Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., are asking the Labor Department for more information following reporting from Nextgov/FCW that Labor is planning to test out a more centralized role in unemployment insurance claims. Labor told states in August...
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said Wednesday that the regulatory review of Warner’s deal with Netflix has begun, even as Paramount mounts a hostile takeover bid. Two senators are now coming forward and pressing Attorney General Pam Bondi to...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.) sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent late Tuesday asking whether he stands by his comments in October about limiting defense contractor stock buybacks. The two Democrats also questioned whether...
Three Democratic senators said on Tuesday that they are investigating whether and how the operations of technology companies are driving up residential electricity bills. In letters sent on Monday to Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and three other companies, the lawmakers...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) are calling on Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to examine a Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery transaction that includes foreign investors, even as the David Ellison-run company has said that one is not required....
Senator Elizabeth Warren and a handful of other top Democrats have sent a letter to FCC chairman Brendan Carr and Department of Justice antitrust chief Gail Slater, asking them to take a close look at Nexstar‘s proposed deal for Tegna,...
US Senator Elizabeth Warren has written to UBS Group AG Chairman Colm Kelleher asking for details of any discussions he may have had with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent over a potential relocation of the bank to the US. In a...
A group of Democratic lawmakers said in a report released on Wednesday that the Pentagon had diverted at least $2 billion from its core missions this year to support the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. The report found that shifting the...
Four senators are asking Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano to address their concerns with a reported agency goal to cut the number of field office visits in half in the coming year. Nextgov/FCW first reported last week that SSA means...
A group of Democrats led by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin is seeking an investigation into alleged connections between high-ranking Trump administration officials and companies vying for billions of dollars in immigration contracts. In a letter...
A group of Senate Democrats is pushing the Trump administration to explain what, exactly, the U.S. is doing at a new coordination center in Israel and why so little about it has been shared with Congress. Led by Sens. Elizabeth...
Democratic lawmakers called on a Dallas bankruptcy court to appoint an independent examiner to investigate nursing home giant Genesis Healthcare Inc.’s selection of an insider to buy its assets. The corporate structures of all entities that made bids and the...