U.S. Senators Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) yesterday introduced the bipartisan Student Loan Servicer Performance Accountability Act. The legislation would benefit student loan borrowers and taxpayers by protecting and strengthening performance-based accountability...
Text of the letter (PDF) Washington, DC – All of the Democratic members of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs today asked Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) for a September hearing with Wells Fargo CEO Timothy...
Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released a statement today following Secretary Betsy DeVos’ reversal of the Education Department’s plan to award all federal student loans to a single student loan servicer. The Education Department’s announcement followed...
Text of the letter available here (PDF) Washington, DC – Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) today renewed her call for the Federal Reserve to use its authority to remove the Wells Fargo board members who served during the bank’s fake accounts...
Text of the letter (PDF) Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) today sent a letter to Peter Oppenheim, President Trump’s nominee for Assistant Secretary for Legislation and Congressional Affairs at the Department of Education (ED), raising questions about...
Text of the letter (PDF) Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) today wrote to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in his role as Chair of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), requesting information on whether...
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren released the following statement after Senate Republicans voted to proceed with debate on health care legislation:
"Senate Republicans have just voted to open debate on destroying our health care system. They have no idea what bill...
United States Senators Elizabeth Warren and Edward J. Markey along with Representatives Jim McGovern, Mike Capuano, and Bill Keating announced today that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded five fire departments in Massachusetts nearly $2.2 million in federal...
Washington, DC – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), today sent a letter to...
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren commended today's decision of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) ordering Wells Fargo to reinstate and pay $577,500 in back wages, damages, and other fees to a former branch manager that the bank retaliated against.
...President Trump’s “Drain the Swamp” Report Card (PDF) Washington, D.C. – As President Trump marks his first six months in office, United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) today released their “Drain the Swamp Report Card” tracking...
Following Senator McConnell's statement that he will seek a vote on a repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), with no plan for a replacement of the law, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with 12 of her colleagues, today called...