WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Washington (October 3, 2024) Today, Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security and founder and co-chair of the Congressional Task Force on Alzheimer's and Susan Collins (R-Maine) a founder and co-chair of the Congressional Task Force on Alzheimer's Disease announced that their bipartisan  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Letter Text (PDF) Washington (October 3, 2024) As COP29 approaches, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Representative Frank Pallone (NJ-06), and 60 members of Congress are urging Secretary of State Antony Blinken to take decisive action against Azerbaijan's human rights violations before the global climate summit in November. In their letter to Secretary Blinken, the lawmakers emphasized that whil  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 -- Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Today Congressman Moulton released the following statement in response to Iran's ballistic missile fire on Israel: "Iran's ballistic missile attack on civilian population centers was unprecedented, and Israel has every right to respond.The aim of Israel's retaliation should be to restore deterrence and, in the process, remind the world that the West's war with terrorists and their state sponsors is not  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Washington (October 2, 2024) Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) joined Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i) and their colleagues, in conjunction with Banned Books Week and the bicameral Congressional resolution condemning the escalating censorship crisis, in calling on Colette Peters, Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, to provide a full list of books and publications reject  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Boston (October 2, 2024) Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement regarding the Healey-Driscoll administration's decision not to proceed with signing a contract for the proposed Machine Gun Range at Joint Base Cape Cod (JBCC). "I commend the Healey-Driscoll administration for its decision not to proceed with signing a contract for the immediate development of the propose  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 -- Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: SALEM, MA Steve Becroft of Salem is the winner of the 2024 Peter J. Gomes Service Award. Congressman Seth Moulton presented the award at a ceremony in Peabody last night. Becroft volunteers with Healing Abuse Working for Change (HAWC) to ensure support and access to justice for victims of domestic violence. He regularly takes shifts on HAWC's emergency hotline and volunteers 2-3 times a week in multipl  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Boston, MA U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote to Deere & Company (John Deere) accusing the company of undermining its own "right-to-repair" agreements and evading its responsibilities under the Clean Air Act by failing to grant its customers the right to repair their own agricultural equipment. John Deere restricts farmers from repairing broken equipment themselves, even when they have   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Boston, MA U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote to Michael Hsu, Acting Comptroller of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), urging stronger regulation of Citibank (Citi), which has become "too-big-to-manage" and committed a number of massive blunders in recent years. Citi, the fourth largest bank in the United States, has failed to reform and modernize its operations despite being the  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate Boeing executives following years of promoting short-term profit over passenger safety. In the letter, the lawmakers urge the DOJ to review the behavior and potential culpability of Boeing's execu  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Boston, MA Today, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), backed the United Steelworkers (USW) and called out the executives of the United States Steel Corporation for selling out American steelworkers in order to get a fat payout if acquired by Nippon Steel. For the past year, U.S. Steel, a storied American steel manufacturing company, has been subject to an increasin  more