Honorable Edward J. 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 as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1973 to 1976. He is a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee and the Resources Committee. The following is from a statement released June 2, 2003, in response to the FCC vote to relax media ownership rules. Today’s ruling by the Powell FCC represents an unwarranted and indiscriminate relaxation of mass media ownership rules. The announced changes will severely undermine the cherished mass media policy values of localism,…
