Ensuring Health Safety in the Skies Act

Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) applaude the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee’s bipartisan passage of their Ensuring Health Safety in the Skies Act. This bill builds on ongoing COVID-19 response efforts and influenced a Biden administration executive order calling for interagency cooperation to develop national public health recommendations for domestic travel.

Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) joins Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), as well as Congressman Stephen F. Lynch (MA-08), in co-sponsoring the Ensuring Health Safety in the Skies Act. The legislation builds on COVID-19 response efforts and influenced a Biden administration executive-order calling for interagency cooperation to develop national public-health recommendations for domestic travel.