Press Releases

July 06, 2023

Senators Warren, Booker Call for Severance Pay and Benefits for Employees Following Bed Bath & Beyond Bankruptcy and Layoffs

Washington, D.C. – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) sent a letter to Bed Bath & Beyond CEO Sue Gove following reports that the company attempted to avoid paying severance to its workers during the store closings leading up to its bankruptcy after spending more than $11 billion in stock buybacks since 2004. Following years of declining profits, Bed Bath & Beyond declared bankruptcy in April of this year. Despite the more than $11 billion … Continue Reading


June 30, 2023

Warren, Markey, Sanders Release Troubling Findings on Medical Credit Cards that Threaten Patients’ Finances

Washington, D.C. – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, Edward J Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chair of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, released the findings from their investigations into medical credit cards, which found that they can pose significant threats to patients’ finances. The … Continue Reading


June 30, 2023

Senator Warren Renews Call for CFPB to Rein in Unreasonable Credit Card Late Fees

Washington, D.C. – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) sent a letter to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Rohit Chopra highlighting findings from a recent investigation into the late fee practices of the ten largest credit card issuers and urging the CFPB to finalize its proposed rule that would save American families up to $9 billion a year. In February 2023, the CFPB proposed a new rule that would require credit card issuers to justify late fees in … Continue Reading


June 30, 2023

Warren Statement on the Supreme Court Blocking the President’s Plan to Cancel Student Debt

Washington, D.C. – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released the following statement after the Supreme Court blocked President Biden’s plan to cancel student debt: “The same Supreme Court that overturned Roe now refuses to follow the plain language of the law on student loan cancellation.  This fight is not over. The President has more tools to cancel student debt — and he must use them. More than 40 million hard working Americans are waiting for … Continue Reading


June 30, 2023

Warren Questions Goldman Sachs’ Profiting from Silicon Valley Bank Failure

Washington, D.C. – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, sent a letter to Goldman Sachs (Goldman), seeking answers about the firm’s conflicting roles in the March 2023 collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) – profiting as both the buyer of SVB-held bonds and as the architect of failed efforts to raise capital for the bank. Senator Warren’s letter comes as federal regulators investigate … Continue Reading


June 28, 2023

Senator Warren Encourages Massachusetts Communities to Apply for Electric School Bus Federal Grants

  Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a letter to the Massachusetts Municipal Association, Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents and 33 Commonwealth municipalities, highlighting the benefits of electrifying the Commonwealth’s school bus fleets and encouraging the Associations and their members to take full advantage of the newly-announced EPA Clean School Bus (CSB) Grants Program Notice of Funding Opportunity … Continue Reading


June 28, 2023

Warren, Brown Open Investigation into 23 Companies’ Overtime Avoidance Practices and Possible Wage Theft

Washington, D.C. – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) launched an investigation into 23 companies that appear to have committed wage theft by denying low-wage workers overtime pay by abusing the label “manager.” The senators sent letters to 23 companies identified in a recent report as having the highest proportion of positions used to strategically avoid paying workers overtime –– Bojangles, 84Lumber, Arby’s, Sonic … Continue Reading


June 27, 2023

Senator Warren Urges Financial Regulators to Promote Greater Competition in Banking, Strengthen Bank Merger Review Guidelines

Washington, D.C. – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) sent a letter to Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter, Federal Deposit Investment Corporation (FDIC) Chairman Gruenberg, Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu, Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr, and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, urging regulators to promote greater competition in the banking sector by toughening their stances on bank mergers and strengthening bank merger review … Continue Reading


June 27, 2023

Warren, Senators Call on HHS Secretary Becerra to Deliver on Commitment to Expanding Voting Access

Washington, D.C. – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), and Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra, requesting an update on the Department's actions to implement President Biden’s executive order on promoting voting access, including efforts to offer voter … Continue Reading


June 27, 2023

Senators Warren, Carper, Representatives Sherman, Porter and Beyer Lead 99-Member Coalition to Applaud IRS Announcement of New Free Tax Filing Tool

Washington, D.C. – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) and Tom Carper (D-Del.), alongside Representatives Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), Katie Porter (D-Calif.) and Don Beyer (D-Va.), led a coalition of 99 Democratic lawmakers in sending a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Daniel Werfel and Deputy Treasury Secretary Adewale Adeyemo, applauding the IRS’ announcement of a pilot  of a free tax filing tool next year. The lawmakers shared their support … Continue Reading


June 27, 2023

Senators Warren and Collins Lead 46 Senate Colleagues in Reintroducing Refund Equality Act

