WASHINGTON, D.C. –Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), chairman of the House Telecommunications and the Internet Subcommittee and the founder of the House Bipartisan Task Force on Nonproliferation, responded today to a media report in The Washington Times on the tightening of controls over a controversial Department of Commerce program that promotes high-technology national security-related exports to China.

The so-called Validated End-User (VEU) program, which according to the press report will now either be dramatically revamped or scrapped entirely, had allowed a number of Chinese firms to import certain sensitive U.S. technologies without an export control license. Several of those firms were later shown to have close ties to the Chinese military. Rep. Markey began an investigation of the VEU program in January 2008.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, today applauded the decision by Yahoo! Inc. to decrease the amount of time they keep personal information about online searches and consumer web use to 90 days, after which that information will be effectively anonymized:

Congressman Pushes for Clean Energy, Broadband, Health Information Technology, other Investments Benefiting MA and Nation

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As Massachusetts and states across the country look for ways to turn the global economic crisis into an opportunity, Representative Edward J. Markey (D-Malden) and his Bay State colleagues met with Governor Deval Patrick today to discuss how the economic stimulus package currently being drafted could provide immediate help to Massachusetts families and grow the state’s economy in the longer term.

Markey-Clinton Legislation Would Reduce Risk by Incentivizing the Replacement Dangerous Radioactive Materials

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today slammed a recommendation from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) dismissing efforts to ban or replace a potentially deadly radionuclide, cesium chloride. Though the National Academies of Sciences have labeled cesium chloride so dangerous that it should be phased-out completely, today’s NRC recommendation calls for a sole focus on improving the security of cesium chloride radiation sources.