Boston (April 21, 2017) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) was joined today by Massachusetts digital economy leaders at a roundtable discussion and press conference at Carbonite in Boston in defense of net neutrality. In 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted strong net neutrality rules, ensuring that the internet will... Read More

Boston (April 20, 2017) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today announced that the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is releasing $11.7 million in grant funding to Massachusetts to support efforts to combat the prescription drug, heroin, and fentanyl epidemic. The total $500 million in grant funding for states announced... Read More

Boston (April 19, 2017) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) today led a bipartisan group of 12 senators in calling on Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and U.S. Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley to continue to put diplomatic pressure on their Russian counterparts to respond to the recent... Read More

Senators Note FERC's Disregard of Concerns in Sandisfield, Irreparable Harm to Otis State Forest Text of the letter is available here  Washington, D.C. - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) calling on the agency to revoke... Read More

Commission’s decision will allow Entergy to forgo seismic and flooding risk reevaluations, and installation of hardened vents meant to prevent release of radioactivity in a severe accident Washington (April 17, 2017) — Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, today criticized the... Read More

Lawmaker calls on President Trump to engage in direct negotiations with North Korea to reduce nuclear threat in coordination with escalation of Chinese sanctions on Pyongyang’s economy  Washington (April 14, 2017) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), top Democrat on the East Asia Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations... Read More

Washington, D.C. — United States Senator Edward J. Markey joined Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with nine other senators, today announced plans to reintroduce the Tax Filing Simplification Act of 2017 to simplify and decrease the costs of the tax filing process for millions of American taxpayers. This year, taxpayers will... Read More

WASHINGTON – Senator Edward J. Markey joined U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) today are demanding answers from United Airlines following the forcible removal of a ticketed passenger on Flight 3411 from Chicago, Illinois to Louisville,... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Edward J. Markey joined Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, led his colleagues in calling for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt to address the apparent conflict of interest regarding his participation in EPA’s review of the... Read More

Senator Markey is author of the first net neutrality legislation introduced in the House of Representatives Washington (April 7, 2017) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce Science and Transportation Committee today blasted preliminary plans announced by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai to overturn... Read More

Focuses on need to protect students, provide tools to parents when information is shared with third parties Washington (April 7, 2017) - Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) this week reintroduced the “Protecting Student Privacy Act”, legislation that would help safeguard the educational records of students in... Read More

Washington (April 6, 2017) - - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, tonight released the following statement after President Donald Trump announced the United States carried out a missile strike in Syria in response to the Assad government’s chemical weapons attack.   “Tonight,... Read More

Legislation would prevent internet service providers from selling personal, sensitive consumer information without consent Washington (April 6, 2017) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, was joined today by ten other Senators in introducing legislation to restore broadband... Read More

Lawmaker calls on President Trump to engage in direct negotiations with North Korea to reduce nuclear threat in coordination with escalation of Chinese sanctions on Pyongyang’s economy Washington (April 6, 2017) – As President Donald Trump prepares to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) is calling... Read More

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) wrote to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt and called on him to clarify new directives outlined in a pair of internal memos that would overturn well-established EPA procedures and... Read More

Washington, D.C. – Senator Edward J. Markey joined U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today introduced bipartisan legislation to boost local economies and businesses by providing small business owners better access to financial capital through credit unions. The Credit Union Residential Loan Parity... Read More

All express concerns about Dr. Gottlieb’s nomination day before Senate confirmation hearing Washington (April 4, 2017) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) were joined today by opioid treatment leaders and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reform advocates on a telephone press conference to voice strong... Read More

Ricketts failed to disclose involvement in dark money group bankrolling pro-Gorsuch ads & ads for other cabinet nominees   Senators: serious questions have been raised 'about whether [Ricketts] sought to mislead the Senate Commerce Committee, his competency for the position and if he could put the public interest first at the Department of... Read More

Washington (April 5, 2017) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement today in the wake of the chemical weapons attack in the Idlib province of Syria. “I am horrified by the murder of dozens of innocent Syrian civilians by poison gas when Bashar... Read More

President Trump this week signed into law a Republican resolution rescinding the FCC’s broadband privacy rules Washington (April 5, 2017) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today led a letter with seven other Senate Democrats querying the nation’s largest... Read More