New rule will disproportionately help low-and middle-income borrowers, seniors, women, and Black borrowers. Text of Report (PDF) Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) released a new 29-page report, Who Really Benefits from Student...
Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) led 56 of their colleagues in a letter to the Department of Education (ED), calling on the Department to conduct an analysis...
Washington, D.C. – Today, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), along with the entire Massachusetts delegation, announced that they’ve secured over $17 million in funding for victim assistance and victim compensation from the Office of Justice Programs’...
“It is the minimum that we owe them — to understand what is happening when they are exposed and to give them the care, support, and treatment that they need if they have suffered from that exposure.” Video of Event...
Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote to Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division at the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) Jonathan Kanter in support of the DOJ’s ongoing probe into Nvidia’s...
Boston, MA – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), chair of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, delivered opening remarks at a Senate forum on addressing blast overpressure, which can cause traumatic brain injuries for servicemembers, and mitigating suicide risk...
REITs extracting wealth in health care, hotel industries; subsidized by taxpayers IRS warns that a REIT breaking tax rules by actively managing lodging facilities “will lose its tax status” Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren...
“(F)inancial crimes cannot be prevented if you take the cop off the beat.” “The new reports of declining enforcement appear to indicate that FINRA has lost sight of its mission: protecting investors and promoting market integrity.” Text of Letter (PDF)...
Boston, MA – U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) announced that they secured $15.78 million in grants for Massachusetts Fire Departments as part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG) Program. These...
Boston, Massachusetts — Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Representatives Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) announced $15 million in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation to the City of Boston for the “Recharge...
Boston, MA – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) issues the following statement on the Healey administration’s preliminary deals to keep six Steward hospitals open under new operators: “Thousands of health care workers and patients are breathing a sigh of relief...
Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) wrote to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) urging them to resolve the persistent, horrific conditions at...