WASHINGTON – Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH), a member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pension Committee (HELP), and Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) sent a letter yesterday to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Commissioner, Scott Gottlieb, M.D., calling for a fuller accounting of the FDA’s past decision-making processes for... Read More

Senators unveil critical legislation to protect the health and safety of children, farmworkers, and families across the country from dangerous nerve agent found on fruits and vegetables, and in drinking water   Bill marks the second anniversary of former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s decision to deny a petition to ban... Read More

  Announcement comes after Trump administration admits it has granted secret authorizations to US companies to share nuclear technology and expertise with Saudi Arabia   Washington (March 28, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement denouncing the Trump... Read More

  Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO), Chris Coons (D-DE), and Ed Markey (D-MA) today introduced aresolution declaring, “Chinese telecommunications companies such as Huawei and ZTE pose serious threats to the national security of the United States and allies of the United States.”   Many US... Read More

WASHINGTON – In the wake of this month’s terrorist attack in New Zealand, U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (D-Idaho), the Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, were joined by Senators Gary Peters (D-Mi.), Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.),... Read More

  Boeing charged airlines extra for two safety features that could have alerted pilots and aviation mechanics toissues with the doomed 737 MAX 8s   Washington (March 27, 2019) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and 16 other Senators today sent a letter to the Boeing Company inquiring about the... Read More

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer Establishes New Senate Democrats’ Special Committee On The Climate Crisis After Republican Leader McConnell Fails To Schedule A Vote On Resolution To Establish Bipartisan Senate Select Committee – New Committee, Comprised Of 10 Dem Senators, Will Investigate, Hold Hearings, And... Read More

  Washington (March 22, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement regarding Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report to Attorney General William Barr.   “Attorney General Barr should make the full report public and provide its underlying documentation and findings to... Read More

Whitehouse, Feinstein, Blumenthal, Hirono, Markey, Harris point to massive influence campaign to block action in Congress as reason courts must act Oil majors spend tens of millions to defeat comprehensive climate legislation made necessary by their pollution   Washington, DC – Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Dianne Feinstein... Read More

Bipartisan letter pushes Trump administration to consider additional sanctions against senior officials for 2017 violence committed against the Rohingya   Washington (March 20, 2019) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) this week sent a letter to Secretary of... Read More

BOSTON – The Massachusetts Port Authority is pleased to announce that through the efforts of Senator Edward Markey (D-MA), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Congressman Stephen Lynch (D-MA) and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) $35 million has been secured to help fund the ongoing Boston Harbor Dredging Project. The project is... Read More

[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Edward J. Markey (D-MA) issued the following statement today after the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Volkswagen, two of its subsidiaries, and its former CEO Martin Winterkorn with defrauding investors and underwriters in connection with its multi-year effort to... Read More

ATLANTA – U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., reintroduced the bipartisan Merrill’s Marauders Congressional Gold Medal Act, S.743, this week with the support of 21 Senate cosponsors. The bill would bestow the Congressional Gold Medal on the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional) in recognition of the heroic unit’s... Read More

Washington (March 14, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Ranking Member of the East Asia Subcommittee, released the following statement after Facebook provided responses to questions posed by Senator Markey following the company’s decision to ban four ethnic armed groups... Read More

Washington, D.C. – Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Ed Markey (D-MA), and Jerry Moran (R-KS), along with Representatives Seth Moulton (MA-6) and Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-3), today reintroduced the Championing Apprenticeships for New Careers and Employees in Technology (CHANCE in Tech) Act.... Read More

Washington (March 12, 2019) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) released the following joint statement regarding the release of new documents obtained from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that detail the expansion of facial recognition technology to all international... Read More

Request information about why FAA determined that pilots needed neither additional information nor training on the plane’s flight control systems   Washington (March 12, 2019) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), members of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today sent a letter... Read More

Senators Markey and Hawley Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Update Children’s Online Privacy Rules   Legislation would extend protections for the first time to teens aged 13, 14, and 15 from having companies collect their personal and location information   Washington (March 12, 2019) – With increased tracking of children... Read More

  TRACED Act would boost call authentication, call blocking, and penalties for scammers   Washington (March 8, 2019) – This week, a new bipartisan group of ten U.S. senators officially co-sponsored the Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence (TRACED) Act, legislation recently introduced by Senator John... Read More

  Washington (March 7, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement in anticipation of Daylight Saving Time (DST) this weekend. As part of the 2005 Energy Policy Act, then-Representative Markey and Representative Fred Upton (R-Mich.) amended the Uniform Time Act of 1996 to increase the portion of the year... Read More