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  • Markey, Ocasio-Cortez ask Biden to create Civilian Climate Corps by executive order

    09/18/2023 1:11:24 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 60 replies
    The Hill ^ | 09/18/2023 | ZACK BUDRYK
    Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), two of Congress’ most vocal proponents for aggressive climate action, on Monday called for President Biden to establish a Civilian Climate Corps. The CCC had been a key element in early versions of the Build Back Better Act, the sweeping environmental and infrastructure bill. It was not ultimately included in the slimmed down Inflation Reduction Act, which was nonetheless the largest climate bill in U.S. history. Biden was a vocal backer of the Climate Corps early in his presidency, comparing it to the Civilian Conservation Corps introduced during the presidency of...
  • Markey, Frost introduce bill to require full Medicare coverage of climate-resilient medical equipment

    07/05/2023 1:14:36 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 6 replies
    The Hill ^ | 07/05/2023 | ZACK BUDRYK
    Legislation introduced by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) would require Medicare to fully cover the costs of medically necessary equipment to people at particular risk during climate disasters. The legislation, the Survival Aid for Emergencies (SAFE) through Medicare Act, covers equipment such as solar batteries and heat pumps that may be necessary for the survival of disabled and elderly people during disasters that cause power outages. The lawmaker duo noted that about one in three of the 4,500 deaths during 2017’s Hurricane Maria were attributed in part to power outages interfering with medical equipment.
  • Markey staff to be first in Senate to unionize

    03/08/2023 10:52:38 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 17 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/08/2023 | JULIA SHAPERO
    Sen. Ed Markey’s (D-Mass.) office is set to become the first in the Senate to unionize, after the Massachusetts Democrat was asked for formal recognition on Wednesday. “Today we are unionizing the United States Senate,” the Congressional Workers Union said in a tweet. “100% of @SenMarkey staffers have come forward and requested voluntary recognition. Once recognized, this Office will be the first ever unionized United States Senate office!” Markey voiced his support for the staffers’ effort in a Twitter post on Wednesday. “I applaud these workers who are exercising their right to organize, a fundamental exercise in democracy,” the senator...
  • Markey says Musk has ghosted him in Twitter verification spat

    12/05/2022 1:31:21 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 18 replies
    The Hill ^ | 12/05/2022 | CAMDYN BRUCE
    Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said that Elon Musk still has not replied to his request for transparency into Twitter’s verification process, after the senator allowed a Washington Post reporter to impersonate him using Twitter Blue. Markey sent Musk a letter on Nov. 11 asking the new Twitter owner to explain how the company would combat impersonation accounts. “I said to Mr. Musk that he had to have a system that guaranteed that when someone was speaking that it was that person,” Markey said at a Hill event on Friday. “He has not yet sent back to me what the solution...
  • Sen. Ed Markey (D) wants to regulate Twitter

    11/27/2022 2:30:57 AM PST · by RandFan · 33 replies
    twitter ^ | Nov 26 | Sen. Ed Markey
    @SenMarkey .@elonmusk could respond to my tweets but failed to respond to my letter by yesterday’s deadline and answer basic questions about Twitter verification. Congress must end the era of failed Big Tech self-regulation and pass laws that put user safety over the whims of billionaires.
  • Dem Sen. Who Demanded Answers From Elon About 'Impersonation' Colluded With 'Impersonator' (MARKEY)

    11/14/2022 6:57:57 PM PST · by bitt · 12 replies
    redstate ^ | 11/14/2022 | nick arama
    I wrote earlier about the dustup between Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Elon Musk but there are a few more points that I wanted to hit on. Markey blamed Musk for a Washington Post reporter impersonating Markey with a fake account with a blue check mark. Now, I wrote about some of the confusion created by the Twitter Blue subscription, by people getting blue checks by paying for the service. Yes, that created some questions and Musk suspended the service to work out the kinks and reports are that it will likely be coming back next week. While Markey wanted...
  • 'Fix your companies. Or Congress will,' Ed Markey and Elon Musk go after each other on Twitter

