Ed Markey

Statistically, Indians are the most impoverished group of people in our country and suffer from the highest rates of unemployment.

The HEARTH Act will allow tribes to exercise greater control over their lands, support self-determination and eliminate bureaucratic delays that stand in the way of home ownership and economic development in tribal communities.

Our nation is home to a vast diversity of sovereign tribes, and Federal policy should reflect that diversity.

The HEARTH Act would allow tribes to develop their own leasing regulations and make leasing decisions on tribal Trust at the tribal level rather than waiting for BIA approval.

These pieces of legislation are vital to the development of Tribal economies.

Neither my legislation, nor the HEARTH Act are attempts to get around environmental regulations and exploit the land.

While I strongly support my legislation, I hope that the HEARTH Act is quickly enacted extending the provisions found in H.R. 2362 to all tribes.

These same provisions have applied to the Navajo tribe for over a decade, and have helped that tribe with economic development.

H.R. 2362 is designed to facilitate U.S. trade with Turkey and help economic development on Tribal land.

H.R. 3155 will PERMANENTLY strip the Interior Department of the power to protect lands around the Grand Canyon from uranium mining.

H.R. 3155 threatens to return this nation to the low state of civilization President Roosevelt found us in a century ago.

We regard temples and Roman triumphal arches and Gothic cathedrals as a priceless value. . .but we are, as a whole, still in that low state of civilization where we do not understand that it is vandalism to destroy or to permit the…

Rather than learning a lesson from this unfortunate tragedy, the Republican Majority has again offered legislation that could lead to unchecked uranium mining around Grand Canyon National Park.

Each year, Grand Canyon National Park generates $700 million dollars in local revenue and supports more than 12,000 jobs.

Markey, Hon. Edward J., a Representative in Congress from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

This legislation will provide much-needed protection, and much-deserved recognition, for the site.

Put simply, a National Monument designation is warranted for Chimney Rock and that new designation will drive economic development and job creation throughout the region.

Prepared statement on H.R. 205

I would urge my Republican colleagues to drop their opposition to all mythical moratoriums and all pretend permit-oriums and instead join me in supporting the repeal of an actual embargo that prevents our American oil companies from even…

We should end the Cuban embargo so that American companies and American workers can reap the benefits of drilling so near our shores.

The Majority has been so focused on a make-believe moratorium on drilling in the Gulf, that they've apparently missed the actual decades-long moratorium on American companies drilling off of Cuba that is the result of the embargo.

Because of a relic of the cold war, the Cuban embargo, American oil companies cannot drill in this area that could contain as much as 5 billion barrels of oil.

I would hope that the Majority's opposition to lifting the embargo against Fidel does not outweigh their fidelity to creating more jobs for American businesses and American workers in our own country.

I would think that my Republican colleagues would rather have this drilling done by Chevron than by Chavez.

Because of a relic of the Cold War, the Cuban embargo, American oil companies cannot drill in this area that could contain as much as five billion barrels of oil.