Press Releases

“According to a ProPublica investigation, YieldStar, a “software that uses a mysterious algorithm to help landlords push the highest possible rents on tenants,” has become the favored rent-setting tool for some of the largest landlords in the country.” “As housing...

Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. — United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) requesting personal accountability for former FTX CEO Sam-Bankman Fried and any complicit FTX executives...

Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal Washington, D.C. – Following the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal urging federal regulators to use their expansive authorities to crack down...

Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C.— United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and eight Senate Democrats sent a letter to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf encouraging the agency to defend Americans’ reproductive rights, and to...

Washington, D.C. – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released the following statement regarding the Biden administration’s student debt bankruptcy reforms: “The Biden administration has taken an important step forward to reform a deeply broken bankruptcy system that has made...

Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. – US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee and Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill), a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, sent a letter to Sam...

“Democrats can beat Republican extremism by fighting for working people and making our democratic values clear.” “Republicans will fight hard for billionaires, billionaire corporations, and conspiracy theorists. Democrats must be willing to fight even harder for working families.” Video of...

Video of Hearing Exchange (YouTube) Washington, D.C. – At today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) introduced Massachusetts Judge Myong Joun, nominee to serve on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Senators Warren...

“The Trump court ruling is not only shockingly dumb, it’s also dangerous. That’s what happens when courts play politics instead of following the law.” Video of Hearing (YouTube) Washington D.C. – At a hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing, and...

Some Military Housing Providers are Still Failing to Implement Tenant Bill of Rights for Military Families, Despite Legal Requirement “Allowing military families’ rights to be subject to the whims of private military housing contractors creates an unacceptable level of inequity.”...

USDA Official Testified in “Private Capacity,” Undermined DOJ, Biden Executive Order on Competition “This activity raises numerous ethics concerns and is particularly troubling at a time when major grocery chains have already been leveraging their market power to raise prices...

Washington, D.C. – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, released the following statement regarding the nomination of Martin Gruenberg as Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Chair: “I applaud...