Press Releases

Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, DC – Today, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) joined Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), and Representative Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), along with a group of 114...

Text of Bill (PDF) Washington, DC – Today, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) joined Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), and Congressman Bill Foster (D-Ill.), along with Congresswoman Cindy Axne (D-Iowa), to introduce legislation to...

Warren Applauds Release of Long-Awaited Puerto Rico Relief Funds Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, made the following statement regarding President Biden’s plans to release...

Washington, DC — United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will join the United States Senate Committee on Finance in the 117th Congress. She also announced plans to introduce legislation implementing a wealth tax on fortunes over $50 million. The Finance Committee’s...

Bill Text (PDF) Washington, DC – Today, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Chair of the Energy and Commerce Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee, introduced the Pandemic Emergency Manufacturing Act of 2021 to publicly manufacture personal protective equipment,...

Video of Exchange (Youtube) Washington, DC – During today’s Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) hearing, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) questioned Deputy Secretary of Defense Nominee Dr. Kathleen Hicks on her views of the $740 billion Department of Defense budget...

Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, DC — United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) today sent a letter to Robinhood regarding the company’s decision to restrict stock trading and impose other limits on its customers during the last week’s fluctuations in...

Op-Ed on CNN.com Washington, DC – Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), and Congressman Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) published an op-ed on CNN.com on why the next COVID-19 relief package should have protections for all essential workers, including a pathway...

Washington, DC – Today, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released the following statement applauding the Department of Education’s recent decision to collect the approximately $22.3 million that student loan servicer Navient (formerly Sallie Mae) owes to taxpayers after massively overcharging the federal...

Bill Text (PDF)  Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), and Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-13) reintroduced the Anti-Racism in Public Health Act, a bicameral bill to declare structural racism a public health crisis and confront its...

“The recent chaos reveals a clear distortion in securities markets, with benefits accruing to investors that do not clearly benefit the company’s workers, consumers, or the broader economy.” “To protect and restore public trust in sound securities regulation and enforcement,...

There were over 14,000 COVID-19 cases and 2,812 deaths at Genesis facilities; Genesis paid a $5.2 million “retention bonus” to its CEO just two months before he announced his retirement;   “CARES Act funding should not be used to line the...