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For more than 40 years in Congress, Senator EDWARD J. MARKEY has earned the moniker “master legislator.” He has authored hundreds of bills on issues ranging from energy and environmental and climate change policy to telecommunications and children’s online privacy and nonproliferation and arms control. And on a bipartisan basis, he has passed more than 550 pieces of legislation into law. And Markey is nowhere near done—just this spring, he coauthored the Green New Deal resolution in the Senate.
Markey grew up in Malden, Massachusetts, and received his undergraduate and law degrees from Boston College. In 1972, at age 26, he won his first election to a seat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Four years later he was elected to Congress, representing a district that includes part of Tufts’ Medford/Somerville campus. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives until 2013, when he won a special election to fill John Kerry’s seat in the U.S. Senate. He went on to win a full six-year Senate term in 2014.
In his 37 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, Markey focu
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Edward J. Markey
Edward John Markey is an American lawyer, politician, and former Army reservist serving as the junior United States senator from Massachusetts since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he served 20 terms as the U.S. representative for from 1976 to 2013. Before his congressional career, he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1973 to 1976. Wikipedia*
On the C-SPAN Networks:
Edward J. Markey has 1,612 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1983 Rally as a Democratic Representative for Massachusetts's 7th district. The year with the most videos was 2017 with 93 videos. The year with the highest average number of views per program was 2010 with an average of 8,729 views per program. Most appearances with Chuck Schumer (23), Nancy Pelosi (19), Henry Waxman (15). Most common tags: Global Climate Change, Energy Policy, Massachusetts.
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U.S. Representative, D-MA 5thJanuary 3, 2013 - July 15, 2013Videos: 11U.- •
From 2003 to 2009 in the House of Representatives, Senator Markey also served as a senior member of the Homeland Security Committee. In that capacity, he focused on closing gaps in our homeland defenses, particularly in the areas of nuclear, aviation, maritime, liquefied natural gas and chemical security. In the wake of the 9-11 attacks, he authored the first-ever mandate in the law that 100% of cargo on passenger planes is screened, and 100% of all maritime cargo is scanned before entering America’s ports.
Senator Markey also was the leader of the national Nuclear Freeze movement and has been a Congressional champion on nuclear nonproliferation. His amendment to ban all underground nuclear testing passed in 1986, and in the 1990s, he fought to tighten controls on global trafficking in nuclear technology. Since then, Senator Markey has continued his work on nuclear nonproliferation, successfully enacting new restrictions on exports of nuclear and dual-use technologies to Iran, North Korea, and other countries designated as state sponsors of terrorism and pressing for stronger nuc
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