WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: The four recommendations come as the Biden Administration weighs executive actions at the border Boston (March 27, 2024) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) joined Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who led a group of 18 Senate Democrats, in a letter requesting administrative relief for undocumented immigrants. As the Biden Administration conside  more

WASHINGTON, March 28 -- Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news: Federal Funding Secured by Pressley Will Help Provide Emergency Childcare Support for Families Experiencing Homelessness in Boston Video (YouTube) | Photos (Dropbox) BOSTON - Today, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) visited Roxbury to celebrate the $1,000,000 in federal funding she secured to provide emergency childcare support for families experiencing homelessness in the City of Boston. Rep. Pressl  more

WASHINGTON, March 28 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Funding goes to support research program on technology and media's effects on infants, children, and adolescents Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, and Representative Jamie Raskin (MD-08) applauded that the Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations package included $15 million for their Children and Media Research Advancement (CAMRA) Act, bi  more

WASHINGTON, March 29 -- The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee issued the following information for a field hearing entitled "When Health Care Becomes Wealth Care: How Corporate Greed Puts Patient Care and Health Workers at Risk" at 11 a.m. on April 3, 2024, at Gardner Auditorium, Massachusetts State House, 24 Beacon Street, Boston: Witnesses * Ellana Stinson, MD, MPH, MBA, Emergency Medicine Physician, President, New England Medical Association, Boston, MA * Eileen O'Grad  more

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: To learn more about the impacts of for-profit forces in health care on workers and patients, Senator Markey held a listening session today in Boston Senator Markey hosting listening session about the impact of for-profit forces in health care Boston (March 27, 2024) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee on Primary Hea  more

LOWELL, Massachusetts, March 28 -- Rep. Lori Trahan, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on March 27, 2024: Today, House Democratic Policy and Communications Committee (DPCC) Co-Chair Lori Trahan (MA-03) led a letter with 69 of her Democratic colleagues to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to affirm their support for VA's recently announced expansion of access to in vitro fertilization (IVF). The lawmakers criticized a letter sent last week by House Republicans critici  more

LOWELL, Massachusetts, March 29 -- Rep. Lori Trahan, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on March 28, 2024: Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03) and Governor Maura T. Healey announced a major milestone in a transformative project that will bring new housing, economic development, technology jobs and workforce development to downtown Lowell. The research non-profit, Draper Laboratory (Draper) will become an anchor tenant in the Lowell Innovation Network Corridor (LINC), a tran  more

LOWELL, Massachusetts, March 29 -- Rep. Lori Trahan, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on March 28, 2024: Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03), Governor Maura T. Healey, and Lieutenant Governor Kimberley Driscoll visited Nuvera Fuel Cells in Billerica to tour the facility's clean hydrogen technology and discuss federal and state initiatives to support the advancement of climate technology across Massachusetts. Nuvera was recently awarded $30 million in Bipartisan Infrastruc  more

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: STONEHAM, MA - Yesterday, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (MA-5) visited the Boys and Girls Club of Stoneham and Wakefield to celebrate the construction of a new early education and training facility that is partly funded by $3 million she secured through the 2023 federal budget. She also met with local care providers and read to kids at Robin Hood Elementary School in Stoneham. "Accessible, affor  more

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: MALDEN, MA -- Today, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark released the following statement on the Biden-Harris Administration's announcement of new actions to support child care businesses: "President Biden gets it: Our economy runs on child care. But for far too long, the cards have been stacked against child care providers, resulting in high costs for parents, low wages for workers, and impossibly n  more

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (MA-5) released the following statement after Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-2) announced that she will retire from the House at the end of the 118th Congress: "Annie Kuster is a model of kind, devoted, results-first public service. I am profoundly grateful for all she has brought to as a highly effective advocate for New Hampshire, as a champion for women in the hal  more