Washington (April 21, 2017) – Seven years after the BP Deepwater Horizon rig sank to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico and nearly five million barrels of oil began spilling into the Gulf of Mexico on April 22, 2010, Senator Edward J. Markey, a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following...
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[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Edward J. Markey (D-MA) issued the following statement today after a federal judge in Detroit ordered Volkswagen to pay a $2.8 billion criminal penalty for cheating on diesel emissions tests.
“Following a years-long campaign of deception and pollution, it is only fair...
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Washington (April 21, 2017) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, today called on President Donald Trump to stand with the Armenian community and commemorate the Armenian Genocide in his first opportunity as President, on the 102nd anniversary on April 24. Between 1915-1923, more than 1.5 million...
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Trump Still Lacks a White House Science Advisor, Office of Science and Technology Policy Director & Chief Technology Officer, Among Others
WASHINGTON –Today, in advance of the March for Science, Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) led a group of Senators in urging President Trump to appoint well-qualified experts for critical science posts...
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Boston (April 20, 2017) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce Science and Transportation Committee, today blasted an Order approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that fails to promote competition and choice in the Business Data Services (BDS) and wholesale voice services markets. Earlier this week,...
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Boston (April 21, 2017) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) was joined today by Massachusetts digital economy leaders at a roundtable discussion and press conference at Carbonite in Boston in defense of net neutrality. In 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted strong net neutrality rules, ensuring that the internet will...
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Boston (April 20, 2017) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today announced that the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is releasing $11.7 million in grant funding to Massachusetts to support efforts to combat the prescription drug, heroin, and fentanyl epidemic. The total $500 million in grant funding for states announced...
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Boston (April 19, 2017) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) today led a bipartisan group of 12 senators in calling on Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and U.S. Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley to continue to put diplomatic pressure on their Russian counterparts to respond to the recent...
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Senators Note FERC's Disregard of Concerns in Sandisfield, Irreparable Harm to Otis State Forest
Text of the letter is available here
Washington, D.C. - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) calling on the agency to revoke...
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Commission’s decision will allow Entergy to forgo seismic and flooding risk reevaluations, and installation of hardened vents meant to prevent release of radioactivity in a severe accident
Washington (April 17, 2017) — Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, today criticized the...
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Lawmaker calls on President Trump to engage in direct negotiations with North Korea to reduce nuclear threat in coordination with escalation of Chinese sanctions on Pyongyang’s economy
Washington (April 14, 2017) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), top Democrat on the East Asia Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations...
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Washington, D.C. — United States Senator Edward J. Markey joined Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with nine other senators, today announced plans to reintroduce the Tax Filing Simplification Act of 2017 to simplify and decrease the costs of the tax filing process for millions of American taxpayers. This year, taxpayers will...
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WASHINGTON – Senator Edward J. Markey joined U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) today are demanding answers from United Airlines following the forcible removal of a ticketed passenger on Flight 3411 from Chicago, Illinois to Louisville,...
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Edward J. Markey joined Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, led his colleagues in calling for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt to address the apparent conflict of interest regarding his participation in EPA’s review of the...
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Senator Markey is author of the first net neutrality legislation introduced in the House of Representatives
Washington (April 7, 2017) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce Science and Transportation Committee today blasted preliminary plans announced by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai to overturn...
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Focuses on need to protect students, provide tools to parents when information is shared with third parties
Washington (April 7, 2017) - Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) this week reintroduced the “Protecting Student Privacy Act”, legislation that would help safeguard the educational records of students in...
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Washington (April 6, 2017) - - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, tonight released the following statement after President Donald Trump announced the United States carried out a missile strike in Syria in response to the Assad government’s chemical weapons attack.
“Tonight,...
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Legislation would prevent internet service providers from selling personal, sensitive consumer information without consent
Washington (April 6, 2017) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, was joined today by ten other Senators in introducing legislation to restore broadband...
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Lawmaker calls on President Trump to engage in direct negotiations with North Korea to reduce nuclear threat in coordination with escalation of Chinese sanctions on Pyongyang’s economy
Washington (April 6, 2017) – As President Donald Trump prepares to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) is calling...
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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) wrote to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt and called on him to clarify new directives outlined in a pair of internal memos that would overturn well-established EPA procedures and...
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