Ed Markey

Do you all agree that we should keep the protections from the 1996 Act on the books?

We have to make sure that public safety remains at the core, and we have to make sure that the phone network works every single time.

It was all bottled up, just bottled up, so that a couple of companies, you know, controlled everything.

Markey Introduces Legislation to Boost Ukrainian Energy Independence, Lessening Putin's Power

We can really change dramatically, and have Ukraine say to Russia, we do not need your natural gas any more than we need your soldiers.

We have to use every bit of leverage that we have in order to help them accomplish that goal.

I think that we really do have a huge opportunity here, and the more we learn about this country, the more we can see that it can be transformed in the blink of an eye.

Our asymmetric strength is our economy.

I cannot vote here anymore, but I certainly support your initiative to help countries help themselves.

And I will just add parenthetically here for those who are criticizing President Obama's plan on Monday that the EPA announced to reduce our greenhouse gases, and who are decrying the increase in electricity rates here in America for doing…

So I introduced a bill this morning to deal with this Achilles heel of Ukraine, which doubles the funding for the State Department, USAID, Export-Import Bank, OPIC, and U.S. Trade and Development Agency to deal with this issue both of…

The NRC claims to foster a safety conscious work environment where personnel feel free to raise safety concerns without fear of retaliation, intimidation, harassment or discrimination.

I appreciate that but again, we just had Fukushima. We know that many of the nuclear power plants in our Country are built on or near earthquake faults and we have the Commission's actual conclusion.

But those are pre-Fukushima standards and you have not promulgated any post-Fukushima standards thus far.

Would NRC rules and regulations allow unescorted Chinese nationals to go through private nuclear complexes?

Those results are shameful. I ask that portions of this report be entered into the record and request your formal written response on what you plan to do to fix these problems.

Fukushima reminded us of the devastating effects of a nuclear reactor meltdown.

The Commission recently voted to allow plants to continue to overfill these pools for as long as they wished to do so.

The solution to this is simple. Take the waste out of pools and put it into safer, dry cask storage.

With that much at stake, I think the Commission's vote not to heed these warnings was simply irresponsible.

Then how could it have happened then that they were walking through our power plants, especially post-9/11?

For me, that is still unforgivable. We know what can happen. We know what the consequences are.

It is very important for this culture to change. I am just afraid that it has not.

I rise today to speak in favor of the confirmation of David Barron to the First Circuit Court of Appeals. As a Harvard Law professor, he has broad bipartisan support from those who know him best--his colleagues. Larry Tribe and Charles…

I rise to speak on the issue of net neutrality. Right now there are people who are watching the floor of the Senate streaming live on C-SPAN.org. They might be engaged political junkies or maybe they need something to help them take a nap…