Ed Markey

If there isn't a fundamental change made, then citizens are going to wind up with their environmental protections being watered down.

My fear is I just think that Wall Street will say, we will come in and help, but they will have to be paid.

I just do not think it is going to work here where the local governments cannot come up with 80 percent of the money.

We need it desperately.

I just think that's going to be the cutting-edge set of issues. It's time for these industries to come under scrutiny, to be made accountable for what they are doing.

Will you each commit to an active pro-child privacy protection policy at the Federal Trade Commission during your tenure if you are confirmed?

The Federal Trade Commission lacks rulemaking authority, and the Federal Communications Commission does have rulemaking authority to prevent blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization by ISPs.

Scrapping the FCC's net neutrality rules will harm consumers and content creators, and the Federal Trade Commission isn't going to be able to stop it.

His preference was to work to find consensus with California on how to regulate greenhouse gas tailpipe standards.

For one-sixth of what you do in Afghanistan, 45 billion, we could take care of this crisis over a period of time.

If you just took two months of Afghanistan spending and dedicated it towards the opioid crisis, we could have an opioid center in every single county in the United States of America.

$45 billion a year is an amazing amount of money to be spent.

I think that we can agree that the United States needed to take swift action, and decisive action, after September 11th.

Senator Wicker and I worked together to help create the Seafood Import Monitoring Program, which was just fully implemented at the beginning of this year.

So IoT is the Internet of Things, but in the wrong hands, it means 'Internet of Threats.'

I think we--it's always better to start out where you're going to be forced to wind up anyway

I've introduced a bill called the Cyber Shield Act that would create an advisory committee of cybersecurity experts.

The best defense of a nation is the education of its people.

Investing in research is investing in our nation's future.

I just checked with my staff and there has been no answer to the questions which I posed to you, Mr. Administrator.

I have also sent you over a series of letters seeking information about several different policies and processes that have been put in place at the EPA.

Will you commit to releasing that report, which is already completed, in a short period of time once you have reviewed it, if in fact meets the standards which your EPA staff has already established that it does cause----

So I just want to be absolutely clear. You disagree with the President when he says that asbestos is 100 percent safe?

Well, if I was giving you advice, I would say, actually run the agency to improve air quality, rather than to diminish it in areas such as ozone and smog and methane and mercury.

The most important equities are those young men and women we send over to the Middle East to protect that oil.