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Ed Markey

August 21, 2023

Edward John Markey (/ˈmɑːrki/ MAR-kee; born July 11, 1946) is an American lawyer, politician, and former Army reservist serving as the junior United States senator from Massachusetts since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he served 20 terms (18 full, two partial) as the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 7th congressional district from 1976 to 2013. Before his congressional career, he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1973 to 1976.

Ed Markey
Official portrait, 2013
United States Senator
from Massachusetts
Assumed office
July 16, 2013
Serving with Elizabeth Warren
Preceded byMo Cowan
Chair of the House Global Warming Committee
In office
March 8, 2007 – January 6, 2011
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts
In office
November 2, 1976 – July 15, 2013
Preceded byTorbert Macdonald
Succeeded byKatherine Clark
Constituency7th district (1976–2013)
5th district (2013)
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
In office
January 3, 1973 – January 3, 1975
Preceded byWilliam R. Callahan
Succeeded byRichard McGrath
Constituency16th Middlesex
In office
January 3, 1975 – November 2, 1976
Preceded byEdward Dickson
Succeeded byJohn C. McNeil
Constituency26th Middlesex
Personal details
Born
Edward John Markey

(1946-07-11) July 11, 1946 (age 77)
Malden, Massachusetts, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
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(m. 1988)​
EducationBoston College (BA, JD)
Signature
WebsiteSenate website
Military service
AllegianceUnited States
Branch/service
Years of service1968–1973
RankSpecialist Fourth Class
Ed Markey's voice
Ed Markey questions witnesses on healthcare worker shortages
Recorded February 16, 2023

In 2013, after John Kerry was appointed United States Secretary of State, Markey was elected to serve out the remainder of Kerry's Senate term in a 2013 special election. Markey defeated Stephen Lynch in the Democratic primary and Republican Gabriel E. Gomez in the general election. He was elected to a full term in the Senate in 2014. Markey fended off a primary challenge from Joseph Kennedy III and was reelected in 2020 by a wide margin.

Markey is a progressive who has focused on climate change and energy policy and was chair of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming from 2007 to 2011. He is the Senate author of the Green New Deal.[1] Markey is the dean of the Massachusetts congressional delegation, having served in Congress since 1976. His progressive policies have led to widespread support among young voters.[2] The Hill has called him "an icon to Gen Z activists".[3]

Early life and education

Markey was born on July 11, 1946, in Malden, Massachusetts, the son of Christina M. (née Courtney) and John E. Markey, a milkman. Markey's mother was the valedictorian of her high school class but was unable to attend college because her mother died and she was needed to care for the family.[4][5][6] The family was Irish Catholic, and Markey was educated at Immaculate Conception School and Malden Catholic High School.[citation needed]

Starting in the summer of 1965, Markey was the driver and salesperson for an ice cream truck in Lexington, Massachusetts. He was known as "Eddie the Ice Cream Man" to neighborhood children and used the proceeds from the HP Hood route to pay tuition at Boston College. In the late 1960s Markey was cited by the Lexington Police for the ringing of his bell to announce the ice cream truck's presence. Soon after the citation, the selectmen of Lexington changed the ordinance and he was allowed to ring his bell.[7]

Markey graduated from Boston College in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts and from Boston College Law School in 1972 with a Juris Doctor.[8]

Career

 
Edward Markey, 1975

After graduating, Markey worked as a lawyer in private practice. He served in the United States Army Reserve from 1968 to 1973, attaining the rank of Specialist Fourth Class.[9] He joined while a junior in college, and has said that he enlisted before knowing whether he would receive a Vietnam War draft notice.[9][a] Markey also said that even though he opposed the war, he would have answered the induction notice and gone to Vietnam if he had been drafted, despite having secured a position in the Reserve.[9] His South Boston reserve unit included Thomas P. O'Neill III, Steve Grossman, and Markey's brothers Richard and John.[9][11]

Markey was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where he represented the 16th Middlesex district (Malden and Melrose) and 26th Middlesex district from 1973 to 1976.[12][13]

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

 
Markey during the 101st United States Congress (1989)

On May 21, 1976, incumbent Congressman Torbert Macdonald died in office.[14] Markey, who had just been elected to a third term in the state house, entered a twelve-candidate Democratic primary[15] for what was then the 7th district. In the primary—the real contest in this heavily Democratic district—Markey won the nomination with a plurality of 22% of the vote.[16] In the November 1976 election he defeated Republican Richard Daly 77%–18%.[17] That election doubled as both a special election for the balance of Macdonald's 11th term and a regular election for a full two-year term, and so Markey took office later that night. This gave him greater seniority than other Representatives first elected in 1976.

Markey was challenged in a Democratic primary three times, first in 1980, when he won 85%;[18] then in 1984, when he won 54%;[19] and finally in 2002, when he won 85% of the vote.[20]

Markey was reelected 19 more times from this district, which included most of the northern suburbs of Boston. His lowest vote total was 62% in 1992, in a three-way election. Markey faced no Republican opposition in eight of his bids for reelection, in 1978, 1980, 1986, 1988, 1990, 2000, 2002, and 2006.[21][22] His district was renumbered the 5th after the 2010 census, in which Massachusetts lost a district.

Tenure

 
Markey as ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee

Markey was a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and the National Journal gave him a "Composite Liberal" score of 89.2.[23]

Environment and energy

In December 2007, Markey became the first US politician to use Second Life, through which he addressed the delegates of the UNFCCC in Bali as part of OneClimate's Virtual Bali event. It was estimated that the carbon dioxide he saved by not flying to Bali was around 5.5 tons.[24] Pressure from Markey prompted BP to provide a live underwater video feed showing oil leaking out of a pipe in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.[25] Markey has been a longtime critic of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and has been critical of the NRC's decision-making on the proposed Westinghouse AP1000 reactor design and the NRC response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.[26][27]

In reply to Alaska's Governor Sarah Palin's position on how the American Clean Energy and Security Act (also known as Waxman-Markey, named after Markey and Henry Waxman) could have a negative impact for Alaskans,[28] Markey wrote an article criticizing Palin's inaction on global warming and her environmental positions.[29]

Markey sarcastically suggested in August 2010 that global warming deniers form their own country on an iceberg: "An iceberg four times the size of Manhattan has broken off Greenland, creating plenty of room for global warming deniers to start their own country." Markey also said that, at the time, 2010 was the hottest recorded year and that "scientists agree Arctic ice is a canary in a coal mine that provides clear warnings on climate".[30][31] Markey has derided Republicans' stance on global warming, stating during a hearing: "I won't physically rise, because I'm worried that Republicans will overturn the law of gravity, sending us floating about the room."[32]

In January 2011, House Republicans eliminated the Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming, which Nancy Pelosi created in 2006 and Markey chaired.[33]

Objection to the 2004 presidential election

Markey was one of the 31 House Democrats who voted not to count Ohio's 20 electoral votes in the 2004 presidential election.[34] George W. Bush had won Ohio by 118,457 votes.[35] Without Ohio's electoral votes, the election would have been decided by the U.S. House of Representatives, with each state having one vote, as dictated by the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Domestic initiatives

Markey introduced legislation to change the duration of Daylight Saving Time[36] and to increasing privacy controls over children online.[37]

Markey drew some controversy through his proposal to introduce legislation[38] that deals with amusement parks' roller coasters, believing that newer, faster rides that exert greater G-pressures on the human body are dangerous mentally and physically, despite a lack of concrete evidence to support these claims,[39] and contrary to studies that affirmed the safety of roller coasters in general.[40]

In 2009, Markey sponsored the Internet Freedom Preservation Act to enact principles of net neutrality.[41] The proposed legislation received support from a few dozen co-sponsors and public interest organizations but ultimately died in committee before enactment.[42]

 
Rep. Markey (R) with Chinese Minister of Railways Liu Zhijun (L) and U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (C) in May 2009. Behind them is a Hexie Hao train on the Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Railway.

National defense

In 2003, Markey called attention to the lack of security surrounding air cargo placed on commercial passenger planes, arguing that if passenger baggage is screened for explosive devices, cargo on the plane should be as well.[43] In 2007, he succeeded in getting a 100% air cargo screening requirement signed into law.[44] In the law codifying the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, Markey wrote the mandate requiring all cargo on passenger planes to be screened.[45]

Committee assignments

U.S. Senate

In 2004, Markey was considered a contender for John Kerry's seat in the United States Senate if Kerry were to be elected President of the United States.[46] He was also considered a leading contender in the 2010 special election to replace the late Ted Kennedy, but on September 12, 2009, he announced his decision not to run and endorsed fellow Congressman Michael Capuano, who went on to lose the Democratic primary to Martha Coakley.[47]

Elections

2013 special

Main article: 2013 United States Senate special election in Massachusetts

On December 27, 2012, Markey was the first to announce his candidacy to run in a special election to fill Kerry's seat after Barack Obama nominated him for United States Secretary of State.[48] Several politicians, including Kerry, endorsed Markey even before the Senate confirmed Kerry.[49] On April 30, 2013, Markey won the Democratic nomination by defeating fellow Congressman Stephen Lynch in the primary election.[50] He defeated Republican challenger Gabriel E. Gomez in the general special election on June 25 and completed the remaining 17 months of Kerry's term.[51][52]

Markey is the longest-tenured House member ever elected to the Senate, with his 36-plus years of service exceeding that of Frederick H. Gillett, who served in the House for 32 years before moving to the upper chamber in 1925.[53][54] He is the 11th oldest candidate to win a U.S. Senate special election out of more than 170 men and women since the passage of the 17th Amendment.[55]

2014

See also: 2014 United States Senate election in Massachusetts

Markey sought a full six-year term in 2014. He defeated Republican Hopkinton selectman Brian Herr with 62 percent of the vote.

