Washington, DC:  A NEWSWEEK poll, released this weekend revealed that 53 percent of Americans think the NSA’s surveillance program “goes too far in invading people’s privacy.”  The poll follows a USA Today article, printed last week, which revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been secretly... Read More

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 Copy of Letter to Speaker Hastert (5/11/06) (93.22 KB)   May 11, 2006 Mr. Dennis HastertSpeaker of the HouseHouse of RepresentativesThe CapitolWashington, D.C.  20515 Dear Mr. Speaker:             I am writing to report the mysterious disappearance of a bill that was... Read More

Good morning Chairman Hyde, Ranking Member Lantos and Members of the International Relations Committee.  Thank you for giving me the opportunity to testify today. I am opposed to the Administration’s legislative proposal to grant India a special exemption from our nation’s nuclear nonproliferation laws.  I believe that this... Read More

Good morning Chairman Hyde, Ranking Member Lantos and Members of the International Relations Committee.  Thank you for giving me the opportunity to testify today. I am opposed to the Administration’s legislative proposal to grant India a special exemption from our nation’s nuclear nonproliferation laws.  I believe that this... Read More

I applaud yesterday’s action by the House Appropriations Committee, which adopted most of the amendment offered by Congressman Hinchey. Rep. Hinchey yesterday offered language that I and the other Democratic Members here had introduced to end royalty relief to big oil and gas companies. Our language that was adopted yesterday would help... Read More

I applaud yesterday’s action by the House Appropriations Committee, which adopted most of the amendment offered by Congressman Hinchey. Rep. Hinchey yesterday offered language that I and the other Democratic Members here had introduced to end royalty relief to big oil and gas companies. Our language that was adopted yesterday would help... Read More

Washington, DC-  A USA Today article reports that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been secretly collecting phone records of tens of millions of Americans using information provided by America’s largest telephone companies including AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth.  In response to the disturbing new information about domestic... Read More

Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this bill.   With this bill we are now engaged in the second phase of “The Republican ReCONciliation Game.” That’s exactly what it is—a giant Con Game. In February, the CON game began with the Republicans’ cutting nearly $40 billion in benefits for the most vulnerable in our... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C.– Today the House Appropriations Committee adopted an amendment to the Interior Appropriations bill FY 2007 that would end the royalty relief giveaways to big oil and gas companies that could total billions of dollars in coming years.  Representative Maurice Hinchey (D-NY),  offered Representative Markey’s... Read More

Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this bill.   With this bill we are now engaged in the second phase of “The Republican ReCONciliation Game.” That’s exactly what it is—a giant Con Game. In February, the CON game began with the Republicans’ cutting nearly $40 billion in benefits for the most vulnerable in our... Read More

Washington, DC-  Almost a year after the ChoicePoint data theft scandals rocked the country raising public concerns about identity theft, President Bush has announced his plans to launch a new executive order on identity theft, but the President’s dedication to the privacy of citizens is out of step with the legislation driven in... Read More

 Copy of Rep. Markey's CAFE Amendment (5/10/06) (26.71 KB) (Click image for full-sized version) Read More

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Dear Colleague:              I draw your attention to the attached Leonard Weiss Op-ed recently published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.  Mr. Weiss is the former staff director of the Senate Subcommittee on Energy and Nuclear Proliferation and helped draft the Nuclear... Read More

Washington, DC-  Last week President Bush called for action on increasing the fuel economy standards of cars, but today the stall began.  His own Administration official refused to outline any specific plan for increasing fuel economy standards.  Five years ago the National Academy of Sciences released a study demonstrating that with... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Edward Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Representative George Miller (D-CA), of the Senior Democrat on the House Education and the Workforce Committee, today sent a letter to Bradley Belt, executive director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), to... Read More

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to introduce the “Network Neutrality Act of 2006.”  Joining me today as original cosponsors of this important legislation are Rep. Rick Boucher, Rep. Anna Eshoo and Rep. Jay Inslee.   Broadband networks, Mr. Speaker, are the lifeblood of our emerging digital economy.  These broadband networks... Read More

Mr. Speaker I am pleased to see this legislation on the floor today and thank Chairman Barton for his work on this issue. In November 2005, news reports began to surface of the commercial availability of consumer telephone records by companies like www.celltolls.com and other web-based companies that sell private cell phone records for as low as... Read More