Today, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) doubled down on her strategy to fix America's housing crisis. Along with Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) and Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI), she introduced the American Housing and Economic Mobility Act to the House, a companion to a Senate bill Warren introduced in September.
"America is facing a housing crisis-a crisis that has been decades in the making," Sen. Warren said at a press conference at the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center. "This is a crisis that hits middle-cla… Continue Reading
Four prominent Democratic senators on Thursday asked the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security to broaden an ongoing investigation into contracting and hurricane relief problems in Puerto Rico.
More than a year after Hurricane Maria's devastating rampage across Puerto Rico, the island is struggling to rebuild. The letter from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and three other senators, directs the inspector general to look closely at the $1.2 billion Tu Hogar Renace program.… Continue Reading
Warren is proposing to break the grip of billionaire campaign donors and corporate interests on US foreign policy.
Americans who seek an enlightened alternative to the crudely nationalist and frequently antidemocratic ideology of Trumpism, and to a broader misdirection of US foreign policy that began long before the current president took office, got it this week from Elizabeth Warren.
"Our country is in a moment of crisis decades in the making, a moment in which America's middle class has bee… Continue Reading
United States Senator Elizabeth
Warren (D-Mass.) sent a letter to Mark Bialek, the Inspector General (IG) of
the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau (CFPB), to request an investigation
of former Interim CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney's attempt to
change the agency's name, at the cost of millions of dollars
for consumers, banks, and other regulated entities."The failure to justify the name change, combined with the failure to
follow basic pro… Continue Reading
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Washington, DC - United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) today introduced the Affordable Drug Manufacturing Act, an ambitious proposal to address the skyrocketing price of prescription drugs. Her bill would lower prices and increase competition in the generic pharmaceutical market by establishing an Office of Drug Manufacturing within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) tasked with manufacturing select generic drugs and offering them to consumers at a fair price … Continue Reading
- United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) today sent a letter to Republican leaders of three Senate committees with jurisdiction over drug pricing issues-Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Finance Committee Chairman-designate Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Judiciary Committee Chairman-designate Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)-calling for them to open investigations and hold hearings on allegations of price fixing behavior by generic d… Continue Reading
Forty-seven states and the Justice Department are investigating a price-fixing conspiracy that's driving up the cost of generic drugs in the United States. One investigator called it "most likely the largest cartel in the history of the United States ." This crisis calls for action. That is why I'm introducing legislation to authorize the public manufacture of generic drugs wherever drug companies have warped markets to drive up prices.
Drug companies use the "free market" as a shield against a… Continue Reading
Around the world, democracy is under assault. Authoritarian governments are gaining power, and right-wing demagogues are gaining strength. Movements toward openness and pluralism have stalled. Inequality is growing, transforming rule by the people into rule by wealthy elites. And here in the United States, many Americans seem to accept-even embrace-the politics of division and resentment.
How did we get here? There's a story Americans like to tell ourselves about how we built a liberal international order-one based on democratic principles, committed to civil and human rights, accountable to citizens, bound by the rule of law, and focused on economic prosperity for all. It's a good story, with deep roots. But in recent decades, Washington's focus has shifted from policies that benefit everyone to policies that benefit a handful of elites.… Continue Reading
In August, the world watched in horror as a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in
Yemen claimed the lives of 40 innocent children. The boys, many under the age
of 10, were killed when their school bus was bombed during a class trip. The
weapon used in that deadly bombing was made in America.… Continue Reading
