Republicans attempting to change rules to overturn California EPA Clean Air Act waivers      Washington (May 20, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), today released the following statement in response to Republicans’ commitment to overturn Senate procedure and decades of... Read More

Washington (May 15, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today joined Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Ranking Member Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and 12 of their colleagues in pressing Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the Administration’s retreat from longstanding efforts to promote human... Read More

Washington (May 15, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today joined Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and 28 of their Senate colleagues in introducing a resolution calling on the Trump Administration to use all diplomatic tools at its disposal to bring an end to the blockade of food and lifesaving humanitarian aid to address the needs of... Read More

Letter Text (PDF) Washington (May 15, 2025) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) led ten colleagues today in writing to Secretary of State Marco Rubio to demand answers regarding the Trump administration’s $6 million payment to the government of El Salvador to support the detention of migrants transferred from... Read More

Read stories from Massachusetts and across the country Washington (May 14, 2025) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security, today unveiled a selection of dozens of stories received by his office on Department of Health and Human... Read More

Washington (May 13, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, along with Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (MA-05) and Representative Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), today condemned the Trump Administration’s cancelation of $450 million in federal grants to Harvard University, including all... Read More

Resolution Text (PDF) Washington (May 13, 2025) - Last week, the Senate unanimously passed a resolution led by Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine), members of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, designating April as “Community College Month.” The resolution recognizes the importance of... Read More

Letter Text (PDF) Washington (May 13, 2025) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, and Senator Ben Ray Luján, Ranking Member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Telecommunications and Media Subcommittee, today wrote to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman... Read More

Letter Text (PDF) Washington (May 13, 2025) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, today led all members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation—Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representatives Richard Neal (MA-01), Jim... Read More

Washington (May 12, 2025) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, today released the following statement after Trump’s Department of Energy (DOE) announced 47 deregulatory actions, including the rollback of dozens of appliance efficiency standards covering everything from refrigeration... Read More

Washington (May 12, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, today released the following statement in response to the Republican majority of the House Ways and Means Committee’s plans to phase-out and terminate key clean energy tax incentives. Senator Markey’s Offshore Wind American... Read More

Senator Markey and Representative Pressley with Rümeysa Öztürk Boston (May 10, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Representative Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) today joined Rümeysa Öztürk and members of her legal team at a press conference after Ms. Öztürk arrived home from ICE detention in Louisiana. Yesterday, the United States District... Read More

REPORT: Pulling the Plug: How Trump’s Attacks on Clean Energy Could Turn out the Lights for Small Business Boston (May 9, 2025) - During National Small Business Week, Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Ranking Member Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today led a field hearing in Boston with Massachusetts clean energy leaders to examine... Read More

Washington (May 9, 2025) - Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Representatives Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) and Jim McGovern (MA-02) released the following statement after the United States District Court for the District of Vermont granted bail to Rümeysa Öztürk and directed the Trump administration to release her from... Read More

Washington (May 8, 2025) - Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Ranking Member Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today held a virtual listening session with small business owners in Massachusetts and small business owners who serve the Commonwealth on the devastating impacts the Trump Tariffs are having on them. “Small businesses are the... Read More

“Without the dedicated oversight of the CPSC, American families, especially children, will be left vulnerable in their own homes.” Washington (May 8, 2025) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) joined Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Representatives Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Kevin Mullin (D-CA) along with 20 members of the Senate and 27... Read More

During National Travel and Tourism Week, Senators lead bipartisan Traveler Privacy Protection Act Washington (May 8, 2025) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today joined Senators Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), John Kennedy (R-La.), and Roger Marshall (R-Kansas)  to sound the alarm over the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) use of facial... Read More

Senators Markey, Luján, joined by E-Rate advocates Washington (May 8, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), along with advocates from the Schools Health and Libraries Broadband (SHLB) Coalition,... Read More

Washington (May 7, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Representative Summer Lee (PA-12), and Lawyers for Good Government on Monday hosted a virtual roundtable discussion on the Trump administration’s damaging cuts to environmental justice funding and staff. Roundtable speakers included environmental justice advocates, Massachusetts... Read More

Lawmakers met with Öztürk at Louisiana ICE facility where she has been illegally detained since March Washington (May 7, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Representatives Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) and Jim McGovern (MA-02) released the following statement after the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit directed the Trump... Read More