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Edward John "Ed" Markey (born July 11, 1946) is an American politician who is the United States Senator-elect from the state of Massachusetts, as well as the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 5th congressional district since 1976. The district, numbered as the 7th District from 1976 to 2013, includes most of Boston's northern and western suburbs, such as Medford and Framingham. He is the longest-serving member of both the Massachusetts and New England House delegations and the second longest-serving current member of Congress from New England, behind Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont. A member of the Democratic Party, he is a liberal who has focused on energy policy. He serves on two energy committees and is the former Chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. Markey won the 2013 special election to succeed John Kerry in the U.S. Senate, defeating Republican Gabriel E. Gomez.[1]
This is Markey in 1989:
Congressional Progressive Caucus, and the National Journal gave him a "Composite Liberal" score of 89.2...
Pressure from Markey prompted British Petroleum to provide a live underwater video feed showing oil leaking out of a pipe in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.[15] Markey has been a longtime critic of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and has been critical of the NRC's decision-making on the proposed Westinghouse AP1000 reactor design and the NRC response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.[16][17]
In 2011, Markey criticized Republicans and the Tea Party movement, saying "Rick Perry and these other guys are allergic to science...too many of the tea party people, who basically don’t believe in science, are now controlling the Republican Party."[18] In reply to Alaska's Governor Sarah Palin's position on how the American Clean Energy and Security Act (also known as Waxman-Markey, named after Markey and Henry Waxman) could had a negative impact for Alaskans,[19] Markey wrote an article criticizing Palin's inaction on global warming and her environmental positions.[20]
Markey sarcastically suggested in August 2010 that global warming skeptics form their own country on an iceberg: “An iceberg four times the size of Manhattan has broken off Greenland, creating plenty of room for global warming deniers to start their own country.”
Markey also said that, at the time, 2010 was the hottest recorded year, and "scientists agree arctic ice is a canary in a coal mine that provides clear warnings on climate.”[21][22]
Markey has derided Republicans' stance on global warming, stating during a hearing: "I won’t physically rise, because I’m worried that Republicans will overturn the law of gravity, sending us floating about the room.”[23]
In January 2011, House Republicans eliminated the Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming, which had been created by Nancy Pelosi in 2006 and chaired by Markey.[24]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Markey
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