Salem, MA - Today, Congressman Seth Moulton (D-MA), and United States Senators Ed Markey (D-MA) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), announced that the Army Corps’ 2018 Work Plan includes a $6 million federal grant for the Gloucester Harbor/Annisquam River dredging project. Moulton, Markey, and Warren have been advocating for this funding for...
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Congressional Members Underscore Consequences of Failure to Have an Accurate, Official Fatality Count
Letter to FEMA and HHS (PDF)
Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Representative Nydia M. Velá zquez (D-N.Y.), and Representative Bennie G. Thompson...
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Washington (June 12, 2018) Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, blasted the ruling today in favor of the AT&T – Time Warner merger.
“This ruling is an assault on consumers, choice, and innovation,” said Senator Markey. “The...
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Markey amendment would redirect funds to help denuclearize North Korea
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/WkRiZCjyZo4
Washington (June 12, 2018) – With the U.S. Senate beginning debate of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today filed an amendment to redirect funds that the Trump...
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When Facebook CEO Zuckerberg testified in April in front of the Senate, Markey called for commitment to protect children’s privacy
Washington (June 12, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, released the following statement after Facebook provided...
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Senator Markey has long called for direct engagement with North Korea backed by economic pressure
VIDEO: https://bit.ly/2l1JsbQ
Washington (June 12, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the East Asia Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement about the...
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Senators: Communities Must Have Access to the Facts to Ensure Levels of PFAS in Local Drinking Water are Safe
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) joined Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Rob Portman (R-OH) and a bipartisan group of 9 Senators in demanding the administration release the results of a study regarding...
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Army Corps of Engineers releases federal funds on the heels of site tour with Senator Markey
Washington (June 11, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Representative William R. Keating (D-Mass.) today announced $13.5 million in federal funding to dredge Plymouth Harbor. In 2020,...
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Washington (June 11, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), author of the Congressional Review Act (CRA) Resolution of Disapproval that passed the Senate last month in an historic vote of 52-47, released the following statement as the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) repeal of net neutrality protections officially...
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Washington—Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass. ) joined Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and 30 of their colleagues in introducing legislation to keep immigrant families together by preventing the Department of Homeland Security from taking children from their parents at the border.
The Keep...
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It's Already Been 21 Days Since The Senate Passed Bill To Save Net Neutrality By A Strong Bipartisan Vote—And Only Four Days Until Net Neutrality Is Officially Repealed
In New Letter, All 49 Senate Dems Urge Speaker Ryan to Schedule A Vote On Senate Bill & Protect Middle-Class Families, Consumers, Farmers, Communities of...
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Senators have introduced legislation to provide stable housing for hurricane survivors after Trump refused to activate program to aid evacuees from Puerto Rico
Washington (June 7, 2018) – Massachusetts Senators Elizabeth Warren and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today met with Puerto Rican families from Western Massachusetts and...
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An estimated 18 billion unwanted calls were placed in the U.S. in 2017
Washington (June 7, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee today introduced the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act to stop abusive robocall practices. Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank...
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Senators stress the short- and long-term damage of Trump’s policy of traumatizing children seeking asylum
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, and Patty Murray, D-Wash., the top Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee led 38 of their Democratic...
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Legislation creates permanent position in State Dept. to coordinate efforts to promote international LGBTI human rights
Washington (June 7, 2018) – Seeking to build on the United States’ fight for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) equality to be a foreign policy priority both at home and...
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Senators Markey, Whitehouse and Schatz release summary of the past year in climate action in the wake of Trump announcement of withdrawal from international agreement
Washington (June 6, 2018) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), co-chairs of the U.S. Senate Climate...
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Washington (June 6, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey, Ranking Member of the East Asia, The Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today urged committee leadership to hold a hearing on the new revelations that Facebook shared personal consumer information with...
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Senators ask how Facebook’s actions are consistent with CEO Zuckerberg’s testimony before Congress
Washington (June 4, 2018) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), members of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, today called on Facebook to answer questions about new...
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Calls on film industry to take additional actions to prevent youth smoking initiation
Washington (June 4, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, was today joined by Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Patty...
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Boston (June 1, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its problem formulation documents. These documents establish the scope of the risk evaluations for the first ten chemicals the EPA was...
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