Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
The 2010 midterms are just around the corner (sort of). Here's what's happening: Prominent Blue Dog Rep. John Tanner (D-TN) will retire at the end of his term, giving Republicans a chance for a pickup; former McCain organizer Lang Sias will announce his challenge to sophomore Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) tomorrow; former Chicago Inspector General David Hoffman (D) is running a TV ad in the race for President...
News Unfiltered (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
In the wake of the first evidence that American babies are born contaminated with a plastics chemical linked to birth defects and breast cancer, Congress must act immediately to protect infants and mothers. The House and Senate are considering bills to ban bisphenol A, or BPA, in food and beverage containers. The bills, by Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California and Rep. Edward Markey of Massachusetts,...
Political Wire (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) will endorse Rep. Michael Capuano (D-MA) in his run for U.S. Senate from Massachusetts, according to the Boston Globe . Capuano has now received endorsements from seven of his nine House colleagues from Massachusetts. "The primary is one week from today. Although the significance of endorsements is a topic of debate, campaigns value them as symbolic seals of approval...
Warning Signs (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
By Alan Caruba As the global warming fraud unravels, it’s a good time to look at the politicians who have been some of the most outspoken advocates, using global warming/climate change to advance “Cap-and-Trade” legislation and other related laws and regulations. Top of the list is President Barack Obama who has made many references to “climate change” and “global...
Bob McCarty Writes (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
In my continuing effort to offer extensive coverage on fossil fuels-related subject matter such as the oil and natural gas industry, climate change and cap-and-trade legislation, including Waxman-Markey and Kerry-Boxer, I point you to the exchange above between Sunoco Inc. CEO Lynn Eisenhan and U.S. Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) at the WSJ’s CEO Council. In short, [...]
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Countdown to Copenhagen: The President's lonely dilemma - Climate Change [Fraud] - The Independent ...It thus has an enormous historical responsibility for the CO2 which is already in the atmosphere. So do the other long-industrialised countries, including Britain – but America alone probably contributed about 30 per cent of the present total amount, and Edward Markey, a Democratic Congressman...
Poverty News Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
An anti-poverty activist who helped to build one of the biggest agencies for the poor was laid to rest yesterday. Robert Corad pushed policy makers in Washington and in Massachusetts to help the people that Action for Boston Community Development served. From the Boston Globe, writer Adrian Walker attended the funeral. Coard, who died last week at the age of 82, has been celebrated as the guiding force...
eNewsUSA (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Nov 6: The House of Representatives passed by a vote of 230 to 193 the Chemical and Water Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2868) [See WIMS 10/23/09]. According to a release from the Energy and Commerce Committee, the bill strengthens security at America's chemical plants and drinking water and wastewater facilities by establishing risk-based and reasonable security standards for these critical assets. H.R....
Political Intelligence (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The long-debated Cape Wind project is a significant measure of US commitment to alternative energy, Representative Edward Markey said today, urging a federal decision before the global warming conference in Denmark early next month. Markey wrote a letter today to...
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
DOWNLOADS: (110) PLAYS: (458) Rep. Edward Markey on the Republican's "do nothing substitute" health care bill. Well said Congressman. Markey: You know the G.O.P. used to stand for Grand Old Party. Now it stands for grandstand, oppose and pretend. They grandstand with phony claims about non-existent death panels. They oppose any real reform and with this substitute they pretend to offer a...
Ohio 15th District (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
It appears that the Republican Party's long awaited health care bill has arrived. Unfortunately, it is positively worthless. Here is an article about the GOP bill from NY Daily News: ....the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found an odd feature in the 230-page bill: Coverage would be more expensive for older people and folks who are sick. And it would not bar insurers from excluding preexisting...
TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Let’s recap here: way back in April, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission made this ironic joke where they said it can’t regulate nuclear materials . More specifically, the commission said it cannot stop foreign nuclear waste from being imported into the United States for disposal. This was in response to a company called EnergySolutions wanting to import waste from Italy and dispose of it...
Chicago Boyz (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) has flagged an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) decision urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to use test data from companies and other existing data in judging whether chemicals found in pesticides and plastics could disrupt the human endocrine system, which releases hormones.[source] I suspect that the OMB is actually suggesting [...]
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
POLITICAL INTERFERENCE? Senior House Democrat questions role of White House in EPA chemical testing. “A senior House Democrat has voiced concerns that the White House is interfering in tests of potentially harmful commercial chemicals. Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) has flagged an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) decision urging the Environmental Protection [...]
Political Ticker (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Democratic Rep. Edward Markey, chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, grilled witnesses Thursday on what he called "fraudulent letters" sent to Congress on energy and climate legislation before a crucial House vote on the issue. The select committee said on it's Web site that its members [...]
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