Legislation would provide permanent safeguards for pregnant and postpartum women in ICE and CBP custody; Biden administration policy discourages shackling of pregnant women in ICE custody but does not extend same protections to pregnant individuals in CBP custody
Washington (November 8, 2023) – Snator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) joined Senator Patty...
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Washington (November 7, 2023) – Ahead of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s (BIL) two-year anniversary, Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today led their colleagues in a letter to the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) requesting an...
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Lawmakers: “MOHELA must get its house in order immediately.”
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Washington (November 7, 2023) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) led their colleagues Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) in...
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Boston (November 7, 2023) - Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell released the following statements after the Senate voted to confirm Massachusetts Deputy State Solicitor Julia Kobick to the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the 150th...
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The Government Surveillance Reform Act Will Establish New Safeguards for Government Surveillance and Accountability for Abuses; Reauthorize and Reform FISA Section 702; Establish Protections for Americans Whose Private Information is Collected Under Other Intelligence Authorities; and Modernize Outdated Surveillance Laws
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Washington (November 7, 2023) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Congressman Bill Keating (MA-09) released the following statement regarding the Shafai family of Plymouth, who have left Gaza and made it into Egypt:“We welcome the good news that the Shafai family are out of Gaza and will soon be on their way home to the United States after...
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The resolution calls for living wages, good benefits, and fair working conditions for paraeducators, classroom assistants, bus drivers, custodial workers, and others
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Washington (November 6, 2023) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, introduced the...
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Program would authorize $25 million annually to prepare workers for the offshore wind opportunities unlocked by the Inflation Reduction Act
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Washington (November 3, 2023) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Safety and a member of the...
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Funding would support Leonard’s Wharf Rehabilitation and Extension Project
Boston (November 3, 2023) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Congressman Bill Keating (MA-09) today announced that the New Bedford Port Authority has been awarded $24 million through the Department of Transportation’s Port...
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The Sunshine Protection Act passed the Senate in March 2022, but has not been taken up this Congress as date approaches to “fall back” to darker evenings
Washington (November 3, 2023) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released a statement today on making daylight saving time (DST) permanent and ending the antiquated practice of changing the...
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“We urge you to continue your efforts to press the Israeli government to meet these obligations under international law.”
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Washington (November 3, 2023) - Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a letter to National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, urging the...
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Washington (November 2, 2023) - Today, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) joined Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.), together with Senators Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Chris...
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Washington (November 2, 2023) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) joined Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, and Representative Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), along with Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Ron...
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Washington (November 2, 2023) – Today, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) joined Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) in introducing legislation to prohibit irresponsible and unacceptable drilling in the Arctic, which puts at risk the health of local ecosystems, communities, and the global environment. The Stop Arctic Ocean Drilling Act of 2023 would...
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Washington (November 2, 2023) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security,and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) reintroduced the Flu Vaccine Act, legislation to invest in research for a universal influenza vaccine, that...
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Washington (November 2, 2023) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) joined Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in sending a letter to Secretary of the Department of Homeland...
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Boston (November 2, 2023) - Today, U.S. Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released the following statement regarding Wafaa Abuzayda and Abood Okal of Medway and their one-year-old son Yousef, who have left Gaza and begun the journey back to the United States:
“After weeks of public and private advocacy, we are...
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Washington (November 1, 2023) – Following Vice President Kamala Harris’s speech on artificial intelligence (AI) at the U.S. Embassy in London, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Congresswoman Sara Jacobs (CA-51) applauded Vice President Harris’s commitment to defending civil and privacy rights while adopting an inclusive definition of AI...
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Washington (October 31, 2023) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Representative Sara Jacobs (CA-51) led 21 colleagues to urge the Biden-Harris administration to promote the importance of civil rights and democratic values in the governance of AI as the Vice President Kamala Harris joins the UK AI Safety Summit this week. In a letter to Vice...
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Washington (October 31, 2023) - As the United States Senate prepares an emergency supplemental appropriations bill to respond to the ongoing humanitarian and military crises in Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and elsewhere, Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Elizabeth Warren...
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