Ed Markey

This legislation deals with the issue of slamming and it attempts to combat the unauthorized switching of a consumer's telephone carrier of choice. I want to thank Chairman Bliley and Chairman Tauzin, along with Mr. Dingell, for their…

This is a good bill; not perfect, but it is good. My mother passed away in July afflicted by Alzheimer's for 10 years. We kept her in our home. My father, who is 87, tended to her every single day all day long for 10 years. The only way…

When I was going down the litany of saints who helped to make the satellite policy possible, I did forget Hugh Halpern and I forgot to mention Mike O'Rielly. And I think in order for us to have a complete and definitive list of those who…

I just wanted to publicly recognize them for all the excellent work which they have done.

On June 16 this House passed a bill to present a Congressional Gold Medal to Nelson Mandela. The long story, to bring us to a point where this body would vote a Congressional Gold Medal to Nelson Mandela, began with Massachusetts…

When we pass legislation out here mandating better appliance standards, after all, what is a utility? What is a coal or oil or nuclear power plant? All it is is the combined demand of refrigerators and stoves and toasters. If we make them…

This matter should never have been pursued by Ken Starr, it should never have been pursued by the Committee on the Judiciary, and it should never have reached the floor of the House of Representatives

I absolutely did. And it is an incontrovertible truth. That is how the tax benefit breaks, if you look at it over the 10-year period, as we should have done with the Reagan tax break in 1981, which ultimately turned out to be that kind of…

In each and every one of these areas I think they have a big decision to make in 1996, and thanks to the gentleman, I think millions are having it explained to them here today.

It is interesting to see candidate Dole suddenly expressing concern over the prospect of Iraqi oil hitting the world market. Where was candidate Dole over the last 6 months when the big oil companies, like a reckless driver on a bet, drove…

I respect the work the gentleman has done. The gentleman did good work at the subcommittee. I supported the gentleman's work. It should have come through the full committee and out here on the floor in a comprehensive way. We should not…

It is a pile as high as the Moon because ultimately this technology will never produce any final product which was an unfortunate experience which we had with the Clinch River Breeder Reactor. It never resulted in a final product.

Is it not true that out of the 270,000 cases in Federal district court that this bill is only going to touch 300 of them, which only affects 125 companies per year, and yet the number of tens of thousands we are talking about a half of a…

If I may reclaim my time, it is not the SEC we are talking about in this particular legislation, it is the investor, him or herself who will be limited in their ability to sue to get money back for themselves.

If I may ask the gentleman a question, Have there been any allegations that any municipality in the United States has filed a frivolous lawsuit? Is there any allegation that has ever been made that they should be prevented under this…

I think it is a pretty big step for Fortune to take to say that CEO's of the companies do not even understand them, and we are talking about the companies that are selling them as well as buying them. I think that we should give the…

We have here Fortune magazine. This is not some populist perspective on this issue. Here is the headline in their magazine, ``The Risk That Won't Go Away.'' ``Like alligators in a swamp, derivatives lurk in the global economy. Even the…

I am only using the Bush administration numbers that there would be $35 billion that would need to be spent in order to finish this project, and additional tens of billions of dollars if an alternative Brilliant Pebbles project was adopted…

Mr. Chairman, nothing could be further from the truth. The way the IAEA works is accounting principles. They get to stand at one door and check as it goes in and then the back door to check if it comes out. If it does not come out, which…

I rise in support of Senate Joint Resolution 56, to designate the week of April 11, 1994, as ``National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week.'' I am pleased to announce today that 224 of my colleagues join me in support of this resolution…