Press Releases - Senator Elizabeth Warren

September 3, 2020

Warren, Brown, Van Hollen, Menendez, and Reed Probe CFPB’s Failure to Alert Borrowers to Mortgage Relief Options During Pandemic

Letter Text (PDF) Washington, DC — United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, along with Senators Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Ranking Member of the Banking Committee, Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), and...

September 3, 2020

Warren, Pressley, Lee Introduce Legislation to Confront the Public Health Impacts of Structural Racism

Bill Text (PDF) | One Pager (PDF) Washington, DC — United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representatives Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) today announced their bicameral bill to confront the public health impacts of structural racism through...

September 2, 2020

Warren, Smith to President Trump: Your Executive Order Won’t End U.S. Overreliance on Foreign Nations for Critical Pharmaceutical Products

Text of letter (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) wrote to President Donald Trump raising questions about the failure of his recent Executive Order to address the nation’s overreliance on foreign nations...

September 1, 2020

Trump COVID-19 Watch

Washington, DC – Elizabeth Warren is continuing her oversight of the Trump Administration’s COVID-19 response. Over 183,000 Americans have died, over 6 million cases have been confirmed, and unemployment rates remain at the highest levels in decades. President Donald Trump’s...

September 1, 2020

Warren, Schatz Request Independent Watchdog Review of Systemic Racism Against Employees and Veterans in the Department of Veterans Affairs

Text of letter (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawai’i), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, requested that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) conduct...

September 1, 2020

Senator Warren and Representative Ro Khanna Question the Association of American Medical Colleges Regarding Efforts to Keep Students Safe as They Take Medical College Admission Tests

Text of Letter to (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Representative Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), sent a letter to the Association of American Medical...

August 29, 2020

Massachusetts Delegation Calls for an Independent DoD Watchdog Investigation into the Death of Sergeant Elder Fernandes

Text of Letter (PDF) Boston, MA – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), and Edward J. Markey (D-MA) along with Representatives Richard E. Neal (D-MA-01), James P. McGovern (D-MA-02), Stephen...

August 28, 2020

Warren, Colleagues Call for Immediate HELP Committee Hearing with CDC & FDA Heads to Investigate Trump Administration’s Politicization of COVID-19 Response

Text of letter (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, along with HELP Committee members Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.),...

August 27, 2020

Warren, Blunt Rochester, Underwood, & Colleagues Highlight Dangerous New EPA Methane Rule

Text of letter (PDF) WASHINGTON – Today, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representatives Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) and Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.), led a letter of 28 Members of Congress to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler expressing...

August 27, 2020

Senators Warren and Smith Request Information on Capacity of COVID-19 Testing Labs to Process Diagnostic Tests

Letter to Quest | Letter to BioReference | Letter to ARUP Labs | Letter to LabCorp | Letter to Mayo Clinic Washington, DC – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.), members of the Senate Health, Education,...

August 27, 2020

Senator Warren Questions How the FDA Communicates Emergency Use Authorization Changes to Health Care Practitioners and the Public

Text of letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to inquire about the process for communicating changes in Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) to medical providers...

August 27, 2020

Warren, Hirono, Murray, and Colleagues Again Seek Answers from Department of Defense Secretary Esper on Slow and Disjointed Response to COVID-19

Senators’ initial request (PDF) | DoD response (PDF) | Senators’ new follow up (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Member of Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Mazie...