Press Releases
Warren, Raskin, Garcia, Members of Congress Urge DoD to Stop Subsidizing Sale of Military-Grade Weapons to Civilians
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Representatives Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) wrote to the Department of Defense (DoD) urging them to stop their practice of contracting with companies that sell military-grade ammunition to civilians, sometimes using DoD facilities and equipment to do so. This follows a February 2024 inquiry by members of Congress who requested information from DoD on this … Continue Reading
July 12, 2024
Warren, Markey, Keating, Healey Secure Billion Dollar Grant for Cape Cod Bridge Replacement
Two years ago, there were zero federal dollars for these bridges; now, the lawmakers have secured $1.7 billion to replace the Cape Cod Bridges. Washington, D.C. - Today, after more than five years of advocacy, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Congressman Bill Keating (D-Mass.), and Governor Maura Healey announced the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has awarded the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) and Army Corps of Engineers a … Continue Reading
July 12, 2024
ICYMI: At Hearing, Warren Rails Against Private Equity in Health Care for Increasing Prices and Lowering Quality, Calls for Ownership Transparency
Washington, D.C. — At a hearing of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) questioned Dr. Christopher Whaley, Associate Director of the Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research and Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice at Brown University and Cora Opsahl, Health Fund Director for 32BJ Health Fund, on the need for ownership transparency in health care, particularly for entities owned by private equity firms, which … Continue Reading
July 11, 2024
At Hearing, Warren Highlights Christy Goldsmith Romero’s Decades of Experience As a Financial Regulator, Preventing Bank Crises, and Cleaning Up After Failed Banks
Washington, D.C. - At a hearing of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) highlighted Christy Goldsmith Romero, Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and nominee to Chair the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and her decades of experience as a financial regulator, crucial for preventing bank crises and cleaning up after failed banks. Commissioner Goldsmith Romero served for a decade as the Special … Continue Reading
July 10, 2024
Warren, Senators Blast JPMorgan Chase for Reversal of Climate Commitments
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) wrote to JPMorgan Chase (JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon, criticizing his company’s about-face on nearly two decades of climate and environmental commitments and raising questions about whether JPM has been misleading investors and the public. Over nearly two decades, JPM made several “binding commitments” on climate and … Continue Reading
July 10, 2024
Warren, Jacobs, Lawmakers Raise Alarms about Military Housing Conditions, Failures to Hold Private Housing Companies Accountable
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Representative Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, led Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Senator Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), Representative Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), and Representative James Moylan (R-Guam) in calling out the Department of Defense (DoD) for failing to protect military families living in military housing operated by private companies under the … Continue Reading
July 10, 2024
ICYMI: At Hearing, Warren Calls for Long-Term, Permanent Investments in Child Care to Support Working Families
Washington, D.C. — At a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance — the first hearing of the Committee on child care in 30 years — U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) questioned Dr. Megan Pratt, assistant professor of practice at the Oregon State University College of Health, and Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, on investments in child care that would help families and the U.S. economy, including increasing the Child Care Entitlement to States … Continue Reading
July 09, 2024
At Hearing, Warren Slams Powell for Cozying-Up to Big Banks and Inaction on Executive Compensation Reform, Calls for Rulemaking that Protects Stability of the American Economy
Washington, D.C. — At a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) slammed Federal Reserve (Fed) Chair Jerome Powell for his inaction on executive compensation reform, allowing executives of the country’s largest banks to gamble with their bank’s finances and risk the stability of the American economy. In 2010, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Act, which mandated new regulations or guidelines on incentive-based … Continue Reading
July 03, 2024
Warren Slams Powell for Cozy Relationship with Bank Executives, Weak Banking Rules
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote to Jerome Powell, Chair of the Federal Reserve System (Fed) regarding his cozy relationships with bank executives and their influence on Fed policy. Dozens of private meetings and conversations between Powell and big bank executives appear to have stopped progress on crucial banking reforms like increasing bank capital requirements, reforming bank executive compensation structure, and strengthening reviews of potential bank … Continue Reading
July 03, 2024
Warren, Markey Urge Owners Of Steward’s Eight Massachusetts Hospitals to Offer Lease Concessions to Protect Hospitals’ Viability
April 2024 Response from MPT | April 2024 Response from MIP | May 2024 Response from MPT Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) wrote to Medical Properties Trust (MPT) and Macquarie Infrastructure Partners (MIP) ahead of the July 15, 2024 bid deadline for Steward Health Care’s (Steward’s) Massachusetts hospitals, urging them to offer lease concessions to ensure that new operators can be found to keep Steward’s eight Massachusetts hospitals open and … Continue Reading
July 03, 2024
