Edward Markey actually said...

"Thank you all for the historically great work which you did to have our Country respond the way it did."

"For those--for that cohort, people over 65 people, with preexisting conditions, immunocompromised, they still have to act as though the pandemic is still going on, in terms of protecting themselves."

"the planet is sick and there are no emergency rooms for planets, and we see the effects in New Orleans, in other places, with climate change just having devastating impacts on communities."

"Yes, I think that is a very important signal because it is a tale of two pandemics."