WASHINGTON, March 26 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: In at least 20 states, patients with bleeding disorders were denied access to a residential mental health or substance use treatment facility because of their condition Letter Text (PDF) Washington (March 26, 2024) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security, and Congressman Joe Courtney (C  more

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news: "The situation in Haiti demands urgent, creative solutions to ensure that, at a minimum, relatives of U.S. persons can be quickly processed and reunited with their families in the United States." As of 2023, gangs now control an estimated 80 percent of Port-au-Prince. Text of Letter (PDF) BOSTON - Today, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Co-Chair of the House Haiti Caucus, joined Senator Elizabeth   more

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Washington (March 26, 2024) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Safety and chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security, released the following statement after the passage of the second half of the 2024 Fiscal Year (FY) spend  more

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Senator will hold congressional hearing in Boston on April 3 that will examine the impact of for-profit companies on health care access Boston (March 26, 2024) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security, released the following statement on news that Minnesota-based Optum Financial   more

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Today, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released the following statement regarding Steward Health Care's plan to sell its physician group Stewardship Health to UnitedHealth Group's subsidiary Optum: "After years of gross profiteering and mismanagement, Steward's latest plan raises more serious questions about the future of the Massachusetts health care system. My top priority is   more

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Steward has not responded to March 7 request for information Letter Text (PDF) Boston (March 26, 2024) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chair of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security, and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) today urged Steward Health CEO Dr. Ralph de la Torre to testify at the Senate HELP Subcommittee hearing   more

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Boston, MA -- Today, in response to the conclusion of oral arguments in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the first abortion case the Supreme Court has taken up since the reversal of Roe v. Wade, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released the following statement: "FDA has already made clear that mifepristone is safe and effective, and Americans have been safely using this m  more

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and U.S. Representatives Richard Neal (D-Mass.), Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), Lori Trahan (D-Mass.), and Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) sent a letter to President Joe Biden and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region 1 Regional Administrator Lori Ehrlich, writing in support of Governor Maura Healey's formal appeal asking FEM  more

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), along with the entire Massachusetts congressional delegation, sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs Rena Bitter, urging them to expedite the processing of immigrant visas for Haitians -- particularly for relatives of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents (L  more

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, slamming his continued secrecy around Meta's content moderation policies and censorship of Palestinian-related content on Instagram and Facebook. The letter follows a December 2023 letter from Warren to Zuckerberg, in which Warren inquired about disturbing reports that Meta suppres  more