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Ed Markey

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Edward John Markey is a United States Senator from Massachusetts, having served since July 24, 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Markey previously represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives from April 14, 1976, to July 24, 2013. Throughout his career, he has been a strong advocate for environmental issues, telecommunications, and technology policy. Markey played a significant role in the development of legislation aimed at addressing climate change and promoting renewable energy sources.

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Nov 12, 2013

The whole key here is we have to find a way of ensuring that we link up the investors with the inventors, the professors with the producers and create kind of an environment where innovation is at the heart of what is happening.

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Nov 5, 2013

What Senator Markey said, 30 years ago some people decided to invest in me and here I am today and I have a Nobel Prize; these things cannot happen haphazardly and have a good result.

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Nov 5, 2013

We do it so that, you know, we encourage the best and the brightest to go into these fields.

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Nov 5, 2013

Last year in the United States we spent $131 billion on Alzheimer's patients.

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Nov 5, 2013

Why should we tease that out and just make sure that we keep that on the front burner, you know.

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Nov 5, 2013

Massachusetts, we are number one in math, verbal, and science at the 4th, 8th, and 10th grades.

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Oct 30, 2013

I think we need to scale this up and get serious.

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Oct 30, 2013

I think the United States has to insert itself as the overall supervisor of who gets what in terms of external military assistance going in to opposition groups in Syria.

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Oct 30, 2013

I just think it has to be halted, and I am going to work very hard to make sure that those eight nuclear power plants are never constructed.

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Oct 30, 2013

I cast the 11th largest number of votes out of 10,850 Members of the House since 1789 and so far I am perfect in the Senate.

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Oct 30, 2013

Iran is kind of a big part of this whole puzzle because of Assad, Hezbollah.

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Oct 30, 2013

May I ask as well, the Iranians are still providing massive support to the Syrian Government.

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Oct 30, 2013

We should just have a little humility in the United States in terms of our ability to control events on the ground.

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Oct 30, 2013

Our public is telling us that they do not want us to do it.

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Oct 30, 2013

We have to make it as part of a program that says: You do not have an inherent right to these civilian nuclear power plants.

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Oct 30, 2013

I would willingly cast again tomorrow.

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Oct 30, 2013

The American public was not really into the mission.

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Oct 30, 2013

We have had hubris and now we have to have humility.

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Oct 30, 2013

While this team can't bring back the lives we lost or heal the wounds inflicted, it did what no other team besides the Red Sox can do. It reaffirmed our common bond in Massachusetts in New England and with Red Sox nation fans everywhere.

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Oct 28, 2013

If he were ever arrested, he wanted me to defend him.

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Oct 28, 2013

Our schools [must be] an integral part of the broadband and technology transformation

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Oct 28, 2013

Nearly two decades after then-Representative Ed Markey warned about the 'digital divide,' we still have one.

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Oct 10, 2013

Should we be finding a new way to fund the Commodities Futures Trading Commission so that the next time there's a dispute over the budget we aren't forced to pull our financial cops off the beat?

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Oct 10, 2013

Do you all agree that the Federal Government shutdown has increased our risk of serious injury or death...

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