Legislation would close used car dealer loophole that poses large safety-risk to drivers, passengers [WASHINGTON, D.C.] – U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Ct) and Edward J. Markey (D-MA) and U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) introduced legislation to ensure used vehicles containing recalled, unsafe parts are repaired before being... Read More

~ Nearly one-third of permanent career federal employees will be eligible for retirement by 2019 ~    WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) led a group of Senators in calling on Senate leaders to protect federal employee retirement benefits from further cuts, as proposed by the Trump... Read More

Washington (July 26, 2017) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement after President Donald Trump this morning tweeted that, “the United States Government will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military.”   “Donald Trump powered his campaign for... Read More

Washington, DC - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren and Edward J. Markey along with Representatives Jim McGovern, Mike Capuano, and Bill Keating announced today that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded five fire departments in Massachusetts nearly $2.2 million in federal grants. Three fire departments received... Read More

Calls the Republican health care proposals the bad, the worse, and the ugly   Washington (July 25, 2017) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement today after voting not to proceed to debate the Republican health care legislation that would repeal the Affordable Care Act.   “It is a testament to... Read More

Wi-Fi structures would be placed in up to 60 communities Washington (July 25, 2017) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, yesterday sent a letter signed by the entire Massachusetts Congressional delegation to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) calling for a careful... Read More

Broad interagency input, a publicly-available document, and continuation of U.S. commitment to the elimination of nuclear weapons should be core components of Nuclear Posture Review say 22 Senators   Washington (July 19, 2017) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today led 20 colleagues in a letter to the... Read More

Despite Bipartisan Agreement On Need To Take Immediate Action To Address Opioid Epidemic, President Trump’s Opioid Commission – Chaired By NJ Governor Chris Christie – Has Now Missed Its Second Deadline To Lay Out Strategy To Combat Crisis   Trump Administration Has Been Pushing Legislation That Would Strip Health Care From... Read More

Governor Baker and Mass. Bar Association Praise Addition of Newest Committee Member, Who Previously Oversaw Judicial Selection as Aide to Governor Romney Washington, DC - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren and Edward J. Markey announced today that the bipartisan Advisory Committee on Massachusetts Judicial Nominations will re-convene to... Read More

Washington (July 17, 2017) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.), and Reps. Kevin McCarthy (CA-23) and Joseph P. Kennedy III (MA-04) today introduced legislation calling on the Secretary of the Treasury to issue a President John F. Kennedy commemorative coin. The lawmakers, members of the John F. Kennedy Centennial... Read More

Legislation released yesterday by Republicans would continue to gut protections for those with pre-existing conditions and provide billions in tax breaks for the wealthiest    Boston (July 14, 2017) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) was today joined by a substance abuse treatment and recovery services provider and an individual... Read More

Legislation would require prescribers of opioid pain medications and other controlled substances to undergo mandatory training on safe prescribing practices and the identification of possible substance use disorders   Washington (July 14, 2017) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) this week introduced legislation with Senators Richard... Read More

WASHINGTON – The ten Senators who represented the United States at the 21st Conference of Parties in 2015, where the world agreed to the Paris Climate Agreement, have written to President Trump today during his trip to France, urging him to reconsider and reverse his decision to withdraw the United States from the historic... Read More

Washington, D.C. – Senator Edward j. Markey (D-Mass.) introduced bipartisan legislation with Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) that would ban any entity that does business with North Korea or its enablers from using the United States financial system and to impose U.S. sanctions on all those participating in North Korean labor trafficking... Read More

[WASHINGTON, DC] – Following the twelfth confirmed fatality caused by a Takata airbag in the United States and an expanded recall of the defective products, U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Edward J. Markey (D-MA) urged the Trump Administration to take more aggressive action to protect consumers. In a letter to Secretary of... Read More

Washington (July 12, 2017) – Today, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee and co-Chair of the Senate Climate Action Task Force, released the following statement in response to a trillion-ton section of the Antarctic Larsen C ice shelf breaking off of the Antarctic peninsula. The enormous... Read More

Suspending safety rules poses 'unwarranted' threat to public health, the taxpayers and energy security    Action 'antithetical to the agency's core mission,' will result in children being exposed to harmful oil and gas well emissions for at least 2 more years in order to give the oil and gas industry a windfall   WASHINGTON... Read More

After years of allowing skyrocketing opioid production, agency last year heeded senators’ call to lower quota   WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Dick Durbin (D-IL)  led a group of fifteen senators in sending a letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), urging the agency to better prevent... Read More

Reports indicate that foreign cyber hackers targeted nuclear plant personnel and companies that manufacture power plant control systems   Washington (July 10, 2017) – Senator Edward J. Markey, top Democrat on the International Cybersecurity Policy Subcommittee of the Foreign Relations Committee, today queried several top federal agencies... Read More

7/06/2017 — WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Edward J. Markey (D-MA) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) led 24 senators in demanding the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity rescind its request that state election officials provide sensitive voter roll data.  The senators oppose the... Read More