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At a packed town hall event Thursday evening, Democratic U.S. Sen. Ed Markey had a message for President Donald Trump and his colleagues across the aisle: “If you want a political war, we’re ready to give you political war.” An estimated 1,400 people listened to Markey sound off and field questions about Trump’s highly controversial […] More »

Speaking to a largely supportive crowd at Smith College Thursday night, U.S. Sen. Edward J. Markey pledged to work with fellow Democrats on Capitol Hill to fight the administration of President Donald J. Trump. “This is an incredible moment in history,” Markey said. “I’m fighting twenty-four-seven. I’m fighting harder now than I ever have in […] More »

Appearing with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today in Washington, President Trump voiced concern about the leaks that preceded the firing of his national security adviser, saying, “Gen. Flynn is a wonderful man. I think he’s been treated very, very unfairly by the media. As I call it, the fake media, in many cases. And […] More »

The resignation of President Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Flynn, is “another red flag,” Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey said Tuesday. Markey, D-Mass., is a member of the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee and had previously demanded an investigation into Flynn’s talks with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The pair allegedly discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia before Flynn […] More »

Democrats on Tuesday vowed to stand firm against any efforts by Republicans to roll back the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) net neutrality rules. “The big broadband barons and their Republican allies want to turn back the clock and make big cable and big cellphone companies the gatekeepers for internet access,” Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said […] More »

WASHINGTON — Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey wants to strip President Trump’s power to launch a nuclear first strike without a declaration of war by Congress. A bill Markey filed Tuesday, also introduced in the House by Representative Ted Lieu of California, comes amid fears over Trump’s comments on nuclear weapons. The bill is mostly a […] More »

With Friday’s inauguration now formally in America’s rearview mirror, Donald Trump is now officially the nation’s commander in chief. However, many of the President’s Cabinet nominees are still enduring the arduous process of being confirmed by the Senate. On Tuesday, Rep. Mick Mulvaney and Rep. Tom Price took turns in their respective hot seats during […] More »

Sen. Ed Markey, U.S. senator from Massachusetts. He tweets @senmarkey. On President Trump’s executive orders overall “I think that obviously he’s fulfilling his campaign pledges but to what effect? He’s gonna build a border wall, detain families and children at our border and turn back asylum seekers. “What he’s also gonna do is trigger a […] More »

Sen. Ed Markey said that today is “one of the darkest days in the history of the United States of America” in front of a crowd of thousands as they rallied against Donald Trump’s executive order that banned people from predominantly Muslim countries from entering the U.S. “Donald Trump’s executive order is not about extreme […] More »

Scientists who study the risk of nuclear war recently moved the hands of the symbolic Doomsday Clock to 2½ minutes before midnight — meaning they believe that the world is closer to nuclear catastrophe than it has been since 1953 after the United States and Soviet Union tested hydrogen bombs. The Bulletin of the Atomic […] More »