2020

See also: 2020 United States Senate election in Massachusetts

In the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Markey endorsed fellow Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.[56] After Warren withdrew in early 2020, he endorsed Joe Biden.[57]

Several Massachusetts Democrats announced primary challenges to Markey in the September 1, 2020 election,[58] but all but 4th district Representative Joe Kennedy III dropped out, leaving Kennedy as the sole challenger.[59] On September 13, 2019, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, with whom Markey has collaborated on the proposed Green New Deal, endorsed Markey.[60][61]

Markey defeated Kennedy with 55.6% of the vote, with overwhelming margins in Boston and the surrounding suburbs, including Kennedy's Newton, and in the college towns of Western Massachusetts. The primary race was seen by many as a showdown between the Democratic establishment, represented by Kennedy, and its new and growing progressive wing, embodied by Markey.[62] Despite the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's longstanding opposition to Democratic primary challengers, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi endorsed Kennedy, whose fundraising and campaigning efforts she credited for returning the House to Democratic control in the 2018 midterm elections.[63] Meanwhile, Markey had the support of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Ocasio-Cortez, and the youth-led Sunrise Movement founded in 2017 to promote the Green New Deal as a solution to the climate crisis.[63][64][65][66]

Markey defeated Republican Kevin O'Connor in the general election.

Tenure

 
Senator Markey attending the Greater Boston Labor Council's 2015 annual Labor Day Breakfast in Boston.

Markey resigned his House seat on July 15, 2013, and was sworn into the Senate on July 16.[67] Although he is the dean of the Massachusetts delegation, he is the state's junior Senator, since Elizabeth Warren took office six months before he did.

Markey is known for the "blizzard" of public letters he posts on his website and sends to the press to draw attention to his favored issues.[68]

Markey was on Capitol Hill to participate in the 2021 United States Electoral College vote count when Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol. During the attack, he and his staff sheltered in place in an undisclosed location. During the siege, he tweeted, "Donald Trump is responsible for the coup that is unfolding at the Capitol. He is a fascist and a direct threat to our country."[69] After the Capitol was secure, Markey tweeted that Trump should be impeached.[70] When Congress returned to count the electoral votes, Markey gave his remarks, calling Republicans who objected to the count seditious.[71] The next day, he called for the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution to be invoked.[72]

Committee assignments

Political positions

Abortion

When he was first elected to Congress, Markey opposed abortion and supported a constitutional amendment to ban it. He described his opposition as a matter of conscience.[74] Starting in 1983, he began moving away from his opposition, voting against measures that blocked funding for abortion for federal employees unless their life was at risk. During his 1984 Senate campaign, Markey said that while he still personally opposed abortion, he believed that it should remain legal. Since then, he has opposed restrictions on abortion.[75][76] Markey wore an pin to the 2023 State of the Union Address with the word ABORTION with a heart in place of the central portion of the letter O.[77] He attended the event with Kate Dineen, an abortion rights advocate.[78]

Antitrust, competition and corporate regulation

In June 2019, Markey was one of six Democrats led by Amy Klobuchar who signed letters to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice recounting that many of them had "called on both the FTC and the Justice Department to investigate potential anticompetitive activity in these markets, particularly following the significant enforcement actions taken by foreign competition enforcers against these same companies" and requesting that each agency confirm whether it had opened antitrust investigations into each of the companies and pledge that it would publicly release any such investigation's findings.[79]

Child care

In 2019, Markey and 34 other senators introduced the Child Care for Working Families Act, a bill that they claim would create 770,000 new child care jobs and ensure that families making less than 75% of the state median income would not pay for child care, with higher-earning families having to pay "their fair share for care on a sliding scale, regardless of the number of children they have." The legislation also supports universal access to high-quality preschool programs for all 3- and 4-year-olds and changes child care compensation and training.[80]

Children's programming

In 2019, after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced changes to the Children's Television Act of 1990, Markey and eight other Democratic senators signed a letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai that expressed concern that the proposed changes "would limit the reach of educational content available to children and have a particular damaging effect on youth in low-income and minority communities" and asserted that the new rules would decrease access to valuable educational content through over-the-air services.[81]

Climate change

 
Senator Markey speaks on a Green New Deal in front of the Capitol Building in February 2019

In November 2018, Markey was one of 25 Democratic senators to cosponsor a resolution in response to findings of the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change report and National Climate Assessment. The resolution affirmed the senators' acceptance of the findings and their support for bold action to address climate change.[82] In 2019, the League of Conservation Voters, which works to elect pro-environment candidates, endorsed Markey.[83]

Markey is the Senate author of the Green New Deal.[84] In February 2019, Markey and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez released a 14-page summary of their Green New Deal plan to address climate change. It calls for implementing the "social cost of carbon" that was part of the Obama administration's plans to address climate change and transitioning the United States to 100% renewable, zero-emission energy sources, zero-emission vehicles, and high-speed rail systems. It also aims to provide new jobs and alleviate poverty.[85] On March 26, in what Democrats called a "stunt", Republicans called for an early vote without allowing discussion or expert testimony. Markey said Republicans were trying to "make a mockery" of the Green New Deal debate and called the vote a "sham". In protest, Democrats, including Markey, voted "present" or against the bill, resulting in a 57–0 defeat on the Senate floor.[86][87]

In March 2019, Markey was one of 11 senators to sponsor the Climate Security Act of 2019, legislation to form a new group within the State Department to develop strategies to integrate climate science and data into national security operations as well as to restore the post of special envoy for the Arctic, a group that President Trump dismantled in 2017. The envoy would advise the President and the administration on the potential effects of climate on national security and be responsible for facilitating all interagency communication between federal science and security agencies.[88]

COVID-19 vaccine equity

Markey proposed that the COVID-19 vaccine be distributed to underserved areas and communities of color as a priority for racial justice. He said on February 20, 2021, "Even though Black and Hispanic residents have borne the brunt of this pandemic here in Massachusetts and all across the country, these communities are not receiving the vaccine in proportion to their share of their population."[89]

Disaster relief

In April 2018, Markey was one of five Democratic senators to sign a letter to FEMA administrator Brock Long calling on FEMA to enter an agreement with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development that would "stand up the Disaster Housing Assistance Program and address the medium- and longer-term housing needs" of evacuees of Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. The senators asserted that "FEMA's refusal to use the tools at its disposal, including DHAP, to help these survivors is puzzling—and profoundly troubling" and that hundreds of hurricane survivors were susceptible to being left homeless in the event that FEMA and HUD continued not to work together.[90][91]

Drug policy

In December 2016, Markey was one of 17 senators to sign a letter to President-elect Trump asking him to fulfill a campaign pledge to bring down the cost of prescription drugs, stating their willingness "to advance measures to achieve this goal", and calling on Trump "to partner with Republicans and Democrats alike to take meaningful steps to address the high cost of prescription drugs through bold administrative and legislative actions."[92]

In December 2018, Markey was one of 21 senators to sign a letter to Commissioner of Food and Drugs Scott Gottlieb stating their approval of the actions of the Food and Drugs Administration to hinder youth access to e-cigarettes and urging the FDA "to take additional, stronger steps to prevent and reduce e-cigarette use among youth."[93] In 2023, Markey introduced legislation to expand access to methadone for patients with opioid use disorder.[94]

Economy

In February 2019, Markey was one of eight senators to sign a letter to the Federal Communications Commission and Department of Justice asking that regulators prohibit a proposed $26-billion merger between T-Mobile and Sprint because American enforcers have understood for the last 30 years "that fostering robust competition in telecommunications markets is the best way to provide every American with access to high-quality, cutting-edge communications at a reasonable price" and the merger would result in a return "to the dark days of heavily consolidated markets and less competition, with all of the resulting harms."[95]

In March 2019, Markey was one of six senators to sign a letter to the Federal Trade Commission requesting that it "use its rulemaking authority, along with other tools, in order to combat the scourge of non-compete clauses rigging our economy against workers" and saying that non-compete clauses "harm employees by limiting their ability to find alternate work, which leaves them with little leverage to bargain for better wages or working conditions with their immediate employer." The letter added that the FTC had the responsibility of protecting both consumers and workers and needed to "act decisively" to address their concerns over "serious anti-competitive harms from the proliferation of non-competes in the economy."[96]

Foreign policy

 
Senator Markey meets with Philippine president Bongbong Marcos in Manila in August 2022

In December 2016, Markey and Senators Chris Coons and Marco Rubio suggested to the Department of State that the U.S. curtail assistance to the Philippines' law enforcement units due to alleged extrajudicial killings and other human rights violations in Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte's drug war, in adherence to the Leahy Law.[97] In April 2019, Markey and four other Democratic and Republican senators introduced a resolution urging the release of Philippine senator Leila de Lima, a key proponent of the inquiry on the Duterte administration's reported human rights violations who has been detained since 2017 for suspected drug trafficking; the senators believed that De Lima's detention was politically motivated. In January 2020, Markey revealed that the Philippine government had declared him and Senators Dick Durbin and Patrick Leahy (principal sponsor of the Leahy Law) persona non grata to the country.[98] After Duterte stepped down from office in 2022, Markey visited the Philippines and met with De Lima privately.[99]

In October 2017, Markey condemned the genocide of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar.[100]

In 2018, Markey cosponsored the Countering the Chinese Government and Communist Party's Political Influence Operations Act, a bill introduced by Rubio and Catherine Cortez Masto that would give the U.S. Secretary of State and the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) the authority to create an interagency task force to examine Chinese attempts to influence the U.S. and key allies.[101]

In October 2018, Markey was one of eight senators to sign a letter to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats requesting a classified briefing on what the American intelligence community knew about threats to U.S.-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi so that the senators could fulfill their "oversight obligation" as members of Congress.[102] In March 2019, Markey was one of nine Democratic senators to sign a letter to Salman of Saudi Arabia requesting the release of human rights lawyer Waleed Abu al-Khair and writer Raif Badawi, women's rights activists Loujain al-Hathloul and Samar Badawi, and Dr. Walid Fitaih. The senators wrote, "Not only have reputable international organizations detailed the arbitrary detention of peaceful activists and dissidents without trial for long periods, but the systematic discrimination against women, religious minorities and mistreatment of migrant workers and others has also been well-documented."[103]

