Letters - Senator Elizabeth Warren

June 28, 2018

Warren, Blumenthal, Cummings Call on SEC to Investigate Potential Insider Trading by Commerce Secretary Ross

Full text of letter (PDF) Washington, DC – In a letter sent today to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Representative Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) called on the SEC...

June 26, 2018

Warren, Smith Seek Answers from Secretary Azar on Flawed Trump Drug Pricing Plan

List of Questions (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) today submitted sixty-nine written questions for the record (QFRs) for Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alexander Azar following up on their exchanges...

June 21, 2018

Warren Calls on Chamber of Commerce to Withdraw Endorsement of CFPB Nominee in Light of Nominee’s Likely Role in Trump Administration Child Separations

Text of letter (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) today sent a letter to Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue urging him to reverse the Chamber’s support for Kathy Kraninger’s nomination to be Director of the...

June 19, 2018

Warren, Brown Call for CFPB Director Nominee to Turn Over Documents on Involvement in Trump Administration’s Separation of Children from Their Families

Text of letter (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking,...

June 15, 2018

Warren, Grassley Renew Call for Inclusion of Medical Device Identifiers on Medicare Claim Forms

Text of the letter (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb to reiterate the importance of including medical device identifiers on...

June 14, 2018

Warren, Krishnamoorthi Call on Inspector General to Investigate Failures of Education Department Ethics Program under Secretary DeVos

Letter to Inspector General (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) today asked the Department of Education’s Inspector General (IG) Kathleen Tighe to investigate the Department’s ethics program. They brought to attention...

June 13, 2018

Members of Congress Press FEMA, HHS on Federal Government’s Failures on Puerto Rico Fatality Count Following Hurricane Maria

Letter to FEMA and HHS (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Representative Nydia M. Velázquez (D-N.Y.), and Representative Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, led their Senate and House colleagues...

June 11, 2018

Warren and Smith Press HHS Secretary Azar on Broken Promises in Trump Drug Pricing Proposal Prior to Appearance Before Congress

Letter to HHS Secretary Alex Azar (PDF) Letters to Drug Company CEOs (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) sent a 12-page letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar with...

May 30, 2018

Warren, Sanders, Gillibrand Urge NLRB Not to Circumvent Ethics Restrictions through Rulemaking on Joint-Employer Standard

Text of the letter (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), sent a letter to John Ring, Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), to express...

May 25, 2018

Warren Applauds Department of Education Advisory Panel for Setting Up Committee to Examine For-Profit Conversions

Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released the below statement following the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity’s (NACIQI) announcement that it will set up a subcommittee to examine for-profit college conversions: “Sham for-profit colleges are champing at...

May 24, 2018

Warren Joins Murray, Senators in Denouncing Move by Secretary DeVos to End Investigations and Office Responsible for Protecting Students from Predatory Colleges

Text of the letter (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) today joined Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and 27 of her colleagues in sending...

May 24, 2018

Senators Press DeVos for Answers Following Decision to Restore Recognition of For-Profit Accreditor ACICS

Text of the Letter (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), today sent a letter to Education Secretary...