Led by Sens. Patty Murray (D-WA) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Reps. Bobby Scott (D-VA) and Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), more than 130 Members of Congress sent a letter today to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos urging her to reverse a...
U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) today introduced legislation to aid financial institutions in identifying and reporting instances of human trafficking, so that offenders can be prosecuted and victims can be protected.
...Today, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) led a group of 19 senators calling on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan to include a substantial increase in funds for the fight against the nation's opioid...
Today, United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Robert Casey (D-Pa.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner-Designate Scott Gottlieb, seeking clarification on his plans to ensure the...
Today, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) joined Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), and 20 other Senate Democrats in reintroducing the Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act, legislation...
Text of the letter available here (PDF) Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today wrote to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), which sets standards for audits of public company financial statements...
Text of the letter is available here (PDF) Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), and Representative Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and...
Amidst reports of lobbyists, lawyers, and consultants from a range of industries shaping federal policy and coming and going from the Trump administration with ease, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Tom Udall (D-NM), Tom Carper (D-DE), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Elizabeth Warren...
In a signal of growing support for the bipartisan Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act of 2017, Consumers Union, the National Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare, and the Academy of Doctors of Audiology have released letters endorsing the legislation. These...
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), today raised questions about reported communications between Steve Bannon, Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor to President Trump, and his former...
United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) calling on the agency to revoke its authorization for Kinder Morgan's Connecticut Expansion Project in Western Massachusetts until...
Text of the letter is available here (PDF) Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection, Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), and Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.), today asked the Government...