WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), the ranking Democrat on the House Telecommunications and Internet Subcommittee, released the following statement on the indictments handed down by the California Attorney General in the Hewlett Packard spying case:
September 29, 2006 - MARKEY SLAMS REPUBLICAN-CHEMICAL INDUSTRY DEAL FOR PROTECTING SPECIAL INTERESTS, NOT AMERICANS
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Homeland Security Committee, delivered the following statement today, condemning a Homeland Security Appropriations bill, for its staggeringly weak chemical security provisions. While in July the Homeland Security committee provided bipartisan support for a bill mandating that facilities shift to safer chemicals and methods at high risk sites, the Republicans’ back-room deal exempts 90% of facilities that could harm more than 10,000 people from any risk assessment and site security measures whatsoever. Markey urged his colleagues to strike key provisions that weakened the bill, in order to diminish the vulnerabilities such facilities have to terrorist attack.
September 29, 2006 - MARKEY: INCONVENIENT FACTS OF IRAQ IGNORED BY PRESIDENT, GOP CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Homeland Security Committee, released the following statement in reaction to President George Bush’s speech this morning on terrorism:
September 28, 2006 - MARKEY: H-P MAY BE SUFFERING FROM SGT. SCHULTZ SYNDROME -- "I HEARD NOTHING, I SAW NOTHING, I KNEW NOTHING."
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), the top Democrat on the House Telecommunications and Internet Subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce Committee and co-chair of the Congressional Privacy Caucus, will be joining the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee to question the panels on the Hewlett Packard privacy debacle.
