WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Salem, Mass. Congressman Seth Moulton announced that Lynn and Peabody will receive federal grants to enhance local community policing. This funding is awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program(link is external). The program supports additional personnel and/or purchase equipment, supplies, contractual support, training, technical assistan more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Letter Comes as Families Struggle to Access Resources Under DOJ's Crime Victims Fund Letter Text (PDF) Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), today sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office for Victims of Crime urging it to ensure resources and supports are made available to people impacted by police brutality. The lawmakers' letter comes as fa more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news: Resolution Designates Nov. 20 Dec. 20 as National Survivors of Homicide Victims Awareness Month Resolution Text (PDF) Today, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) and Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) reintroduced a Congressional resolution to honor survivors of homicide victims by establishing November 20 December 20th as National Survivors of Homicide Victims Awareness Month. The Commonwealth of Massachusett more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news: Letter Comes as Families Struggle to Access Resources Under DOJ's Crime Victims Fund Text of Letter (PDF) Today, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) and Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA) sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office for Victims of Crime urging it to ensure resources and supports are made available to people impacted by police brutality. The lawmakers' letter comes as families st more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Rep. Jake Auchincloss, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on Dec. 17, 2024: Today, Representative Jake Auchincloss (D-MA), Democratic Chair of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s Fentanyl Policy Working Group introduced bipartisan legislation alongside his colleagues that holds the CCP responsible for its role in the U.S. fentanyl crisis. Spearheaded by Working Group Co more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, issued the following statement after his bipartisan, bicameral Children and Teens' Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0) was not included in the continuing resolution to fund the government to March 14, 2025. "House Republican leaders are playing politics with the lives of children and tee more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: For every one homicide victim, there is an average of ten surviving family members who suffer their loss in the aftermath Resolution Text (PDF) Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), and Representative Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) reintroduced the National Survivors of Homicide Victims Awareness Month congressional resolution to honor survivors of homicide victims by designating November 20th through Dec more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Washington (December 17, 2024) Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, today released the following statement after the Department of Energy released its study on liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. "This study confirms what I've been saying for years surging LNG exports are bad for consumer pocketbooks, bad for communities near its extraction a more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Bill Text (PDF) | Section By Section (PDF) Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, along with Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Representative Jared Huffman (CA-02), today introduced the Nautical Oversight Safety and Protection of Inflammable Liquids by Law in the Sea (NO SPILLS) Act, which would strengthen the review process by whi more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Following the passage of the Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (FY25 NDAA), U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), announced key priorities secured in the bill. "I fought hard to secure provisions that protect our servicemembers from blast overpressure and ensure a reliable supply chain for life-saving drugs," said Senator more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) urged the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to finalize rules to curb overpayments to private insurers in Medicare Advantage (MA). The nonpartisan Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) estimates that private insurers in MA will overcharge taxpayers $83 billion this year alone. Most of these overpay more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Representatives Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), led lawmakers in reintroducing the SAFE SEX Workers Study Act, legislation directing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to conduct the first federal study on the impact of a 2018 anti-sex trafficking bill known as SESTA/FOSTA on sex workers and trafficking  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), along with Representatives Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), reintroduced the Consumer Bankruptcy Reform Act, legislation to simplify and modernize the consumer bankruptcy system and make it easier for people forced into bankruptcy to get back on th more PR