Honorable Edward Markey
U.S. Representative, Massachusetts, Democrat
Edward Markey was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976. He chairs the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The following is from Representative Markey’s September 11, 2007, statement on the floor of the House of Representatives. It is long past time for the United States to officiallyrecognize the massacre of one and a half million Armenians early in thetwentieth century for what it undeniably was: genocide. Year afteryear after year, I’ve been proud to cosponsor the Armenian…