Ed Markey

The clean energy sector is worth an estimated $2.3 trillion over the next decade.

We have to help these countries to not fall into the same trap because the same potential is there for solar, for wind, for other renewable energy resources.

I am quite concerned that we may not be seeing adequate progress in that area.

I really think the Obama administration is primed to hit a home run here with Power Africa. If we enable Africa with the right technical expertise and financing resources, we are going to see a total revolution in their electricity system…

But there is a lot of sun in Ethiopia, as I recall, from my----

More than half of Massachusetts' 5,000 bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete.

A strong, multi-year bill would provide the funding and the certainty that our State and local governments need.

The United States has long been the world's leader in ingenuity and engineering, building America's infrastructure into the best in the world.

Accountability is everything. We have tended to forget that in this country because somehow America always muddles through.

You have to think of it as a necessary investment that you have to make.

Do you want to spend the money to keep up with this technological arms race that you necessarily have to because it is concomitant with the electronic era that each of these companies are embracing?

NIST's job is not to say exactly what it should be for this month, the next month, the next month.

We need to put in place the highest possible standards.

Senator Blumenthal and I have introduced legislation to give the Federal Trade Commission much greater authority.

The Congress shouldn't require a specific technology, but it should require a standard.

To just keep saying we are surprised at the changes means that you haven't kept up.

If you don't keep up with the changes, that you are liable.

It doesn't make any sense for the Congress to mandate specific technologies.

I would suggest to you that you look perhaps to a broader group of companies here that would be helpful.

I think that a more lengthy period of time makes more sense.

It is going to cost more money, but it is the right thing to do.

So, what they were complaining about was that we initially offered one year, and they said one year is not adequate.

Senator Markey stated that the Energy Department has warned that if we approve one more Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) export terminal, it will cost Americans $62 billion a year.

We should not be a middleman to transport the dirtiest oil in the world to the thirstiest foreign nations who are our economic rivals.

The mantra of the Chamber of Commerce from 5 years ago, 'Drill here, drill now, pay less,' has morphed into 'Drill here, export to China, pay more here in the United States as we export our own natural resources.'