Letter also expresses concern with State Department policies failing to promote LGBTI rights
Washington (June 14, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led a letter today with 17 Senate colleagues opposing State Department decisions to reject requests from four embassies...
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Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Jim Risch (R-ID), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today reintroduced the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, bipartisan legislation that would...
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Introduce bill assessing China’s exploitation of Hong Kong’s autonomy
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) this week introduced a bill which would amend the United States-Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992 to require a report on how the People’s Republic of China (RPC)...
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Bipartisan Bill Would Incentivize Use of Energy-Saving Glass
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Ed Markey, D-Mass., along with Congressmen Trent Kelly, R-Miss., and Steven Horsford, D-Nev., today introduced the Dynamic Glass Act. The bill would make electrochromic glass eligible for federal energy tax credits. This...
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Washington (June 13, 2019) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), and Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22) today introduced the 3D Printed Gun Safety Act, legislation to prohibit the online distribution of blueprints and instructions that allow for the three dimensional (3D) printing of firearms. Last year, the...
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Washington, D.C. – Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Ed Markey (D-MA) today introduced the Hack Your State Department Act, legislation to establish a program for pre-screened professionals to hack the State Department in order to identify cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Under the legislation, a hacker will be compensated for...
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Washington (June 12, 2019) –Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Representative Jim Langevin (RI-01) today re-introduced the Keeping Gun Dealers Honest Act, legislation that would strengthen accountability measures for irresponsible gun dealers and provide the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) with...
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Legislation adds sexual violence to U.S. human rights reporting and existing sanctions laws
Washington (June 11, 2019) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), and Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Representative Chellie Pingree (ME-01) today introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation that elevates the...
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Grants would be available to community colleges and other higher education institutions, labor organizations, nonprofits
Washington (June 11, 2019) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) today introduced legislation to create a grant program for...
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Washington (June 10, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), top Democrat on the Security Subcommittee of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, released the following statement after the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s confirmed that a recent data breach exposed images of travelers and...
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Washington (June 5, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today called on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to explain the State Department’s strategy for countering China’s export of surveillance technologies and practices to other countries. Senator Markey’s query follows...
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Washington, D.C. – Aiming to end the use of so-called “gay panic” and “trans panic” defenses in federal court, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass) and Congressman Joseph Kennedy III (MA-04) reintroduced the Gay and Trans Panic Defense Prohibition Act. “Gay panic” and “trans panic”...
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More than 6.5 million semipostal stamps have been sold to raise more than $890,000 for Alzheimer’s research at the National Institutes of Health
Washington (June 5, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today reintroduced legislation with Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.), and Chris Van...
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Washington (June 5, 2019) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) today called on the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) to answer to the alarming reports of discrimination against female athletes during pregnancy and early maternity. According to a recent op-ed video in...
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Washington (June 4, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement after reviewing the seven “part 810” authorizations the Trump administration has granted to U.S. companies, which allow them to share nuclear technology and explore nuclear...
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Legislation condemns intensifying repression and human rights violations by Chinese government today
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Pat Toomey (R-Penn.), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), have introduced legislation recognizing the 30th anniversary of the...
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Washington (June 4, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chair of the Senate Climate Change Task Force, hosted this week’s meeting with major scientific organizations to discuss recent reports about the Trump administration’s intention to restrict use of climate science in future federal reports. Experts from the...
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Senator has introduced Leonel Rondon Pipeline Safety Act to honor son killed last year in Merrimack Valley natural gas explosions and fires
Washington (June 3, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, which has jurisdiction over the Pipeline and Hazardous...
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Two eastern Chinese provinces found to be emitting and likely producing ozone-depleting chemicals banned internationally since 2010
Washington (June 3, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cyber Security Policy, led a...
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Report shines a light on lesser-known but still brutal assaults on immigrant, refugee, and asylee communities
Boston (May 30, 2019) – Since taking office, the Trump administration has enacted a series of high-profile policy changes that target immigrants and the communities in which they reside. But some of the most alarming and...
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