Representative Ed Markey (D-MA-07)

Representative Ed Markey (D-MA-07)
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H.CON.RES.376 Ed Markey 50 Cosponsors 6 points	Congratulating the 2007-2008 National Basketball Association World Champions, the Boston Celtics, on an outstanding and historic season. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.948 Ed Markey 32 Cosponsors 5 points	Social Security Number Protection Act of 2007 To strengthen the authority of the Federal Government to protect individuals from certain acts and practices in the sale and purchase of Social Security numbers and Social Security account numbers, and for other purposes. House Committee on Ways and Means Granted an extension for further consideration... on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.1485 Ed Markey 0 Cosponsors 10 points	For the relief of Esther Karinge. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.7114 Ed Markey 0 Cosponsors 5 points	Independence at Home Act of 2008 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide certain high cost Medicare beneficiaries suffering from multiple chronic conditions with access to Independence at Home services in lower cost treatment settings, such as their residences, under a plan of care developed by an Independence at Home physician or Independence at Home nurse practitioner. Referred to House committee on Friday, September 26, 2008
H.R.7157 Ed Markey 6 Cosponsors 5 points	Radio All Digital Channel Receiver Act To require that radios used in the satellite digital radio service be capable of receiving terrestrial digital radio signals. Referred to House committee on Friday, September 26, 2008

H.R.7051 Ed Markey 13 Cosponsors 5 points	Georges Bank Preservation Act To prohibit issuance of any lease or other authorization by the Federal Government that authorizes exploration, development, or production of oil or natural gas in any marine national monument or national marine sanctuary or in the fishing grounds known as Georges Bank in the waters of the United States. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, September 24, 2008
H.R.6816 Ed Markey 0 Cosponsors 5 points	Nuclear Facility and Material Security Act of 2008 To provide for upgrading security at civilian nuclear facilities and of nuclear materials that could be used to construct a dirty bomb. Referred to House committee on Friday, August 1, 2008
H.CON.RES.299 Ed Markey 106 Cosponsors 5 points	Supporting the goals and ideals of National Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, July 15, 2008
H.R.6320 Ed Markey 9 Cosponsors 5 points	Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2008 To ensure that individuals with disabilities have access to emerging Internet Protocol-based communication and video programming technologies in the 21st Century. Referred to House committee on Thursday, June 19, 2008
H.R.6298 Ed Markey 15 Cosponsors 5 points	To restrict nuclear cooperation with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, June 18, 2008
H.R.6186 Ed Markey 0 Cosponsors 5 points	Investing in Climate Action and Protection Act To direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, June 12, 2008
H.R.6256 Ed Markey 17 Cosponsors 5 points	Responsible Ownership of Public Lands Act To direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish an annual production incentive fee with respect to Federal onshore and offshore lands that are subject to a lease for production of oil or natural gas under which production is not occurring, to authorize use of amounts received as such fee for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Thursday, June 12, 2008
H.RES.1188 Ed Markey 3 Cosponsors 1 points	Encouraging recognition, and supporting the goals and ideals, of National Aphasia Awareness Month. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, May 14, 2008
H.J.RES.85 Ed Markey 2 Cosponsors 5 points	Expressing the disfavor of the Congress regarding the proposed agreement for cooperation. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, May 14, 2008
H.R.5353 Ed Markey 13 Cosponsors 5 points	Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2008 To establish broadband policy and direct the Federal Communications Commission to conduct a proceeding and public broadband summits to assess competition, consumer protection, and consumer choice issues relating to broadband Internet access services, and for other purposes. House committee/subcommittee actions on Tuesday, May 6, 2008
H.R.5442 Ed Markey 14 Cosponsors 5 points	Technologies for Restoring Users' Security and Trust in Health Information Act of 2008 TRUST in Health Information Act of 2008 To provide individuals with access to health information of which they are a subject, to ensure personal privacy, security, and confidentiality with respect to health related information in promoting the development of a nationwide interoperable health information infrastructure, to impose criminal and civil penalties for unauthorized use of personal health information, to provide for the strong enforcement of these rights, to protect States' rights, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, April 17, 2008
