Ed Markey

Again I want to recommend to all the Members that they support this legislation. It is a real step forward in giving parents a tool they can use to protect their kids under 12 when they are on-line. The sooner we pass this is the sooner we…

Up to this point there is no evidence that can convict the Bush administration of not repeating the same mistakes as the Clinton administration. The only problem is that this high tech boom ended in 2000 and that millions of Americans are…

It was nonsense last June when President Bush and the Republicans argued that we could have a $1.5 trillion tax cuts and not raid Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid. It is nonsense on stilts after September 11, after the deficits…

Why is that? I do not think people would understand why the gentleman cannot say that.

Eddie Boland's career ended the way it began. He worked tirelessly in order to make the world a better place. I am proud to have known him. I am proud to have worked with him. I am proud to have served with him in this institution that he…

Make no mistake, the Norwood amendment guts the patients' bill of rights, and what is left behind? Nothing more than an ``HMO Bill of Slights.'' The Norwood amendment slights patients with weakened accountability provisions; it slights…

There are $34 billion worth of energy tax breaks in this bill, but they do not pay for them at all. Now, we do not have a surplus any longer, and so what the majority is doing is setting up an oil rig on top of the Social Security and…

Mr. Chairman, spoiling the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for the sake of a 6-month supply of oil 10 years from now is hardly a sensible energy policy and hardly a route to energy independence. It produces little energy in the short-term…

Mr. Chairman, this is the most important environmental vote of this Congress, 2001 and 2002. This is the top environmental vote for every environmental group in the United States. The proponents say we are going to drill and leave a little…

I believe that the Congress has appropriately drawn the lines regarding hedge fund marketing, and intend to strongly oppose any effort to liberalize them.

I know that he in his public life is animated by the values that his mother and father instilled in him. I know that he tries every day in our committee to ensure that those principles are in fact fulfilled. I know that those values are…

I hope that we can pass this TREAD bill this year so we do not have to come back. I wanted to make sure that everyone understand how important it is that we move together to pass this legislation this year.

This has been a piece of legislation which obviously has had to move very quickly. I thank the majority for their cooperation, including three amendments that I was particularly interested in: Dynamic testing so that we would be able to…

I was given an ironclad commitment by the other side when we were debating the financial services bill last November that they would have hearings all this year in the Committee on Banking and Financial Services on financial services and…

I am pleased to join with the gentleman from California (Mr. Cunningham) and a bipartisan coalition of other Members in introducing the 'Energy Efficient Buildings Incentives Act.'

Consumers who want to exercise their right to be placed on a do-not-call list or to take a telemarketer to small claims court after being called are often frustrated when they cannot get the Caller ID information from the telemarketer to…

There is sufficient excess capacity in these facilities in order to accommodate the oil. We would probably wind up with the Federal Government leasing part of the facilities that are now controlled by these oil companies in order to…

The capacity ultimately is unlimited. We are talking about unused storage facilities all across the Northeast that could be used for these purposes.

Now, in section 101(c), the bill provides that an analogous formula shall be used where funds are distributed directly to political subdivisions smaller than a State. Consistent with our shared purpose to eliminate any unintended incentive…

I think people have to understand that part of the Contract with America is the pledge to abolish the Department of Energy. So the Department of Energy, in 1995, 1996, 1997, they were just fighting to exist, not to put together an energy…

I do so again to urge my colleagues reluctantly to oppose this bill. It does not have the balance which it needs in order to ensure that while we advance the electronic commerce revolution which is transforming the American economy, that…

This is a significant advancement with respect to privacy. There is no question about it. The gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) had two options, to offer an amendment as a substitute for this, and I think this would have been…

This is a revolution that we are unleashing in today's legislation. We are going to make it possible for the first time for people to buy an 18-inch satellite dish and get their local TV stations over the dish. They will be able to…

Mr. Speaker, the only reason that I seek recognition at this time is because of an unfortunate omission in my original listing of saints that deserve credit and I just want it to be known that the honorable gentleman from North Carolina…

If they subscribe to satellite, they cannot get the local channels. The gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Tauzin) and I, and the other members of our committee, we are going to try to rectify this. If Tip O'Neill was here today and looking at…