Letters - Senator Elizabeth Warren

September 17, 2019

Warren, Pocan Investigate How Private Equity Buyouts Exacerbate Problems Plaguing For-Profit Colleges

Text of Letters (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Mark Pocan (D-Wisc.) wrote to six private equity firms with current or recent holdings in for-profit colleges, KKR, Sterling Partners, Altas Partners, Vistra, Leeds Equity...

September 17, 2019

MA Lawmakers Press U.S. Trade Representative for Real Solutions for Massachusetts Lobstermen Impacted by Trade Tariffs

Letter Comes Ahead of State House Hearing to Further Examine Impact of Chinese Tariffs on MA Lobster Industry Text of the Letter (PDF) Boston, MA – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Edward J. Markey (D-MA), along with Representatives...

September 16, 2019

Senator Warren Questions Navy’s Decision to Terminate Its Climate Change Task Force

Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), sent a letter to Secretary of the U.S. Navy Richard Spencer expressing concern about reports of the “suspicious”...

September 13, 2019

Senators Warren and Merkley Letter to HHS Raises Concerns about Reopening Migrant Child Detention Center and Conditions for Children

Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar amid reports that while the Homestead Temporary...

September 10, 2019

Warren, Booker, Colleagues, Call on Senate Appropriators to Prioritize Affordable Housing, Child Care, and Climate Change in Budget Negotiations

Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.), along with Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), and...

September 10, 2019

Senator Warren Leads Colleagues Calling on Defunct For-Profit College Education Corporation of America to Stop Attempts to Collect from Former Students

Text of Letter | ECA Receiver Response to Investigation Washington, DC – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Doug Jones (D-Ala), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Chairman of the House...

September 9, 2019

Warren, Colleagues Question DHS and HHS on Decision Not to Administer Flu Vaccines for Migrant Families Held at CBP Detention Centers

Text of Letter (PDF) Boston, MA – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Tom Carper...

September 5, 2019

Senator Warren Demands Answers from Regulators About How Wells Fargo Was Able to Charge Overdraft Fees After Falsely Telling Customers Their Accounts Were Closed

Warren Also Releases Wells Fargo Response to August 20th Letter Inquiring About NYT Report Letter to OCC (PDF) | Letter to SEC (PDF) | Letter to CFPB (PDF) | Wells Fargo Response (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth...

September 5, 2019

Warren Raises Questions about Vice President Pence’s Stay at Trump International Property in Doonbeg, Ireland, at the “Suggestion” of the President

Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) yesterday sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo raising a series of questions about Vice President Mike Pence’s recent stay at President Trump’s Trump International...

September 4, 2019

Warren Joins Durbin, Dem. Senators Calling for DeVos to Respect Automatic Closed School Discharges for Former ITT Tech Student Borrowers

Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) joined Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH), today in sending a letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos calling for automatic closed school discharges for former...

August 30, 2019

Lawmakers Lead Bicameral Investigation into the Elimination of Medical Deferred Action

Text of the Letter (PDF) Washington, DC – Today, United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), along with Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), Immigration and Citizenship Subcommitee Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Representatives Judy Chu (D-Calif.), Lou Correa...

August 28, 2019

Senator Warren and Colleagues Urge EPA to Reconsider Allowing Expanded Use of Antibiotics as Pesticides and Ignoring Threats to Public Health

Text of the Letter (PDF) Washington, DC – United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and U.S. Representatives Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), Chairman of the House Oversight Committee’s Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy,...