Watch: Senator Markey, Advocates Demand: No Cuts to Social Security Boston (March 28, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security, held a press conference today to discuss how the Trump administration’s ongoing attempts to gut... Read More

Student seemingly arrested for her political views, Sen. Markey demands her release  Letter Text (PDF)  Washington (March 28, 2025) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), today led over 30 lawmakers in writing to Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Secretary of... Read More

Bill comes after record-breaking spring temperatures in Phoenix and across the West this week Washington (March 28, 2025) - Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) today introduced the Excess Urban Heat Mitigation Act which would create a competitive grant program to provide funding to combat the causes and consequences of... Read More

Bill Text (PDF) Washington (March 27, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and House Rules Committee Ranking Member Jim McGovern (MA-02) today reintroduced the Deerfield River Wild and Scenic River Study Act, legislation to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of the Deerfield River to identify portions of the river and its... Read More

Washington (March 27, 2025) - Ranking Member Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement after today’s Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee business meeting. “President Trump and Administrator Loeffler are running the Small Business Administration (SBA) into the ground. While proposing to cut 2,700 jobs - nearly half of... Read More

Letter Text (PDF) Washington (March 27, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) led his colleagues Senators Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Representative John Garamendi (CA-08) in writing today to Secretary of Energy Chris Wright about the Department of Government Efficiency’s... Read More

Washington (March 27, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), top Democrat on the Primary Health and Retirement Security Subcommittee of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today released the following statement in response to media reports that Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is... Read More

Massachusetts receives $2.6 billion in SNAP annually Washington (March 26, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today hosted a virtual meeting with Congressman Jim McGovern (MA-02), advocates from Mass Law Reform Institute, Project Bread, Food Bank of Western Massachusetts, Greater Boston Food Bank, Worcester County Food Bank, Massachusetts... Read More

Letter Text (PDF) Washington (March 25, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) led eight colleagues in writing today to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) senior official Kika Scott to express strong disapproval of the Trump administration’s resurrection of one of the country’s most draconian and discriminatory immigration... Read More

Bill Text (PDF) Washington (March 25, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (IL-09) today introduced the Water Intelligence, Security, and Cyber Threat Protection Act, legislation that would provide funding for clean water and wastewater utilities to become members of the Water Information Sharing and Analysis... Read More

For the first time in 65 years, cities and towns in southeastern Massachusetts will have passenger rail service Boston (March 24, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, released the following statement celebrating the formal opening of South Coast Commuter Rail service. South... Read More

Letter Text (PDF) Washington (March 24, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, and Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) today wrote to President Donald Trump, requesting additional information on any efforts to keep TikTok online in the United States and... Read More

Boston (March 22, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today released the following statement on the passing of former First Lady of Massachusetts Katharine “Kitty” Dukakis. “I am deeply saddened to learn of the passing of my dear friend Kitty Dukakis, a woman whose dedication to public service, to uplifting others, and to human rights was... Read More

Senators Question Trump Administration Claims and Whether Actions Will Increase Waste and Abuse Washington (March 21, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee joined Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee,... Read More

Washington (March 20, 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 Trump administration announced it would dismantle the Department of Education. “President Trump, Elon Musk, and Secretary McMahon have a clear education agenda:... Read More

Senators Cite Steward Real Estate Scheme, Concerns About Private Interests in Letter to Administration Letter Text (PDF) Boston (March 20, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) today sent a letter to U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Acting Administrator Stephen Ehikian, questioning the GSA’s... Read More

Boston (March 20, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Ranking Member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) today released the following statement regarding the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruling temporarily blocking the Trump Administration... Read More

Boston (March 18, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, released the following statement after Trump fired the Federal Trade Commission’s only two Democratic Commissioners, Rebecca Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya. “For more than a century, the independent Federal Trade Commission has... Read More

Senators to Attorney General: “In this challenging environment for election officials, it is essential to our democracy that they can continue to rely on [DOJ] to uphold the law” Washington (March 18, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) yesterday joined Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Rules and... Read More

Administrator Zeldin is manipulating facts as a pretext to terminate a congressionally appropriated and legally obligated program that would lower household energy costs, spur economic development, and reduce pollution Washington, (March 14, 2025) - Today, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Ranking Member of... Read More