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U.S. Congressional Tipoffs Involving Massachusetts Newsletter for Tuesday June 11, 2024 ( 2 items )  

Warren Calls out Insurers, Private Equity, and Big Pharma for Anti-Competitive Tactics and Raising Health Care Costs, Calls for Government Crack Down on Corporate Greed in Health Care
WASHINGTON, June 10 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote to the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), calling out high health care costs due to vertically-integrated insurers, private equity companies, and pharmaceutical companies that are driving health care consolidation. The letter responds to the three agencies' March 2024 cross-government  more

Warren, Rosen, Hickenlooper Push Federal Reserve to Lower Interest Rates
WASHINGTON, June 10 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), and John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) wrote to the Federal Reserve (the Fed), urging Chair Jerome Powell to cut the federal funds interest rates from its current, two-decade-high of 5.5 percent. This comes as major central banks around the globe have cut rates or are leaning towards lowering interest rates -- including the European Central Bank,   more