WASHINGTON, April 4 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, ranking member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on April 3, 2025: * * * Ahead of Committee Vote, Warren Releases Troubling Responses from Trump Nominees Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, released responses from President Donald Trump's nominees to the Questions for the Rec  more

WASHINGTON, April 2 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Markey, Warren, Whitehouse Condemn Firings of Immigration Judges Across the Country Letter Text (PDF) Washington (April 2, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), along with Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), today sent a letter to the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) Attorney General Pamela Bondi and Executive Office for Immigration Review Acting Dire  more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- Rep. James McGovern, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on April 2, 2025: * * * McGovern, Brown, Hayes Introduce Bill Blocking GOP Plan To Cut SNAP Benefits For Tax Cuts Hunger Free Future Act would prevent backdoor benefit cuts to SNAP WASHINGTON, D.C.--On Tuesday, Representatives James P. McGovern (D-MA), Shontel Brown (D-OH), and Jahana Hayes (D-CT) introduced The Hunger Free Future Act to protect the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)   more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Massachusetts, ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Neal, Boyle, Wyden, Merkley Release Staggering New Cost Estimate of Republican Tax Plan, Blast Giveaways to Corporations and the Wealthy New JCT Estimate Pegs Cost of Extending 2017 Trump Tax Law at $5.5 Trillion, Up from Previous Estimate of $4.6 Trillion; Republican Plan for Additional Tax Breaks Could Increase Overall Cost of Trump's T  more

WASHINGTON, April 3 -- Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news: * * * Pressley, Chu, Repro. Caucus, Dem. Women's Caucus Press RFK Jr. to Unfreeze Title X Funding, Restore Access to Critical Reproductive Care Members express outrage at Trump administration claims that Title X is frozen because it is DEI, stating "A federal program's ability to provide care to people from historically marginalized and underserved communities does not make it wrong or illegal" Text of   more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, ranking member of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, issued the following news release on April 2, 2025: * * * Ranking Member Markey Votes No on Advancing President Trump's Small Business Nominees Ranking Member Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today released the following statement after attending a Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee business meeting, where he voted no along with every Democrati  more

WASHINGTON, April 2 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Senator Markey Joins Senate Democratic Caucus in Letter Demanding Trump Rescind Illegal Executive Order Threatening Federal Employee Collective Bargaining Agreements Washington (April 2, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today joined Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) along with Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and Senators Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Tim  more

WASHINGTON, April 3 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Senator Warren Demands Secretary Bessent Recuse Himself from IRS Firing Decisions Given His Personal History of Tax Avoidance Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote to Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent demanding that he recuse himself from any Internal Revenue Service (IRS) decisions relating to the agency's hiring freeze and further IR  more

WASHINGTON, April 3 -- Rep. Lori Trahan, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Trahan, Brown, DelBene Demand Independent Investigation into DOGE Privacy Violations WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03), Shontel Brown (OH-11), and Suzan DelBene (WA-01) wrote to the Deputy Inspectors General of the U.S. Department of Treasury and the Government Services Administration (GSA) requesting an independent investigation into a Department of Government Efficiency  more

WASHINGTON, April 2 -- Rep. Lori Trahan, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Trahan, Cassidy, Ossoff Reintroduce Bipartisan Legislation to Restore Americans' Control Over Their Own Data WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (D-MA-03), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee, partnered with Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and John Ossoff (D-GA) to reintroduce the Data Elimination and Limiting Ext  more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, ranking member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on April 3, 2025: * * * Warren Lambasts Trump Nominees for Poor Judgment, Questions Their Roles as Trump and Musk Destroy the Agencies They Would Lead Washington, DC - Today, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, gave remarks ahead of a committee vote  more

WASHINGTON, April 3 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Warren Slams Trump, Musk for Reckless Cuts to Americans' Services, Benefits 1.5 million Massachusetts residents could see benefits cut due to Trump admin gutting Social Security Administration Washington, D.C. - Following the launch of Senate Democrats' Social Security War Room to fight back against Donald Trump's and Elon Musk's efforts to gut the Social Security Administration, U.S. Sen  more