In November 2018, Markey, Senators Chris Coons and Elizabeth Warren, and a bipartisan group of lawmakers sent the Trump administration a letter raising concerns about the People's Republic of China's undue influence on media outlets and academic institutions in the United States. They wrote: "In American news outlets, Beijing has used financial ties to suppress negative information about the CCP... Beijing has also sought to use relationships with American academic institutions and student groups to shape public discourse."[104]

In February 2019, ahead of the 2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Markey said that it was "pretty clear that Kim wants to have a personal meeting with Trump with hopes that he can, in fact, elicit concessions from President Trump that might not otherwise be possible if it was just our diplomats talking one-on-one" and that the US "could run the risk that Kim is given concessions which are not accompanied by real concessions that the United States is receiving in return from Kim and his regime." Markey called for Trump to receive commitments on denuclearization from Kim Jong-un before making commitments in return.[105]

In April 2019, Markey was one of 34 senators to sign a letter to Trump encouraging him "to listen to members of your own Administration and reverse a decision that will damage our national security and aggravate conditions inside Central America", asserting that Trump had "consistently expressed a flawed understanding of U.S. foreign assistance" since becoming president and that he was "personally undermining efforts to promote U.S. national security and economic prosperity" by preventing the use of Fiscal Year 2018 national security funding. The senators argued that foreign assistance to Central American countries created less migration to the U.S. by helping to improve conditions in those countries.[106]

In October 2020, Markey accused Turkey, a NATO ally, of inciting war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh and called on the Trump administration to immediately suspend U.S. military aid to Azerbaijan[107] sent through the Pentagon's "building partner assistance program".[108][109] According to critics, the aid could be used in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.[108][110] He co-signed a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that read: "If Turkey is unwilling to step back from active engagement in the conflict, then the State Department should immediately suspend all sales and transfers of military equipment to Ankara."[107]

Iraq War

On October 10, 2002, Markey voted in favor of the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002, authorizing the use of the United States Armed Forces against Saddam Hussein's government in what became Operation Iraqi Freedom.[111] As of March 2020, Markey has said that voting for the authorization was a "mistake", and that he did so because "George Bush lied, Donald Rumsfeld lied, Dick Cheney lied to the American people about the presence of nuclear weapons in Iraq. I'm still angry about that lie to the American people."[112]

Government shutdown

In March 2019, Markey and 38 other senators signed a letter to the Appropriations Committee opining that contractor workers and by extension their families "should not be penalized for a government shutdown that they did nothing to cause" while noting that there were bills in both chambers of Congress that if enacted would provide back pay to compensate contractor employees for lost wages. The letter urged the Appropriations Committee "to include back pay for contractor employees in a supplemental appropriations bill for FY2019 or as part of the regular appropriations process for FY2020."[113]

Gun law

Markey supports gun control, including improved background checks, ending illegal gun trafficking, and closing loopholes on gun purchases.[114] In 2015 he proposed a "smart gun" bill that aimed to equip handguns with technology making them usable by only the purchaser.[115]

In January 2016, Markey led 18 senators in signing a letter to Thad Cochran and Barbara Mikulski requesting that the Labor, Health and Education subcommittee hold a hearing on whether to allow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to fund a study of gun violence and "the annual appropriations rider that some have interpreted as preventing it" with taxpayer dollars. The senators noted their support for taking steps "to fund gun-violence research, because only the United States government is in a position to establish an integrated public-health research agenda to understand the causes of gun violence and identify the most effective strategies for prevention."[116]

After the Orlando nightclub shooting, Markey called for more gun regulations and supported the Feinstein Amendment, which would have made it illegal for suspected terrorists to buy guns. He also supports universal background checks.[117]

In response to the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, Markey said, "This Congress has the responsibility to make sure the NRA stands for 'not relevant anymore' in American politics, and we have to begin this debate now."[118] He co-sponsored a proposal to ban bump stocks, which make semi-automatic weapons act like automatic weapons.[119]

In November 2017, Markey was a cosponsor of the Military Domestic Violence Reporting Enhancement Act, a bill to create a charge of domestic violence under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and stipulate that convictions must be reported to federal databases to keep abusers from purchasing firearms within three days in an attempt to close a loophole in the UCMJ whereby convicted abusers retain the ability to purchase firearms.[120]

In January 2019, Markey was one of 40 senators to introduce the Background Check Expansion Act, a bill that would require background checks for either the sale or transfer of all firearms, including unlicensed sellers. Exceptions to the bill's background check requirement included transfers between members of law enforcement, loaning firearms for either hunting or sporting events on a temporary basis, giving firearms to members of one's immediate family, firearms being transferred as part of an inheritance, or giving a firearm to another person temporarily for immediate self-defense.[121]

Health care

Markey supports the creation of a single-payer federal healthcare program.[122] In September 2017, he was one of 16 senators to cosponsor the 2017 Medicare for All Act introduced by Bernie Sanders, which proposes establishing a federal health insurance program by expanding Medicare coverage to all United States residents.[123]

In June 2019, Markey was one of eight senators to cosponsor the Territories Health Equity Act of 2019, legislation that would remove the cap on annual federal Medicaid funding and increase federal matching rate for Medicaid expenditures of territories along with providing more funds for prescription drug coverage to low-income seniors in an attempt to equalize funding for American territories Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands with that of U.S. states.[124]

Housing

In April 2019, Markey was one of 41 senators to sign a bipartisan letter to the housing subcommittee praising the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development's Section 4 Capacity Building program as authorizing "HUD to partner with national nonprofit community development organizations to provide education, training, and financial support to local community development corporations (CDCs) across the country" and expressing disappointment that President Trump's budget "has slated this program for elimination after decades of successful economic and community development." The senators wrote of their hope that the subcommittee would support continued funding for Section 4 in Fiscal Year 2020.[125]

Immigration

In July 2019, following reports that the Trump administration intended to cease protecting spouses, parents and children of active-duty service members from deportation, Markey was one of 22 senators led by Tammy Duckworth to sign a letter arguing that the protection gave service members the ability "to fight for the United States overseas and not worry that their spouse, children, or parents will be deported while they are away" and that its termination would both cause service members personal hardship and negatively affect their combat performance.[126]

Also in July 2019, Markey and 15 other Senate Democrats introduced the Protecting Sensitive Locations Act, which would require, except in special circumstances, that ICE agents get approval from a supervisor before engaging in enforcement actions at sensitive locations, and that agents receive annual training in addition to reporting annually on enforcement actions in those locations.[127]

Internet

Internet security

On October 27, 2006, Markey called for the arrest of security researcher Christopher Soghoian for creating a website to generate fake boarding passes.[128] At 2AM on October 28, 2006, FBI agents seized computers and other materials from Soghoian's house.[129]

On October 29, 2006, Markey issued a statement revising his previous comments, stating that the Department of Homeland Security should instead "put him to work showing public officials how easily our security can be compromised". The statement was critical of Soghoian's disclosure method—deeming it "ill-considered"—but also said that "he should not go to jail for his bad judgment".[130]

Net neutrality

 
Markey speaks at a rally on Net Neutrality in 2017

In May 2014, days before the FCC was scheduled to rewrite its net neutrality rules, Markey was one of 11 senators to sign a letter to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler arguing that Wheeler's proposal would destroy net neutrality and urging the FCC to "consider reclassifying Internet providers to make them more like traditional phone companies, over which the agency has clear authority to regulate more broadly."[131]

In September 2017, Markey was one of nine senators to sign a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai accusing the FCC of failing "to provide stakeholders with an opportunity to comment on the tens of thousands of filed complaints that directly shed light on proposed changes to existing net neutrality protections."[132]

In March 2018, Markey was one of ten senators to sign a letter spearheaded by Jeff Merkley lambasting Pai's proposal to cut the Lifeline program during a period when roughly 6.5 million people in poor communities relied on it for access to high-speed internet, writing that it was Pai's "obligation to the American public, as the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, to improve the Lifeline program and ensure that more Americans can afford access, and have means of access, to broadband and phone service." The senators also wrote, "Lifeline reaches more Americans in need of access to communication services."[133]

Internet privacy

In February 2019, Markey, Richard Blumenthal, and Josh Hawley sent Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg a letter about Project Atlas and its relevance to "longstanding concerns that Facebook has used its products to deeply intrude into personal privacy."[134]

Labor

In May 2018, Markey led 11 senators in signing a letter to Chairman of the Federal Labor Relations Authority Colleen Kiko urging the FLRA to end efforts to close its Boston regional office until Congress debated the matter because the closure would place staff farther away from the federal employees whose rights they protect.[135]

LGBT rights

In 1996, Markey voted against the Defense of Marriage Act.[136]

In September 2014, Markey was one of 69 members of the US House and Senate to sign a letter to then-FDA commissioner Sylvia Burwell requesting that the FDA revise its policy banning donation of corneas and other tissues by men who have had sex with another man in the preceding 5 years.[137][138]

In May 2017, Markey was one of 46 senators to introduce the Equality Act of 2017, described by Representative David Cicilline as ensuring "that every LGBT person can live their lives free from the fear of discrimination. Above all, it's about honoring the values that have guided our nation since its founding. It's critical that Congress pass the Equality Act into law."[139]

In October 2018, Markey was one of 20 senators to sign a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging him to reverse the rolling back of a policy that granted visas to same-sex partners of LGBT diplomats who had unions that were not recognized by their home countries, writing that too many places around the world have seen LGBT individuals "subjected to discrimination and unspeakable violence, and receive little or no protection from the law or local authorities" and that refusing to let LGBT diplomats bring their partners to the US would be equivalent of upholding "the discriminatory policies of many countries around the world."[140]

