Contact: Eben Burnham-Snyder 202-225-2836 Surplus weapons-grade plutonium would be turned into $2 billion of fuel for nuclear power plants at a cost of $20 billion to U.S. taxpayers under Department of Energy program WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, sent a... Read More

Provision addresses looming crisis in nuclear medicine   WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, praised passage of a provision in the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act based on H.R. 3276, the bipartisan American Medical Isotopes Production Act of 2010 that... Read More

45 lawmakers sign letter to Congressional leadership calling for $100 billion in cuts to nuclear weapons budget, preservation of programs for seniors, middle class   WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, today was joined by 44 other House Democrats in a letter to... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), author of the Smarter Approach to Nuclear Expenditures (SANE) Act, released the following statement today in reaction to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s address on foreign policy and national security. The SANE Act would cut $100 billion over ten years from... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – With America hurtling toward the fiscal cliff of automatic budget cuts mandated by the Budget Control Act, Republicans today passed the Department of Defense budget that increases overall non-war defense spending by $1.1 billion over the fiscal year 2012 level and $3.1 billion above the President’s request.... Read More

Statement of Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) on H.R. 5856, FY 2013 Defense Department Appropriations Bill Wednesday, July 18, 2012   “In this Republican Fantasyland we have gold-plated nuclear weapons systems that have long outlived their usefulness are lavished with canyons filled with cash. “In this Fantasyland, the... Read More

Lawmakers cite legislation’s limitations on President’s ability to make nuclear weapons reductions   WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and 32 other Democratic members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to President Barack Obama, supporting his intention to veto the Fiscal Year 2013... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee and senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, issued the following statement after passage of the Sequester Replacement Reconciliation Act, which would roll back the automatic defense spending cuts agreed to in the Budget... Read More

Congressman introduced SANE Act to cut $100 billion over next decade from outdated nuclear weapons programs   WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass), senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and founder of the Congressional Non-Proliferation Task Force, responded to President Obama’s... Read More

Susan Shaer of Women’s Action for New Directions will present Congressman Ed Markey with an award from the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability   WASHINGTON – Executive Director Susan Shaer of Boston-based national nonprofit Women’s Action for New Directions (WAND) will present Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass) with an... Read More

Rep. Markey introduced SANE Act to cut $100 billion from wasteful nuclear weapons programs   WASHINGTON, D.C. – With current budget constraints, we should not spend billions in taxpayer dollars to build new nuclear bomb facilities at the same time we are reducing our nuclear stockpile, wrote Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) in a... Read More

Congressman last week introduced SANE Act to cut $100 billion over next decade from outdated nuclear weapons programs   WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass) responded to media reports that the Obama administration and White House are considering steep cuts to America’s nuclear arsenal, including... Read More

Congressman joined by 34 co-sponsors on legislation to cut $100 billion over next decade from outdated nuclear weapons programs   WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Edward J. Markey took to the House floor to decry the wasteful spending in America’s nuclear weapons programs and to introduce legislation that would cut $100... Read More

Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) Floor Statement “Smarter Approach to Nuclear Expenditures (SANE) Act of 2012” Wednesday, February 8, 2012   “Mr. Speaker, America’s nuclear weapons budget is locked in a Cold War time machine. “It doesn’t reflect our 21st century security needs.  It makes no... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass), top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee, a senior Democratic Member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and the dean of the Massachusetts Congressional delegation, responded this evening to President Obama’s State of the Union speech: “An economy built to last... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Speaking today at the release of the Strategic Defense Review, President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta outlined a new strategic approach to the nation’s defense that will move the country beyond the wars of the past decade while reducing America’s nuclear weapons forces. In October 2011,... Read More

Congressman Markey calls for cuts to wasteful nuclear arsenal programs to help reduce deficit, protect national security WASHINGTON, D.C. – With defense and budget leaders poised to seek cuts in America’s bloated nuclear weapons budget, Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement refuting Chairman Mike... Read More

Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Video Message 
Annual Assembly in Bern, Switzerland
 October 15, 2011     Hello. I am Congressman Ed Markey from Massachusetts here in the United States, co-President of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament. I am sorry that I am could not... Read More

Rep. Turner Confuses Cutting Unneeded Nuclear Weapons With Disarmament   WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, released the following statement in response to Rep. Mike Turner’s (R-Ohio) mistaken assertion that cutting the nuclear weapons budget... Read More

64 members of Congress sign letter to Super Committee calling for cuts to nuclear budget before slashing bedrock programs for seniors, families and most vulnerable   WASHINGTON, D.C. - Currently, America is the financial caretaker for 5,000 nuclear warheads. The U.S. will spend an estimated $700 billion on nuclear weapons and related programs... Read More