Continue Reading
In early April 2020, just as wave after wave of coronavirus cases were hitting the United States and hospitals in hot spots were worried about being overrun with sick and dying people, I set up a conference call with a big group of Massachusetts nurses. They were working long hours, there were no known COVID-19 treatments, and they were watching their patients die alone. I’d also heard terrible stories about the shortage of face masks and other protective gear. Let’s be clear: If nurses can’t do their jobs, then the whole health care system breaks down and all of America is at risk.I thanked the nurses and said I agreed with everyone in our country who had been calling them “heroes.” There were some polite responses, and then I asked the obvious question: What do you need so you can do your jobs? The first answer: child care. Another chimed in, saying, Yeah, we need child care. And then the dam broke, with the nurses talking over each other. The always-tricky and always-stressful task … Continue Reading
We all want the same things in life: health, security and promising futures for our families. The Covid-19 pandemic has made it clear how caregivers -- including child care, home care and nursing home workers -- are essential to achieving this vision. But families struggle to afford care, while care jobs remain undervalued, understaffed, underprotected and underpaid. It's time for Congress and President Joe Biden to make real change.Caregivers have taken on some of the worst burdens of the pandemic. Home care workers like Joyce Barnes in Virginia described to the Washington Post last April how she was given paper towels and rubber bands to wear as masks and was
expected to buy her own hand sanitizer to use at work. Child care workers like Rosa Carreño in California witnessed a system on the verge of collapse with thousands of fellow providers closing their doors as the costs of care during the pandemic, including the additional staff needed to support distance learning, piled up.The v… Continue Reading
Two weeks after he incited an insurrection against the Congress and the Constitution he swore an oath to defend, former President Donald Trump retained full authority to use the most deadly weapons ever created. As disturbing as it may be, this authority is a central feature of our nation’s nuclear decision-making structure — and it is long past time for reform. There is no question that we must place firm limits on presidential nuclear powers, first by enacting a formal policy not to use nuclear weapons first and then by making any decision to use nuclear weapons subject to the approval of Congress.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plea to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Jan. 8 to somehow find “available precautions” to prevent Trump from using his sole authority (the president does not need approval or concurrence from anyone else prior to ordering a nuclear launch, and the military is required to follow that order) to launch was remarkable and shocking, but it was not a firs… Continue Reading
