Press Releases - Senator Elizabeth Warren

October 23, 2020

ICYMI: Senator Warren WBUR: Overturning The Affordable Care Act Would Be Catastrophic – Especially For People With Disabilities

Read full op-ed here Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) along with Matthew Cortland, a disabled, chronically ill lawyer, policy analyst, and writer based in Massachusetts published an op-ed with WBUR discussing the threat to ending the...

October 22, 2020

Warren, Khanna, and 139 Democratic Lawmakers to Senate and House Leadership: We Must Take Bold and Comprehensive Action to Prevent the Next Pandemic

Text of Letter Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Representative Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), led 139 Senate and House lawmakers in sending a letter to House...

October 21, 2020

Warren, Senate Democrats to Attorney General William Barr: Stop Efforts to Gut the Affordable Care Act in Court

Text of Letter Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, along with 19 senate colleagues, sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr, urging the Department...

October 21, 2020

Mass. Lawmakers Announce $16 Million Economic Development Grant for the New Bedford Port Authority

Washington, DC – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Edward J. Markey (D-MA), along with Representative William Keating (D-MA-09), announced that the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) has awarded a federal grant of $16,000,000 to the City of New...

October 21, 2020

Warren Calls on Environmental Protection Agency to Implement and Strengthen Environmental Justice Mapping and Screening Efforts

Letter to EPA (PDF) New: Equity Mapping Report by Evergreen Collaborative & Demos (PDF) Washington, DC – Today, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called on Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler to use and improve equity screening and...

October 20, 2020

Sixteen Senate Democrats to HHS and Treasury: Produce an Analysis of Health Coverage Losses in the U.S. if the ACA is Overturned

Text of letter (PDF) Washington, DC — United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Chris Murphy (D-C.T.), joined by Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-H.I.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Richard Blumenthal...

October 19, 2020

Warren Urges More Rigorous Bank Merger Reviews as the Justice Department Looks to Update Its Guidelines

Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, DC — United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a letter Friday, October 16th to Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim, head of the Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division, to raise concerns that in updating its...

October 19, 2020

At Warren, Peters, and Murray Request, Independent Watchdog Agrees to Investigate Trump Administration Political Interference at FDA and CDC

Response from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) here Senators’ initial request to GAO here Washington, DC – At the request of United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator...

October 19, 2020

Warren Urges More Rigorous Bank Merger Reviews as the Justice Department Looks to Update Its Guidelines

October 16, 2020

Senator Warren Joins Colleagues in Calling on Library of Congress to Recognize Armenian Genocide Despite Trump Administration’s Denial

Text of Letter (PDF) WASHINGTON – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) joined Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senators Shelton Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Cory Booker (D-N.J), Chris...

October 15, 2020

Warren Joins Schatz, Colleagues to Condemn Amazon’s Anti-Union Practices and Investment in Employee Surveillance Technology

Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, DC — United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) joined Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai’i), along with Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), to send a joint letter to Amazon calling for the company to...

October 15, 2020

Warren Calls for SEC, CFTC Insider Trading Investigation of Pandemic Profiteering Resulting from Trump Administration’s COVID-19 “Early Warning” to Republican Donors, Insiders, and Investors

Letter to SEC and CFTC (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) formally requested that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) conduct an insider trading investigation after reports that in February,...