Honorable Edward Markey
United States Representative, Massachusetts, Democrat
Representative Markey, of the Seventh District of Massachusetts, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976. He served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1973 to 1976. He sits on the Energy and Commerce Committee (where he is the Ranking Minority Member of the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet), the Committee on Homeland Security, and the Resources Committee. The following is from the June 29, 2006, House floor debate on H.R. 4761, the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act.Right now in America, 80 percent of all of the Outer Continental Shelf area, where the oil and…
