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...
Washington, D.C. – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released the following statement following the Federal Reserve’s announcement that it will launch an internal review of its supervision and regulation of Silicon Valley Bank after the bank’s failure last week. ...
Op-Ed in the New York Times Washington, D.C. – Following the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (S.V.B.), U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) published an op-ed in the New York Times urging Congress and federal regulators to strengthen weakened rules to...
Boston, MA – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released the following statement after the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB): “In the wake of Silicon Valley Bank’s failure, I am receiving updates from the FDIC, and I expect there will...
Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen following Climate Counselor John Morton’s departure and urging Treasury to...
“[Space Command’s budget] has just been submitted this morning, you’re telling me is already out of date for your command, and that you want to go outside the budget process?… We should not be doing a dual-estimate here of budgets...
Text of Budget (PDF) Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Representative Bill Keating (D-Mass.) applauded the inclusion of $350 million, toward a commitment of $600 million, in President Biden’s budget for the Cape...
Warren Calls on Congress to Raise Debt Limit, Reject Any Proposal to Cut Funding for Families, and Make Billionaires and Corporations Pay their Fair Share “Republicans… want hardworking Americans to shoulder the burden of keeping the government up and running...
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) introduced the Upholding Protections for Health and Online Location Data (UPHOLD) Privacy Act, legislation that would expand protections for Americans’ personal health data. The legislation...