In June 2019, Markey was one of 18 senators to sign a letter to Pompeo requesting an explanation of a State Department decision not to issue an official statement that year commemorating Pride Month nor to issue the annual cable outlining activities for embassies commemorating Pride Month. They also asked why the LGBT special envoy position remained vacant and asserted that "preventing the official flying of rainbow flags and limiting public messages celebrating Pride Month signals to the international community that the United States is abandoning the advancement of LGBTI rights as a foreign policy priority."[141]

Military

In August 2013, Markey was one of 23 Democratic senators to sign a letter to the Defense Department warning that some payday lenders were "offering predatory loan products to service members at exorbitant triple digit effective interest rates and loan products that do not include the additional protections envisioned by the law" and asserting that service members and their families "deserve the strongest possible protections and swift action to ensure that all forms of credit offered to members of our armed forces are safe and sound."[142]

Nuclear waste

In July 2019, Markey was an original cosponsor of the Sensible, Timely Relief for America's Nuclear Districts' Economic Development (STRANDED) Act, a bipartisan bill introduced by Susan Collins and Tammy Duckworth that would give local government entities economic impact grants to offset the economic impact of stranded nuclear waste, form a task force to identify existing funding that could be used to benefit communities, and form a competitive innovative solutions prize competition to aid those communities in their search for alternatives to "nuclear facilities, generating sites, and waste sites."[143]

Opioids

In February 2017, Markey and 30 other senators signed a letter to Kaléo Pharmaceuticals in response to an increase of the opioid-overdose-reversing device Evzio's price from $690 in 2014 to $4,500. They requested the detailed price structure for Evzio, the number of devices Kaléo Pharmaceuticals set aside for donation, and the totality of federal reimbursements Evzio received in the previous year.[144]

In March 2017, Markey led 21 senators who signed a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that said that 12% of adult Medicaid beneficiaries had some form or a substance abuse disorder, that one-third of treatment for opioid and other substance use disorders in the United States is financed by Medicaid, and that the American Health Care Act could "very literally translate into a death spiral for those with opioid use disorders" due to inadequate funding, often resulting in individuals abandoning substance use disorder treatment.[145]

Pipelines

In October 2016, Markey was one of five senators to sign a letter to President Obama requesting the administration halt work on the Dakota Access Pipeline until the permitting process of the Army Corps was transparent and would "include public notice and participation, formal and meaningful tribal consultation, and adequate environmental review", and stating their support for the "tribes along the pipeline route in their fight against the Dakota Access pipeline project."[146]

Public transportation

 
April 2023 press conference by Markey (second from right) and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (far right) promoting their "Freedom to Move" legislation. They are joined by Boston Mayor Michelle Wu (second from left) and others

Markey advocates making public transit fare-free. In June 2020, he and Representative Ayanna Pressley co-authored the Freedom to Move Act, which would offer $5 billion in annual competitive grants to transit agencies that offer fare-free transit access. Markey argues that fare-free public transportation would help "provide low-income workers, families, seniors, and individuals with disabilities with improved access to jobs, education, medical care, and other critical services."[147][148] Markey and Pressley reintroduced the bill in April 2023.[149]

Railroad safety

In June 2019, Markey was one of ten senators to cosponsor the Safe Freight Act, a bill that would require freight trains to have one or more certified conductors and a certified engineer on board who can collaborate on how to protect the train and people living near the tracks. The legislation was meant to correct a Federal Railroad Administration rollback of a proposed rule intended to establish safety standards.[150]

State Department

In September 2018, Markey was one of five senators to sign a letter to United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging him to employ more multifactor authentication measures to secure the State Department's information systems and seeking answers on how the department would boost its security following the Office of Management and Budget's designation of the department's cyber readiness as "high risk", what the department would do to address the lack of multifactor authentication required by law, and statistics on the department's cyber incidents over the last three years.[151]

Supreme Court

In April 2021, Markey sponsored a bill in the Senate to expand the Supreme Court of the United States from nine to 13 justices.[152]

Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023

Markey was among the five Senate Democrats who voted against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023.[153]

Recognition

Markey received an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Tufts University in May 2019.[154]

Personal life

Since 1988, Markey has been married to Susan Blumenthal, who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Women's Health and held the rank of rear admiral as Assistant U.S. Surgeon General.[155] From 2005 to 2017, he was a contributing writer for The Huffington Post.[156] He was one of several politicians who had a cameo role in the 2003 film Gods and Generals, in which he played an Irish Brigade officer.[157]

Electoral history

Main article: Electoral history of Ed Markey

Notes

  1. ^ Markey was not drafted. His birth date corresponded to number 248 in the 1969 military draft. The highest number called up for military service was 195.[10]

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from the 16th Middlesex district
1973–1975 		Succeeded by
Richard McGrath
Preceded by
Edward Dickson
 Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
from the 26th Middlesex district
1975–1976 		Succeeded by
John McNeil
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 7th congressional district
1976–2013 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 5th congressional district
2013 		Succeeded by
New office Chair of the House Global Warming Committee
2007–2011 		Position abolished
Party political offices
Preceded by Democratic nominee for U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
(Class 2)
2013, 2014, 2020 		Most recent
U.S. Senate
Preceded by United States Senator (Class 2) from Massachusetts
2013–present
Served alongside: Elizabeth Warren 		Incumbent
U.S. order of precedence (ceremonial)
Preceded byas United States Senator from Hawaii Order of precedence of the United States
as United States Senator from Massachusetts
since July 16, 2013 		Succeeded byas United States Senator from New Jersey
Preceded by United States senators by seniority
55th

