SENATORS MARKEY, BLUMENTHAL, REPRESENTATIVES SCHAKOWSKY, MULLIN PRESS CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION TO HALT SWEEPING AND INVASIVE DATA COLLECTION ON EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT PATIENTS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey issued the following press release:

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Boston (September 3, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), top Democrat on the Primary Health and Retirement Security Subcommittee of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee and member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, along with Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Representatives Jan Schakowsky (IL-09) and Kevin Mullin (CA-15), today wrote to Peter Feldman, Acting Chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), calling on the Commission to immediately suspend efforts to pressure some of the nation's largest hospital systems to hand over the detailed, personally identifiab...