"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, 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

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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, DC-  Representative Edward Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the Homeland Security Committee, and Representative Joseph Crowley (D-NY) today introduced the “Leave All Blades Behind Act” to prevent the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) from lifting a ban on razor-sharp scissors and other weapon-usable objects... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Internal Revenue Service today issued proposed guidance on the disclosure or use of tax return information by tax return preparers.  A key principle underlying the proposed guidance is that tax return preparers may not disclose or use tax return information for purposes other than tax return preparation... 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

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

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The following statement was released today by Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), in response to news reports of a cover-up of U.S. involvement in the kidnapping of German citizen Khaled Masri reported in today’s Washington Post.  Rep. Markey has been an outspoken critic of the practice of sending prisoners out of... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The following statement was released today by Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), in response to news reports of a cover-up of U.S. involvement in the kidnapping of German citizen Khaled Masri reported in today’s Washington Post.  Rep. Markey has been an outspoken critic of the practice of sending prisoners out of... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC - Representative Edward Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the Homeland Security Committee and longstanding advocate for strengthened aviation security, today expressed his opposition to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announcement that items such as metal scissors with pointed tips and a cutting edge of four inches... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee, made the following statement responding to the 9/11 Discourse Project report card released today. “Letting 4 inch scissor blades back on passenger planes while letting unscreened cargo the size of a Volkwagen be placed... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Edward J. Markey, a senior member of the House Resources and Energy and Commerce Committees, criticized Governor Mitt Romney’s decision yesterday to pull Massachusetts out of the Northeast Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).  “Governor Romney’s decision is a big blow to efforts... Read More

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