Sens. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) clashed on the Senate floor Thursday, debating Vance’s proposed bill to ban future mask mandates for COVID-19. Vance’s bill, announced yesterday, would prevent the federal government from enforcing mask mandates in places like airplanes, where they were once in place during the height of the pandemic. “We… […]
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Markey: Biden Budget Designed to Continue ‘Success Story’ Where ‘Inflation Is Going Down’
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Closing Bell: Overtime,” Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) stated that President Joe Biden’s budget proposal “is just aimed at continuing” the economic “success story” under the Biden presidency where “Inflation is going down.” Markey said, “President Source Views: 0
Sen. Markey vs. Musk’s Twitter: The freed bird might get its wings clipped
There are some members of Congress who have famously struggled to understand the online world. Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) prides himself on not only understanding the internet, but also for passing some of the key legislation that he likes to say helped lay the foundation for the digital revolution. More recently, Markey has been leading […]
Stan Politics, Ed Markey, and Palestine
When I was a sophomore in high school, I helped build a youth movement and online cult of personality around Senator Ed Markey, winning record youth vote turnout and becoming the first campaign to ever defeat a Kennedy in Massachusetts in September 2020. Now, two years later, I’ve learned that stan politics may be an […]
Progressives saved Ed Markey’s career, now they’re demanding the Senator stand up for Palestine
Less than a couple years ago, Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey’s political career appeared to be all but over. An August 2019 poll showed that he was down 17 points to Joe Kennedy, a Representative roughly half his age from a political dynasty that had never lost an election in the state. What happened next is […]