Ed Markey

The tea party controls the House of Representatives and they don't like the government. So they want to shut it down.

So we have lost many of the fundamental protections from poisons, defective products, financial crime...

We had to test it, but we had a moral responsibility to test it and to trust, but verify, as Ronald Reagan said.

There has been a very high historical prevarication coefficient coming out of Iran on this program.

The sanctions have squeezed the regime of Iran, but we cannot let the Iranians wriggle out of the impacts of the sanctions through a mirage of cooperation.

I think it is absolutely critical that we play the lead role here.

We should have never started the war because we could not find the program that was the ostensible justification.

We do not trust the Iranian regime, and we should not trust the Iranian regime.

I thank the Senator from Rhode Island for yielding. I hope the tea party Republicans come to their senses. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from South Dakota.

We have to acknowledge it, figure out the right approach.

It's impacting industry all across this country. That is dramatic job creator and important for our food supply and food chain

The entire Massachusetts delegation is working together to encourage the Small Business Administration to help our fishermen.

This is a very difficult issue and we are very concerned about the future of that fishing industry.

We have to explore, more fully, because if you're linking the warming of the waters to historically warm waters to a decline in juvenile cod...

Dogfish are clearly something that can play a big role in the revitalization of the Massachusetts and New England fishermen.

I think it's important for us to be able to move that forward to protect American fishermen from being exploited by this rampant fraud.

The values have to attach to it, and only through legislation and regulation can those values be instilled into the technology.

Ultimately the purpose of the Act was to create Darwinian paranoia-inducing competition in the marketplace, that would threaten the incumbents, force them to move.

People look back to the 1996 Telecommunications Act and they wonder is its relevance.

People will take advantage of any given moment. The faster the change, the faster they'll take advantage of it.

The technology is neither good nor bad. There is a Dickensian quality to that technology.

Having watched major changes in industries that move very rapidly, under the radar, who used to get away with all kinds of things--and I'd say the health insurance industry would be one of the top.

Your insurance company cheated you, overcharged you, and because of the medical loss ratio bill in the Affordable Care Act, sometimes known as Obamacare, but not by me, she got $200.

The law was intended to make the Internet, the highway of information for the future, accessible for the deaf and blind as well.

I was the author of the Child Online Privacy Act, but that was in the BF era, the 'Before Facebook' era.