Ed Markey

Right now dozens of wars and conflicts dot our world map, from the Sudanese desert to America's longest war in Afghanistan.

I rise to speak on an issue of vital importance to all who value true liberty in the United States. Last month the Supreme Court issued its decision in the Hobby Lobby case. In 2010, in the Citizens United case, the Court said corporations…

I think the whole story ultimately has to get out there, and I thank you for your pursuit of the truth.

Now, in 2006, when GM was starting to acknowledge that it had a problem, it changed the ignition switch design...

I think that's going to go a long way if that legislation becomes law, and it should because that's the surest way of ensuring this will not happen again.

I have introduced legislation, along with Senator Blumenthal, that calls for important steps to provide more information to the public sooner.

We need more information to be publicly disclosed by automakers in the early warning reporting system.

The best way of ensuring that this does not happen again is to ensure that there is transparency in the future.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Did Delphi produce or review a cost estimate that compared the cost of the two switch designs?

No Federal Government, no funding---- None of this would have happened.

Research and development science is critical to our economic growth, critical to keeping our lead in the world.

No Bolt, Beranek and Newman. No invention of ARPANET. No Google. No Hulu. No YouTube.

We're caught in a time when the Congress doesn't want to do anything.

If you got to get it out of the laboratories, get it out there and then the young people will take over.

Whether or not we are going to be successful 30 and 40 years from now and winning Nobel Prizes against China and India is going to be determined by the vision that this generation has.

Scientific education is just so important and it's just something that we have to continue to invest in and revere.

They should be allowed to do it.

We still have a stagnated marketplace.

More competition is the answer for all these problems.

The problem is they control the road which all those cars go on.

A kid today who is 14 thinks they have a constitutional right to a 50 inch screen, broadband, and a smartphone.

Darwinian eye watering bone chilling competition is the answer to all regulation.

The whole history of this is the incumbents trying to block competitors from getting access to the same consumers

That is not good for consumers and that is why we are so concerned that a combined Comcast/Time Warner will leverage its control over the pipe to the detriment of consumers.