WASHINGTON, DC - 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... Read More

Washington, DC: Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-MA) a senior Member of the House Energy and Commerce and Homeland Security Committees, today released a letter sent to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy Thompson regarding the Department’s failure to draft adequate guidelines for the stockpiling and distribution of potassium iodide... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Edward Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, today participated in a press conference with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy Thompson and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mark McClellan to announce that Massachusetts and two other... Read More

Washington DC - Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Rep. Christopher Smith (R-NJ), Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, have introduced legislation to exempt severely and permanently disabled individuals from Medicare restrictions that limit their ability to travel... Read More

Expanded Canadian Pipelines Will Bring More Risk, Says Lawmaker; Enbridge Becoming "BP of the Midwest" WASHINGTON (July 28, 2012) -- Another pipeline from Canada has spilled oil in the upper Midwest United States, calling into question the ability of pipeline companies and systems to safely deliver oil from Canada to the United States,... Read More

Washington D.C. – U.S. Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA) today announced that a provision he had offered to clarify the definition of “homebound” in the Medicare statute has become law.  President Clinton on Thursday, December 21, 2000 signed the Consolidated FY2001 Appropriations Bill that contained the unfinished... Read More