Ed Markey

Do you agree that the Sackett ruling is likely to intensify damage from flooding at a time when we actually need greater storage capacity from our wetlands, thanks to climate supercharged storms?

Do protected wetlands help keep stormwater from flooding chronically underinvested communities with aging or limited infrastructure?

Is it true that building over wetlands will also contribute to heat surges, amplifying the urban heat island effect that we had a hearing on recently?

Almost two-thirds of our wetlands are now at risk of development and destruction, thanks to this misguided Supreme Court ruling.

This year alone, we have seen severe flooding, costly storms across the country. We know that climate change is only going to make those disasters worse, more water, more often.

Let's create the partnership. Let's get it done.

Clearly, this isn't working. So we have to figure this out.

That can't be the speed at which our government works.

I would like to work with you on that, to have a pilot project, so that we might be able to accomplish that goal.

Conditions are unacceptably dangerous and inaccessible.

It is a no brainer that we ought to be converting surplus Federal assets into properties that may be used to provide emergency shelters, permanent housing, and services to the homeless.

The Massachusetts emergency shelter system has 6,500 families right now and 22,000 individuals in a shelter system that is at capacity.

So the GSA is willing, then, to transfer GSA lease buildings in whole or in part to nonprofits and local governments to be used for affordable housing?

Let's create the partnership. Let's get it done.

Clearly, this isn't working. So we have to figure this out.

That can't be the speed at which our government works.

I would like to work with you on that, to have a pilot project, so that we might be able to accomplish that goal.

Conditions are unacceptably dangerous and inaccessible.

So the GSA is willing, then, to transfer GSA lease buildings in whole or in part to nonprofits and local governments to be used for affordable housing?

The Massachusetts emergency shelter system has 6,500 families right now and 22,000 individuals in a shelter system that is at capacity.

It is a no brainer that we ought to be converting surplus Federal assets into properties that may be used to provide emergency shelters, permanent housing, and services to the homeless.

Let's create the partnership. Let's get it done.

Conditions are unacceptably dangerous and inaccessible.

The Massachusetts emergency shelter system has 6,500 families right now and 22,000 individuals in a shelter system that is at capacity.

I would like to work with you on that, to have a pilot project, so that we might be able to accomplish that goal.