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Since I have the time today, let's make an info-tweet on what Elizabeth Warren has done in December *alone* in descending order: https://twitter.com/bendashper/status/1339265039170154496
12/14: "Sen. Elizabeth Warren and her team just published a nearly 19-month investigation into the group that audits private prisons and other detention facilities, and the results aren't pretty. The group "is rife with corruption," she says." https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2020/12/exclusive-elizabeth-warren-private-prison-accreditation/
12/10: Warren's bill to rename confederate statues made it to the final version of the defense bill, gaining bipartisanship from both parties: https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1337157388860854277?s=20
12/10: In 2016, Warren passed a bill to allow opioid prescriptions to be partially filled to prevent potential misuse. On December 10, the Drug Enforcement Administration finally published regulations to begin enforcement: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/12/04/2020-26291/partial-filling-of-prescriptions-for-schedule-ii-controlled-substances
12/9: She introduced a new bill, the Consumer Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2020, to reform bankruptcy, make it easier to file for, and, "address racial disparities... by making some criminal justice fines and fees dischargeable in bankruptcy" https://www.forbes.com/sites/elenabotella/2020/12/15/the-bankruptcy-code-is-stacked-against-black-families-elizabeth-warrens-new-bill-would-change-that/?sh=704a78711b25
12/9: Warren introduced a new bill into both chambers of Congress requiring immigration agencies to report COVID-19 data and force agencies to provide transparency a wide variety of things: https://www.wbur.org/news/2020/12/09/immigration-detention-covid-warren
12/9: Sen. Warren & Sen. Smith sent a letter to the Secretary of Health & Human Services about gaps in COVID-19 testing, unclear payment rules, and lack of pediatric COVID-19 testing after their own investigation into the world's 5 largest testing labs: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/09/covid-testing-sens-elizabeth-warren-tina-smith-find-significant-gaps.html
12/6: The MORE Act, a bill to legalize marijuana at the Federal level and a bill Warren is a cosponsor of, passed in the House: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/more-act-marijuana-legalization-bill-vote-1097723/
December/November 2020: Warren got the Senate minority leader, Schumer, to sign on to pressuring President-Elect Biden to wipe $50,000 of Student Loan Debt on Day 1 by the use of executive action. Something Warren ran her campaign on as well: https://blavity.com/why-we-elizabeth-warren-and-chuck-schumer-believe-the-biden-harris-administration-should-cancel-up-to-50k-in-student-debt-on-day-one?category1=opinion&category2=news
12/4: Sen. Warren and Rep. Pressley pressure the GAO investigate potential disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program and public health and social services: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/venessawong/elizabeth-warren-ayanna-pressley-covid-racial-inequities
12/2: In November, Warren pressured the CDC and HHS to adjust their COVID-19 data for age in its analysis of mortality rates across racial and ethnic groups. A month later, the CDC adjusted their data and now shows the true racial disparities in the data: https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1334264177775534085?s=20
12/1: After Sen. Warren and Sen. Smith urged major testing providers to offer free pediatric COVID-19 testing, Rite Aid reversed their policy: https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1333916115018375169?s=20
And that's just a good chunk of what she's done this month!
