Letters

New letter reveals findings from lawmakers’ investigation of RealPage’s YieldStar Product that Advises Landlords on Rent Increases  “Given YieldStar’s market share .. the widespread use of its … proprietary rental data by the country’s largest landlords could result in de-facto...

Collapse of FTX Underscores Need for Transparency and Accountability in Crypto  “Binance and its related entities have purposefully evaded regulators, moved assets to criminals and sanctions evaders, and hidden basic financial information from its customers and the public.”  Text of...

Text of Letters (PDF) Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) sent letters to eight federal Inspectors General (IGs) across the executive branch, urging them to review their agencies’ ethics policies and conflict of...

Noncompetes Stifle Competition for Workers, Small Businesses, and Entrepreneurs; Make Economy Less Innovative and Dynamic  “The Chamber owes its member organizations, and the American public, an explanation for its intention to oppose this rule and defend a deeply exploitative and...

Text of Letter (PDF) | Response from USPTO to Dec. 2022 Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. — United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.) and Representatives Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Katie Porter (D-Calif.) sent a letter to the...

McKinsey Was Paid $45 Million by Nonprofit Health Giant Providence, Developed Predatory Practices to Extract Profit from Poor Patients and Saddle Them With Debt  Over 55,000 Providence Patients Were Pursued by Debt Collectors When They Should Have Been Offered Financial...

Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) sent a letter to Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU)’s new Acting Chair Cecile M. Fraser, urging the department to conduct a timely...

Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. — United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) pushed for accountability in a letter to Kroger Chairman and CEO Rodney McMullen after Kroger’s shift to a new payroll...

Warren and Marshall Will Reintroduce Bipartisan Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act to Put Guardrails on Crypto “We have money laundering rules that cover banks and credit unions and stockbrokers and gold dealers and even Western Union, but the current rules...

Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. — United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) pushed for transparency in a letter to the U.S. Patent and Trade office (USPTO) that highlights lawmakers’ concerns about the disproportionate...

Senators Warren, Reed and Collins Urge HHS to Release Remaining Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Funds from FY 2023   Text of Letter (PDF)   Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) joined a letter led...

Text of the Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) joined 34 other Senators in signing a letter led by Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) to President Biden, urging the Biden administration to include funding to address...