Rep. Markey Correspondence with State Department: State Department Response to Markey January 27 Letter, February 11, 2005 Rep. Markey Follow-up Letter to Department of State, January 27, 2005  State Department Response to Markey's Original Inquiry, December 17, 2004  Rep. Markey Original Inquiry to State Department,... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. –Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), the Co-Chair of the Nonproliferation Task Force, today released two letters signed by a total of 134 House Members calling for the immediate cancellation of the Bush Administration’s proposed nuclear bunker warhead, also known as the “Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator”... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representative Edward Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the Committee on Homeland Security, today introduced legislation to outlaw the current U.S. government practice of sending terrorism suspects to foreign governments known to engage in torture. The bill has been endorsed by Human Rights Watch and Human Rights... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA) made the following statement on the release of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report on spent nuclear fuel security. “I am pleased that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has finally withdrawn its unreasonable objections to the release of this unclassified version... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C.- Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the Homeland Security Committee, today released a letter from the State Department indicating that U.S. officials would not cooperate with a Canadian inquiry into the detention and deportation of Canadian citizen, Maher Arar, to Syria where he was held and reportedly... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, November 8, 2005, U.S. Representatives Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) and Edward J. Markey (D-MA) held a press conference to discuss the Republican “double talk” agenda when it comes to energy policy and the oil industry’s multibillion dollar profits after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The lawmakers will lay... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Edward J. Markey (D–MA) today welcomed the reported decision by the Bush Administration to finally abandon plans to develop a nuclear “bunker buster” bomb. As Co-Chair of the Nonproliferation Task Force, Markey has fought to stop the nuclear bunker buster since its inception, and recently... Read More

"The goal of the United States, on behalf of its workers, manufacturers and consumers, should continue to be an open and fair trading system. When the North American Free Trade Agreement was approved in order to take down many barriers to trade with Mexico and Canada, President Clinton simultaneously secured, and pledged to implement, side... Read More

Rep. Markey Press Conference Statement, March 10, 2005 Alexandra Arriaga, Director of Government Relations, Amnesty International USA, Press Conference Statement (20.69 KB), March 10, 2005 Margaret Satterthwaite, Representative of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU, Press Conference Statement (93.51 KB), March 10,... Read More

Washington, D.C.- Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce and Homeland Security Committees, today released a letter to Spencer Abraham, Secretary of the Department of Energy (DOE), requesting information regarding DOE’s efforts to secure radioactive materials both here in the U.S. and abroad.... Read More

Washington D.C.- Representative Edward J. Markey, a senior member of the House Committees on Homeland Security and Energy and Commerce and Co-Chair of the House Bipartisan Task Force on Nonproliferation, called for the U.S. to address the issue of North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons. “The actions by the Democratic... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C.- Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Select Committee on Homeland Security and co-Chair of the House Bipartisan Task Force on Nonproliferation, today released a letter to Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman regarding security services provided by Wackenhut Corporation at... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh, met with U.S. President Bush at the White House, among the issues discussed during the meeting was Mr. Singh’s request that President Bush lift the ban on exports of controlled nuclear goods to India. The U.S. –India Joint statement issued reads, “The... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Ed Markey (D-MA) joined by Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) and representatives from several prominent human rights organizations, rallied today to demand an end to the Bush Administration’s practice of extraordinary rendition, noting that ‘outsourcing torture’ by sending prisoners to countries... Read More

The following statement was released today by Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA), in response to news reports of a secret directive signed by President Bush to give the CIA blanket authorization to engage in the practice of "extraordinary rendition” -- sending persons in US custody to other countries for interrogation, even when those other... Read More

Washington D.C. - With the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty (NPT) Review Conference only a week away the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill will travel to China today in a Hail Mary effort to entice North Korea back into talks on its nuclear programs. Representative Edward J. Markey, a senior member of the House... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As negotiations on North Korea’s nuclear weapons program resumed today in Beijing, North Korea continued to insist on its right to civilian atomic technology, despite the fact that cooperation on this technology from the U.S. and U.S.-origin technology from South Korea and Japan is barred by recent changes in U.S.... Read More

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA) made the following statement in response to President Bush’s remarks at a White House press briefing today. "I am disturbed that even today President Bush continued to defend the practice of ‘outsourcing torture’ by rendering prisoners to countries known to... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Although the U.S. Congress has yet to ratify the controversial Bush-Singh agreement to lift the ban on U.S. exports of controlled nuclear goods to India, the U.S. Department of Commerce is already relaxing export guidelines on the sale and export of nuclear materials. Three months after President Bush welcomed Indian Prime... Read More