Ed Markey

It was an escalation of rhetoric that then could be used, unfortunately, by those that would think that nuclear weapons are usable.

My concern, obviously, is how the North Koreans react to it.

My concern here is the plans which are in place to use preemptive force against North Korea's nuclear arsenal.

We know that Kim Jong-un's goal is to die as a very old man in his bed.

The Federal Communications Commission must act without delay to put in place strong broadband privacy rules.

It's clear that the Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission both have clear roles to play as privacy cops on the beat.

Let me move over to child privacy. Right now, as Congress--as Senator Daines pointed out, the existing law, which I'm the author of in 1998, protects children 12 and under and their privacy.

I’ve sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission on this issue to investigate whether or not Indivior has engaged in unlawful behavior to delay the approval of cheaper generic competition.

Indivior is alleged to have violated antitrust laws by conspiring to block generic competition, extending its monopoly over treatments for opioid addiction and driving up drug costs.

However, actions by Indivior, the producer of suboxone, may have made the crucial drug less accessible as a treatment to deal with this problem.

In Massachusetts and communities across the country, we have an epidemic of heroin and prescription drug overdose that is absolutely out of control.

Well, that is incredible. Thank you.

Well, just 2 months ago, it is reported that government soldiers looted the World Food Program's main warehouse in Juba and just took all the food that was there.

So should we be attempting to put pressure on the Chinese companies, the Chinese oil companies, to act in a more responsible fashion?

So what can international partners do in order to ensure there is protection of the natural resources within South Sudan?

I think there could have been a way for the U.S. to be able to say $11 billion in 10 years, this is what we have shown for it, this is what we can show for it, this is what was wasted.

I would urge you at the next open meeting to take up privacy and take up the BDS rulemaking.

The only way this works is if we, that is, the government, steps in to free up these programmers.

I think the American people will say that's one of the greatest days in the history of the Commission, to be freed from this kind of a chain.

So that's our job and your job to find this common sense solution, but we have to find a solution.

I just think it's an important statement for the Committee to make.

There must be a compelling reason for this and we should hear that reason.

We have our own research reactors in the United States. We have our own brilliant scientists here in the United States.

But my side of the argument is apocalyptic.

I think they do have the capacity. I think they do.