Ed Markey: “House Republicans already turned their backs on coastal communities in the Commonwealth earlier this year...”

The health and safety of America’s children must not be sacrificed for political theater and ideology.

Over the past two years, my office has been working closely with the family of Robert Gilman – a Massachusetts resident and former Marine who has been wrongfully detained in Russia on questionable charges for 1,666 days.

We cannot rely on courts alone to secure strong protections for our kids’ privacy and safety — Congress must act.

While this news is deeply welcomed, it is long overdue. It is a tragedy that it took Robert’s near-death condition for his case to receive the attention that it required for his release to be negotiated.