Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is asking the Government Accountability Office to investigate how staffing cuts at the Education Department will impact its ability to investigate fraud, Rebecca writes in. Beginning in January 2025, the Federal Student Aid office lost about...
Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Tim Sheehy, R- Mont., urged leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees to act quickly on legislation that would allow the military to repair its own equipment, the latest move in a bid...
Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Angus King (I-Maine) requested that the Government Accountability Office conduct a review of options for free tax filing since the Trump Administration axed the Direct File program. The senators, in a letter...
A letter from the Department of Defense outlining their policies for Stars and Stripes is renewing concerns from Senate Democrats over whether the outlet will remain independent under the Trump administration. An April letter from DOD obtained by The Hill...
Congress members would be permanently banned from becoming lobbyists after they leave office under a new bipartisan bill, first reported by CNBC. The legislation would not only ban senators and U.S. House members from being registered lobbyists, but would also...
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is renewing a push to target drug pricing middlemen by forcing some large pharmacy companies to break up parts of their business. It’s legislation that’ll look familiar to people in Tennessee – a similar bill...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is again pressing DOD officials on conflicts of interest in defense contracting efforts, this time with an eye toward the president’s family. The SASC member on Tuesday submitted a list of 37 questions for the record related...
More than a dozen Democratic senators are demanding the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission abandon plans to roll back protections for workers seeking fertility treatments, according to a letter shared first with MS NOW. In the letter sent...
Four U.S. senators sent letters grilling the nation’s major credit bureaus on Thursday after a ProPublica investigation showed two of the bureaus were fixing fewer consumers’ credit reports. The letters came in response to a ProPublica investigation from March, which...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is pushing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to provide Congress with copies of negotiated deals the Trump administration made with drug manufacturers and to make information on generic versions of drugs available on TrumpRx. Warren questioned the...
FIRST IN MORNING ED – WHAT’S GOING ON, OMBUDSMAN: Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are pressing Geoffrey Gradler, who became the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Student Loan Ombudsman in January, to commit to protecting student loan borrowers...
A group of Senate Democrats are pressing the Pentagon over what they describe as failures to protect U.S. troops against retaliatory strikes from Iran. In a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Mark Kelly of...