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Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) sent a letter to the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), urging the departments to issue guidance to...

Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Personnel, sent a letter to Department of Defense (DoD) Secretary Lloyd Austin, requesting information from DoD about its efforts...

Video of Hearing (YouTube) Washington, D.C. – During today’s hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) questioned the Commanders of United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) and United States Central Command (CENTCOM) on their use of...

Washington, D.C. – Today, chairing her first hearing of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) highlighted the importance of providing adequate child care to military families, addressing existing failures in the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training...

“You owe your customers and the public an explanation for the economically disastrous outcomes you created: you worked hard to weaken the rules, promised that they “bode(d) well” for your bank – and then destroyed it with bad decision-making and...

Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Angus King (I-Maine) led a letter with 19 other senators to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Daniel Werfel and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, expressing strong support for...

Letter Notes Powell’s Support for Legislative, Regulatory, and Supervisory Rollbacks: “Make no mistake: your decisions aided and abetted this bank failure, and you bear your share of responsibility for it.” Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. – United States Senator...

Video of Hearing (YouTube) Washington, D.C. – Today, chairing her first hearing of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) highlighted the importance of providing adequate child care to military families, addressing failures in the Junior...

On the fifth anniversary of the Senate passage of rules weakening the Dodd-Frank protections, Senator Warren introduced legislation to reverse the mistakes that Congress and President Trump made with these rollbacks. Link to video (Youtube) Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator...

“Key SVB officials showed a pattern of risky and questionable decision making that may have contributed to the bank’s instability and collapse.” Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) sent a...

The Trump Banking Law Rolled Back “Too Big to Fail” Rules; Created Conditions for Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank Text of Bill (PDF) Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and U.S. Representative Katie Porter (D-Calif.) led dozens of...

Text of Letter (PDF)  Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a letter to ex-Silicon Valley Bank CEO Greg Becker to inquire about his and SVB lobbyists’ efforts to roll back Dodd-Frank rules prior to the collapse of...