Washington, DC -- Today, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Homeland Security Committee, welcomed news reports that those prisoners currently held in the secret network of CIA-run “black site” secret prisons would be transferred out of CIA custody and afforded protections under the Geneva Conventions.  The... Read More

Washington, DC -- U.S. Reps. Edward Markey (D-MA), John Dingell (D-MI), Henry Waxman (D-CA), Bart Stupak (D-MI) of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) requested that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigate the Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) reliance on... 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. -- U.S. Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Homeland Security and Energy and Commerce Committees, today sent a letter to Dale Klein, Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), raising concerns about a report by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) revealing numerous security issues at the South Texas... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC:  Representative Edward Markey (MA) and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (NY) today again called on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to tighten controls on nuclear materials that could be used to create a dirty bomb, especially in light of recent reports that Al Qaeda had published a... Read More

MEDFORD, MA -- U.S. Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Homeland Security Committee, urged the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Michael Chertoff to require ALL packages brought to airline counters for shipping to be physically inspected for explosives before being loaded onto passenger planes.  Rep.... Read More

MEDFORD, MA -- Rep. Edward J. Markey, a senior member of the House Resources and Energy and Commerce Committees, released the following statement in reaction to comments made by a Bush Department of Interior official, Mineral and Management Services Director Johnnie Burton on a handful of oil companies voluntarily coming forward to renegotiate... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Homeland Security Committee, along with the rest of the Committee’s minority membership, released a report on the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.  Rep. Markey, who has been critical of the Bush Administration’s slow response to help the victims of... Read More

MEDFORD, MASS-- Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA, a senior member of the House Homeland Security and Energy and Commerce Committees, released the following statement in reaction to Entergy ending the contract for Wackenhut to provide security at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Massachusetts:   "Using Wackenhut as nuclear reactor security guards... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Homeland Security and Energy and Commerce Committees, responded to a security breach at the Lynn LNG facility tonight: "I am very troubled by this security breach at an LNG facility in Lynn. This incident raises serious questions about the adequacy of... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Homeland Security and Energy and Commerce Committees, responded to a security breach at the Lynn LNG facility tonight: "I am very troubled by this security breach at an LNG facility in Lynn. This incident raises serious questions about the adequacy of... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA), co-chair of the Privacy Caucus, sent a letter today to Department of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, after today’s report in the Boston Globe revealed a tremendous breach in security for thousands of Americans who monitor their student loans online.  Rep. Markey called on the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA), co-chair of the Privacy Caucus, sent a letter today to Department of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, after today’s report in the Boston Globe revealed a tremendous breach in security for thousands of Americans who monitor their student loans online.  Rep. Markey called on the... Read More

Today, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Co-Chair of the House Bipartisan Taskforce on Nonproliferation, criticized the Bush Administration’s failed policy of outsourcing U.S. diplomacy to Europe to end Iran’s nuclear program.  Iran is expected to respond August 22, 2006 to the incentives package put forth by China, France, Germany,... Read More

Today, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Co-Chair of the House Bipartisan Taskforce on Nonproliferation, criticized the Bush Administration’s failed policy of outsourcing U.S. diplomacy to Europe to end Iran’s nuclear program.  Iran is expected to respond August 22, 2006 to the incentives package put forth by China, France, Germany,... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Homeland Security and Energy and Commerce Committees, urged President Bush to issue long-delayed guidelines that carry out a key provision in the Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act passed in 2002. This provision, authored by Rep. Markey, extended the mandated... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Homeland Security and Energy and Commerce Committees, urged President Bush to issue long-delayed guidelines that carry out a key provision in the Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act passed in 2002. This provision, authored by Rep. Markey, extended the mandated... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Homeland Security Committee, urged Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to institute 100% inspection of all cargo on passenger planes and inspection of container ship cargo before it sets sail for U.S. ports.  On the heels of the foiled London passenger airliner... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Homeland Security Committee, urged Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to institute 100% inspection of all cargo on passenger planes and inspection of container ship cargo before it sets sail for U.S. ports.  On the heels of the foiled London passenger airliner... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), co-chair of the Bipartisan Taskforce on Nonproliferation, today released a letter from Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs Jeffrey T. Bergner indicating that any proposed agreement to resolve the current diplomatic standoff over Iran’s nuclear program would not... Read More