News about Ed Markey

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is backing 'nonviolent' pro-Palestinian demonstrators who have disrupted Columbia University by setting up an encampment on the campus grounds in protest of U.S. support for Israel in the war in Gaza. The New York progressive denounced Columbia President Minouche Shafik for allegedly threatening to call in the National Guard to disperse the group of demonstrators who call themselves the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. 'Calling in police enforcement on nonviolent demonstrations of young students on campus is an escalatory, reckless, and dangerous act,' AOC wrote on X.

Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., chair of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, confirmed that her committee would be investigating the reasons for the flight delays and cancellations. 'The problems at Southwest Airlines over the past several days go beyond weather.' The commission will investigate the causes of these disruptions and its impact on customers,' she said in a tweet. 'Many airlines fail to properly inform customers during flight cancellations.' Consumers are entitled to robust safeguards, including a new consumer refund policy.' Cantwell and Sens. will collaborate in November. Ed Markey and Richard Blumenthal filed a letter with the Department of Transportation (DOT), requesting that consumers be fairly compensated when flights are cancelled or severely delayed due to an airline problem, including secondary food and lodging prices.

According to a recent story, President Joe Biden will dispatch former Rep. Joe Kennedy as his special envoy to Northern Ireland, with an announcement coming shortly. Kennedy, 42, is the grandson of former President John Kennedy, Jr. Senator Robert Kennedy, the first black senator and Attorney General, was assassinated in 1968. From 2013 to 2021, Kennedy, the third of his name, represented Massachusetts in Congress. He ran for Senate in 2020 and fell in the Democratic primary to Ed Markey.