WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: At a hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Policy, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) delivered opening remarks focused on the impact of potential tax policies in a Republican-controlled Congress. Senator Warren is chair of the Economic Policy subcommittee and will become the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee in the next Congress. Senate  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news: Today, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) issued the following statement urging the Senate to support Senator Bernie Sanders' Joint Resolutions of Disapproval that would block the sale of offensive arms to the Israeli government. To date, over 43,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli airstrikes, 1,200 Israelis killed in the horrific October 7th attack, and over 100 hostages are still held captive   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news: Letter (PDF) | Press Conference Footage Today, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Congressman James E. Clyburn (SC-06), and Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) led 64 of their colleagues in sending a letter to President Biden urging him to use his executive clemency power in the final months of his presidency to reunite families, address longstanding injustices in our legal system, and set our natio  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Letter Text (PDF) Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), today led their colleagues in a letter to Sophie Shulman, the Deputy Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), urging a swift implementation of life-saving traffic safety provisions in the Infrastruc  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and Vice Chair Michael Barr, demanding that the Fed reject Wells Fargo's petition to lift its asset cap. Wells Fargo's recent appeal came days after an enforcement action from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and two months after a federal judge allowed a class action lawsuit to proceed against the b  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), members of the Senate Finance Committee, sent a letter to IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel urging him to strengthen and enforce tax code regulations on nonprofit hospitals, which are still taking advantage of their nonprofit status to pay little to nothing in taxes while failing to provide adequate charity and community care to th  more