Effort comes as FTC investigates Facebook in wake of repeated and massive privacy breaches   Washington (January 25, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, released the following statement after media stories report that Facebook plans to integrate its messaging... Read More

  Washington (January 24, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee and leading Congressional voice on nuclear safety, released the following statement after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) today approved a weakened version of a rule designed to protect America’s... Read More

Reducing the number of national wireless carriers from four to three could result in higher prices for consumers   Washington (January 24, 2019) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Tom Udall (D-N.M.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), all members of the Commerce, Science and... Read More

  Lawmakers last week called for community input on safety concerns before any decisions made on relicensing   Washington (January 23, 2019) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Congressman Seth Moulton (MA-06) today commended the decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to delay the... Read More

  Lawmakers express concerns over plans to approve Seabrook amendment before scheduled hearing   Washington (January 18, 2019) – Massachusetts Senators Edward J. Markey and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Seth Moulton (MA-09) today urged the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to reevaluate and abandon its plan to... Read More

  Up to 84,000 Americans have already been hospitalized this flu season   Senators helped secure dedicated research funding to develop a broader, longer-lasting flu vaccine   Washington (January 17, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) was today joined by Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.),... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC  -- Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA) and Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) today reintroduced their legislation to fund research at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on firearms safety and gun violence prevention. Last year, doctors and public health officials across the country came out in support... Read More

  Washington (January 17, 2019)- Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass), a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement today on the Defense Department’s finalized Missile Defense Review (MDR), a report outlining U.S. missile defense policy and strategy.  The last Missile Defense Review was completed in... Read More

  Washington (January 17, 2019) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), members of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, today wrote to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) about the impact of the current government shutdown on the Commission’s investigation into Facebook. In March, 2018,... Read More

  WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), a member of the Senate Commerce Committee and chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet, and Ed Markey (D-Mass.), also a member of the Commerce Committee and author of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, this... Read More

  Thousands of safety-critical FAA employees are furloughed or forced to work without pay   Washington (January 16, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today sent a letter to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Acting Administrator Daniel K. Elwell inquiring... Read More

  Senators Want to Make Sure Federal Contract Workers Hurt by Shutdown Receive Their Paychecks   WASHINGTON, D.C. [01/16/19]—Today, U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-Minn.), along with her colleagues Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and Tim Kaine (D-Va.), introduced... Read More

  Markey, Warren, Moulton and Trahan ask company to commit to immediately suspend planned winter rate increase in Greater Lawrence service area   Washington (January 15, 2019) – Massachusetts Senators Edward J. Markey and Elizabeth Warren, and Representatives Seth Moulton and Lori Trahan today asked Columbia Gas of Massachusetts and... Read More

  FAA estimates as many as 2,700,000 commercial unmanned aircraft systems will be sold each year in the U.S. by 2020   Washington (January 15, 2019) – In the wake of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) release of a proposed rule to allow unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, to be flown commercially over people and at... Read More

  WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined 33 additional Democratic Senators in writing to the Office of Management and Budget to urge them to direct federal agencies to work with contractors to provide back pay to compensate low- and middle-income contractor employees for the wages they have lost during the... Read More

Washington (January 9, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today joined Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn) and 26 of his colleagues in introducing the Assault Weapons Ban of 2019, updated legislation to ban the sale, transfer, manufacture and importation of military-style assault... Read More

Udall, Cantwell, Carper, Bennet, and Markey call for more time for public to weigh in on the devastating impacts that drilling would have on “one of the last truly wild places on Earth”   WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Michael F. Bennet... Read More

Report requested by Murray, Warren, Stabenow, and Markey shows that food insecurity is a widespread issue on college campuses   Report is the first of its kind and makes recommendations for federal action to address hunger issues for students in higher education   President Trump’s shutdown is further jeopardizing students’... Read More

Washington (January 8, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement after tonight’s Oval Office address by President Donald Trump on funding for a wall at the southern border. In December, a temporary funding bill to keep the federal government open passed the Senate unanimously. That legislation did not... Read More

Trump administration has let nuclear threat increase since last leader-level meeting   Washington (January 7, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the East Asia Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement about media reports about potential locations where President... Read More