WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: At a hearing of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) asked Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Adewale Adeyemo about gaps in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) rules that allow sanctioned entities like Iran to earn revenue processing crypto transactions. Senator Warren highlighted that validators, middlemen between the payer and receiver in crypto   more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Today, at a hearing of the Committee on Armed Services, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) questioned Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin, on Israel's disregard for civilians and aid workers and the need for the Department of Defense to continue to strengthen its civilian harm mitigation and prevention efforts. At the hearing, Senator Warren questioned Secretary Austin on whether he believed  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Congressman Seth Moulton recently joined 69 Democratic colleagues to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to affirm his support for VA's recently announced expansion of access to in vitro fertilization (IVF). The lawmakers criticized a letter sent last week by House Republicans criticizing the policy and describing IVF as "morally dubious." "We write to applaud the Department of Veterans Affai  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: More than six months after October 7th, Congressman Seth Moulton writes in a new Salem News op-ed that we must agree on three fundamental principles to guide our approach to Israel and Gaza moving forward. An excerpt of the piece follows. Read the full op-ed can be found on the Salem News website. The pain from the Israel-Hamas conflict is deep, both in Gaza itself and around the world. I've heard fro  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news: With This Funding, Pressley Has Delivered Over $35 Million in Community Project Funding For Her District Since FY2022 Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) announced $13,009,444 in federal Community Project Funding for 15 total projects across the Massachusetts 7th Congressional District in Fiscal Year 2024 (FY2024). The projects, which Rep. Pressley has championed throughout the FY2024 appropriations proc  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Follows Senator Markey's Senate subcommittee hearing on green trains Locomotive Emissions Letter Text (PDF) | Labor Letter Text (PDF) Washington (April 9, 2024) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Safety, and Representatives Summer Lee (PA-12) and Jesus "Chuy" Garcia (IL-04) today led a letter with  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a letter to the Professional Fire Fighters of Massachusetts, Fire Chiefs Association of Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts Municipal Association, encouraging them to apply for Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) new round of Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) to provide direct federal funding for fire departments in Massachus  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Washington (April 9, 2024) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, Senator Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Representative Kathy Castor (FL-14), and Representative Tim Walberg (MI-05) today announced the introduction of the House companion to the Children and Teens' Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0). In July 2023, the Senate Commerce, Sc  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote to the House Financial Services Committee Chair Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) and Ranking Member Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) urging them to include strong rules that protect consumers, financial stability, and our national security in any upcoming legislation related to stablecoins. The Committee's work to develop a stablecoin regulatory framework comes as the crypt  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Representatives Sean Casten (D-Ill.), co-chair of the House Sustainable Investment Caucus, and Veronica Escobar (D-Texas), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, led their colleagues in a letter to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council, composed of the Department of Defense (DoD)  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Boston, MA - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), and the entire Massachusetts delegation sent a letter to Lina Khan, Chair of the FTC, and Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter, on UnitedHealth Group's proposed acquisition of Steward Health Care's physician group, Stewardship Health. The letter calls for FTC and DOJ to closely sc  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Today, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (MA-5) released the following statement after the Arizona Supreme Court upheld an 1864 law banning nearly all abortions. "Today, Donald Trump and MAGA extremists' dark vision of a near-total abortion ban became reality for Arizonans. The freedom to control your own body is gone. Survivors of rape and incest will no longer have access to abortion care. Women s  more