    11/14/2022 7:15:53 AM PST · by millenial4freedom · 22 replies
    CBS Boston ^ | 11/14/2022 | CBSBoston.com Staff
    BOSTON - Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey is clashing with billionaire Elon Musk and demanding the Twitter CEO fix his companies. The back and forth is over Twitter's blue checkmark policy for verified accounts that was revised when Musk took over Twitter. It started when Markey shared a statement and letter sent to Musk last week, calling out how a Washington Post reporter was able to create a user account named the @realEdMarkey, with the Senator's permission, and bought a blue check mark, indicating the account was verified.
  • Senator Ed Markey colluded with a WaPo reporter in a scheme to damage Twitter’s reputation

    11/14/2022 1:30:02 PM PST · by lowbridge · 9 replies
    Twitchy.com ^ | November 13, 2022
    As Twitchy readers know, Elon Musk and Senator Ed Markey exchanged barbs on Twitter today over the question of Musk’s $8 blue check and potential abuse of the system by impersonators. ($8 blue check sounds like a promotional Taco Bell menu item under Joe Biden’s inflation.) The exchange (linked above) is hilarious because Musk just doesn’t respect these people and it drives them insane. It’s also quite remarkable that a sitting U.S. Senator colluded with the Washington Post to violate Twitter’s Terms of Service (TOS) and then has the gall to whine to Elon Musk that the two managed to...
  • Sen. Ed Markey Echoes ‘Pack the Court’ Activists After Abortion Decision Leaks

    05/03/2022 5:38:14 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 22 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/02/2022 | Joel B Pollack
    Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) called for Congress to “expand” the Supreme Court on Monday, as activists chanted “pack the Court!” outside the building after a draft decision leaked that would overturn the Roe v. Wade (1973) decision on abortion. Court-packing refers to the idea of adding seats to the Supreme Court and immediately filling the vacancies with reliably loyal justices. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt threatened to pack the Court in the 1930s; left-wing Democrats revived the idea after the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018, which gave the Court a nominal 5-4 conservative majority that has since expanded to...
  • Dems Horrified by Sale of Twitter [semi-satire]

    04/29/2022 4:37:44 PM PDT · by John Semmens · 9 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 1 May 2022 | John Semmens
    The unexpectedly rapid acquisition of Twitter by multi-billionaire Tesla entrepreneur Elon Musk was roundly denounced by Democrat partisans. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called the transfer of ownership "dangerous for democracy. Musk's vow to open Twitter to uncensored speech will expose innocent people to the unfiltered opinions of unqualified critics of government-approved points of view. The protections previously provided by the Twitter platform will be eliminated. People won't know what to think." Commerce Committee Chair Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash) wants to call Musk before her committee "to see if he is really qualified to take over what had been a reliable...
  • Ed Markey: ‘Algorithmic Justice’ Demands Elon Musk Twitter Bid Is Stopped

    04/27/2022 7:02:22 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 63 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 04/27/2022 | Simon Kent
    Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) condemned Elon Musk’s $44 billion bid for Twitter on Tuesday night, citing the obscure cause of “algorithmic justice” as the basis for his objection. Markey outlined his argument on – ironically enough – Twitter itself.
  • Biden, Dem lawmakers take cash from convicted terrorist financier

    02/07/2022 11:45:51 AM PST · by bitt · 12 replies
    nypost ^ | 2/5/2022 | Jon Lavine
    A convicted felon accused by the US government of supporting “the cause of violent jihad” — and promoting 9/11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden — donated to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign and a host of progressive Democrats following his release from prison, records show. Emadeddin Muntasser, 57, and two of his associates were convicted in January 2008 on counts of conspiring to defraud the United States government, lying to the FBI and engaging in a scheme to conceal evidence. The charges stemmed from their operation of an Islamic charity that acted as a front to finance Islamic jihad abroad and lying...
  • Markey: ‘Paranoid’ GOP Attempting ‘Carve Out the Voting Rights’ of Black and Brown Americans

    07/14/2021 9:55:18 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 26 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 07/14/2021 | Pam Key
    Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Hallie Jackson Reports” that “paranoid” Republicans are attempting to take away the voting rights of Black and Brown Americans because two Democrats won their U.S. Senate races in Georgia. Jackson said, “I want to ask you about voting rights. As you know, President Biden put this front and center those Texas Democrats have put this front and center. They’re calling for a carve-out on the filibuster. You have long called for abolishing the filibuster, at least you have lately. What does that look like specifically, this narrow cave on constitutional issues? Is...
  • Markey: ‘I Say No Deal’ If GOP Won’t Put Climate Provisions in Infrastructure

