Ed Markey

Congress has made historic investments in broadband.

Yes. And again we know we have a crisis in the country. One in three teenage girls contemplated suicide last year.

I think it's a terrifying possibility, both in the short term and in the long term, in terms of the harm to children's learning if this fund expires.

17 million kids got access as a result of that provision.

That's why I fought so hard to create the Emergency Connectivity Fund.

Last week the Department of Education released new data demonstrating that students with access to laptops and high-speed Internet at home score higher on tests.

The pandemic helped to expose the holes in the fabric of our digital infrastructure.

I think that is just so important.

So we just need to make sure that if we want to continue to have these plants get older and older and older, that we also build in the safeguards.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, very much.

Will you continue to work with me to ensure that Next Era is properly managing alkali silica reaction at Seabrook?

$25,000 a year is too high.

This is completely out of reach for most Americans.

Innovation without access is a hallucination for patients across the country.

One in five Americans with diabetes is forced to ration their insulin.

So we just need to make sure that if we want to continue to have these plants get older and older and older, that we also build in the safeguards.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, very much.

I think that is just so important.

Will you continue to work with me to ensure that Next Era is properly managing alkali silica reaction at Seabrook?

A full Commission, five is ideal. There is a reason why Congress set five.

All politics is personal, all diplomacy is personal.

$25,000 a year is too high.

This is completely out of reach for most Americans.

I think the primary issue we want to talk about is how to lift that prohibition from Medicare.

Congress should act to put together some formula that ensures that the benefits flow down to those most in need.