Washington, D.C. – On the 10-year anniversary of the U.S. v. Windsor decision, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) led 46 of their Senate colleagues in reintroducing the bipartisan Refund Equality Act to ensure that legally-married same-sex couples have the tax refunds they always should have been able to claim. The bill would allow these couples – who, until the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in U.S. v. Windsor, were barred from filing … Continue Reading


June 26, 2023

Warren Applauds $147 Million to Expand High-Speed Internet Access in Massachusetts

Boston, MA - Today, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released the following statement celebrating the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) allocation of more than $147 million in federal funds to expand access for broadband infrastructure across Massachusetts.  “Too many families still lack access to reliable high-speed internet, and without it, Americans are shut out of a 21st-century economy and have limited access to … Continue Reading


June 26, 2023

Warren Applauds $147 Million to Expand High-Speed Internet Access in Massachusetts

Boston, MA - Today, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released the following statement celebrating the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) allocation of more than $147 million in federal funds to expand access for broadband infrastructure across Massachusetts.  “Too many families still lack access to reliable high-speed internet, and without it, Americans are shut out of a 21st-century economy and have limited access to … Continue Reading


June 23, 2023

Senator Warren, Reps. Porter, Casar, Garcia, Jayapal, Schakowsky Criticize JetBlue’s Bogus Astoturf Lobbying for Spirit Acquisition, Urge DOT to Resist Corporate Pressure

“We urge DOT not to be pressured by misleading comments generated through JetBlue’s Astroturf campaign, and to continue its careful scrutiny of the JetBlue-Spirit deal. DOT should focus on genuine public input, not duplicative comments collected by a mendacious Astroturf campaign.” Letter to JetBlue - Letter to DOT  Washington, D.C. - United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) and Representative Katie Porter (D-Calif) alongside Representatives Greg Casar … Continue Reading


June 23, 2023

One Year After Dobbs: In New Report from Senator Warren, Health Care Providers Reveal How Republican Efforts to Limit Abortion Care Threaten Women’s Health

Washington, D.C. –Nearly one year after the Supreme Court ruled to ignore 50 years of precedent and overturn Roe v. Wade, stripping away the constitutional right to abortion, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) released a new report: One Year Without Roe: Health Care Providers Speak Out on Criminalized Care and Compounding Confusion. The 14-page report … Continue Reading


June 22, 2023

At Hearing, Fed Chair Powell Fails to Assume Responsibility for Deregulatory Push Preceding Bank Collapses

Washington, D.C. – At a hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee (BHUA), United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) blasted Federal Reserve (Fed) Chair Jerome Powell on his aggressive push for deregulatory policies and the resulting banking crisis following the second, third, and fourth largest bank failures in U.S. history. During their exchange, Chair Powell failed to assume personal responsibility when questioned about his role in weakening bank … Continue Reading


June 22, 2023

ICYMI: Chairing First Subcommittee Markup, Senator Warren Highlights Provisions for National Defense Authorization Act

Video of Hearing (SASC) Washington, D.C. – Charing her first Senate Armed Services Personnel Subcommittee Markup, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) highlighted her priorities and the many provisions offered to the full Committee for inclusion in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, including the following pieces of legislation: Junior Reserve Officer Training (JROTC) Safety Act to better protect JROTC recruits following reports of program … Continue Reading


June 21, 2023

At Hearing, Warren Calls on Fed Nominees to Implement Strong Bank Merger Review Guidelines and Reinstate Tough Rules for Big Banks

Washington, D.C. – At a hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) warned of the dangers of growing concentration in the banking system and called on three nominees to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Fed) – Dr. Phillip Jefferson, Dr. Lisa Cook, and Dr. Adrianna Kugler – to institute the strongest possible bank merger guidelines and to reinstate tough financial regulations on big banks to … Continue Reading


June 21, 2023

At Banking Committee Markup, Warren Supports Bill to Hold Failed Bank Executives Accountable

Washington, D.C. – At an executive session of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee to consider the FEND Off Fentanyl Act and RECOUP Act, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) expressed support for the RECOUP Act as a reasonable compromise that significantly improves the oversight of bank executives that blow up their banks and will make the banking system safer – and called on every member of the Senate and House to support the legislation.  Senator … Continue Reading


June 20, 2023

Warren, Markey Statement on Julie Rikelman’s Confirmation to U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Washington, D.C. – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement after the Senate voted to confirm Julie Rikelman to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit:  “We are thrilled that the Senate has voted to confirm Julie Rikelman to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Rikelman has a deep and unwavering commitment to the rule of law and our Constitution, informed … Continue Reading

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