Press Releases
At Hearing, Warren Warns Putin and Russian Elites Could Use Crypto to Hide Their Wealth and Evade Economic Sanctions
Washington, D.C. — During a U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) expressed concern that cryptocurrency could be used by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his cronies to undermine the international community's economic sanctions against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine. Senator Warren highlighted the various cryptocurrency tools that could make it easier for sanctioned individuals to hide their wealth and … Continue Reading
March 17, 2022
Warren, Wyden Demand Answers About Wells Fargo's Discriminatory Mortgage-Refinancing Practices Against Black Homeowners
Washington, D.C. - United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, and Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, sent a letter to Charles Scharf, CEO and President of Wells Fargo, demanding answers from the bank after a Bloomberg report found that in 2020, Wells Fargo was the only major lender in the United States to accept less than half of mortgage-refinancing applications from … Continue Reading
March 17, 2022
Warren, Reed, Warner, Tester, Colleagues Introduce the Digital Asset Sanctions Compliance Enhancement Act of 2022
Washington, D.C. - Today, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, and Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chair Jon Tester introduced the Digital Asset Sanctions Compliance Enhancement Act to ensure that Vladimir Putin and Russian elites don't use digital assets to undermine the international community’s economic sanctions against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine. … Continue Reading
March 16, 2022
At Hearing, Warren Calls out Big Pharma for Price-Gouging
“Big drug manufacturers have outsized market power and face little, if any, competition for their brand name drugs - so they are free to increase prices as much as they want.”Earlier today, Senator Warren and her colleagues slammed PhRMA’s evasive and misleading information about high drug prices and pressed them to answer for their members’ shady behavior Video of Hearing ExchangeWashington, D.C. - At today’s Senate Finance Committee hearing, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren … Continue Reading
March 16, 2022
Massachusetts Congressional Delegation Announces Over $104 Million in Federal Grants to Combat Homelessness
Washington, D.C. - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), along with Representatives Richard E. Neal (D-MA-01), James P. McGovern (D-Mass.), Stephen F. Lynch (D-Mass.), Bill Keating (D-Mass.), Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark (D-Mass.), Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), Lori Trahan (D-Mass.), and Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.), today announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded $104,616,107 … Continue Reading
March 16, 2022
Warren, Jones Introduce Bicameral Legislation to Ban Anticompetitive Mergers, Restore Competition, and Bring Down Prices for Consumers
Washington, D.C. — United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and United States Representative Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.) introduced bicameral legislation to help stomp out rampant industry consolidation that allows companies to raise consumer prices and mistreat workers. The Prohibiting Anticompetitive Mergers Act would ban the biggest, most anticompetitive mergers and give the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) the teeth to reject deals in the first … Continue Reading
March 16, 2022
Warren, Durbin, Leahy, Padilla, Merkley Encourage Biden Administration's Efforts To Aid Families Separated Under Trump’s Cruel "Zero-Tolerance" Policy
Washington, D.C. - United States Senator Elizbeth Warren (D-Mass.); Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee; Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee; Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration; Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.); and fifteen of their Senate colleagues sent a letter to President Biden in support of his administration’s continued efforts to provide a just … Continue Reading
March 16, 2022
Warren, Klobuchar, Porter, Schakowsky, Colleagues Call Out Drug Manufacturers For Providing Misleading Information on High Drug Prices
Washington, D.C. - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Representatives Katie Porter (D-Calif.) and Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), along with Senators Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Representatives Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) and Susan Wild (D-Pa.), sent a letter to the CEO of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) after receiving an inadequate response to their March 1, 2022 letter. In their initial letter, the … Continue Reading
March 16, 2022
At Hearing, Warren Questions AFRICOM and CENTCOM Commanders on Efforts to Prevent and Investigate Civilian Harm
Video of Hearing Washington, D.C. - During a hearing of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) questioned the Commanders of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) and United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) on the steps they are taking to prevent civilian harm, following the release of Defense Secretary Austin’s directive to the Department of Defense (DOD) to develop an action plan to prevent and investigate civilian harm. A recent RAND … Continue Reading
March 10, 2022
As Gas Prices Rise, Warren, Whitehouse, Khanna, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Stop Big Oil Profiteering and Provide Consumers Relief
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), and ten other Senate colleagues introduced the Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax to curb profiteering by big oil companies and provide Americans consumers relief at the pump. Representative Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) will introduce the legislation in the House of Representatives. The legislation would levy a per-barrel-tax on big oil companies' pandemic … Continue Reading
