WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House Resources Committee will use a backdoor Budget Reconciliation markup to circumvent the normal legislative process and take up a controversial provision to permit drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Outer Continental Shelf. Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA) a senior Democrat on the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C.- With decisions on Alaska and the Congressional budget just days away, U.S. Representatives Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-3) and Ed Markey (MA-7) today led a rally calling for increased protection of Alaska's wild places such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the United States' only coastal temperate rainforests. DeLauro will today... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C.- Today, the House Budget Committee spurned President Bush’s request to use the budget process to try to force oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA), the lead Democratic sponsor of the Udall- Eisenhower Arctic Wilderness Act (H.R. 567), praised the committee for their decision not to... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In response to the order issued earlier today by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA) issued the following statement: “This is a very welcome decision by FERC, and a big victory for the coalition that has been fighting this anti-consumer electricity rate increase.... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Edward Markey (D-MA), Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT), Senator Mark Dayton (D-MN), and Representative George Miller (D-CA) will announce today that they are introducing the Udall-Eisenhower Arctic Wilderness Act of 2005 to preserve the Arctic coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On the same day that the Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh addressed a joint session of the House and Senate, the House Members of the Energy Conference Committee approved a measure offered by Representative Markey (D-MA) to prevent the exportation of nuclear technology to countries, like India, that are not party to... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, Iran confirmed the conversion of 37 tons of raw uranium into gas. Today, the head of Iran’s atomic energy organization confirmed that the country would resume uranium enrichment-related activities within days. “Three months ago, Iran was building deep reinforced tunnels to store nuclear materials and... Read More

“Selecting John Bolton to be the ambassador to the United Nations is a snub to the rest of the world which we will live to regret. It is difficult to imagine that the man who once said, “There is no such thing as the United Nations,” will now be the US ambassador to the very body that he has made a career of mocking and... Read More

Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) authored an op-ed in the March 12, 2005 edition of the Boston Globe entitled "US must stop outsourcing torture." The op-ed can be found here: Boston Globe Rep. Markey Op-Ed  Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C.- Today the White House press spokesman Scott McClellan defended the President's secret executive "extraordinary rendition" order, which has allowed the outsourcing of torture. When questioned by a reporter on why the White House needed to send people to a country like Uzbekistan, White House spokesman Scott McCellan... Read More

Letters of Endorsement:      World Organization for Human Rights, U.S.A. , March 9, 2005            Human Rights First, March 7, 2005          American Bar Association, February 23,... Read More

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), 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. – 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. — 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