Senate Dems Announce “No Hearing, No Vote Act” to Prevent The Senate From Considering Any Reconciliation Bill, Like Trumpcare, Unless It Was Reported Out By at Least one of the Instructed Senate Committees & Had At Least One Hearing On Every Major Reported Provision In The Bill   Despite The Fact That GOP’s Legislation... Read More

Washington (June 9, 2017) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) this week joined Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) to introduce the Young Fishermen’s Development Act (S.1323), legislation to mitigate the challenges facing new entrants into the fishing industry and... Read More

Senator Markey joined Senator Al Franken and his colleagues pressed AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson for answers regarding the company's widespread use of pre-dispute, forced arbitration clauses in customer contracts that affect millions of consumers in Minnesota and across the country.The letter-which was joined by Sens. Richard Blumenthal... Read More

Washington (June 7, 2017) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement after a statement for the record by former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) James Comey was made publicly available before his testimony to the Senate Intelligence... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Democratic Policy and Communications Committee today released a compilation of over 100 oversight letters the Trump Administration has refused to answer in response to congressional inquiries sent since January of this year.  This release followsreports that the Trump Administration instructed federal... Read More

Washington (June 5, 2017) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, released the following statement in reaction to news that the Trump administration is backing a plan to privatize air traffic control, taking it from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and handing it over to a... Read More

Senator has introduced legislation that would save $100 billion over ten years through nuclear spending reductions   Washington (June 5, 2017) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, called on the Trump administration to curtail costly plans to upgrade America’s nuclear weapons arsenal, in... Read More

Mega-deal would make Sinclair the largest TV broadcast company in the U.S., impacting consumers by decreasing competition and diversity in broadcasting WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a letter today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) led seven of her Senate colleagues urging Senators John Thune (R-SD) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the chairmen of... Read More

Boston (June 1, 2017) – Despite the United States being the world’s biggest carbon polluter in history, President Donald Trump today announced he is withdrawing America from the Paris climate agreement. In 2015, in the largest gathering of heads of state in history, 195 countries, led in great part by the United States, crafted a global... Read More

Secretary Kelly indicated high airline bag fees may undermine the TSA’s efforts to detect dangerous devices in luggage   Washington (May 31, 2017) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today sent a letter querying Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly about airline bag fees and their impact on... Read More

Senator Markey is co-author of only comprehensive climate change legislation to pass a chamber of Congress   Boston (May 31, 2017) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement today after media reports that President Donald Trump will withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement. U.S. leadership... Read More

Washington, D.C. - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren and Edward J. Markey along with Representatives Richard E. Neal, Stephen Lynch, Niki Tsongas, Bill Keating, Joe Kennedy, and Seth Moulton announced today that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded nine fire departments in Massachusetts over $1.25 million in round... Read More

Washington, D.C. – Senator Edward J. Markey joined Ron Wyden and Representative Earl Blumenauer, Oregon Democrats, today introduced their bill to expand vote-by-mail nationwide and knock down the mounting obstacles that voters across the country are facing, just to cast their ballots. The bill is co-sponsored by: Sen. Jeff Merkley,... Read More

WASHINGTON, May 25 – Days after President Donald Trump released a budget that would slash support for working families, Senator Markey joined Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), joined by 28 of their colleagues in the Senate, introduced legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) and Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) introduced a bill that would increase pensions for Medal of Honor... Read More

New Congressional Budget Office estimates 23 million Americans would lose coverage under House-passed American Health Care Act Washington (May 24, 2017) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) issued the following statement after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) updated its impact estimate on the House-passed American Health Care Act... Read More

“A pledge that allows for secret waivers is, quite obviously, meaningless”   Washington, DC – If the White House succeeds in blocking the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) from discovering who has received waivers of President Donald Trump’s ethics pledge, we will get it ourselves, said a group of Senators in a... Read More

Cuts to NIH, CDC, science, and other research programs would harm Massachusetts universities, hospitals, innovation economy   Washington (May 23, 2017) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement on the full FY 2018 budget document, “A New Foundation for American Greatness”, released today by the... Read More

Massachusetts Senators request remaining LIHEAP funding for Massachusetts families   Washington (May 22, 2017) – Massachusetts Democratic Senators Edward J. Markey and Elizabeth Warren today asked Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to release the remaining ten percent of Low-Income Home Energy Assistance (LIHEAP)... Read More

Massachusetts scheduled to receive $125 million in cost-sharing reduction payments for 2018, impacting coverage for more than 244,000 residents   Washington (May 22, 2017) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement after President Donald Trump and House Republicans asked to further delay the lawsuit over the... Read More