Ed Markey

What are you saying to them about this one specific, new addition to the opioid death spiral?

Fentanyl is the new addition. It is like a chemical concoction that is put together.

What is our government saying to Mexico about the importation of fentanyl?

We have a fentanyl epidemic in the United States.

Public input is vital and should actually be strengthened.

Laced throughout the bill as it is drafted is an assumption that there are inherent safety features built into advanced design reactors that make it safer automatically.

I agree with you. There are mandatory hearings if you want to build a new house next door to someone else.

I just think we have to be realistic, that the Belgian warning that they were looking at a nuclear power plant and that they were trying to attack it is clearly something we have to take into account here in the United States.

Fewer resources are not good for the agency in protecting against a potential terrorist attack, is that true?

Do you agree that granting safety exemptions to advanced reactor licensees could lead to a net reduction in overall safety?

The revelation that ISIS recorded video at the home of a Belgian nuclear official underscores the need for additional resources for security and safety at U.S. nuclear power plants.

Even Senator Markey laid out some of the challenges faced by nuclear.

To reduce the budgets of these aging power plants... is totally contrary to how we think about it.

To say that is not as accurate for technology as it is for humans just belies the reality...

Remember, eight new nuclear reactors are what we need to maintain nuclear share of electricity generation in our country.

Consumer choice should fuel the video-box market, not cable company control.

Thank you for the Clean Power Plan which you have put together. It is a very important part of the solution to the intensification of the warming of the planet.

So these governments just have to know how important this issue is to us, because it is killing thousands of people across the United States on a yearly basis.

I want to move along this environmental front a little bit as well.

But these are last week and last month, that is the Honduran environmentalist is assassinated, the antidrug officials were assassinated. So they are not listening.

Will a partial cut in our aid to Honduras help the effort, in your opinion?

What are your perspectives on how difficult it will be for the Secretary to certify that the countries of Central America are taking effective measures with respect to the protection of human rights?

You should not be killed for expressing your views.

I think that the sooner we actually begin to look at that $1.8 billion to $1.9 billion, and just decide we are going to fund it, is the less likely we are going to have catastrophic consequences.

We have a moral responsibility to do something about it.