    06/10/2021 5:53:52 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 11 replies
    breitbart ^ | 06/09/2021 | Ian Hatnchett
    On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) stated that he is against cutting a deal on an infrastructure package if Republicans won’t put climate provisions in the deal. Markey said, “[I]f the Republicans say no climate, then I say no deal. Let’s just move on. Let’s move to the next phase where we work, using the reconciliation process, as you said, which only needs 51 votes, all Democrats plus Kamala Harris, in order to pass something. We can’t allow the procrastination, the obstinate obstructionism which the Republicans have engaged in in the past, 1994, 2010, we know...
  • Ed Markey, Cori Bush Introduce ‘Environmental Justice Mapping’ Bill: ‘Environmental Justice Is Racial Justice

    01/29/2021 11:59:36 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 21 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 01/29/2021 | Penny Starr
    Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) introduced on Thursday the ‘‘Environmental Justice Mapping and Data Collection Act of 2021’’ to gather data and direct federal money to communities around the country they say face environmental injustice. Those injustices, they say, include pollution, police killing black Americans and other minorities, and poverty, among others.
  • Markey: We Were Within Minutes of a Capitol ‘Massacre,’ Senate Must Have Full Trial for Trump

    01/14/2021 5:51:34 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 66 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 01/13/2021 | Pam Key
    Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “All In” that President Donald Trump will have a full trial in the Senate “for his incitement of an insurrection.” Markey said I was very proud of the way in which the House of Representatives conducted the debate and ultimately cast the correct historical vote to impeach Donald Trump. I think that it’s the only answer that can be given. History must have recorded that there was a second indelible impeachment scarlet letter that was attached to Donald Trump and to his presidency. I think that the excellent work which they did...
  • Elizabeth Warren, Ed Markey slam Trump for nominating 1st Circuit appeals court judge after election

    11/17/2020 6:16:17 PM PST · by cotton1706 · 34 replies
    Bostonherald.com ^ | 11/17/20 | LISA KASHINSKY
    U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey are calling on President Trump to withdraw his nomination for a new federal appeals court judge in Massachusetts, saying it was made during a “lame-duck session” after the presidential race was called in favor of his rival. “Confirming the nominee during this lame-duck session would require Republicans to yet again violate longstanding Senate norms and rules,” the senators said in a statement Tuesday. “The White House should not be using its final days to try to rush through the nomination of a judge who will have a lifetime appointment to a court with...
  • Sen. Lee rips Democratic colleague for 'worst' criticism he's heard yet of Justice Amy Coney Barrett

    10/27/2020 10:50:26 AM PDT · by conservative98 · 27 replies
    Fox News ^ | 10/27/20 | Joshua Q. Nelson
    Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., calling the judicial originalism "racist, sexist, homophobic and a fancy word for discrimination" is “patently irresponsible," said Sen. Mike Lee. The term "originalism" refers to a judicial interpretation of the law based on a literal reading. “Of all the irresponsible and inflammatory statements I’ve heard over the last few weeks, and I’ve heard some doozies, this might well be the worst,” Lee, R-Utah, told “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday. “If you think about what he is really saying there, Sen. Markey has essentially said that our Constitution is racist. And [that] an effort to understand it,...
  • Senator Ed Markey Slams Judicial ‘Originalism’ as ‘Racist,’ ‘Sexist,’ and ‘Homophobic’

    10/26/2020 5:15:17 PM PDT · by ConservativeStatement · 36 replies
    National Review ^ | October 26, 2020 | Zachary Evans
    Originalism is a mode of legal interpretation by which a judge considers a legal document’s original meaning at the time the document was written. Conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, for whom Judge Barrett clerked in the late 1990’s, was considered one of the foremost exponents of this judicial philosophy.
  • Kennedy concedes to Markey in heated Massachusetts Senate Democratic primary

    09/01/2020 8:01:37 PM PDT · by rdl6989 · 48 replies
    Fox News ^ | September 1, 2020 | Paul Steinhauser
    Riding a wave of support from the Democratic party’s progressive wing – including the backing of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Elizabeth Warren -- Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts on Tuesday survived a heated primary battle against challenger Rep. Joe Kennedy III.