Ed Markey

We must re-imagine a national security policy that prioritizes diplomacy and stops endless, undefined military engagements before they can begin.

I am angered that after 20 years of American investment in an Afghan security force dramatically larger than the Taliban, dramatically better equipped than the Taliban, that security force just melted away and failed.

I am angry at the terrorist impulse.

The United States must judge Beijing by its actions, not its words.

I just would hope the 200,000 is the goal.

If we have learned anything from our 20-year war in Afghanistan, it is that it is easier to get into a war than to get out of one.

We owe it to them not to create red tape and free them from the risk of sanctions.

President Biden was right to end the United States' longest war.

I do think we need an accounting. That is important for history and for us going forward, but let us stop with the hypocrisy about who is to blame.

I think telescoping the timeframe to get that completed is very important.

I want to know where that outrage was when year after year for 10 years, starting with Senator McCain, I and others in the Senate tried to get more Special Immigrant Visa applicants through the process.

I want to know where that outrage was during the negotiations by the Trump administration and former Secretary Pompeo, when they were giving away the rights of women and girls.

I was one of those who was opposed to our withdrawing from Afghanistan. I am not going to revisit that, but a lot of my concerns were around the rights of women and girls if Afghanistan fell into the hands of the Taliban.

These two bills have to be welded together. They cannot be separated.

We’re going to have to work with all 50 Democrats to get the votes to take significant dramatic climate action in the green budget resolution.

GOP now stands for Gas and Oil Party, and the leader Donald Trump is down in Mar-a-Lago not even understanding it’s turning into Mar-a-lagoon over the next 15 years unless we take dramatic climate action.

We cannot stop here and it includes increasing the fuel economy standards for the vehicles which we drive.

The Green New Deal is in the DNA of this green budget resolution.

We are going to now respond to the code red for humanity. We`re going to take this as a final warning that we must take bold, dramatic action. The planet is running a fever. There are no emergency rooms for planets, and we have to take…

That authorization just has to go.

What leverage does the United States and its partners have to urge the Houthis to end its military offensive and return to diplomatic talks?

The whole premise of the war was a big lie, that we were going in to remove nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction from that country.

The war, ultimately, was fought on a lie that President Bush and Dick Cheney, his entire administration, made, which was that there were nuclear weapons in Iraq.

Menthol numbs the throat, is minty and has long been a leading youth initiation brand. It should be banned to protect young people.

Finally give them the protections and maybe we will be able to do adults at some point.