MA Delegation Letter to Gov. Romney, December 14, 2005   Read More

MA Delegation Letter to Gov. Romney, December 14, 2005   Read More

MR. MARKEY: Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 2892, the Reverse Mortgages to Help America’s Seniors Act. While this bill is helpful and necessary for allowing seniors to unlock their personal equity gained through homeownership, it also points to a disturbing, new reality facing millions of senior citizens throughout our... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – With 24 hours to go before the historic Northeast Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is finalized, Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Resources and Energy and Commerce Committees, along with Senators Kennedy and Kerry and Representatives Frank, Neal, Olver, Meehan, Delahunt,... Read More

Reps. Markey and Smith were honored at the Alzheimer's Association National Gala with the "Chairman's Leadership Award," for their leadership on Capitol Hill with the Alzheimer's Task Force, April 5, 2006. Rep. Markey meets with members of the MA Alzheimer's Association at their annual advocacy day on Capitol Hill.     In... Read More

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.  Today I rise to introduce a resolution urging the United States Postal Service to act on a pending petition for an Alzheimer’s Semi-Postal Stamp. I am joined by Co-chair of the Congressional Alzheimer’s Taskforce, Representative Christopher Smith, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Representative John... Read More

Washington, D.C. – Representative Edward J. Markey (D-Malden) today joined more than 250 students and young community leaders from across the country at the first ever “Next Generation Democratic Summit” at the U.S. Capitol. The participants included Ms. Ori Korin, who joined celebrities including MTV’s Gideon Yago in a... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, released the following statement on the anemic jobs report received today, which found that only 21,000 new jobs were created in February, none of them in the private sector. In addition, manufacturing job loss continued, with... Read More

"Fifty years ago today, in the landmark Brown v. the Board of Education, Chief Justice Warren declared, unanimously, that “in the field of public education, the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the... Read More

Washington, DC-  Representative Edward Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the Homeland Security Committee and co-sponsor of H.R. 4452, the “Leave All Blades Behind Act”, today confirmed that he will meet this week with Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator Kip Hawley to discuss TSA’s decision to lift the... Read More

Washington, D.C. – Representative Edward J. Markey (D-Malden) today joined more than 250 students and young community leaders from across the country at the first ever “Next Generation Democratic Summit” at the U.S. Capitol. The participants included Ms. Ori Korin, who joined celebrities including MTV’s Gideon Yago in a... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, released the following statement on the anemic jobs report received today, which found that only 21,000 new jobs were created in February, none of them in the private sector. In addition, manufacturing job loss continued, with... Read More

"Today, Representatives Brian Higgins, Rosa DeLauro and I are introducing the Energy Consumer Relief Act of 2005. Our bill would repeal many of the tax breaks that were recently given to big oil companies in the Republican energy bill.  It would also suspend all royalty relief for the oil companies so long as oil and natural gas prices... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Resources and Energy and Commerce Committees, today criticized the Bush Administration’s continued refusal to participate in the U.N. talks on climate change occurring in Montreal this week.  The United States, which has refused to participate... Read More

"Energy Consumer Relief Act of 2005" Read More

The Bipartisan Task Force on Nonproliferation was formed in 1997 by Reps. Edward Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Christopher Shays (R-CT) to provide a forum for the discussion of nonproliferation issues in the post-Cold War world.  Task Force Membership List (9.21 KB) (last updated December 2005) The following is a list of events sponsored or... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC- According to press reports, Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, apparently privately admitted to the German Chancellor Angela Merkel that the United States accidentally kidnapped a German citizen and rendered him to a secret prison, today  Representative Ed Markey (D-MA), author of the "Torture Outsourcing Prevention... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the Homeland Security Committee and an outspoken advocate for stronger aviation security, responded today to news reports that a Federal Air Marshal fired shots at a passenger who claimed he had a bomb on an American Airlines flight on the ground at Miami... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representative Edward J. Markey, a senior member of the House Resources and Energy and Commerce Committees, responded to the Bush Administration’s December Energy Outlook, which was published this afternoon. The Short Term Energy Outlook, published by the Bush Administration’s Department of Energy,... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC- In the latest effort to mislead the public about the shameful U.S. practice of outsourcing prisoners to third countries  -- known as ‘extraordinary rendition’ -- President Bush issued the following statement, “We do not render to countries that torture, that has been our policy and that policy will remain the... Read More