He's been in Washington for nearly half a century, but Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey still has a knack for tapping into the culture and connecting with younger voters that many politicians half his age would envy.
In a sit-down interview in his hometown of Malden with GBH News' Adam Reilly, Markey talks about one of those bonds — environmental activism — and whether President Joe Biden might pay a political price for approving the controversial Willow oil-drilling project in Alaska earlier this month. Markey also counsels against banning TikTok over national security concerns, arguing that the risk posed by TikTok's Chinese ownership stake has yet to be conclusively determined, and that other, broader regulation of social media platforms should be implemented instead.
Markey discusses his lengthy quest to make daylight saving time permanent — an effort in which he's teamed, somewhat improbably, with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio — and his roots in Malden a community whose blend of blue-collar diversity the senator still sees as exemplary.
Watch: Sen. Ed Markey’s Malden roots, TikTok, big oil and daylight saving time battles
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