Ed Markey

Earlier today, General Motors and I reached a substantial agreement on a modified version of the legislation...

Do you agree that the more spent fuel is stored in these pools, the faster it could heat up and ignite if the pool's water was drained?

That is why I recently introduced the Dry Cask Storage Act which gives plants 7 years to remove all of the waste that can be removed from the pool and put it into safer dry cask storage, provides funding to help offset the cost and…

I think the U.S. learned the lessons of the importance of a strong regulator and a separate regulator in the 1970's.

I am disappointed to say that the NRC is currently breaking that law.

Thank you for calling this very important hearing to consider the nominations of two highly qualified individuals to serve as Nuclear Regulatory commissioners.

Fukushima reminded us of the devastating effect of a nuclear reactor meltdown.

I feel as strongly today as I did 2 decades ago that consumers should not be subject to intrusive calls from telemarketers.

The more aggressive you can be, I think the happier the American people will be.

Cramming is wrong. Cramming is scamming. It is that simple.

By banning most autodial and prerecorded calls to landlines and mobile phones and establishing the Do-Not-Call List, which I am very proud of, the law created a zone of privacy that remains popular with consumers to this day.

They do not have the murder statute on the books for my mother or yours.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, very much and thank you for holding today's very important hearing.

It really ticks people off.

Will a final agreement include Parchin, so that we can be sure that there is no clandestine activity occurring at that site?

The greater the enrichment program in Iran is, the greater the risk then that there is a transfer of that material into other countries or subnational groups that could be used against American interests.

It is critical that the current negotiations succeed in preventing Iran from developing a weapon.

At the Parchin military base, given Iran's ongoing efforts to hide incriminating evidence by paving over the site with asphalt, do you agree that gaining access to this facility is an increasingly urgent priority?

As I have noted before several times in this committee, Iran flares off, wastes that is, the equivalent of 13 nuclear reactors' worth of natural gas each year.

We do not believe that is a right under the NPT and we will continue to vigorously enforce that perspective.

The sheer speculation, sir, is you projecting these impossible to shoulder electricity rates for small businesses.

We have created 80,000 new clean energy jobs. We are going to 90,000 by the end of this year.

Since the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative went into effect, Massachusetts has reduced its greenhouse by 14 percent.

We import 30 percent of our oil, sir, and we are talking about exporting oil while we are still importing 30 percent.

What is your position on the exportation of natural gas if you know that it is going to lead to a 54 percent increase in price for small businesses?