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Washington (August 17, 2023) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Safety, and Representative Steve Cohen (TN-09) today led their colleagues Senators Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Elizabeth...
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Washington (August 17, 2023) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) joined Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), along with eight of their Senate colleagues, in sending a letter to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) urging the agency to take further steps to address the problem of lead...
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Letter to FTC Chair urges immediate action to stop tracking, targeting of children online without parental consent in violation of Senator Markey’s landmark COPPA law
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Washington (August 17, 2023) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation...
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Letter follows far-right Supreme Court majority’s decision gutting affirmative actionText of Letter (PDF)
Washington (August 15, 2023) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the HELP Committee, and Senator...
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Boston (August 10, 2023) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today celebrated the announcement of more than $14 million in federal funding to support public and regional airports in Massachusetts. “Massachusetts’s public and regional airports are critical...
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Washington (August 8, 2023) — Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), members of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, wrote to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today urging the Commission to enforce its existing regulations regarding consent for receiving...
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Washington (August 8, 2023) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) joined Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, who led 28 senators, including Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), in a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael S. Regan urging EPA to finalize...
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Ninety percent of Americans live in counties hit by a climate disaster within the last 10 years, and more than 600 U.S. hospitals are at risk of closureBill would commit $105 billion in federal funding to upgrade health facilities ...
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Washington (August 1, 2023) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, joined his colleagues led by Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) and Sara Jacobs (D-CA) in calling on President Joe Biden to...
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“Massachusetts will continue to welcome and assist new arrivals as they resettle across the Commonwealth. The federal government can help relieve the strain on available resources in the Commonwealth by removing obstacles new arrivals face when trying to work legally."
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Washington (August 1, 2023) –...
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Washigton (August 1, 2023) — Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass) today joined Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and colleagues in urging Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Sandra Thompson to ensure that tenants’ rights are protected in any multifamily properties with financing backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
“There...
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Washington (July 28, 2023) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security, today announced the introduction of the Public Health Nursing Act, legislation that would require the Secretary of Health and Human...
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Washngton (July 28, 2023) — Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) introduced the Assessing International Requirements to Fuel Aviation’s Impact Reduction (AIR FAIR) Act, legislation that would apply a system of surcharges on luxury aviation, including private jets and first and...
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An average of 700 Americans die from extreme heat and more than 67,000 are rushed to the emergency room annually
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Washington (July 28, 2023) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Safety, Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and...
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Washington (July 27, 2023) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) joined Senators Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) in reintroducing a Senate Resolution to declare racism a public health crisis. Brown first introduced the legislation in July 2020, and reintroduced it again in April...
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Markey: “My Republican colleagues are quite comfortable enriching defense contractors, while demanding cuts for working and middle-class families.”
Washington (July 27, 2023) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement today after voting no on a bloated, $886 billion National Defense...
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Washington (July 27, 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 a member of the U.S. Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking, released the following statement today following the Senate passage of his...
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Bill would help ensure that transgender and nonbinary people, and survivors of domestic violence, receive accurate credit scores
Washington (Jult 27, 2023) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) joined Senators John Fetterman (D-Pa.) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) today in introducing the Name Accuracy in Credit Reporting Act, legislation to help consumers...
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Union Contract Inclusion Would Mean a Raise for Ultium Battery Workers in Lordstown
Washington (July 27, 2023) - Today, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) joined Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) in calling on the big three auto companies, General Motors, Stellantis, and Ford Motor Company, to negotiate in good faith to reach a fair outcome that folds...
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Washington (July 27, 2023) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, released the following statement today after the committee voted – without any opposition – to advance the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0), legislation to...
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