With drug overdose deaths ravaging communities across the country, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings of Baltimore and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts are planning to introduce legislation Wednesday that would require $10 billion a year in federal funding to combat the...
If you’re finishing up your income tax return at the last minute and frustrated by this annual ritual of busywork, you should know about a bill that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) introduced last spring that would make doing...
In a showdown Thursday over the future of the federal government’s consumer sheriff, it quickly became obvious who was wearing the black hat. Mick Mulvaney, the acting director trying to cripple the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) he now leads,...
Massachusetts’ two U.S. Senators — Democrats Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey — have voiced support for work being done in the Massachusetts Legislature to impose state-level net neutrality. Warren and Markey did not endorse specific proposals, but both submitted letters to...
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, pressed President Donald Trump this week for an update on how his administration is responding to the more than 50 recommendations a White House commission has put forth to address drug addiction and end the...
For Mick Mulvaney, the tables have turned. … This week, Mulvaney will be the one in the hot seat. President Donald Trump’s budget director is doing double duty as acting director of the CFPB. Starting Wednesday when he appears before...
Responding to reports of mistreatment and miscarriages at ICE facilities, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, asked federal immigration officials this week to provide information regarding a policy change that impacts the number of pregnant women being detained. Warren, along with...
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is calling for the federal government to confront the opioid addiction crisis like it ultimately attacked the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. The Massachusetts Democrat said Friday that she will be unveiling legislation next week with...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said she would like to know more about President Donald Trump’s plan to strengthen border security by sending troops there. Warren spoke Thursday at Hanscom Air Force Base, along with Secretary of the Air Force Heather...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is requesting that the Federal Reserve Board of Governors hold a formal vote on whether to accept a plan from Wells Fargo & Co. to address consumer abuses. In a letter to Fed Chairman Jerome H....
The potential selection of a white man to head the New York Federal Reserve — the central bank’s second-most powerful job — has sparked a fierce backlash from Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other progressives, who are accusing the Fed of...
On a three-day visit to China, the Democratic senator and potential 2020 presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren said Donald Trump’s efforts to “take the legs out from underneath our diplomatic corps” had been a “terrible mistake”. Warren discussed trade and North...