WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior Member of the House Energy and Commerce and Natural Resources Committees, released a statement in reaction to the overwhelming adoption of a funding resolution on the House Floor creating a bipartisan, fifteen-member Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, introduced bi-partisan legislation to extend and improve crucial energy tax credits for American homes and commercial buildings with Reps. Jim McDermott (D-WA) and Jerry Weller (R-IL). As part of a major thrust in national energy... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, and Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, sent a set of pre-hearing questions to John Kneuer, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information at the National Telecommunications... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Reps. Edward J. Markey (D-MA) and Fred Upton (R-MI), senior members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today held a press conference to outline the energy and cost-saving benefits the nation will see when clocks spring forward one hour this Sunday, March 11. The spring change to Daylight Saving Time (DST) comes three... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, today held a hearing to examine the radio industry’s power and potential, as part of the subcommittee’s series on assessing the digital future of the United States. Recognizing the powerful democratizing... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, and Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, sent a set of pre-hearing questions to John Kneuer, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information at the National Telecommunications... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the Homeland Security Committee, today announced the reintroduction of the “Torture Outsourcing Prevention Act” at a press conference, joined by a coalition of national and international human rights organizations. Rep. Markey’s bill will put an end to the... Read More

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