Ed Markey

Scare tactics describing farfetched what-if scenarios are counterproductive.

The National Ocean Policy recognizes these conflicts and provides tools to harmonize the existing regulations that govern our coasts and our oceans.

I commend the President for using his authority under existing laws to ensure the health of our oceans, given the opposition of the Majority.

To keep our oceans and coasts viable for fisheries, military training, energy development, tourism, and conservation, we need ocean planning.

The Obama Administration has decided that the President's signature alone is all that's needed to make major changes to policies governing ocean activities

I fail to see how any of these statutes gives the President the authority to create regional zoning plans.

Planning was not bad and described how Massachusetts Governor Patrick had signed legislation for the development of an ocean management plan.

I have asked the Administration for the specific statutory authority that allows the President, by Executive Order, to create Regional Planning Bodies

The President's Executive Order creates a new federal bureaucracy that requires regional plans to be created whether states want it or not

Where wilderness opponents see a federal land grab, we see an attempt to bring balance to federal land management policy that is currently tilted wildly in favor of resource extraction.

The choice between preserving wilderness and energy development is a false one.

Where opponents see wasted space that could be better used for well pads and roads and open pit mines, we see pristine, open spaces which protect habitat, provide clean drinking water and allow visitors from around the world to marvel at…

Where wilderness opponents see a Federal land grab, we see an attempt to bring balance to Federal land management policy that is currently tilted wildly in favor of resource extraction.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Massachusetts will be postponed. Amendment No. 5 Offered by Mr. Rush The Acting CHAIR. It is…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Massachusetts will be postponed. Amendment No. 4 Offered by Mr. Markey The Acting CHAIR. It…

Well, 13 House Republicans, including one on this committee, wrote the Energy Secretary in February, urging him to quickly approve this uranium enrichment product.

So in my opinion, what the betrayal is is in the Republican budgets that cut investments in clean energy by 70 percent next year and 90 percent over the next 3 years.

I do believe they have a responsibility to testify postinvestigation as to their view of the findings so that they can be accountable to the U.S. Congress as the protectors of the oceans of the United States.

We must vigorously exercise our oversight responsibilities to make certain that BP and other oil companies involved in the Deepwater Horizon disaster are taking the corrective steps necessary to protect the workers, economy and environment…

Following the BP oil spill this Committee has a responsibility to the American people to ensure that offshore oil and gas drilling is occurring in a safe and responsible manner.

Halliburton looks forward to continuing to work with Congress to understand what happened in drilling the Mississippi Canyon 252 well and what we collectively can do in the future to ensure that oil and gas production in the United States…

As Mr. Markey may recall, I provided a briefing to him and his colleagues on May 4 last year in the initial stages of the review of the incident.

Please detail the capital investments made by BP in oil and gas exploration in each of the last three fiscal years?

Again, the reason I am raising these issues is that it is not just the Gulf of Mexico, it is everywhere.

You think that Congress should consider raising them much higher in order to ensure that the oil companies pay a price when people die, when businesses are crushed, when the environment is destroyed, is that what you are saying?