Like many members of Congress who woke up to the stunning news Friday that President Trump had tested positive for coronavirus, Senator Elizabeth Warren wished her ideological opposite a speedy recovery.But the Cambridge Democrat, a liberal firebrand and frequent Trump critic who sought her party’s 2020 presidential nomination, also laid into what she said was the president’s deeply irresponsible behavior throughout the pandemic.“My thoughts are with the President, First Lady, White House staff, and anyone else who may have come into contact with the President, and I wish them all a quick and safe recovery,” Warren said in a statement....Read the full article on Boston Globe website here. … Continue Reading
Remember when a group of nearly 200 high-profile CEOs announced last year they were redefining the purposes of their businesses to prioritize not just short-term stockholders’ interests but the greater social good?Sen. Elizabeth Warren does.But the Massachusetts senator says that — more than 13 months later — the group, known as the Business Roundtable, hasn’t been living up to those ideals.Read the full article on the Boston.com website, here. … Continue Reading
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said Tuesday that she will not meet with President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, calling the nomination an “illegitimate power grab.”The former 2020 presidential candidate took to Twitter to announce she will not meet with Judge Amy Coney Barrett as Senate Republicans prepare to confirm Trump’s nominee before the Nov. 3 election. Warren slammed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in particular, saying she will “not lend legitimacy” to his “efforts to steal another Supreme Court seat.”...Read the full article on The Hill website, here. … Continue Reading
United States Senators Elizabeth Warren
(D-Mass.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Mazie K.
Hirono (D-Hawaii), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Bob Casey, Jr. (D-Pa.), and
Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) strongly urged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
(R-Ky.) to end the rushed, illegitimate confirmation process of President
Trump's Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. President Trump just this week
doubled down on his plans to scrap the Affordable Care Act and is pushing … Continue Reading
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full op-ed hereWashington, DC - United States Senator Elizabeth Warren
(D-Mass.) along with Matthew Cortland, a disabled, chronically ill lawyer,
policy analyst, and writer based in Massachusetts published an op-ed with WBUR
discussing the threat to ending the Affordable Care Act and ripping health care
away from 21 million people, including millions of people with disabilities if
Republicans ram through a Supreme Court nomination just days before the
election. Key sections below. Re… Continue Reading
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of LetterWashington, DC - United States Senator Elizabeth Warren
(D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, and Pensions (HELP)
Committee, and Representative Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), led 139 Senate and House
lawmakers in sending a letter to House and Senate leadership urging them to
prioritize the development of comprehensive policy plans to prevent and
mitigate the impact of future pandemics. In the letter, the lawmakers outline the
steps necessary to prevent future pandemics… Continue Reading
I remember when I was a young mother and I was at Rutgers, trying something
as seemingly outlandish as going to law school. It was a really lonely
undertaking. But Ruth was an example of a woman who made it, and even better, a
woman who was fighting for other women. Ruth had just left the faculty to teach
at Columbia Law School when I got to Rutgers, but the women - and the men - all
knew her. We knew she was going to change the world. And she did. ...We must honor Ruth's "fervent wish." If we don't, we risk our
rights being snatched away by another right-wing lurch of the Supreme Court. We
know exactly what Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, is being
picked to do: complete a decades-long assault on our judiciary by billionaires,
giant corporations, and right-wing extremists to tilt the courts in their favor
and against everyone else....The list of what is at stake if Republicans get their way is truly
staggering. But let me give just one example that will hav… Continue Reading
Long before the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in the United States, the country was already battling another large-scale public health crisis: the opioid epidemic. Like the COVID-19 pandemic, the opioid epidemic has disproportionately hit Black, Brown, American Indian, and Alaska Native communities.The coronavirus pandemic has actually made the opioid crisis worse and accelerated its devastation. Congress has a responsibility to take immediate action to tackle these twin crises. It can start by passing my Comprehensive Addiction Resources Emergency (CARE) Act to end the opioid crisis and save lives....Read the full article on the Dorchester Reporter, here.… Continue Reading
Last August, the Business Roundtable made a big, splashy announcement: Nearly 200 of its member CEOs, led by JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon, would reverse their harmful, decades-long position that “corporations exist principally to serve shareholders.” The new “Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation” said they would now serve all stakeholders, including workers, consumers, and the communities in which they operate. But one year later, their actions show this was just an empty publicity stunt.Even during a devastating pandemic and economic collapse, the Business Roundtable has been lobbying for the narrow, short-term interests of CEOs. Enough with the press releases. The Roundtable must fully commit to the principles they set out in the 2019 “Statement,” act on them, and publicly report on their progress in the coming year. Congress must also pass my Accountable Capitalism Act to force these giant corporations to fundamentally reform the way they do business....Read the full article on… Continue Reading
