Ed Markey

If you can figure out an algorithm that sends information around the world in a blink of an eye, you should be able to figure out an algorithm that also provides consumers with the privacy and security which they need as they are driving…

The problem is that there are massive holes in how car companies are securing these features against hackers.

Cars today are highly connected. Every new car has some wireless technologies built into it.

We fundamentally need to reform our government access and intelligence laws to make sure that consumers trust the Internet of Things.

A report released this weekend by Senator Markey raises serious questions about whether connected cars are being designed to ensure that their systems are protected from malicious hackers seeking to take physical control over the vehicles.

We absolutely need to find a better way to incentivize rigorous security practices built into products from the beginning because the status quo is not cutting it.

I encourage Internet of Things designers to keep this case study in mind and make sure they are creating functionality that serves the consumers.

Ultimately, consumers should be empowered to make that choice and to control what the devices collect about them.

Now President Obama is using the Clean Air Act to reduce carbon pollution from power plants.

I think it is pretty clear that it is going to be possible to reduce carbon, to increase the GDP, to enhance the reliability of the system while engaging in significant job growth in our Country.

I think, from my perspective, if each member was given at least 1 minute to make an opening statement...

I commend you, Mr. Chairman, and you, Senator Menendez, for making sure that their voices continue to be heard.

I think the more that we have American tourists down there, the more that we have cultural exchanges...

So the quicker we can move them in that direction, the quicker their whole society changes.

Over the years, there has been clearly an isolation from our country that Cuba has had to live with.

Ultimately the more that we engage them at the economic level, it tends to then change the country in ways that were unanticipatable by the political leaders of that country.

I do not know whether they really mean that. The point of these regulations is that we believe that they need that to offer more access to their people.

Cuba is not going to change overnight.

I think that trying to engage on that one issue gives us an opportunity to really make a difference.

Because I think we have to put this under a microscope, because it just can't go on and on and on and on.

The Japanese government is so interested in introducing maglev technology, they are willing to put up $5 billion to build a first leg between Washington and Baltimore.

We support Senator Thune's bill and the concept of giving us an extension, to recognize both our effort and the fact that it is an extremely heavy lift.

Our rail system, passenger rail system, in the United States is a joke.

So back when we passed the 1996 Telecommunications Act, for example, we had to put together a whole system of towers across the country so that people could talk to each other.

We can build it in California and the Northeast Corridor, where I think there is enough quantity of potential riders to make it feasible, we can build high-speed rail.