WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 -- Sen. Tommy Tuberville issued the following press release:

U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined 14 of his GOP Senate colleagues in sending a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Division Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate calling on the DOJ to investigate and pursue civil remedies to recover Obamacare subsidy payments made during the Biden administration to insurance companies due to fraudulent, unauthorized, or improper enrollment in insurance plans at the expense of American taxpayers.

"President Biden's expansion of ACA subsidies in 2021 under the American Rescue Plan Act allowed $0 premiums in silver plans on the ACA marketplace, emboldening certain brokers and agents who sought to pr...