September 12, 2006 - MARKEY: BUSH ADMIN. SHOULD COME CLEAN ON OUTSOURCING TORTURE TO OTHER COUNTRIES IN LIGHT OF RECENT ADMISSION OF SECRET CIA PRISONS ABROAD
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.
September 8, 2006 - MARKEY UNVEILS 9/11 ANNIV. REPORT ON STATE OF MASS. HOMELAND SECURITY
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 member of the Massachusetts Congressional Delegation serving on the Homeland Security Committee, has been a longtime critic of the Bush Administration’s failures to expend the resources and stand up to corporate interests to better secure the United States in six sectors. Markey’s report examines the state of aviation, chemical, nuclear, LNG, public transportation, and hazardous materials security, and includes a focus on how these security weaknesses affect Massachusetts.
September 7, 2006 - MARKEY BLASTS BP OFFICIALS FOR PUTTING PROFITS BEFORE SAFETY AND SECURITY OF OIL PIPELINES
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 adequately maintain its oil pipelines, despite warnings from employees and multiple reports questioning the condition of the pipelines.
September 7, 2006 - MARKEY, OTHER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS JOIN WITH SAFE ENERGY GROUPS IN CALL FOR HARDENED STORAGE OF ON-SITE REACTOR WASTE
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 implementation of a storage technology known as “Hardened On-Site Storage” (HOSS) – by which over-filled atomic waste storage pools at reactor sites are off-loaded into dry storage casks that have been “hardened” against terrorist attack. A 14-minute compact disc presentation entitled “Nuclear Spent Fuel & Homeland Security: the Case for Hardened Storage” was hand delivered to every member of Congress in support of the joint call.