August 21, 2023
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Edward John Markey ˈ m ɑːr k i MAR kee born July 11 1946 is an American lawyer politician and former Army reservist serving as the junior United States senator from Massachusetts since 2013 A member of the Democratic Party he served 20 terms 18 full two partial as the U S representative for Massachusetts s 7th congressional district from 1976 to 2013 Before his congressional career he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1973 to 1976 Ed MarkeyOfficial portrait 2013United States Senatorfrom MassachusettsIncumbentAssumed office July 16 2013Serving with Elizabeth WarrenPreceded byMo CowanChair of the House Global Warming CommitteeIn office March 8 2007 January 6 2011Preceded byOffice establishedSucceeded byOffice abolishedMember of theU S House of Representativesfrom MassachusettsIn office November 2 1976 July 15 2013Preceded byTorbert MacdonaldSucceeded byKatherine ClarkConstituency7th district 1976 2013 5th district 2013 Member of the Massachusetts House of RepresentativesIn office January 3 1973 January 3 1975Preceded byWilliam R CallahanSucceeded byRichard McGrathConstituency16th MiddlesexIn office January 3 1975 November 2 1976Preceded byEdward DicksonSucceeded byJohn C McNeilConstituency26th MiddlesexPersonal detailsBornEdward John Markey 1946 07 11 July 11 1946 age 77 Malden Massachusetts U S Political partyDemocraticSpouseSusan Blumenthal m 1988 wbr EducationBoston College BA JD SignatureWebsiteSenate websiteMilitary serviceAllegianceUnited StatesBranch serviceUnited States Army United States Army ReserveYears of service1968 1973RankSpecialist Fourth ClassEd Markey s voice source source Ed Markey questions witnesses on healthcare worker shortagesRecorded February 16 2023In 2013 after John Kerry was appointed United States Secretary of State Markey was elected to serve out the remainder of Kerry s Senate term in a 2013 special election Markey defeated Stephen Lynch in the Democratic primary and Republican Gabriel E Gomez in the general election He was elected to a full term in the Senate in 2014 Markey fended off a primary challenge from Joseph Kennedy III and was reelected in 2020 by a wide margin Markey is a progressive who has focused on climate change and energy policy and was chair of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming from 2007 to 2011 He is the Senate author of the Green New Deal 1 Markey is the dean of the Massachusetts congressional delegation having served in Congress since 1976 His progressive policies have led to widespread support among young voters 2 The Hill has called him an icon to Gen Z activists 3 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 3 U S House of Representatives 3 1 Elections 3 2 Tenure 3 2 1 Environment and energy 3 2 2 Objection to the 2004 presidential election 3 2 3 Domestic initiatives 3 2 4 National defense 3 3 Committee assignments 4 U S Senate 4 1 Elections 4 1 1 2013 special 4 1 2 2014 4 1 3 2020 4 2 Tenure 4 3 Committee assignments 5 Political positions 5 1 Abortion 5 2 Antitrust competition and corporate regulation 5 3 Child care 5 4 Children s programming 5 5 Climate change 5 6 COVID 19 vaccine equity 5 7 Disaster relief 5 8 Drug policy 5 9 Economy 5 10 Foreign policy 5 10 1 Iraq War 5 11 Government shutdown 5 12 Gun law 5 13 Health care 5 14 Housing 5 15 Immigration 5 16 Internet 5 16 1 Internet security 5 16 2 Net neutrality 5 16 3 Internet privacy 5 17 Labor 5 18 LGBT rights 5 19 Military 5 20 Nuclear waste 5 21 Opioids 5 22 Pipelines 5 23 Public transportation 5 24 Railroad safety 5 25 State Department 5 26 Supreme Court 5 27 Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 6 Recognition 7 Personal life 8 Electoral history 9 Notes 10 References 11 Further reading 12 External linksEarly life and education EditMarkey was born on July 11 1946 in Malden Massachusetts the son of Christina M nee Courtney and John E Markey a milkman Markey s mother was the valedictorian of her high school class but was unable to attend college because her mother died and she was needed to care for the family 4 5 6 The family was Irish Catholic and Markey was educated at Immaculate Conception School and Malden Catholic High School citation needed Starting in the summer of 1965 Markey was the driver and salesperson for an ice cream truck in Lexington Massachusetts He was known as Eddie the Ice Cream Man to neighborhood children and used the proceeds from the HP Hood route to pay tuition at Boston College In the late 1960s Markey was cited by the Lexington Police for the ringing of his bell to announce the ice cream truck s presence Soon after the citation the selectmen of Lexington changed the ordinance and he was allowed to ring his bell 7 Markey graduated from Boston College in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts and from Boston College Law School in 1972 with a Juris Doctor 8 Career Edit Edward Markey 1975After graduating Markey worked as a lawyer in private practice He served in the United States Army Reserve from 1968 to 1973 attaining the rank of Specialist Fourth Class 9 He joined while a junior in college and has said that he enlisted before knowing whether he would receive a Vietnam War draft notice 9 a Markey also said that even though he opposed the war he would have answered the induction notice and gone to Vietnam if he had been drafted despite having secured a position in the Reserve 9 His South Boston reserve unit included Thomas P O Neill III Steve Grossman and Markey s brothers Richard and John 9 11 Markey was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives where he represented the 16th Middlesex district Malden and Melrose and 26th Middlesex district from 1973 to 1976 12 13 U S House of Representatives EditElections Edit Markey during the 101st United States Congress 1989 On May 21 1976 incumbent Congressman Torbert Macdonald died in office 14 Markey who had just been elected to a third term in the state house entered a twelve candidate Democratic primary 15 for what was then the 7th district In the primary the real contest in this heavily Democratic district Markey won the nomination with a plurality of 22 of the vote 16 In the November 1976 election he defeated Republican Richard Daly 77 18 17 That election doubled as both a special election for the balance of Macdonald s 11th term and a regular election for a full two year term and so Markey took office later that night This gave him greater seniority than other Representatives first elected in 1976 Markey was challenged in a Democratic primary three times first in 1980 when he won 85 18 then in 1984 when he won 54 19 and finally in 2002 when he won 85 of the vote 20 Markey was reelected 19 more times from this district which included most of the northern suburbs of Boston His lowest vote total was 62 in 1992 in a three way election Markey faced no Republican opposition in eight of his bids for reelection in 1978 1980 1986 1988 1990 2000 2002 and 2006 21 22 His district was renumbered the 5th after the 2010 census in which Massachusetts lost a district Tenure Edit Markey as ranking member of the House Natural Resources CommitteeMarkey was a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the National Journal gave him a Composite Liberal score of 89 2 23 Environment and energy Edit In December 2007 Markey became the first US politician to use Second Life through which he addressed the delegates of the UNFCCC in Bali as part of OneClimate s Virtual Bali event It was estimated that the carbon dioxide he saved by not flying to Bali was around 5 5 tons 24 Pressure from Markey prompted BP to provide a live underwater video feed showing oil leaking out of a pipe in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 25 Markey has been a longtime critic of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRC and has been critical of the NRC s decision making on the proposed Westinghouse AP1000 reactor design and the NRC response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster 26 27 In reply to Alaska s Governor Sarah Palin s position on how the American Clean Energy and Security Act also known as Waxman Markey named after Markey and Henry Waxman could have a negative impact for Alaskans 28 Markey wrote an article criticizing Palin s inaction on global warming and her environmental positions 29 Markey sarcastically suggested in August 2010 that global warming deniers form their own country on an iceberg An iceberg four times the size of Manhattan has broken off Greenland creating plenty of room for global warming deniers to start their own country Markey also said that at the time 2010 was the hottest recorded year and that scientists agree Arctic ice is a canary in a coal mine that provides clear warnings on climate 30 31 Markey has derided Republicans stance on global warming stating during a hearing I won t physically rise because I m worried that Republicans will overturn the law of gravity sending us floating about the room 32 In January 2011 House Republicans eliminated the Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming which Nancy Pelosi created in 2006 and Markey chaired 33 Objection to the 2004 presidential election Edit Markey was one of the 31 House Democrats who voted not to count Ohio s 20 electoral votes in the 2004 presidential election 34 George W Bush had won Ohio by 118 457 votes 35 Without Ohio s electoral votes the election would have been decided by the U S House of Representatives with each state having one vote as dictated by the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution Domestic initiatives Edit Markey introduced legislation to change the duration of Daylight Saving Time 36 and to increasing privacy controls over children online 37 Markey drew some controversy through his proposal to introduce legislation 38 that deals with amusement parks roller coasters believing that newer faster rides that exert greater G pressures on the human body are dangerous mentally and physically despite a lack of concrete evidence to support these claims 39 and contrary to studies that affirmed the safety of roller coasters in general 40 In 2009 Markey sponsored the Internet Freedom Preservation Act to enact principles of net neutrality 41 The proposed legislation received support from a few dozen co sponsors and public interest organizations but ultimately died in committee before enactment 42 Rep Markey R with Chinese Minister of Railways Liu Zhijun L and U S House Speaker Nancy Pelosi C in May 2009 Behind them is a Hexie Hao train on the Beijing Tianjin Intercity Railway National defense Edit In 2003 Markey called attention to the lack of security surrounding air cargo placed on commercial passenger planes arguing that if passenger baggage is screened for explosive devices cargo on the plane should be as well 43 In 2007 he succeeded in getting a 100 air cargo screening requirement signed into law 44 In the law codifying the recommendations of the 9 11 Commission Markey wrote the mandate requiring all cargo on passenger planes to be screened 45 Committee assignments Edit Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Subcommittee on Energy and Power Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member As Ranking Member Markey served as an ex officio member on all SubcommitteesU S Senate EditIn 2004 Markey was considered a contender for John Kerry s seat in the United States Senate if Kerry were to be elected President of the United States 46 He was also considered a leading contender in the 2010 special election to replace the late Ted Kennedy but on September 12 2009 he announced his decision not to run and endorsed fellow Congressman Michael Capuano who went on to lose the Democratic primary to Martha Coakley 47 Elections Edit 2013 special Edit Main article 2013 United States Senate special election in Massachusetts On December 27 2012 Markey was the first to announce his candidacy to run in a special election to fill Kerry s seat after Barack Obama nominated him for United States Secretary of State 48 Several politicians including Kerry endorsed Markey even before the Senate confirmed Kerry 49 On April 30 2013 Markey won the Democratic nomination by defeating fellow Congressman Stephen Lynch in the primary election 50 He defeated Republican challenger Gabriel E Gomez in the general special election on June 25 and completed the remaining 17 months of Kerry s term 51 52 Markey is the longest tenured House member ever elected to the Senate with his 36 plus years of service exceeding that of Frederick H Gillett who served in the House for 32 years before moving to the upper chamber in 1925 53 54 He is the 11th oldest candidate to win a U S Senate special election out of more than 170 men and women since the passage of the 17th Amendment 55 2014 Edit See also 2014 United States Senate election in Massachusetts Markey sought a full six year term in 2014 He defeated Republican Hopkinton selectman Brian Herr with 62 percent of the vote 2020 Edit See also 2020 United States Senate election in Massachusetts In the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries Markey endorsed fellow Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren 56 After Warren withdrew in early 2020 he endorsed Joe Biden 57 Several Massachusetts Democrats announced primary challenges to Markey in the September 1 2020 election 58 but all but 4th district Representative Joe Kennedy III dropped out leaving Kennedy as the sole challenger 59 On September 13 2019 Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez with whom Markey has collaborated on the proposed Green New Deal endorsed Markey 60 61 Markey defeated Kennedy with 55 6 of the vote with overwhelming margins in Boston and the surrounding suburbs including Kennedy s Newton and in the college towns of