Congressman Markey

Markey: Weak Wachovia Deal Shortchanges Elderly Fraud Victims

April 25, 2008

Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today reacted to a settlement agreement reached between Wachovia Bank and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) that resulted from an OCC investigation into the bank’s relationship with several telemarketing and payment processing firms engaged in fraudulent activities.

April 24, 2008

Policy can empower technological climate change solution

The chair of the U.S. House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming struck an optimistic tone about the planet’s climate crisis Monday (April 21), saying that an energy revolution is in the offing if government can just get the policy right.

April 24, 2008

With Heightened Concern Over Attacks on LNG Facilities, Markey Amendment Requires Homeland Security Input on LNG Siting Decisions

Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Homeland Security Committee, today succeeded in amending a national coast guard bill to require input from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in decisions about the placement of proposed waterside Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) facilities. Markey, whose district contains the only urban LNG terminal in the nation, offered the amendment during House Floor debate on H.R. 2890, the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2007.