Ed Markey

Even one person not getting vaccinated because they can't afford is a health system failure.

But now the list price of COVID vaccines may more than quadruple, and the cost of high drug prices is that families may need to pay higher health care premiums.

Mr. Whitaker, do you agree that rail workers should have the ability to collectively stop work when conditions threaten their health and safety?

Two person crews make our trains safer, and I wish that you would commit to that today.

Those safety issues are not just a threat to the communities where rail companies operate, they are a threat to rail workers.

The real workers are saying that your company has failed to ensure their health and safety, and they fear retribution.

That is why my Safe Freight Act would require trains to have at least two crew members.

It is clear that for too long, the rail industry has been raking in profits and putting safety on the sidelines.

President Biden aptly referred to the fees as 'junk fees' in his recent State of the Union address.

So, we have to end these junk fees, including a ban on parents having to pay any kind of fee to have their children sitting next to them.

Each time they have refused to make those commitments. These companies are failing to do the right thing, and it is time for Congress to act.

I am fighting to pass my Cash Refunds for Flight Cancellations Act.

In December 2021, I once again demanded airlines provide refunds to their passengers as the Omicron variant disrupted.

In March 2020, right at the start of the COVID crisis, I demanded the airlines provide consumers refunds for canceled flights due to the pandemic.

Last year saw a 1,000 percent increase in refund related complaints compared to 2019.

Spirit estimates that when it starts flying a route, average fares fall by 17 percent.

We applaud the Department of Justice and the Department of Transportation for opposing this harmful acquisition.

The 1,500-hour rule for training pilots has really become an impediment to replenishing the pilot work force.

Among a host of key provisions, $1,350 to passengers denied boarding.

In summer 2022, Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Chuy Garcia (D-IL) introduced the Good Jobs for Good Airports Act.

Senator Markey and Rep.

It is extremely important. I know that TSCA was a bipartisan victory that you and others hold high.

I want to thank you for working with us in terms of the construction of it, so that it can ensure that every community in America has access to the tens of billions of dollars which can be unleashed with a kind of bank that is properly…

We absolutely have to provide the resources to make sure we are focusing on those issues.

Because we can't manage what we don't measure.