Western Massachusetts The primary race was seen by many as a showdown between the Democratic establishment represented by Kennedy and its new and growing progressive wing embodied by Markey 62 Despite the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee s longstanding opposition to Democratic primary challengers House Speaker Nancy Pelosi endorsed Kennedy whose fundraising and campaigning efforts she credited for returning the House to Democratic control in the 2018 midterm elections 63 Meanwhile Markey had the support of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Senator Elizabeth Warren Ocasio Cortez and the youth led Sunrise Movement founded in 2017 to promote the Green New Deal as a solution to the climate crisis 63 64 65 66 Markey defeated Republican Kevin O Connor in the general election Tenure Edit Senator Markey attending the Greater Boston Labor Council s 2015 annual Labor Day Breakfast in Boston Markey resigned his House seat on July 15 2013 and was sworn into the Senate on July 16 67 Although he is the dean of the Massachusetts delegation he is the state s junior Senator since Elizabeth Warren took office six months before he did Markey is known for the blizzard of public letters he posts on his website and sends to the press to draw attention to his favored issues 68 Markey was on Capitol Hill to participate in the 2021 United States Electoral College vote count when Trump supporters attacked the U S Capitol During the attack he and his staff sheltered in place in an undisclosed location During the siege he tweeted Donald Trump is responsible for the coup that is unfolding at the Capitol He is a fascist and a direct threat to our country 69 After the Capitol was secure Markey tweeted that Trump should be impeached 70 When Congress returned to count the electoral votes Markey gave his remarks calling Republicans who objected to the count seditious 71 The next day he called for the Twenty fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution to be invoked 72 Committee assignments Edit Committee on Commerce Science and Transportation 73 Subcommittee on Communications Media and Broadband Subcommittee on Consumer Protection Product Safety and Data Security Subcommittee on Oceans Atmosphere Fisheries and Coast Guard Subcommittee on Science and Space Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure Safety and Security Committee on Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety Chair Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife Subcommittee on Superfund Toxics and Environmental Health Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions Subcommittee on Primary Health amp Retirement Security Chair Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety Committee on Small Business and EntrepreneurshipPolitical positions EditAbortion Edit When he was first elected to Congress Markey opposed abortion and supported a constitutional amendment to ban it He described his opposition as a matter of conscience 74 Starting in 1983 he began moving away from his opposition voting against measures that blocked funding for abortion for federal employees unless their life was at risk During his 1984 Senate campaign Markey said that while he still personally opposed abortion he believed that it should remain legal Since then he has opposed restrictions on abortion 75 76 Markey wore an pin to the 2023 State of the Union Address with the word ABORTION with a heart in place of the central portion of the letter O 77 He attended the event with Kate Dineen an abortion rights advocate 78 Antitrust competition and corporate regulation Edit In June 2019 Markey was one of six Democrats led by Amy Klobuchar who signed letters to the Federal Trade Commission FTC and the Department of Justice recounting that many of them had called on both the FTC and the Justice Department to investigate potential anticompetitive activity in these markets particularly following the significant enforcement actions taken by foreign competition enforcers against these same companies and requesting that each agency confirm whether it had opened antitrust investigations into each of the companies and pledge that it would publicly release any such investigation s findings 79 Child care Edit In 2019 Markey and 34 other senators introduced the Child Care for Working Families Act a bill that they claim would create 770 000 new child care jobs and ensure that families making less than 75 of the state median income would not pay for child care with higher earning families having to pay their fair share for care on a sliding scale regardless of the number of children they have The legislation also supports universal access to high quality preschool programs for all 3 and 4 year olds and changes child care compensation and training 80 Children s programming Edit In 2019 after the Federal Communications Commission FCC announced changes to the Children s Television Act of 1990 Markey and eight other Democratic senators signed a letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai that expressed concern that the proposed changes would limit the reach of educational content available to children and have a particular damaging effect on youth in low income and minority communities and asserted that the new rules would decrease access to valuable educational content through over the air services 81 Climate change Edit Senator Markey speaks on a Green New Deal in front of the Capitol Building in February 2019In November 2018 Markey was one of 25 Democratic senators to cosponsor a resolution in response to findings of the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change report and National Climate Assessment The resolution affirmed the senators acceptance of the findings and their support for bold action to address climate change 82 In 2019 the League of Conservation Voters which works to elect pro environment candidates endorsed Markey 83 Markey is the Senate author of the Green New Deal 84 In February 2019 Markey and Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez released a 14 page summary of their Green New Deal plan to address climate change It calls for implementing the social cost of carbon that was part of the Obama administration s plans to address climate change and transitioning the United States to 100 renewable zero emission energy sources zero emission vehicles and high speed rail systems It also aims to provide new jobs and alleviate poverty 85 On March 26 in what Democrats called a stunt Republicans called for an early vote without allowing discussion or expert testimony Markey said Republicans were trying to make a mockery of the Green New Deal debate and called the vote a sham In protest Democrats including Markey voted present or against the bill resulting in a 57 0 defeat on the Senate floor 86 87 In March 2019 Markey was one of 11 senators to sponsor the Climate Security Act of 2019 legislation to form a new group within the State Department to develop strategies to integrate climate science and data into national security operations as well as to restore the post of special envoy for the Arctic a group that President Trump dismantled in 2017 The envoy would advise the President and the administration on the potential effects of climate on national security and be responsible for facilitating all interagency communication between federal science and security agencies 88 COVID 19 vaccine equity Edit Markey proposed that the COVID 19 vaccine be distributed to underserved areas and communities of color as a priority for racial justice He said on February 20 2021 Even though Black and Hispanic residents have borne the brunt of this pandemic here in Massachusetts and all across the country these communities are not receiving the vaccine in proportion to their share of their population 89 Disaster relief Edit In April 2018 Markey was one of five Democratic senators to sign a letter to FEMA administrator Brock Long calling on FEMA to enter an agreement with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development that would stand up the Disaster Housing Assistance Program and address the medium and longer term housing needs of evacuees of Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria The senators asserted that FEMA s refusal to use the tools at its disposal including DHAP to help these survivors is puzzling and profoundly troubling and that hundreds of hurricane survivors were susceptible to being left homeless in the event that FEMA and HUD continued not to work together 90 91 Drug policy Edit In December 2016 Markey was one of 17 senators to sign a letter to President elect Trump asking him to fulfill a campaign pledge to bring down the cost of prescription drugs stating their willingness to advance measures to achieve this goal and calling on Trump to partner with Republicans and Democrats alike to take meaningful steps to address the high cost of prescription drugs through bold administrative and legislative actions 92 In December 2018 Markey was one of 21 senators to sign a letter to Commissioner of Food and Drugs Scott Gottlieb stating their approval of the actions of the Food and Drugs Administration to hinder youth access to e cigarettes and urging the FDA to take additional stronger steps to prevent and reduce e cigarette use among youth 93 In 2023 Markey introduced legislation to expand access to methadone for patients with opioid use disorder 94 Economy Edit In February 2019 Markey was one of eight senators to sign a letter to the Federal Communications Commission and Department of Justice asking that regulators prohibit a proposed 26 billion merger between T Mobile and Sprint because American enforcers have understood for the last 30 years that fostering robust competition in telecommunications markets is the best way to provide every American with access to high quality cutting edge communications at a reasonable price and the merger would result in a return to the dark days of heavily consolidated markets and less competition with all of the resulting harms 95 In March 2019 Markey was one of six senators to sign a letter to the Federal Trade Commission requesting that it use its rulemaking authority along with other tools in order to combat the scourge of non compete clauses rigging our economy against workers and saying that non compete clauses harm employees by limiting their ability to find alternate work which leaves them with little leverage to bargain for better wages or working conditions with their immediate employer The letter added that the FTC had the responsibility of protecting both consumers and workers and needed to act decisively to address their concerns over serious anti competitive harms from the proliferation of non competes in the economy 96 Foreign policy Edit Senator Markey meets with Philippine president Bongbong Marcos in Manila in August 2022In December 2016 Markey and Senators Chris Coons and Marco Rubio suggested to the Department of State that the U S curtail assistance to the Philippines law enforcement units due to alleged extrajudicial killings and other human rights violations in Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte s drug war in adherence to the Leahy Law 97 In April 2019 Markey and four other Democratic and Republican senators introduced a resolution urging the release of Philippine senator Leila de Lima a key proponent of the inquiry on the Duterte administration s reported human rights violations who has been detained since 2017 for suspected drug trafficking the senators believed that De Lima s detention was politically motivated In January 2020 Markey revealed that the Philippine government had declared him and Senators Dick Durbin and Patrick Leahy principal sponsor of the Leahy Law persona non grata to the country 98 After Duterte stepped down from office in 2022 Markey visited the Philippines and met with De Lima privately 99 In October 2017 Markey condemned the genocide of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar 100 In 2018 Markey cosponsored the Countering the Chinese Government and Communist Party s Political Influence Operations Act a bill introduced by Rubio and Catherine Cortez Masto that would give the U S Secretary of State and the Director of National Intelligence DNI the authority to create an interagency task force to examine Chinese attempts to influence the U S and key allies 101 In October 2018 Markey was one of eight senators to sign a letter to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats requesting a classified briefing on what the American intelligence community knew about threats to U S based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi so that the senators could fulfill their oversight obligation as members of Congress 102 In March 2019 Markey was one of nine Democratic senators to sign a letter to Salman of Saudi Arabia requesting the release of human rights lawyer Waleed Abu al Khair and writer Raif Badawi women s rights activists Loujain al Hathloul and Samar Badawi and Dr Walid Fitaih The senators wrote Not only have reputable international organizations detailed the arbitrary detention of peaceful activists and dissidents without trial for long periods but the systematic discrimination against women religious minorities and mistreatment of migrant workers and others has also been well documented 103 In November 2018 Markey Senators Chris Coons and Elizabeth Warren and a bipartisan group of lawmakers sent the Trump administration a letter raising concerns about the People s Republic of China s undue influence on media outlets and academic institutions in the United States They wrote In American news outlets Beijing has used financial ties to suppress negative information about the CCP Beijing has also sought to use relationships with American academic institutions