WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) sent a letter signed by 23 other Democrats to President Bush in response to disturbing reports that the Justice Department is drafting a bill to amend the War Crimes Act of 1996 to shield U.S. personnel who have violated the Geneva Conventions.  Creating exemptions from international laws... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following letter was sent this afternoon by Reps. Ed Markey and John Dingell, both senior members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, on a report on media ownership that may have been suppressed by the Federal Communications Commission: September 14, 2006 The Honorable Kevin J. Martin Chairman, Federal Communications... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Co-Chair of the House Bipartisan Taskforce on Nonproliferation, released a statement for the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission, insisting that China needs to work in concert with the international community to address arms proliferation, particularly to halt nuclear... Read More

Good Morning.  I want to commend Chairman Upton for calling this hearing this morning on cybersecurity. This Subcommittee has a long history on cybersecurity.  We held a hearing in this Subcommittee, for instance, in 1993, where we demonstrated cyber attacks on the Pacific Fleet Command, on NASA’s mission control, and on the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce and Resources Committees, released the following statement on press reports that the Dept. of Interior Inspector General found an “anything goes” mentality among Dept. of Interior oil and gas leasing division.  Markey is the lead... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce and Resources Committees, released the following statement on press reports that the Dept. of Interior Inspector General found an “anything goes” mentality among Dept. of Interior oil and gas leasing division.  Markey is the lead... Read More

Good Morning.  I want to commend Chairman Upton for calling this hearing this morning on cybersecurity. This Subcommittee has a long history on cybersecurity.  We held a hearing in this Subcommittee, for instance, in 1993, where we demonstrated cyber attacks on the Pacific Fleet Command, on NASA’s mission control, and on the... Read More

Good Morning.  I’d like to thank Don Means for that wonderful introduction.  Don and I have worked on several initiatives over the years – from open access efforts to community broadband and I thank him for his assistance and friendship.Welcome to Boston, I hope all of you from out of town are enjoying your stay.  We had... Read More

Good Morning.  I’d like to thank Don Means for that wonderful introduction.  Don and I have worked on several initiatives over the years – from open access efforts to community broadband and I thank him for his assistance and friendship.Welcome to Boston, I hope all of you from out of town are enjoying your stay.  We had... Read More

Good Morning.  I’d like to thank Don Means for that wonderful introduction.  Don and I have worked on several initiatives over the years – from open access efforts to community broadband and I thank him for his assistance and friendship.Welcome to Boston, I hope all of you from out of town are enjoying your stay.  We had... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA) called for a full accounting of the U.S. policy of extraordinary rendition, in anticipation of the release of an official Canadian investigation into the case of Maher Arar. “Extraordinary rendition is simply the outsourcing of torture, and this repugnant practice must be stopped in the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA) called for a full accounting of the U.S. policy of extraordinary rendition, in anticipation of the release of an official Canadian investigation into the case of Maher Arar. “Extraordinary rendition is simply the outsourcing of torture, and this repugnant practice must be stopped in the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Resources and Energy and Commerce Committees, along with Senators Ted Kennedy and John Kerry and Representatives Barney Frank, Richard Neal, John Olver, Marty Meehan, Bill Delahunt, Jim McGovern, John Tierney, Mike Capuano and Steve Lynch sent a letter to Massachusetts... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Resources and Energy and Commerce Committees, along with Senators Ted Kennedy and John Kerry and Representatives Barney Frank, Richard Neal, John Olver, Marty Meehan, Bill Delahunt, Jim McGovern, John Tierney, Mike Capuano and Steve Lynch sent a letter to Massachusetts... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Homeland Security Committee, released a report entitled “To Secure America: The State of Homeland Security and Implications for Massachusetts,” in advance of the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.  Markey, the only... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Homeland Security Committee, released a report entitled “To Secure America: The State of Homeland Security and Implications for Massachusetts,” in advance of the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.  Markey, the only... Read More

Washington, DC -- Today, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, blasted witnesses from BP and the Bush Administration at the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on BP’s lax maintenance of their oil pipelines in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.  It has become clear that BP did not... Read More

Washington, DC -- Today, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, blasted witnesses from BP and the Bush Administration at the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on BP’s lax maintenance of their oil pipelines in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.  It has become clear that BP did not... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- To mark the five-year commemoration of the September 11 attacks, members of Congress led by Massachusetts Democrat Congressman Edward Markey joined with the nationwide Nuclear Security Coalition to call for prompt actions to secure the U.S. commercial power reactors’ nuclear waste storage system.  He proposed... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- To mark the five-year commemoration of the September 11 attacks, members of Congress led by Massachusetts Democrat Congressman Edward Markey joined with the nationwide Nuclear Security Coalition to call for prompt actions to secure the U.S. commercial power reactors’ nuclear waste storage system.  He proposed... Read More