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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) have introduced legislation (S 3613, HR 7114) that would create a three-year Medicare demonstration project in 26 states that aims to expand at-home services for some beneficiaries with multiple chronic health conditions, CQ HealthBeat reports.
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Electronista (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Democratic Congressman Edward Markey on Monday submitted a bill that would potentially require all satellite radios to also include a competing standard. The Radio All Digital Channel Receiver Act (PDF) would require that Sirius XM and any other sat...
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Orbitcast (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Representative Edward Markey (D-MA), not content with a Federal Communications Commission inquiry on the subject, is has sponsored a bill to force HD Radio chips into Satellite Radios.The "Radio All Digital Channel Receiver Act" (H.R. 7157) would mandate that devices designed to receive both Sirius XM Radio Inc. service - and terrestrial radio - must be able to receive HD Radio too.Of course, the FCC...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Oil and gas drilling would be banned on New England's famed Georges Bank fishing grounds in a new energy bill passed by the House. Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., pushed to have the ban inserted in the Democratic-backed...
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CRM Daily (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Support for a law aimed at protecting consumers' online privacy is gathering steam in Washington. Representative Edward Markey [D-Mass.], head of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, says he and others plan to introduce comprehensive online privacy legislation in the coming congressional session. Dubbed the Online Privacy Bill of Rights, the law may require companies to get approval from consumers...
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Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
The rapid growth of information technology around the world poses environmental challenges that the big computing firms are only just starting to catch up with. Bill Thompson reports. When United States congressman Edward Markey was invited to address the United Nations climate-change meeting in Bali at the end of 2007, he decided that he could not justify the environmental impact of flying to and...
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News: Opinion -- KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Americans shouldn't buy into the "false promise" that drilling for oil will really solve their energy problems, U.S. Rep. Edward Markey told The Kansas City Star Editorial Board on Tuesday.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Americans shouldn't buy into the "false promise" that drilling for oil will really solve their energy problems, U.S. Rep. Edward Markey told The Kansas City Star Editorial Board on Tuesday.
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Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives say they're pushing for an online privacy Bill of Rights after revelations of growing browser tracking.U.S. Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., leader of the House Privacy Caucus, says he's assembling the provisions for legislation that would require Web site operators such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to disclose whether and how they monitor the site browsing...
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Privacy Digest (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Computing - Congressman Wants Opt-In Rule for Web Tracking - Via CIO-today: Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) said online monitoring services should obtain clear consent before tracking users on the Web to develop ad-targeting campaigns. Markey said deep-packet technologies record "every Web site a user visits" and raise privacy concerns. NebuAd CEO Robert Dykes wants to track individuals by default if...
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eNewsUSA (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Jul 18: According to a release from Representative Edward Markey (D-MA), Chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, a Committee investigation has found that members of government at the highest levels, including "the office of President George W. Bush’s Chief of Staff and numerous heads of Cabinet departments, had decided to use the Clean Air Act to regulate global...
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Fair Proxy Web (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
U.S. Lawmaker Fights Web Tracking Without Consent, NebuAd Free internet radio washington (chattahbox) - a u.s. lawmaker is pushing to force internet service providers to get consent from a customers before tracking them. egalitarian rep. edward markey, chairman of the house subcommittee on telecommunications and the internet has put in an appearance out and pushed for internet [...]
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SEOCentro - SEO News (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
U.S. Congressmen have called out another Internet service provider for working with behavior tracking and ad serving firm NebuAd. House Representatives Edward Markey, John Dingell, and Joe Barton this week penned a letter to Embarq, one of behavioral targeting vendor's early ISP partners. The missive requests detailed information on early tests the company conducted with NebuAd. Depending on how you...
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A Sailor in the Desert (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Every now and again, I award a tin foil hat to the person that comes up with the most idiotic story or conspiracy theory, that they actually believe. This tin foil hat award goes to Congressman Edward Markey (D-Mass.), who is the chairman of the House (Select) Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee. This fellow recently told a group of teens that global warming was the cause of Hurricane...
