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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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WASHINGTON, D.C.- One day after a military judge tossed out the plea agreement of Abu Ghraib prison guard Pfc. Lynndie England who was accused of torturing prisoners, Congress sent a critical message to the country about the US’s commitment to ending torture by passing the supplemental bill which included language similar to that offered by...
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WASHINGTON, D.C.- Congress took a critical step towards ending the U.S. policy of outsourcing torture today, passing an amendment, offered by Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), prohibiting the use any funds included in the supplemental bill to be used to the contravention of legal obligations under the Convention Against Torture, with a...
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