Ed Markey

The extent to which all of a sudden with the rise of wind and solar, the nuclear industry becomes concerned that the government might be playing a role in helping to subsidize an energy source...

We need the private sector onboard to build out a low carbon energy system.

The original revolution in nuclear was government subsidized, let's be honest about it.

I would just say that right now the nuclear industry's liability is capped in the event of a catastrophic accident.

Given the fact that NRC studies show that the consequences of a spent fuel fire can be as severe as the consequences of an accident at an operating reactor, do you think removing the fuel from the pool more quickly will increase safety?

That is why I recently introduced the Dry Cask Storage Act which gives plants 7 years to remove all the waste that can be removed from the pool and put it into safer dry cask storage.

It used to be that people thought nuclear energy would be too cheap to matter but now with cheap gas and wind, nuclear energy is actually too expensive to matter.

The reason is that plants are closing faster than new ones are opening.

The only entities willing to finance nuclear plants are governments.

I rise today in support of the nomination of Indira Talwani to the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Ms. Talwani is a brilliant and accomplished attorney who will make an outstanding addition to our district…

Will you commit to rewriting this regulation, consistent with the language I included in S. 2151?

I think it's imperative for the Administration to provide this information from the auto industry to NHTSA.

Secretary Foxx, will you support the language that Senator Blumenthal and I are asking to require the documents that first alerts automakers to a fatality involving their vehicles be provided to NHTSA and made publically available?

If the privacy issues are overcome and it's just generic information that's passed on, would that then alleviate your concern and could you then support?

Our bill calls for automobile companies to automatically provide NHTSA with copies of the documents that first made them aware of a fatality involving their cars and for NHTSA to make those documents available to the public.

We cannot allow automakers to keep the very same accident report details secret in the future.

Conceptually, do you have any problem with the information being made public when an accident occurs that leads to a fatality that the information be sent to NHTSA? Do you have any problem with that?

It should be clear to everyone here that it is much more difficult to cover up evidence and dismiss consumer complaints if the evidence is publically available.

I think people of good will on both sides want to get to the same goal: preserve Ukraine, have it be able to move forward with its election, be able to exercise its own freedom, and for its people to exercise its own judgment for the…

The big thing here is energy efficiency.

It is pretty clear that Russia is using natural gas as its weapon, not just against Ukraine but in trying to influence the response from the EU.

It is basically as clear as can be that their sector was so corrupt, so tied into the Russian gas mafia.

I think it is the most important signal you can send to Russia.

We just have to basically say to the people who have been on the take in their country from the natural gas sector that you are out.

No other country in the world acted as quickly as the United States of America in response to what happened in the Ukraine.