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This week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, introduced a new proposal that seeks to ease America’s ongoing affordable housing crisis. The National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association welcomes the legislation, but fears funding for the act could make it difficult for family-owned businesses to transition to the next generation.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass, today called for the resignation of John Stumpf during his testimony in front of the Senate Banking Committee on the recent cross-selling scandal at Wells Fargo. Read more for the latest in color commentary.

In a letter sent Monday to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Elijah Cummings called on the CFPB to increase its oversight of nonbank mortgage servicers, citing a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office on the rise of nonbank servicers and CFPB's lack of information about them.

One day after JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon took a swipe at Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., saying that he doesn’t know if she fully understands the global banking system, Warren responded in kind. You didn’t think she was going to let this one go, did you?

Dimon is at it again. According to a report from CNN Money, JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon recently took another jab at Warren, saying the Senator doesn’t fully understand the global banking system.

The senator fired off a scathing 13-page open letter to the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, criticizing her failure to keep promises made in confirmation. Want to know more?

In an uncharacteristic bit of Democratic Party in-fighting, Sen. Elizabeth Warren is loudly fighting back against a massive trade deal being pushed by President Obama because she is worried that one of the trade deal’s provisions could lead to future attacks against the Dodd-Frank Act.

It’s probably safe to say that of all the elected officials that walk the halls on Capitol Hill, Sen. Elizabeth Warren isn’t Wall Street’s favorite, but a newly released excerpt from Warren’s book “A Fighting Chance,” shows just how tense her interactions with Wall Street’s bigwigs can be.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, along with Congressman Elijah Cummings, sent a letter this week to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, requesting an investigation into the risks posed to consumers by the “unprecedented” growth in nonbank mortgage servicing.

The bill is just the latest in a line of legislation to fall victim to the warring parties in Congress. Republicans accused Warren and the Democrats of playing politics by putting the bill forward, knowing that it had little chance to pass.