and student groups to shape public discourse 104 In February 2019 ahead of the 2019 North Korea United States Hanoi Summit Markey said that it was pretty clear that Kim wants to have a personal meeting with Trump with hopes that he can in fact elicit concessions from President Trump that might not otherwise be possible if it was just our diplomats talking one on one and that the US could run the risk that Kim is given concessions which are not accompanied by real concessions that the United States is receiving in return from Kim and his regime Markey called for Trump to receive commitments on denuclearization from Kim Jong un before making commitments in return 105 In April 2019 Markey was one of 34 senators to sign a letter to Trump encouraging him to listen to members of your own Administration and reverse a decision that will damage our national security and aggravate conditions inside Central America asserting that Trump had consistently expressed a flawed understanding of U S foreign assistance since becoming president and that he was personally undermining efforts to promote U S national security and economic prosperity by preventing the use of Fiscal Year 2018 national security funding The senators argued that foreign assistance to Central American countries created less migration to the U S by helping to improve conditions in those countries 106 In October 2020 Markey accused Turkey a NATO ally of inciting war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno Karabakh and called on the Trump administration to immediately suspend U S military aid to Azerbaijan 107 sent through the Pentagon s building partner assistance program 108 109 According to critics the aid could be used in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict 108 110 He co signed a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that read If Turkey is unwilling to step back from active engagement in the conflict then the State Department should immediately suspend all sales and transfers of military equipment to Ankara 107 Iraq War Edit On October 10 2002 Markey voted in favor of the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 authorizing the use of the United States Armed Forces against Saddam Hussein s government in what became Operation Iraqi Freedom 111 As of March 2020 Markey has said that voting for the authorization was a mistake and that he did so because George Bush lied Donald Rumsfeld lied Dick Cheney lied to the American people about the presence of nuclear weapons in Iraq I m still angry about that lie to the American people 112 Government shutdown Edit In March 2019 Markey and 38 other senators signed a letter to the Appropriations Committee opining that contractor workers and by extension their families should not be penalized for a government shutdown that they did nothing to cause while noting that there were bills in both chambers of Congress that if enacted would provide back pay to compensate contractor employees for lost wages The letter urged the Appropriations Committee to include back pay for contractor employees in a supplemental appropriations bill for FY2019 or as part of the regular appropriations process for FY2020 113 Gun law Edit Markey supports gun control including improved background checks ending illegal gun trafficking and closing loopholes on gun purchases 114 In 2015 he proposed a smart gun bill that aimed to equip handguns with technology making them usable by only the purchaser 115 In January 2016 Markey led 18 senators in signing a letter to Thad Cochran and Barbara Mikulski requesting that the Labor Health and Education subcommittee hold a hearing on whether to allow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC to fund a study of gun violence and the annual appropriations rider that some have interpreted as preventing it with taxpayer dollars The senators noted their support for taking steps to fund gun violence research because only the United States government is in a position to establish an integrated public health research agenda to understand the causes of gun violence and identify the most effective strategies for prevention 116 After the Orlando nightclub shooting Markey called for more gun regulations and supported the Feinstein Amendment which would have made it illegal for suspected terrorists to buy guns He also supports universal background checks 117 In response to the 2017 Las Vegas shooting Markey said This Congress has the responsibility to make sure the NRA stands for not relevant anymore in American politics and we have to begin this debate now 118 He co sponsored a proposal to ban bump stocks which make semi automatic weapons act like automatic weapons 119 In November 2017 Markey was a cosponsor of the Military Domestic Violence Reporting Enhancement Act a bill to create a charge of domestic violence under the Uniform Code of Military Justice UCMJ and stipulate that convictions must be reported to federal databases to keep abusers from purchasing firearms within three days in an attempt to close a loophole in the UCMJ whereby convicted abusers retain the ability to purchase firearms 120 In January 2019 Markey was one of 40 senators to introduce the Background Check Expansion Act a bill that would require background checks for either the sale or transfer of all firearms including unlicensed sellers Exceptions to the bill s background check requirement included transfers between members of law enforcement loaning firearms for either hunting or sporting events on a temporary basis giving firearms to members of one s immediate family firearms being transferred as part of an inheritance or giving a firearm to another person temporarily for immediate self defense 121 Health care Edit Markey supports the creation of a single payer federal healthcare program 122 In September 2017 he was one of 16 senators to cosponsor the 2017 Medicare for All Act introduced by Bernie Sanders which proposes establishing a federal health insurance program by expanding Medicare coverage to all United States residents 123 In June 2019 Markey was one of eight senators to cosponsor the Territories Health Equity Act of 2019 legislation that would remove the cap on annual federal Medicaid funding and increase federal matching rate for Medicaid expenditures of territories along with providing more funds for prescription drug coverage to low income seniors in an attempt to equalize funding for American territories Puerto Rico the Virgin Islands Guam American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands with that of U S states 124 Housing Edit In April 2019 Markey was one of 41 senators to sign a bipartisan letter to the housing subcommittee praising the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development s Section 4 Capacity Building program as authorizing HUD to partner with national nonprofit community development organizations to provide education training and financial support to local community development corporations CDCs across the country and expressing disappointment that President Trump s budget has slated this program for elimination after decades of successful economic and community development The senators wrote of their hope that the subcommittee would support continued funding for Section 4 in Fiscal Year 2020 125 Immigration Edit In July 2019 following reports that the Trump administration intended to cease protecting spouses parents and children of active duty service members from deportation Markey was one of 22 senators led by Tammy Duckworth to sign a letter arguing that the protection gave service members the ability to fight for the United States overseas and not worry that their spouse children or parents will be deported while they are away and that its termination would both cause service members personal hardship and negatively affect their combat performance 126 Also in July 2019 Markey and 15 other Senate Democrats introduced the Protecting Sensitive Locations Act which would require except in special circumstances that ICE agents get approval from a supervisor before engaging in enforcement actions at sensitive locations and that agents receive annual training in addition to reporting annually on enforcement actions in those locations 127 Internet Edit Internet security Edit On October 27 2006 Markey called for the arrest of security researcher Christopher Soghoian for creating a website to generate fake boarding passes 128 At 2AM on October 28 2006 FBI agents seized computers and other materials from Soghoian s house 129 On October 29 2006 Markey issued a statement revising his previous comments stating that the Department of Homeland Security should instead put him to work showing public officials how easily our security can be compromised The statement was critical of Soghoian s disclosure method deeming it ill considered but also said that he should not go to jail for his bad judgment 130 Net neutrality Edit Markey speaks at a rally on Net Neutrality in 2017In May 2014 days before the FCC was scheduled to rewrite its net neutrality rules Markey was one of 11 senators to sign a letter to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler arguing that Wheeler s proposal would destroy net neutrality and urging the FCC to consider reclassifying Internet providers to make them more like traditional phone companies over which the agency has clear authority to regulate more broadly 131 In September 2017 Markey was one of nine senators to sign a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai accusing the FCC of failing to provide stakeholders with an opportunity to comment on the tens of thousands of filed complaints that directly shed light on proposed changes to existing net neutrality protections 132 In March 2018 Markey was one of ten senators to sign a letter spearheaded by Jeff Merkley lambasting Pai s proposal to cut the Lifeline program during a period when roughly 6 5 million people in poor communities relied on it for access to high speed internet writing that it was Pai s obligation to the American public as the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission to improve the Lifeline program and ensure that more Americans can afford access and have means of access to broadband and phone service The senators also wrote Lifeline reaches more Americans in need of access to communication services 133 Internet privacy Edit In February 2019 Markey Richard Blumenthal and Josh Hawley sent Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg a letter about Project Atlas and its relevance to longstanding concerns that Facebook has used its products to deeply intrude into personal privacy 134 Labor Edit In May 2018 Markey led 11 senators in signing a letter to Chairman of the Federal Labor Relations Authority Colleen Kiko urging the FLRA to end efforts to close its Boston regional office until Congress debated the matter because the closure would place staff farther away from the federal employees whose rights they protect 135 LGBT rights Edit This article is written in the style of a debate rather than an encyclopedic summary It may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia s quality standards and make it more accessible to a general audience Please discuss this issue on the talk page September 2020 Learn how and when to remove this template message In 1996 Markey voted against the Defense of Marriage Act 136 In September 2014 Markey was one of 69 members of the US House and Senate to sign a letter to then FDA commissioner Sylvia Burwell requesting that the FDA revise its policy banning donation of corneas and other tissues by men who have had sex with another man in the preceding 5 years 137 138 In May 2017 Markey was one of 46 senators to introduce the Equality Act of 2017 described by Representative David Cicilline as ensuring that every LGBT person can live their lives free from the fear of discrimination Above all it s about honoring the values that have guided our nation since its founding It s critical that Congress pass the Equality Act into law 139 In October 2018 Markey was one of 20 senators to sign a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging him to reverse the rolling back of a policy that granted visas to same sex partners of LGBT diplomats who had unions that were not recognized by their home countries writing that too many places around the world have seen LGBT individuals subjected to discrimination and unspeakable violence and receive little or no protection from the law or local authorities and that refusing to let LGBT diplomats bring their partners to the US would be equivalent of upholding the discriminatory policies of many countries around the world 140 In June 2019 Markey was one of 18 senators to sign a letter to Pompeo requesting an explanation of a State Department decision not to issue an official statement that year commemorating Pride Month nor to issue the annual cable outlining activities for embassies commemorating Pride Month They also asked why the LGBT special envoy position remained vacant and asserted that preventing the official flying of rainbow flags and limiting public messages celebrating Pride Month signals to the international community that the United States is abandoning the advancement of LGBTI rights as a foreign policy priority 141 Military Edit In August 2013 Markey was one of 23 Democratic senators to sign a letter to the Defense Department warning that some payday lenders were offering predatory loan products to service members at exorbitant triple digit effective interest rates and loan products that do not include the additional protections envisioned by the law and asserting that service members and their families deserve the strongest possible protections and swift action to ensure that all forms of credit offered to members of our