Washington, D.C. – Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) today announced the Pell Grant Restoration Act, legislation that Senator Warren introduced, will be included in broader government funding legislation that the Senate will consider this week. This critical legislation would amend Higher...
A new study finds that meatpacking facilities are associated with community spread of COVID-19, leading to hundreds of thousands of cases and thousands of deaths in the U.S. OSHA has refused to establish emergency workplace safety standards Text of Letter...
“Prior to the Trump Administration’s revival of federal executions, the federal government had not executed a federal prisoner since 2003 and has only executed three people in the previous 50 years.” “The reversal of long-standing DOJ policies and protocols for...
Text of Letters (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Military Personnel Subcommittee, sent letters to top executives at...
“Even as vaccine distribution begins, testing will remain a critical tool in reducing rates of COVID-19 infections” The Expanding COVID-19 Testing Capacity Act of 2020 would require the federal government to manufacture and distribute COVID-19 diagnostic tests to expand Americans’...
Letter to BAT (PDF) | Letter to PMI (PDF) | Letter to FDA & FTC (PDF) Washington, DC – After a recent study by public health experts at Stanford University revealed that numerous tobacco companies – including several subsidiaries of...
Washington, DC – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today announced they will convene a bipartisan advisory committee to review and provide recommendations on U.S. Attorney candidates for the District of Massachusetts. Candidates interested in...
Bill Text (PDF) | Bill Summary (PDF) | New Provisions (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) today reintroduced the Anti-Corruption & Public Integrity Act, bicameral legislation to fundamentally change the way...
Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) today released the following statement on the Republican attempt to restrict the ability of the Federal Reserve to help the economy. “After weeks of refusing to acknowledge Biden’s victory, some Republicans...
Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, today released the following statement criticizing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) for issuing a final rule on brokered...
Washington, DC – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today announced they will convene a bipartisan advisory committee to review and provide recommendations on U.S. Attorney candidates for the District of Massachusetts. Candidates interested in applying for...
Washington, DC – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Edward J. Markey (D-MA), along with Representative William Keating (D-MA-09) released a joint statement on Attorney General Maura Healey’s investigation into the violent events of May 1, 2020 at the...