Letters - Senator Elizabeth Warren

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...

May 18, 2018

Peters, Warren, Brown Lead Colleagues in Call to Protect CFPB Public Consumer Complaint Database

Text of the letter (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senators Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) led 32 of their colleagues in urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to preserve public access to the...

May 14, 2018

Warren, Blumenthal, Schatz Press FTC About New Consumer Protection Head, Call for Delay of Vote on Appointee

Text of the letter (PDF) Washington, DC – In a letter to the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) today questioned the reported appointment of Andrew M. Smith...

May 14, 2018

Senators Demand Answers from AT&T and Novartis About Secret Payments to Trump Lawyer Cohen

Letter to AT&T (PDF) Letter to Novartis (PDF) Washington, DC – Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) today led a letter questioning the CEOs of AT&T and Novartis about recent reports that their companies secretly sent President Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen...

May 10, 2018

Warren Joins Brown, Colleagues in Calling on Mulvaney to Turn Over Meeting Records After ‘Pay to Play’ Comments

Text of the letter (PDF) Washington, DC – This week, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) joined Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, in calling on Office of Management...