Ed Markey

By cutting Amtrak funding, they are playing a dangerous game of railway Russian roulette.

We have aging infrastructure that has been under-invested in.

We need to do everything we can to facilitate the quick installation of positive train control, PTC, along our Nation's railroads.

We are working very closely with the FCC.

If you want to keep the 'clean' in the Clean Water Act, then you should vote for my amendment.

This amendment intends to focus on public health, only the public health aspect of what this bill could undermine.

Do you see this dramatic imbalance between State and DOD as a good thing for our approach to Africa?

I am growing more concerned about the potential for militarization of U.S. foreign policy in Africa.

Well, I think it is just an important issue for them to understand that we are dead serious about it.

What are we doing to improve how the African Union deals with sexual abuse and exploitation by its peacekeeping troops?

The Leahy human rights considerations would prevent us from working and collaborating in a training relationship or in an equipping relationship with military members who have any accusations with respect to human rights.

Supporting partners in an effort to combat violence and human rights violations when they themselves are committing similar acts against innocents is not a recipe for success by any measure.

We might be seeing a turn toward a more proactive approach against Boko Haram.

I actually declared an acronym-free zone in our committee.

U.S. security sector assistance is part of our effort to combat terrorism and enable our partners to establish and secure governance.

The truth is whether it be the automotive industry or the meat industry, you name it, these new standards wound up extending life expectancy in the United States to 79 years of age.

The Clean Air Act mandates that we protect public health from known threats based on science and the science is clear that the current ozone level should be lowered.

The national ozone standard has real world impacts on the health of kids, workers across our Country, hospitalization, and even deaths caused by ozone pollution.

Pollution is a problem that we can solve.

In 1900, the average age of death in the United States was 48 years of age. We have gone from the Garden of Eden to 1900.

Before the 2008 ozone standard was finalized, we heard this standard would cripple the economy, but this was just not true.

We don't want to have a digital divide in the country. We don't want digital haves and digital have-nots.

I think that in the same way that a black, rotary-dial phone played that huge role in the 20th century, for better or worse, broadband, the Internet, is now economic oxygen for every family in America.

The Federal Communications Commission Act of 1934, it has at its core this principle of universal service.

Without modern telecommunications technologies, we are going to leave behind too many people in our country.