WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Washington (November 20, 204) Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation today joined a bipartisan group of his colleagues to sound the alarm on the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) facial recognition regime in airports across the United States. Senator Markey was joined by Senators Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), John Kennedy   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: At a hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Policy, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) asked witnesses about the implications of Trump's 2025 tax agenda on the economy and American families. Senator Warren is chair of the Economic Policy subcommittee and will become the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee in the next Congress. In 2017, then  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Bill Text (PDF) | One-Pager (PDF) Washington (November 20, 2024) Today on World Children's Day, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee and chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Safety, and Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (VA-04), reintroduced the Get Toxic Substances Out o  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Bill Text (PDF) | Section by section (PDF) Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today announced that 54 new civil rights, labor, LGBTQ+ rights, consumer protection, housing, immigration, and disability organizations have endorsed his Artificial Intelligence (AI) Civil Rights Act. The legislation the most comprehensive AI civil  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Washington (November 20, 2024) Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement today on the Joint Resolutions of Disapproval of Arms Sales. "For those of us horrified and outraged by Hamas's brutal October 7 terrorist attacks on Israel and who remain steadfastly committed to Israel's right to exist and defend itself, the U.S. strategy of giving the Netanyahu government a blank   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 -- Rep. Jake Auchincloss, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on Nov. 21, 2024: Today, U.S. Representatives Jake Auchincloss (MA-04), Scott Peters (CA-50), Robert Garcia (CA-42), Marc Molinaro (NY-19), Juan Ciscomani (AZ-06), Brittany Pettersen (CO-07), and Chuck Edwards (NC-11) announced the launch of the pro-housing "Yes In My Back Yard" (YIMBY) Caucus to promote the development of housing nationwide. The YIMBY movement focuses on encouraging new housing dev  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.) reintroduced the Educational Equity Challenge Grant Act, a bill to create a $100 billion application-based grant program to accelerate academic progress and address students' social, emotional, mental, behavioral, and physical health needs in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Public schools across the nation have long f  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, and Representative Andy Kim (D-N.J.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, introduced the National Security Officials' Foreign Employment Disclosure Act to require nominees for the Department of Defense (DoD), Department of State (State), Department of the Treasury (Treasury), and the Intelligence Com  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, and U.S. Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) led their colleagues in warning the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Reserve (Fed) of Capital One's history of consumer abuses ahead of its proposed acquisition of Discover Financial Services (Discover).   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) reintroduced the Andrew Kearse Accountability for Denial of Medical Care Act to hold federal law enforcement officers criminally liable for negligently failing to obtain medical assistance to people in custody experiencing medical distress. On May 11, 2017, Andrew Kearse, a 36-year-old Black man, died of   more