Washington (December 20, 2013) – Today, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) joined a bipartisan group of 39 Senators in a letter to President Barack Obama calling him to fund the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) at no less than $4.7 billion in his 2015 budget proposal. The LIHEAP helps low-income households, veterans, and... Read More

WASHINGTON (December 20, 2013) -- Today, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and twelve other Senators sent a letter to Senate Agriculture Committee leaders expressing concerns about the potential impacts of an anti-science provision buried in the House version of the Farm Bill. The so-called “Sound Science Act” would stifle high-quality... Read More

Washington (December 19, 2013) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, released the following statement after Target Brands Inc. confirmed upwards of 40 million credit and debit cards may have been impacted by a data breach affecting shoppers between November 27-December... Read More

Washington (December 19, 2013) – Senator Edward J. Markey, a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, released the following statement after Verizon agreed to publish a transparency report disclosing law enforcement requests for customer information in the wake of his ongoing investigation of wireless surveillance by law... Read More

Washington, D.C.-  Congressman John F. Tierney and United States Senators Elizabeth Warren and Edward J. Markey today announced that the Saugus Fire Department has been awarded a $1.2 million grant through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grant program. These funds... Read More

Washington (December 17, 2013) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today announced the retirement of his long-time staffer and current Chief of Staff Jeff Duncan and that his current Deputy Chief of Staff, Mark Bayer, who has worked for Senator Markey for almost 15 years, will take over as the Chief of Staff in his Senate office. ... Read More

Washington (December 18, 2013) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement after a new analysis from the UMass Donahue Institute details the near-term impacts on Massachusetts of the across-the-board spending cuts – or sequestration – mandated by passage of the Budget Control Act of 2011. The report... Read More

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Tom Harkin (D-IA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Edward J. Markey (D-MA) sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairwoman Edith Ramirez today urging the FTC to investigate the marketing practices of e-cigarette manufacturers. The... Read More

Washington (December 18, 2013) – Senator Edward J. Markey, joined by Senator Elizabeth Warren, and Representatives John F. Tierney, James P. McGovern, Stephen F. Lynch, William R. Keating, Niki Tsongas, and Joseph P. Kennedy today sent a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) recommending the agency make no decision on the June... Read More

Washington (December 16, 2013) – Today, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) applauded the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announcement of improvements to several public medical device databases, reiterating his call to close the current loophole in federal law that allows defective devices to enter the market and jeopardize patient safety.... Read More

WASHINGTON (December 16, 2013) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and 23 of his Senate colleagues today asked the leaders of the Senate Finance Committee to renew vital clean energy tax incentives that are facing expiration at the end of this year. The tax incentives, which range from credits to produce renewable energy to encouraging... Read More

Washington (December 16, 2013) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today issued a proposed rule to require manufacturers of antibacterial hand soaps and body washes to demonstrate that these products are safe for long-term daily use and more effective than plain... Read More

Washington – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement to mark the first anniversary of the tragic mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. “Just one year ago, our collective hearts broke at the horrific mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. At the hands of one... Read More

Washington (December 13, 2013) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Richard Neal (D-Springfield) sent a letter today to Time Warner Cable urging it to keep New England Cable News (NECN) in its service in the Berkshires region of Massachusetts. Time Warner announced this week that it would... Read More

Washington (December 13, 2013) – Today, members of the Massachusetts Congressional Delegation, led by Congressman Bill Keating, sent a letter to Craig Fugate, Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) requesting a delay in the implementation of the Commonwealth’s new flood maps until they are amended to... Read More

Lawmaker introduced ‘Do Not Track Kids’ Act, bipartisan, bicameral legislation to provide new tools for parents, privacy safeguards for kids online   Washington (December 13, 2013) – a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, released the following statement after the Center for Law and Information Policy... Read More

WASHINGTON (December 12, 2013) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee who previously called for commonsense rules that would restrict phone calls on airplanes as part of an expansion of mobile device use in airplanes, today released the following statement after the Federal... Read More

WASHINGTON (December 12, 2013) -- Today Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, reacted to a Wall Street Journal report that ExxonMobil has joined other major oil companies such as Shell and ConocoPhillips and the industry’s lobbying association, the American Petroleum Institute,... Read More

Washington U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (DWI) and Edward Markey (DMA) today introduced the Community Access Preservation (CAP) Act, legislation to ensure public access to local television programming.   "The 80plus public, educational, and governmental access channels in the state of Wisconsin deliver invaluable public programming on a daily... Read More

In October, lawmaker asked agency to investigate misleading financial products   Washington (December 10, 2013) - Senator Edward J. Markey (DMass.), a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, released the following statement after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ordered GE Capital Retail to refund up to... Read More