March 10, 2022
Warren, Jones, Senate and House Colleagues to Biden Admin: Proposed Frontier and Spirit Airlines Merger Could Reduce Airline Industry Competition, Hurt Consumers and Workers
Washington, D.C. - United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.), along with Senators Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Representatives Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Katie Porter (D-Calif.), Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) sent a letter to Jonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), and Pete Buttigieg, U.S. Secretary of … Continue Reading
March 08, 2022
Warren to Pentagon Official: U.S. Nuclear Policy Should Be Developed by Asking Tough Questions, Not Formulated in an Echo Chamber
Washington, D.C. — During a Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) hearing, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) questioned Admiral Charles A. Richard, Commander of the United States Strategic Command, about the process of the U.S. Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) which the Biden administration is expected to release later this month alongside its National Defense Strategy (NDS) and budget submission for fiscal year 2023. At the exchange, Senator Warren expressed concern about … Continue Reading
March 08, 2022
Warren, Porter Release FINRA Response On Troubling Allegations of Wells Fargo Misbehavior and FINRA’s Arbitration Process
Washington, DC - United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass), a member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee and the Senate Finance Committee, and Congresswoman Katie Porter (D-Calif.) released a response to their February 2022 letter from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and sent a new letter asking FINRA for complete responses to questions that the agency failed to answer.“(W)e are disappointed that you failed to answer key questions about … Continue Reading
March 04, 2022
Warren to Secretary Raimondo: Congress and the Public Deserve Answers About Activities Defending Big Tech Companies
Washington, D.C. - United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo urging her to respond to the senator’s December 2021 letter seeking clarification about remarks the Secretary made in a statement to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce regarding regulation of big tech companies by the European Union (EU). In the letter, the Senator raised concerns that Secretary Raimondo’s comments appeared to undermine the Biden … Continue Reading
March 03, 2022
Senator Warren, Wyden, Representative Khanna, Lee Introduce Safe Sex Workers Study Act
Washington, D.C. — Today, on International Sex Worker Rights Day, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Representatives Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), reintroduced the SAFE SEX Workers Study Act to direct the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to conduct the first federal study on the impact that a 2018 anti-sex trafficking bill known as SESTA/FOSTA has had on sex workers. The landmark study will require … Continue Reading
March 03, 2022
At Hearing, Senator Warren Says “Crypto Takes the Sting Out of Sanctions” and Calls for “Cracking Down on Crypto” to Hold Russia Accountable for its Aggression
Yesterday, Warren, Warner, Brown, Reed Expressed Concerns to the Treasury Regarding the Potential Use of Cryptocurrency to Evade Sanctions, which have become even more urgent amid the sanctions imposed on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine.Warren also called out BHUA Committee Republicans for refusing to show up and vote on five nominees to the Fed: “Any Republican talking today about the risks facing our economy should be willing to show up and vote on the Fed nominees.”Video of … Continue Reading
March 03, 2022
Senators Warren, Sanders, Booker, Blumenthal, Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Bush Call Out Amazon's Attendance Policy Punishing Workers for Taking Legally-Protected Leave
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Cory Booker (D-N.J), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y) and Cori Bush (D-Mo.), sent a letter to the Department of Labor (DOL) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), urging them to investigate Amazon’s “Attendance Points Policy”, which punishes workers for taking legally-protected leave. An analysis of Amazon’s attendance … Continue Reading
March 02, 2022
Senators Warren and Markey Reconvene Advisory Committee on Massachusetts Judicial Nominations to Consider Upcoming Vacancy
Washington, D.C. — Following Judge Timothy Hillman’s announcement of his intention to retire from regular active service as a United States District Court Judge, United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today announced they will reconvene an advisory committee to review and provide recommendations on federal District Court candidates to be considered for this federal judicial vacancy. Applications will be accepted from a wide pool of candidates … Continue Reading
March 02, 2022
Warren, Sanders, Padilla, Murphy, Lawson, Hayes, Torres, Colleagues Urge USDA to Issue Clearer Guidance that Informs Students of Their SNAP Benefits
Washington, D.C. — United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), and Representatives Al Lawson (D-Fla.), Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.), and Norma J. Torres (D-Calif.), along with Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Reverend Raphael Warnock … Continue Reading
March 02, 2022
Senators Warren, Warner, Brown, Reed Express Concerns to Treasury Regarding Potential Use of Cryptocurrency to Evade Sanctions
Washington, D.C. — United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.), Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Chairman Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed (D-R.I.) led a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen raising concerns regarding the potential use of cryptocurrency to evade sanctions, which have become even more urgent amid the sanctions imposed on Russia after their invasion … Continue Reading
