Ed Markey

From Hanscom to all of the companies up in Massachusetts led by EMC, we are a leader from Massachusetts on the issue of cybersecurity.

I was able to author with Fred Upton a piece of legislation, informed by expert testimony from our national security experts, to put in place a set of protective policies so that our electricity grid would be difficult to attack…

As we all know, Thomas Alva Edison would recognize our electricity grid today. It has not been modernized the way our telecommunications system has been modernized since the 1996 Telecommunications Act.

Keeping the lights on in the face of a cyber attack is fundamental reliability.

I think it is the right path.

I released a report about 2 months ago on the electric grid's vulnerability to a cyber attack.

Should there be a mechanism to ensure that there is compliance because we are only passing this because we have identified a threat?

It is pretty clear that in the utility sector, they do not respond to voluntary, only to mandatory.

My bill would require travel website operators to prominently post information regarding the health and safety conditions at overseas travel destinations.

But, would you support requirements that travel website operators who sell cruise vacations must prominently post this information for consumers shopping for a cruise so that they can understand what the dangers, what the health conditions…

I feel welcomed. And I'm glad that you've introduced legislation in this area.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I would like to work with you on that, just so that information is made public.

I think, as long as your legislation would extend to including what happens ashore to cruise passengers, not just people who have flown to stay in that location, I think it would be a wonderful and a very positive move.

This hearing has been highly illuminating.

Is there a chance that the rig could sink if they cannot get close enough to fight the fire?

We have to learn, that when we don't put in the proper policies that ensure that these events are preventable, that they become inevitable, and they recur.

By having easy access to health and safety information, Americans can actually make more informed decisions about where to travel and where to stay when they are overseas.

I am so glad that the President has made it clear that he wants the EPA to take action on our own coal-fired plants.

I think that if we are going to be preaching then we have to act.

I think it is very difficult to preach temperance from a bar stool.

I am especially concerned about black carbon, which is produced by diesel engines and burning wood and coal.

The rise of China has transformed the global economy and has enabled millions of Chinese people to rise out of poverty.

Had it not been for the unfortunate 2003 decision of the Federal Reserve that allowed regulated banks to trade in physical commodity markets, much of the artificial inflation of commodity prices we have seen since would not have occurred.

The Congress has to look no further than the way Wall Street markets participation in index funds for the reason why and how index funds adversely affect the orderly operation of these markets and artificially inflate commodity prices.