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Edward J. Markey
Serving in office
Scheduled research active
Main board
This profile keeps a lifetime office and promise record. The trust score is designed to stay close to 50 until enough claims and evidence are reviewed.
Breakdown
- Delivered during the term promised: 9 x 1.0
- Delivered in a later elected term: 0 x 0.8
- Partial delivery: 8 x 0.4
- Never delivered: 6 x 0.0
- Disputed claims tracked separately: 0
- Reviewed promises in current record: 23
- Confidence: 66%
- Current claim count: 34
- Current evidence count: 113
Office History
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Candidate for U.S. Senator
Massachusetts · current
Current reelection candidacy for the Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat; separate from the current office record. -
U.S. Senator
Massachusetts · current
Won the 2013 special election to fill John Kerry's former seat; reelected in 2014 and 2020. -
U.S. Senator
Massachusetts · current
Historical elected offices still need research. -
U.S. Representative
Massachusetts, 5th Congressional District
Redistricted to the 5th District for the 113th Congress; resigned from the House in July 2013 after election to the Senate. -
Candidate for U.S. Senator
Massachusetts
Sought the 1984 Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate but withdrew before the primary and ran for House reelection. -
U.S. Representative
Massachusetts, 7th Congressional District
Elected in the 1976 special election and regular election; continued in this district through the 112th Congress before redistricting.
- Fight to make full equality for LGBTQ+ people the law of the land and defeat legislative attacks against the LGBTQ+ community.
- Introduce and support the passage of the SPARK Act to increase access to capital and resources for underserved entrepreneurs nationwide.
- Support the creation of an automatic tariff refund process for small businesses affected by illegal tariffs.
- Support and work to reauthorize the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs.
- Direct the State Department to make international LGBTQ+ human rights a foreign policy priority and establish a Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTQ+ Peoples.
- Work to reverse the Trump Administration's NSF budget cuts and restore federal science funding.
- Advance environmental justice through legislative action.
- Promote legislation to increase climate preparedness and resilience.
- Advance legislation to improve climate health and education.
- Support legislative efforts to reduce maternal and infant mortality through environmental measures.
- Support climate change education and awareness for students.
- Support youth leadership in federal environmental decision-making.
- Provide frontline workers with hazard pay during disasters.
- Protect seniors by enabling safer and more resilient homes.
- Introduce and support legislation to require autonomous vehicle companies to report traffic safety data, including vehicle miles traveled, unplanned stoppages, and injuries involving human drivers, pedestrians, and bicyclists.
- Press for an immediate investigation by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General and Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties into ICE's use of excessive force, arrest tactics, and targeting of community members, and pursue necessary corrective action.
- Push for the Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General and CRCL to review ICE's conduct regarding excessive force, the use of military gear, policies preventing retaliation via immigration enforcement, and the capacity of CRCL to conduct oversight, particularly after staffing reductions.
- Press large retailers and shippers to pass tariff refunds on to consumers and small businesses that paid tariff-related costs.
- Fight to prevent the Trump administration from imposing additional tariff taxes on the American people.
- Press SAMHSA to immediately rescind its April 24, 2026 guidance barring grant recipients from purchasing or distributing harm-reduction tools such as syringes and fentanyl or xylazine test strips, and restore grantees' ability to use those tools to prevent harm.
- Introduce and support legislation to create an independent commission to protect children's interests in federal policymaking.
- Introduce and support legislation to require artificial intelligence data centers to report their environmental and energy-related impacts and impose fines for noncompliance.
- Support investment in clean energy, resilient infrastructure, public transit, passenger rail, and shared natural resources.
- Work to make public transit more affordable, expand service, and modernize passenger rail.
- Support legislation to invest in water infrastructure, replace lead pipes, and expand water affordability programs.
- Support stronger climate and environmental accountability for polluters, including ending fossil fuel subsidies and making fossil fuel companies pay their fair share.
- Support legislation to amend the 1955 Long-Term Leasing Act to authorize leases of up to 99 years for Wampanoag tribal land.
- Introduce and support legislation to prioritize grants and research on natural climate solutions.
- Support and reintroduce legislation to permanently halt new oil and gas leasing, exploration, development, and drilling on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Coastal Plain and restore its protections.
- Press DHS and ICE to disclose whether they have created or maintain any database, list, or record tracking people engaged in protest activity, explain oversight and removal safeguards, provide related ICE directives, and update Congress on any investigation into the Portland, Maine incident.
- Press EPA to withdraw its proposed rule allowing major polluting facilities to begin construction without Clean Air Act permits and preserve preconstruction permitting safeguards.
- Introduce and support legislation to require the Department of Transportation to reevaluate fuel economy standards during gas price spikes and restore and increase financial penalties for automakers that fail to meet fuel efficiency standards.
- Introduce and support legislation to prohibit employers from relying on automated decision systems for work-related decisions and require evaluations, transparency, opt-out rights, and human review options for workers and applicants.
- Introduce and support legislation to limit employer collection, use, sale, and transfer of employee data, prohibit surveillance of protected or off-duty activity, and require worker data disclosures, access, correction, and review rights.
Method note
Long term, this app should score against a manually reviewed promise ledger that spans every elected office the candidate has held. The current model uses a Bayesian-style shrinkage step: thin records are pulled back toward 50 so the UI does not overstate certainty.
Claim occurrences, evidence, and future AI adjudications are all designed to store provider and model provenance. Formula version: 0.1.0.