Ed Markey

I am proud to stand here today to support raising the minimum wage. No person in America should work full time and not earn enough to be above the poverty level. The poverty level in the United States in 2014 is about $23,000 for a family…

If what you are proposing or countless governments across the world are starting to do is wrong, the worst that can happen is they have made themselves more energy independent.

Clearly, the goal of that referendum is to say that part of the country wishes to secede and go back to Russia.

There is a responsibility to take action, and I hope we will.

Do you believe that the Coast Guard should work with Congress so that there is an ability to properly review these plans to ensure that they are not deficient?

Climate change is real. How does that affect the mission of the Coast Guard in the years ahead?

I am concerned that the Coast Guard is moving forward on this rule without adequately consulting the states.

I think that's important for us to understand that climate change is having an impact on the Coast Guards' ability to do its job.

We don't know exactly what is going to happen in terms of impacting our ability to protect our own coastline.

The planet is running a fever. There are no emergency rooms for planets, so we have to engage in the kind of smart, forward looking activities that help us to avoid the worst, most catastrophic consequences of global warming.

The facts are the facts and the American people want their air clean and they want their water safe.

We are a small State but we now have 5,000 companies with 80,000 jobs in the clean energy sector in Massachusetts.

I am confident that it can be done in a way which is good for the environment and good for the pocketbooks of the people in our country.

I have tried year after year, for more than 10 years, to have legislation passed that would require the disclosure of all of this information, and it was the automobile industry that killed my legislation year after year.

If you are not going to commit to doing it voluntarily, that we need legislation that mandates it.

I am very troubled that you are not willing to commit to ending this culture of secrecy at General Motors.

You should be in a position right now, Ms. Barra, I am telling you this, to say, 'We will disclose this information. We will make it available.'

It is much more difficult to cover up evidence that is publicly available.

When the Soviet Union was falling, Gorbachev called it 'perestroika,' we had a restructure.

And we have to make sure that those goals, competition, consumer choice are there because that ultimately is what makes us the leader in the world on these issues.

I wrote a letter to the FCC, calling on the Commission to actively defend Internet freedom and consumer rights.

I believe that the consumer's choice of cable television providers should not be tied to her ability to access Internet content that is freely available to other consumers.

So, yes, I was there at day one and that was my bill back then long ago and far away.

There's got to be a way that these dishes are not eight feet wide.

Every day firefighters and other first responders around our country put their lives on the line to protect the public. Yesterday members of the Boston Fire Department bravely entered a burning building in Boston's Back Bay in a selfless…