Good Morning.  I want to commend Chairman Upton for calling this hearing this morning on cybersecurity. This Subcommittee has a long history on cybersecurity.  We held a hearing in this Subcommittee, for instance, in 1993, where we demonstrated cyber attacks on the Pacific Fleet Command, on NASA’s mission control, and on the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce and Resources Committees, released the following statement on press reports that the Dept. of Interior Inspector General found an “anything goes” mentality among Dept. of Interior oil and gas leasing division.  Markey is the lead... Read More

Good Morning.  I want to commend Chairman Upton for calling this hearing this morning on cybersecurity. This Subcommittee has a long history on cybersecurity.  We held a hearing in this Subcommittee, for instance, in 1993, where we demonstrated cyber attacks on the Pacific Fleet Command, on NASA’s mission control, and on the... Read More

Good Morning.  I’d like to thank Don Means for that wonderful introduction.  Don and I have worked on several initiatives over the years – from open access efforts to community broadband and I thank him for his assistance and friendship.Welcome to Boston, I hope all of you from out of town are enjoying your stay.  We had... Read More

Good Morning.  I’d like to thank Don Means for that wonderful introduction.  Don and I have worked on several initiatives over the years – from open access efforts to community broadband and I thank him for his assistance and friendship.Welcome to Boston, I hope all of you from out of town are enjoying your stay.  We had... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA) called for a full accounting of the U.S. policy of extraordinary rendition, in anticipation of the release of an official Canadian investigation into the case of Maher Arar. “Extraordinary rendition is simply the outsourcing of torture, and this repugnant practice must be stopped in the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA) called for a full accounting of the U.S. policy of extraordinary rendition, in anticipation of the release of an official Canadian investigation into the case of Maher Arar. “Extraordinary rendition is simply the outsourcing of torture, and this repugnant practice must be stopped in the... Read More

Good Morning.  I’d like to thank Don Means for that wonderful introduction.  Don and I have worked on several initiatives over the years – from open access efforts to community broadband and I thank him for his assistance and friendship.Welcome to Boston, I hope all of you from out of town are enjoying your stay.  We had... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Resources and Energy and Commerce Committees, along with Senators Ted Kennedy and John Kerry and Representatives Barney Frank, Richard Neal, John Olver, Marty Meehan, Bill Delahunt, Jim McGovern, John Tierney, Mike Capuano and Steve Lynch sent a letter to Massachusetts... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Resources and Energy and Commerce Committees, along with Senators Ted Kennedy and John Kerry and Representatives Barney Frank, Richard Neal, John Olver, Marty Meehan, Bill Delahunt, Jim McGovern, John Tierney, Mike Capuano and Steve Lynch sent a letter to Massachusetts... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Homeland Security Committee, released a report entitled “To Secure America: The State of Homeland Security and Implications for Massachusetts,” in advance of the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.  Markey, the only... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Homeland Security Committee, released a report entitled “To Secure America: The State of Homeland Security and Implications for Massachusetts,” in advance of the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.  Markey, the only... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- To mark the five-year commemoration of the September 11 attacks, members of Congress led by Massachusetts Democrat Congressman Edward Markey joined with the nationwide Nuclear Security Coalition to call for prompt actions to secure the U.S. commercial power reactors’ nuclear waste storage system.  He proposed... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- To mark the five-year commemoration of the September 11 attacks, members of Congress led by Massachusetts Democrat Congressman Edward Markey joined with the nationwide Nuclear Security Coalition to call for prompt actions to secure the U.S. commercial power reactors’ nuclear waste storage system.  He proposed... Read More

Washington, DC -- Today, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, blasted witnesses from BP and the Bush Administration at the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on BP’s lax maintenance of their oil pipelines in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.  It has become clear that BP did not... Read More

Washington, DC -- Today, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, blasted witnesses from BP and the Bush Administration at the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on BP’s lax maintenance of their oil pipelines in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.  It has become clear that BP did not... Read More

Washington, D.C. -- Responding to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) long-overdue decision today to allow emergency contraception (i.e. the Morning After Pill) to be sold over-the-counter, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior Member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over the FDA, released the following... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and chief sponsor of a measure to increase fuel economy standards in the House, released the following statement on the news that Ford Motor Corporation has hired Alan Mullaly to replace Bill Ford as Ford’s President and Chief... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce and Resources Committees, released a report today analyzing special tax preferences for inefficient autos such as sport utility vehicles (“SUVs”), which includes a letter from the bipartisan Joint Tax Committee of Congress... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today Rep. Ed Markey, a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, released the following statement in reaction to President Bush's speech today on energy: "President Bush once again gave an energy speech in which he ducked the only near-term solution to our foreign oil addiction -- upgrading the nation's... Read More