Ed Markey

I introduced the Ensuring Health Safety in the Skies Act with Senators Wicker and Blumenthal and our bipartisan legislation instructs the DOT to convene a joint task force of aviation security and public health experts that will develop…

Due to the prior Administration's failed leadership, airlines and airports have largely had to develop their own rules for ensuring coronavirus-related health and safety during the ongoing emergency.

Will you urge your airlines to voluntarily extend all of these pandemic flight credits indefinitely?

We need to have all of the stakeholders at the table to review what has happened to date and to take lessons learned and have a plan for our full way out of this pandemic.

I agree with you a hundred percent.

Consumers need cash back during these challenging times.

The United States opposes restrictions that arbitrarily delay or deny essential commodities from getting to the people who need them the most, including through Hudaydah port.

If you want to talk about socialism, then let`s talk about tax breaks for the oil, gas and coal industry for 100 years.

We have the moral obligation to do it. And we will do it this year.

Inequality, housing education, jobs and climate change, it is all intertwined.

This is one of those moments where the risks of taking action are far lower than the costs.

I cannot imagine that the military junta proceeded down this road without having a great deal of confidence that China was not going to stop them.

Let us ourselves move with the region and all of those who are willing to work with us in coordinated sanctions, arms embargo, and other measures that will put the pressure on where it is needed.

We do not want to invoke the law of unintended consequences when it comes to additional humanitarian damage.

The architect of the genocide against the Rohingya now is in charge of the country.

We should be exploring every possible means to support this process, not just because it is a reflection of our own nation's core values but because a different kind of Burma will be a better partner in every possible way, especially when…

We can sell Coca Cola around the world, right. We can market that extraordinarily.

What is the Administration doing right now to prepare for that possibility?

As we see an escalation in violence by the army against the people in Burma, it is more important than ever that the United States call the crimes committed against the Rohingya what they are, genocide.

We want to make sure that American aid money benefits the people of Burma, that it strengthens civil society, that it strengthens democracy, and that it does not go to the military.

To them I say: we hear your voices. We and others must continue to act.

The people of Burma each day are showing their overwhelming preference for a civilian, democratic government.

The United States should play a leading role in responding to this tragedy and this coup.

We denounced this takeover, which rejects the will of the people of Burma as expressed in November 2020 elections.

I intend to take on the fundamental issues of our time--including climate change, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the undermining of democracy and human rights, and the authoritarian challenge posed by China.