The driving force behind the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the person revamping that institution right now traded barbs in a series of letters on payday lenders and arbitration. At the end of January, Sen. Elizabeth Warren,...
U.S. senators are planning to mark the 10th anniversary of Wall Street’s meltdown this year with a gift to the nation’s banks: a bill that would unravel regulations put in place after the crisis. … On the other are progressives...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is pressing Wells Fargo & Co. to explain reported problems in issuing refunds to customers for who were charged inappropriately for auto insurance and mortgage fees. In a sharply worded letter to Chief Executive Tim Sloan, Warren...
In 2015, the seventh year of Barack Obama’s presidency, the United States saw $4.7 trillion worth of corporate mergers and acquisitions-an all-time high. Though Obama did pick some high-profile fights with mega-companies that were trying to merge, his administration barely...
Wells Fargo again finds itself on the hotseat for mistakes it made trying to repay customers hit by improper loan fees. Sen. Elizabeth Warren , the Massachusetts Democrat who has been highly critical of the bank and its management over...
Massachusetts U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, both Democrats, are asking the federal government to extend emergency shelter benefits for Puerto Rican evacuees. “While we recognize the need for FEMA to conduct periodic review of program eligibility, we are...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wants the White House regulatory review office to explain its role in the removal of economic data from the Labor Department’s tip sharing proposal. The senator, who has been leading the Capitol Hill charge against the...
Washington – En una petición de información a la Oficina de Presupuesto de la Casa Blanca (OMB), la senadora Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts) defendió la independencia del Instituto de Estadísticas y pidió conocer cómo su reorganización puede limitar su colaboración con...
Massachusetts federal lawmakers are urging the Environmental Protection Agency to push General Electric to finish cleaning the polluted parts of the Housatonic River and cart the toxic waste out of the state. The EPA and GE, which is now headquartered...
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, spoke out Wednesday against Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ record on civil rights, criminal justice and immigration — a speech that came exactly one year after chamber leaders formally silenced her for questioning the then-senator’s nomination....
Days after a report emerged that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau might be pulling back its probe into the Equifax data breach under acting head Mick Mulvaney, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is releasing a new report on the incident that...
Equifax’s cybersecurity regime was grossly inadequate and the company misled the public about the removal of data from its systems during a hack last summer, according to a report by Sen. Elizabeth Warren. The Massachusetts Democrat released the 15-page report...