WASHINGTON, DC -- Rep. Edward Markey, Chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, today welcomed the 5-4 decision by the Supreme Court rebuffing the claims of the Bush Administration that it lacked authority to regulate the emission of gases endangering the planet from global warming. The Supreme Court ruled on... Read More

The Following Letter was sent from Congressman Ed Markey to FCC Chairman Kevin MartinPDF of the letter can be found here: Chairman Markey Letter to FCC Chairman re Universal Service.pdf Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), co-chair of the House Bipartisan Task Force on Nonproliferation and a leading opponent of efforts to grant India a special exemption from U.S. nonproliferation laws, released the following statement regarding the FBI indictments of two individuals for exporting sensitive missile... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Chairman of the newly-created Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, sent a letter today to Administrator Guy Caruso of the Energy Information Administration (EIA) requesting information about reports that... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Homeland Security Committee, decried the Bush Administration’s use of “diplomatic assurances” to justify transferring detainees to countries known for the use of torture, as a new report from Human Rights Watch documents Russian abuse... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Natural Resources and Energy and Commerce Committees, questioned Interior Department Assistant Secretary C. Stephen Allred on the Bush Administration’s failed efforts to recover billions of dollars in taxpayer losses from faulty leases issued to big oil and... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA) a senior member of the House Committee on Homeland Security and the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today announced that the Homeland Security Committee has authorized $63 million in funding for the Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS) per year for fiscal years 2008 through... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, and a senior Democratic Member on the House Energy and Commerce and Natural Resources Committees, released the following statement on Republican procedural attempts to prevent the July 7, 2007 “Live... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the Homeland Security Committee, welcomed the passage of the Rail and Public Transportation Security Act of 2007, bipartisan legislation addressing the security weaknesses in our rail and mass transit systems and ensuring strong whistleblower protections for... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Chairman of the newly-created Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, today convened the first public meeting of the Select Committee. In the organizational meeting, the bipartisan, 15-member panel voted unanimously to adopt the Select Committee’s rules package for the... Read More

MEDFORD, MA -- The Office of U.S. Representative Edward J. Markey (D-Malden) today issued the following statement to correct the record on his vote to bring the Iraq War to an end last Friday in the U.S. House of Representatives.  Rep. Markey’s vote has been mischaracterized by the Smedley Butler Chapter of Veterans for... Read More

Today Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), made the following statement in regards to Northern Ireland’s main political parties reaching a power-sharing agreement: Rep. Markey said, "Irish eyes are clearly smiling today. I welcome the historic power sharing agreement that has been reached between Sinn Fein and the Unionist parties,... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the Homeland Security Committee, voted to require a timeline for U.S. troops to leave Iraq.  With today’s passage by a vote of 218 to 212, with one member voting “present,” of the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans’ Health and Iraq... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee and the Chairman of the newly-created Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, today received the support of former Vice President Al Gore in his testimony before a joint Subcommittee hearing of the Energy and... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee and the Chairman of the newly-created Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, today received the support of former Vice President Al Gore in his testimony before a joint Subcommittee hearing of the Energy and... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior Member of the House Energy and Commerce and Natural Resources Committees and Chairman of the newly-created Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, today addressed the Climate Crisis Action Day rally on the lawn of the Capitol. Rep. Markey hailed the growing... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Edward Markey, Chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, released the following statement today in praise of the initiative of the institutional investment leaders to support bold action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: “This new partnership, which enlists the influence of... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today Representatives Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) and Edward J. Markey (D-MA), two senior members of the Energy and Commerce Committee, announced the introduction of H.R. 1561, the House counterpart to the Enzi-Kennedy Enhancing Drug Safety and Innovation Act of 2007 (S. 484).  H.R. 1561 builds on the Senate drug safety bill... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, today held an oversight hearing to examine the operations and public policy agenda of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). During the questioning period, Chairman Markey pressed FCC Chair Martin regarding... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and co-Chair of the Bi-Partisan Congressional Privacy Caucus, today made the following statement in response to a report in the New York Times that a unit of WellPoint, one of the nation’s largest health insurers, cannot... Read More