WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today Rep. Edward J. Markey, a senior member of the Homeland Security Committee, released the following statement on the guilty verdicts in the CIA leak trial of former White House Aid I. Lewis Libby case: “In the Bush Administration’s rush to commit the United States to a needless and disastrous war in Iraq, the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today addressed an alarming Government Accountability Office report on the Department of Energy’s extreme delay in setting and meeting appliance and building code standards at a press conference. His prepared remarks... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, delivered the following statement on the floor of the House of Representatives, urging his colleagues to pass H.R. 800, theEmployee Free Choice Act. His prepared remarks follow below. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R.... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C.  -- Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, convened the first hearing in a series of discussions on the digital future of the United States. His prepared remarks follow below. Good Morning.  I am pleased to convene this first hearing of what I... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C.  -- Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, convened the first hearing in a series of discussions on the digital future of the United States. His prepared remarks follow below. Good Morning.  I am pleased to convene this first hearing of what I... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today grilled the President’s Council of Economic advisors who testified that the Administration does not support taking action to close a dangerous and obsolete loophole in the gas-guzzler tax that incentivizes the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Representative Ed Markey (D-MA), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, today addressed the State Leadership Conference of the National Association of Broadcasters. His prepared remarks follow:Thank you Shaun Sheehan for that wonderful introduction. Thank you to David Rehr, and to the NAB, for... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Representative Ed Markey (D-MA), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, today addressed the State Leadership Conference of the National Association of Broadcasters. His prepared remarks follow:Thank you Shaun Sheehan for that wonderful introduction. Thank you to David Rehr, and to the NAB, for... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce and Natural Resources Committees, today commended former Vice President Al Gore on his movie, An Inconvenient Truth, winning the Academy Award for best documentary. Rep. Markey said, “Congratulations to Vice President Gore on his well-deserved... Read More

At 2 a.m. on March 11, groggy Americans will turn their clocks forward one hour, marking the beginning of Daylight Saving Time (DST). Make sure to Spring Forward on time next week, as Daylight Saving Time is arriving 4 weeks earlier than last year. - When you go to sleep on Saturday, March 10 set your clocks forward 1 hour - When you wake up on... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), chairman of the House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications & the Internet and Co-chair of the Congressional Privacy Caucus, sent a letter to Department of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Federal Trade Commission Chair Deborah Majoras and IRS Commissioner Mark Everson... Read More

MEDFORD, MA -- Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, released a statement in response to reports that there were previous data breaches at retailer TJX.  Rep. Markey has previously called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate this and any other data breaches fully. "My staff met... Read More

Washington, D.C. -- Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats today sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) expressing serious concern about the test methods and findings of the CPSC in regards to the levels of lead in children’s lunch boxes. According to a recent news report,... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA) a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, sent a letter to the Department of Transportation Secretary, Mary Peters, to ask what is being done to inform Americans of the changes to extend daylight savings time by four weeks beginning this year.  Reps. Markey and Fred Upton... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following statement can be attributed to U.S. Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, regarding today's proposal by XM and Sirius satellite radio companies to merge: "This is a merger proposal that merits the utmost scrutiny by Federal... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Natural Resources Committee, questioned the Interior Department’s Inspector General Earl E. Devaney at the first House hearing on the royalties’ fiasco at the Interior Department.  Interior I.G. shed significant light on the Interior Department’s... Read More

Today, the Bureau of Indian Affairs will officially recognize the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), the Dean of the Massachusetts Congressional Delegation and a senior member of the House Natural Resources Committee, released the following statement: “Almost 400 years after the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe welcomed... Read More

Tomorrow morning, the House Natural Resources Committee will hold the first full House committee hearing on the oil and gas royalties’ fiasco at the Department of Interior.    Following a report in the New York Times last year that the Interior Department was dropping a claim against the Chevron Corporation indicating that it had... Read More

On February 13, 2007, Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet addresses the American Association of Public Television Stations conference. His prepared remarks follow: Good Afternoon.  I want to thank John Lawson for his excellent leadership and for the invitation to speak this... Read More

On February 13, 2007, Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet addresses the American Association of Public Television Stations conference. His prepared remarks follow: Good Afternoon.  I want to thank John Lawson for his excellent leadership and for the invitation to speak this... Read More