SENATOR Edward Markey has had a long career in politics, serving for 37 years in the US House of Representatives. Markey is progressive and has a history of voting for women’s rights, has supported legislation to protect the LGBT community, and is an environmentalist. Who is Senator Edward Markey? Edward Markey has been serving as […]
SENATOR Edward Markey has had a long career in politics, serving for 37 years in the US House of Representatives.
Markey is progressive and has a history of voting for women’s rights, has supported legislation to protect the LGBT community, and is an environmentalist.
Edward Markey has been serving as the junior United States senator from Massachusetts since 2013.
A democrat, he was the US representative for Massachusetts’s 7th congressional district from 1976 to 2013.
He is a national leader on energy and environmental protection and heads up the New Green Deal, a congressional resolution that aims to tackle climate change and “wean the United States from fossil fuels and curb planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions across the economy,” according to the Washington Post.
The politician is also an advocate for net neutrality and consumer protection.
Markey introduced the Internet Freedom Preservation Act, the first net neutrality bill introduced in Congress, and he has been a key figure in developing privacy protections around personal information.
Markey grew up in Malden, Massachusetts, and attended Boston College as well as Boston Law School.
He served in the US Army Reserves before he was elected to the Massachusetts State House where he served two terms.
Markey’s estimated net worth is $900,000 according to 247 Wall St.
US senators are allegedly paid a salary of $174,000 a year, more than triple the average wage of American workers.
Senate minority and majority leaders making even more with a $193,400 annual wage.
Many senators launched their careers in politics after lucrative careers in the private sector.
Senator Markey married Dr Susan Blumenthal in 1988.
Dr Blumenthal is an American physician, global health expert, psychiatrist and public health advocate.
She served for more than 20 years as a senior federal health official in four US president’s administrations.
She was assistant surgeon general of the United States, the first ever deputy assistant secretary for women’s health and senior global health advisor in the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Dr Blumenthal is known for her leadership in exposing women’s inequalities in healthcare and developing initiatives to advance women’s health.
She has been named by the New York Times the National Library of Medicine, and the Medical Herald as one of the most important women in medicine.
She is currently a clinical professor at Tufts and Georgetown’s School of Medicine, and is a visiting professor at Stanford and Brandeis University. She is also a visiting fellow at Harvard.