Warren, King, Bennet, and Beyer to Treasury: Quickly Finalize Strong Rules for Corporate Minimum Tax on Billionaire Corporations
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Angus King (I-Maine), Michael Bennett (D-Colo.), and U.S. Representative Don Beyer (D-Va.) called on Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (Treasury) to fully implement the 15% Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax (CAMT) signed into law by President Biden in the Inflation Reduction Act two years ago. Despite having previously indicated that rules would be released in early 2024, Treasury has yet to finalize key rules that would address … Continue Reading
July 01, 2024
Warren Statement on Supreme Court Decision on Corner Post v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
Washington, D.C. - Following today’s Supreme Court decision in Corner Post v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) issued the following statement: “For every federal law passed in the last forty years, Congress understood that agency experts would execute the will of democratically elected representatives and that court challenges would occur during a short, defined time period. That was settled law until this week. Today’s decision, along with the … Continue Reading
July 01, 2024
Warren Statement on Supreme Court Decision in Trump v. United States
Washington, D.C. - Following today’s Supreme Court decision in Trump v. United States, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) issued the following statement: “An extremist Supreme Court stacked by Donald Trump has ruled that the President is above the law. Six right-wing justices have given the President free rein to abuse the power of the presidency without constraint. If Donald Trump were President, could he get away with telling the Justice Department to make up dirt to put his political … Continue Reading
July 01, 2024
Warren, Casten, Foster, Jayapal to Commerce: No CHIPS Funding for Stock Buyback Subsidies
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representatives Sean Casten (D-Ill.) Bill Foster (D-Ill.), and Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) wrote to the Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, urging the Department of Commerce (Commerce) to use its full statutory authority to ensure taxpayer dollars from the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) Act does not directly or indirectly fund stock buybacks and other shareholder distributions. The CHIPS Act of 2022 … Continue Reading
July 01, 2024
Warren, Pocan, Garamendi Call For DoD, FTC, DOJ Scrutiny of TransDigm Acquisitions
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representatives Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) and John Garamendi (D-Calif.) wrote to the Department of Defense (DoD), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and Department of Justice (DOJ), urging them to review TransDigm Group Inc.’s (TransDigm’s) acquisitions of two specialized aerospace contractors, SEI Industries LTD (SEI Industries) and Raptor Labs Holdco, LLC (Raptor Scientific). “Given TransDigm’s rapid pace of acquisitions and … Continue Reading
July 01, 2024
Warren, Schakowsky Slam Largest Nursing Home Lobbying Groups for “Sabotaging” Biden Administration’s Minimum Nurse Staffing Rules that Improve Quality of Care for Seniors
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) sent a letter to two of the largest trade associations representing the nursing home industry — the American Health Care Association (AHCA) and LeadingAge — slamming them for opposing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’s) final rule that would, for the first time, set a national floor for minimum nurse staffing requirements in Medicare and Medicaid-certified nursing … Continue Reading
June 27, 2024
Warren, Carter, Rounds, Welch, Lawmakers Slam Pharmacy Benefit Manager Express Scripts for Harming Service Members with Anti-Competitive Tactics
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.), U.S. Representative Buddy Carter (R-Ga.), and 20 other lawmakers sent a letter to Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Dr. Lester Martinez-Lopez and Director of the Defense Health Agency (DHA) Lieutenant General Telita Crosland, raising concerns over Express Scripts’ exclusive contract to administer TRICARE’s pharmacy program, the healthcare system for the military, retirees, … Continue Reading
June 27, 2024
Senator Warren Statement on Supreme Court Decision on EMTALA
Washington, D.C. - Today, following the Supreme Court’s decision in Moyle v. U.S., the case that weighed the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), Senator Elizabeth Warren released the following statement: “The Supreme Court decided to wait until after the election to tell Americans whether women who are in crisis can get the emergency medical care they need. The Supreme Court doesn’t get the final word on abortion - the American people … Continue Reading
June 27, 2024
Senator Warren Statement on Supreme Court Decision on Purdue Pharma
Washington, D.C. - Today, following the Supreme Court’s decision on Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P., Senator Elizabeth Warren released the following statement: “The Sackler family made a fortune from hooking people to opioids that killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, and then tried to use the bankruptcy system to keep their money. The Supreme Court closed this bankruptcy loophole, but that doesn’t make things right for the millions of people who have lost loved ones to opioid … Continue Reading
June 26, 2024
Warren, Pressley Applaud Federal Investment in Massachusetts to Address Affordable Housing Barriers
Washington, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, the regional planning agency for the Greater Boston area, a $3 million grant under the Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing (PRO Housing) program to address key barriers to affordable housing development. “With these grants, the federal government is partnering with states and cities to develop new and innovative ways to lower housing costs. Building new … Continue Reading