armed forces are safe and sound 142 Nuclear waste Edit In July 2019 Markey was an original cosponsor of the Sensible Timely Relief for America s Nuclear Districts Economic Development STRANDED Act a bipartisan bill introduced by Susan Collins and Tammy Duckworth that would give local government entities economic impact grants to offset the economic impact of stranded nuclear waste form a task force to identify existing funding that could be used to benefit communities and form a competitive innovative solutions prize competition to aid those communities in their search for alternatives to nuclear facilities generating sites and waste sites 143 Opioids Edit In February 2017 Markey and 30 other senators signed a letter to Kaleo Pharmaceuticals in response to an increase of the opioid overdose reversing device Evzio s price from 690 in 2014 to 4 500 They requested the detailed price structure for Evzio the number of devices Kaleo Pharmaceuticals set aside for donation and the totality of federal reimbursements Evzio received in the previous year 144 In March 2017 Markey led 21 senators who signed a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that said that 12 of adult Medicaid beneficiaries had some form or a substance abuse disorder that one third of treatment for opioid and other substance use disorders in the United States is financed by Medicaid and that the American Health Care Act could very literally translate into a death spiral for those with opioid use disorders due to inadequate funding often resulting in individuals abandoning substance use disorder treatment 145 Pipelines Edit In October 2016 Markey was one of five senators to sign a letter to President Obama requesting the administration halt work on the Dakota Access Pipeline until the permitting process of the Army Corps was transparent and would include public notice and participation formal and meaningful tribal consultation and adequate environmental review and stating their support for the tribes along the pipeline route in their fight against the Dakota Access pipeline project 146 Public transportation Edit April 2023 press conference by Markey second from right and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley far right promoting their Freedom to Move legislation They are joined by Boston Mayor Michelle Wu second from left and othersMarkey advocates making public transit fare free In June 2020 he and Representative Ayanna Pressley co authored the Freedom to Move Act which would offer 5 billion in annual competitive grants to transit agencies that offer fare free transit access Markey argues that fare free public transportation would help provide low income workers families seniors and individuals with disabilities with improved access to jobs education medical care and other critical services 147 148 Markey and Pressley reintroduced the bill in April 2023 149 Railroad safety Edit In June 2019 Markey was one of ten senators to cosponsor the Safe Freight Act a bill that would require freight trains to have one or more certified conductors and a certified engineer on board who can collaborate on how to protect the train and people living near the tracks The legislation was meant to correct a Federal Railroad Administration rollback of a proposed rule intended to establish safety standards 150 State Department Edit In September 2018 Markey was one of five senators to sign a letter to United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging him to employ more multifactor authentication measures to secure the State Department s information systems and seeking answers on how the department would boost its security following the Office of Management and Budget s designation of the department s cyber readiness as high risk what the department would do to address the lack of multifactor authentication required by law and statistics on the department s cyber incidents over the last three years 151 Supreme Court Edit In April 2021 Markey sponsored a bill in the Senate to expand the Supreme Court of the United States from nine to 13 justices 152 Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 Edit Markey was among the five Senate Democrats who voted against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 153 Recognition EditMarkey received an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Tufts University in May 2019 154 Personal life EditSince 1988 Markey has been married to Susan Blumenthal who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Women s Health and held the rank of rear admiral as Assistant U S Surgeon General 155 From 2005 to 2017 he was a contributing writer for The Huffington Post 156 He was one of several politicians who had a cameo role in the 2003 film Gods and Generals in which he played an Irish Brigade officer 157 Electoral history EditMain article Electoral history of Ed MarkeyNotes Edit Markey was not drafted His birth date corresponded to number 248 in the 1969 military draft The highest number called up for military service was 195 10 References Edit Kurtzleben Danielle February 7 2019 Rep Alexandria Ocasio Cortez Releases Green New Deal Outline NPR Retrieved September 21 2020 Sommer Liz August 25 2020 Gen Zers stan Ed Markey Here Are The Memes To Prove It Stay Hipp Birenbaum Gabby August 22 2020 Inside Ed Markey s unlikely emergence as an icon to Gen Z activists The Hill Hilder David B November 22 1976 Ed Markey The milkman s son who broke the rules The Harvard Crimson Retrieved August 13 2018 Obituary John E Markey at 89 manager for H P Hood Boston Herald July 14 2000 Archived from the original on November 5 2012 Retrieved July 6 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2020 Nancy Pelosi defends endorsement of Joe Kennedy over Ed Markey Boston com Retrieved September 25 2020 McGrane Victoria July 8 2020 Elizabeth Warren tiptoes into Markey Kennedy primary fight The Boston Globe Retrieved September 25 2020 Martin Jonathan September 1 2020 Markey Holds Off Joseph Kennedy in Massachusetts Senate Race The New York Times Retrieved September 2 2020 The End of Oil Pandemic Adds to Fossil Fuel Glut But COVID 19 Relief Money Flows to Oil Industry Democracy Now September 2 2020 Retrieved September 2 2020 Schoenberg Shira July 15 2013 Special election set for Dec 10 to fill Ed Markey s U S House seat masslive com Retrieved February 19 2014 Byers Alex November 2 2014 Ed Markey s policy strategy Letter rip Politico Retrieved August 13 2014 Connolly Brynne Barnett Byron January 6 2021 Massachusetts officials react as rioters overtake US Capitol WHDH Retrieved January 11 2021 Newhauser Daniel January 6 2021 Some Dems urge another impeachment of Trump following insurrection at U S Capitol Arizona Mirror Retrieved January 11 2021 Pietrewicz Ana January 7 2021 They were literally pounding on the windows Mass lawmakers who were in Capitol building react to insurrection Massachusetts Daily Collegian Retrieved January 11 2021 Kail Benjamin January 7 2021 President Trump considering pardoning himself as Democrats demand removal MassLive Retrieved January 11 2021 U S Senate Committee Assignments of the 118th Congress www senate gov Retrieved May 24 2023 Ed Markey The milkman s son who broke the rules Ebbert Stephfanie February 27 2013 Markey says abortion shift was personal The Boston Globe Retrieved February 27 2019 Ed Markey s Anti Abortion Past February 28 2013 Ed Markey SenMarkey February 8 2023 I m wearing my abortion pin from PPFA to tonight s State of the Union address Tweet via Twitter SEN MARKEY TO BRING KATE DINEEN FORCED TO TRAVEL ACROSS STATE LINES FOR ABORTION TO STATE OF THE UNION February 6 2023 Retrieved February 8 2023 Neidig Harper June 21 2019 Senate Democrats press regulators over reported tech investigations The Hill Retrieved September 21 2020 U S Senator Tammy Baldwin Helps Introduce Legislation to Ensure Child Care for All urbanmilwaukee com March 1 2019 Retrieved September 21 2020 Balderston Michael July 2 2019 Democratic Senators Oppose FCC Changes To KidVid Rules TV Technology Retrieved September 21 2020 Merkley resolution urges quick climate change action ktvz com November 27 2018 Archived from the original on February 7 2019 Retrieved February 6 2019 Press release November 14 2019 LCV ACTION FUND ENDORSES SARA GIDEON FOR SENATE LCV Retrieved August 20 2020 Roberts David April 16 2019 Sen Ed Markey We are now in the era of the Green New Deal Vox Retrieved September 21 2020 DePillis Lydia February 7 2019 Ocasio Cortez s Green New Deal What s in it CNN Retrieved February 7 2019 Meyer Robinson March 26 2019 The 3 Democrats Who Voted Against the Green New Deal The Atlantic Retrieved March 28 2019 The Senate rejected the Green New Deal on Tuesday in a decisive 57 0 vote that Democrats decried as a political stunt meant to divide their caucus All the Republican senators opposed the measure They were joined by four senators who caucus with the Democrats Senator Joe Manchin from the coal heavy state of West Virginia along with Senators Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona Doug Jones of Alabama and Angus King of Maine Battenfeld Joe March 26 2019 Green New Fail as Dems shun GOP forced vote on climate bill Boston Herald Retrieved March 27 2019 an early vote on the Green New Deal on Tuesday and not a single U S Senator including the measure s sponsor Massachusetts Ed Markey signed on to the overly ambitious environmental overhaul Green Miranda March 12 2019 Democrats offer legislation to counter White House climate science council The Hill Retrieved September 21 2020 McKinley Becker Kaitlin February 21 2021 Lawmakers in Mass Push for Vaccine Equity Say Racial Justice Must Be Priority NBC 10 Boston Retrieved February 22 2021 Young Shannon April 20 2018 US Sens Elizabeth Warren Ed Markey urge FEMA and HUD to find long term housing fix for Hurricane Maria survivors Masslive com Retrieved September 21 2020 Hennessy Fiske Molly April 23 2018 A FEMA program has sheltered thousands of Puerto Ricans since Hurricane Maria But now the evacuees fear its days are numbered Los Angeles Times Retrieved September 21 2020 Carney Jordain December 20 2016 Senate Dems Sanders ask Trump to help lower drug prices The Hill Archived from the original on October 28 2018 Retrieved December 26 2018 Minato Charlie December 7 2018 21 SENATORS SEND LETTER URGING FDA TO BAN FLAVORED TOBACCO MENTHOL halfwheel com Retrieved September 21 2020 Ovalle David March 5 2023 Experts lawmakers push for expanded access to methadone to save lives Washington Post Retrieved July 25 2023 Birnbaum Emily February 12 2019 Dems urge regulators to reject T Mobile Sprint merger The Hill Axelrod Tal March 20 2019 Warren Klobuchar 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Retrieved September 21 2020 U S Senator Tammy Baldwin Helps Introduce Background Check Expansion Act To Reduce Gun Violence urbanmilwaukee com January 9 2019 Retrieved September 21 2020 Health Care edmarkey com Retrieved July 13 2020 Sanders Bernard September 13 2017 S 1804 115th Congress 2017 2018 Medicare for All Act of 2017 www congress gov Retrieved July 13 2020 Axelrod Tal June 11 2019 Democratic White House hopefuls push to expand health care in US territories The Hill Retrieved September 21 2020 Wyden Merkley urge more affordable housing funds ktvz com April 16 2019 Archived from the original on April 18 2019 Retrieved April 17 2019 Domingo Ida July 11 2019 Senate Democrats to Trump don t deport military families wset com Retrieved September 21 2020 Self Zac July 11 2019 Bill would block immigration raids at schools courthouses 10news com Retrieved September 21 2020 Singel Ryan October 27 2006 Congressman Ed Markey Wants Security Researcher Arrested Wired Krebs Brian November 1 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September 21 2020 Grim Ryan April 15 2021 House and Senate Democrats Plan Bill To Add Four Justices to Supreme Court The Intercept Retrieved April 15 2021 Folley Aris June 1 2023 Here are the senators who voted against the bill to raise the debt ceiling The Hill Retrieved June 17 2023 Alfre Woodard to Deliver Commencement Address Tufts Now www now tufts edu April 2 2019 Retrieved March 25 2020 Biography susan blumenthal org Retrieved September 21 2020 Sen Ed Markey The Huffington Post Retrieved September 21 2020 Gods and Generals 2003 IMDb Retrieved August 13 2018 Further reading EditBiography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Financial information federal office at the Federal Election Commission Legislation sponsored at the Library of Congress Profile at Vote SmartExternal links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ed Markey Wikisource has original works by or about Ed Markey Senator Ed Markey official U S Senate website Ed Markey for Senate Ed Markey at Curlie Appearances on C SPAN Complete video of debate February 18 2020 C SPAN Complete video of Markey Kennedy debate August 11 2020 C SPANMassachusetts House of RepresentativesPreceded byWilliam R Callahan Member of the Massachusetts House of Representativesfrom the 16th Middlesex district1973 1975 Succeeded byRichard McGrathPreceded byEdward Dickson Member of the Massachusetts House of Representativesfrom the 26th Middlesex district1975 1976 Succeeded byJohn McNeilU S House of RepresentativesPreceded byTorbert Macdonald Member of the U S House of Representativesfrom Massachusetts s 7th congressional district1976 2013 Succeeded byMike CapuanoPreceded byNiki Tsongas Member of the U S House of Representativesfrom Massachusetts s 5th congressional district2013 Succeeded byKatherine ClarkNew office Chair of the House Global Warming Committee2007 2011 Position abolishedParty political officesPreceded byJohn Kerry Democratic nominee for U S Senator from Massachusetts Class 2 2013 2014 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