Bill Text (PDF) Washington (March 12, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, today reintroduced the Stop Giving Big Oil Free Money Act, legislation that would close the loophole that allows deepwater oil and gas production leases issued from 1996 to 2000 to forgo paying most royalties... Read More

Bill Text (PDF) Washington (March 12, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, today reintroduced the Tar Sands Tax Loophole Elimination Act, legislation that would close the tar sands loophole in the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, which pays for immediate oil spill removal costs and... Read More

Washington (March 12, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee and co-author of the Green New Deal resolution, today applauded the passage of the bipartisan and bicameral Sea Turtle Rescue Assistance and Rehabilitation Act through the Committee. The legislation would establish... Read More

Washington (March 10, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and Representative Debbie Dingell (MI-06), authors of the National Climate Bank Act, released the following statement regarding the lawsuit filed Saturday by Climate United against Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), EPA Administrator Lee... Read More

Boston (March 9, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement today on Hostage and Wrongful Detainee Day. On March 7, 2025, Senator Markey led his colleagues, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Representatives Seth Moulton (MA-06) and Lori Trahan (MA-03) in a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, urging the... Read More

Watch: Senator Markey Town Hall Boston (March 8, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today hosted a town hall in Malden, Massachusetts to hear directly from residents concerned about Donald Trump and Republican attacks on Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and the programs that support families, workers, and small businesses. More than... Read More

Boston (March 7, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement after the U.S. Senate took its first vote on the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl (HALT) Act. One hundred ninety health, civil rights, and criminal justice groups have... Read More

Washington (March 7, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statment on the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. “Sixty years ago, fearless men and women marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, knowing they would face violence but refusing to turn back. Their courage in the face of brutal violence forced this nation to... Read More

Washington (March 7, 2025) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today joined Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and eight of their colleagues in calling on leadership of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to respond to unanswered questions about Elon Musk’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) and... Read More

Boston (March 7, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement ahead of the start of Daylight Saving Time (DST) on Sunday. Senator Markey is an original cosponsor of the Sunshine Protection Act to make DST permanent. In March 2022, the Sunshine Protection Act unanimously passed the U.S. Senate. “Every year, we set our... Read More

Washington (March 6, 2025) – Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Ranking Member Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement in response to Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Kelly Loeffler’s announcement that the SBA will relocate six of its regional offices currently in municipalities considered to be... Read More

Letter Text (PDF) Washington (March 6, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee and co-author of the original National Climate Bank Act with Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a member of the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, together with Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)... Read More

Air travel, flood and wildfire response, infectious disease control, nuclear safety, veterans’ healthcare and benefits, food safety are all at risk after massive layoffs “Congress and the public need to better understand the full impact of these terminations on our health and safety, given that the Administration and Musk clearly do not.”   Text of... Read More

Mass firings, office closures could delay taxpayers’ refunds, allow major abuses to go undetected or unaddressed “Reducing IRS staff will have profound effects, hindering the agency’s ability to process … tax returns … potentially causing delays for taxpayers waiting for refunds, and inhibiting the agency’s ability to conduct audits to catch... Read More

Massachusetts Small Business Witness Testimony Highlights Success of SBIR Washington (March 5, 2025) - Ranking Member Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) called for making the Small Business Innovation Research Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer Program (SBIR/STTR) permanent at today’s Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee... Read More

Stakeholders from Massachusetts and national energy assistance organizations discuss funding shortfalls, rising energy burdens, and the urgent need to strengthen LIHEAP Senator Markey Speaks with LIHEAP Roundtable Attendees Washington (March 5, 2025) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works... Read More

Zeldin’s illegal plan to gut the federal agency is poised to torpedo environmental safeguards while undermining the Constitution Washington (March 5, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) joined Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Ranking Member of the Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), Committee member Senator Angela Alsobrooks... Read More

Bill Text (PDF) Washington (March 5, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee and co-author of the Green New Deal resolution, and Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) reintroduced their bipartisan and bicameral Sea Turtle Rescue Assistance and Rehabilitation Act, legislation to... Read More

Washington (March 4, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement tonight in response to Donald Trump’s 2025 Joint Address to Congress. Senator Markey attended the address with his guest, Chrissy Lynch, President of the Massachusetts charter of the American Federation of Labor – Congress of Industrial Organizations... Read More

Members of the Massachusetts Congressional Delegation and their State of the Union Guests Address the Impacts of the Trump Administration on the Commonwealth Washington (March 4, 2025) - Members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation, including Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Democratic Whip Katherine... Read More