Press Releases - Senator Elizabeth Warren

July 12, 2019

Senator Warren Investigates Reports that ICE has Secretly Transferred Migrants to Three New For-Profit Detention Facilities

A deadly riot had taken place at one of the facilities in response to inadequate medical care, rotten food, and staff mistreatment Text of the letter (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) yesterday sent a letter...

July 10, 2019

Senator Warren, Representative Casten Lead Colleagues Introducing a Bill to Require Every Public Company to Disclose Climate-Related Risks

Bill Text | One-Pager (PDF) | Letter of Support from 33 Organizations (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) today reintroduced the Climate Risk Disclosure Act of 2019 to require public companies to disclose critical information about their exposure to climate-related...

July 9, 2019

Senators Warren, Daines Reintroduce Bicameral, Bipartisan Bill to Address Gambling Addiction Among Servicemembers

Fact Sheet (PDF) | Bill Text (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Steve Daines (R-Mont.) reintroduced the bipartisan Gambling Addiction Prevention (GAP) Act of 2019 in the Senate. This legislation would require the Department of...

July 8, 2019

Senator Warren Joins Senator Markey Urging Census Bureau to Provide Language Support for Southeast Asian Community

Letter Text (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) today joined Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and 17 Senate colleagues in calling on the U.S. Census Bureau to include Khmer, Hmong, and Lao among the languages supported...

July 8, 2019

Senators Warren and Blumenthal Request Information About Oversight of Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs)

Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Ct.) today sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...

July 8, 2019

Provisions from Warren-Haaland Bill to Address Unsafe Military Housing Advance in the Senate

Washington, DC – The United States Senate advanced a number of provisions from the Military Housing Oversight and Service Member Protection Act, a comprehensive bill that Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and the...

July 8, 2019

Senators Warren and Gillibrand Raise Concerns that the Trump Administration May Separate Military Families

“Eliminating these programs would risk creating anxiety among deployed servicemembers that their family members will be deported and would risk distracting those servicemembers from their mission” Text of the letter (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)...

July 2, 2019

Senator Warren Calls on Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb to Resign from Pharmaceutical Giant Pfizer’s Board of Directors

Text of the letter (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a letter to Scott Gottlieb, the former Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) who recently joined the board of directors at Pfizer,...

July 1, 2019

Senator Warren, Rep. Jayapal Investigate Reports that FCC Advisory Council is Dominated by Industry Insiders

Text of the letter (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) sent a letter to Ajit Pai, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), on June 27, 2019, requesting more information about reports...

June 28, 2019

Senate Passes Bipartisan Warren Proposal to Enhance Financial Protections for Gold Star Spouses and Spouses of Injured Servicemembers

Amendment Text (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), and Ranking Member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, Senator Jon Tester (D-Mont.), as well as Senators Deb Fischer (R-Neb.),...

June 28, 2019

Sen. Warren, Rep. García Write JP Morgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon to Raise Alarms About His Decision to Reintroduce Forced Arbitration for Credit Card Users

Text of the Letter (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Jesús “Chuy” García (D-Ill.) today sent a letter to Jamie Dimon, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and President of JP Morgan Chase, expressing alarm with...

June 27, 2019

Lawmakers Urge DOJ and FTC to Reconsider Merger of Student Loan Servicers and Its Impact on Student Borrowers

Text of Letter to DOJ (PDF) | Text of Letter to FTC (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Representative David Cicilline (D-R.I.), Chairman of the Antitrust Subcommittee of the House Judiciary...