H.R.5588 Ed Markey 3 Cosponsors 5 points	To prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from offering for oil and gas leasing or any related activity any tract in the Lease Sale 193 Area of the Alaska Outer Continental Shelf Region until the Secretary determines whether to list the polar bear as a threatened species or an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, March 11, 2008
H.R.5529 Ed Markey 16 Cosponsors 5 points	To direct the President to seek to establish an international renewable energy agency to expand the availability and generating capacity of renewable energy to markets around the world in order to increase economic opportunity, drive technological innovation, enhance regional and global security, raise living standards, and reduce global warming pollution. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, March 4, 2008
H.R.5058 Ed Markey 54 Cosponsors 5 points	To prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from selling any oil and gas lease for any tract in the Lease Sale 193 Area of the Alaska Outer Continental Shelf Region until the Secretary determines whether to list the polar bear as a threatened species or an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Thursday, January 17, 2008
H.R.4707 Ed Markey 0 Cosponsors 5 points	To reliquidate certain entries of gemifloxacin. Referred to House committee on Thursday, December 13, 2007
H.R.4238 Ed Markey 13 Cosponsors 5 points	Bottle Recycling Climate Protection Act of 2007 To amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to require a refund value for certain beverage containers, and to provide resources for State pollution prevention and recycling programs, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, November 15, 2007
H.R.3919 Ed Markey 15 Cosponsors 30 points	Broadband Census of America Act of 2007 To provide for a comprehensive nationwide inventory of existing broadband service, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, November 14, 2007
H.R.3459 Ed Markey 2 Cosponsors 5 points	Transparent Reporting Under ESA Listing Act To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to publish a summary statement of the scientific basis for a decision concerning the listing or de-listing of an endangered species or the designation of critical habitat, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Friday, September 14, 2007
H.RES.543 Ed Markey 21 Cosponsors 1 points	Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States Postal Service should issue a semipostal stamp to support medical research relating to Alzheimer's disease. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, July 12, 2007
H.R.2966 Ed Markey 15 Cosponsors 5 points	Plug-in Hybrid Opportunity Act of 2007 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit for the conversion of hybrid motor vehicles to plug-in hybrid motor vehicles. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, July 10, 2007
H.RES.523 Ed Markey 1 Cosponsors 1 points	Encouraging recognition, and supporting the goals and ideals, of National Aphasia Awareness Month. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, June 27, 2007
H.R.1961 Ed Markey 13 Cosponsors 5 points	Global Climate Change Security Oversight Act To address security risks posed by global climate change, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, June 20, 2007
H.R.2528 Ed Markey 0 Cosponsors 5 points	Federal Building Renewal and Energy Savings Act of 2007 To amend the National Energy Conservation Policy Act to promote the use of energy and water efficiency measures in Federal buildings, to promote energy savings performance contracts and utility energy service contracts, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, May 24, 2007
H.R.2529 Ed Markey 0 Cosponsors 5 points	To establish efficiency resource standards for retail electricity and natural gas distributors, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, May 24, 2007
H.R.2320 Ed Markey 16 Cosponsors 5 points	National Amusement Park Ride Safety Act of 2007 To restore the jurisdiction of the Consumer Product Safety Commission over amusement park rides which are at a fixed site, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, May 15, 2007
H.R.1560 Ed Markey 59 Cosponsors 5 points	Alzheimer's Breakthrough Act of 2007 To amend the Public Health Service Act to fund breakthroughs in Alzheimer's disease research while providing more help to caregivers and increasing public education about prevention. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, March 20, 2007
H.R.1506 Ed Markey 153 Cosponsors 5 points	Fuel Economy Reform Act To increase fuel economy standards for automobiles, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, March 14, 2007
H.R.1494 Ed Markey 5 Cosponsors 5 points	Pediatric Medical Device Safety and Improvement Act of 2007 To improve the process for the development of needed pediatric medical devices. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, March 14, 2007
H.CON.RES.85 Ed Markey 52 Cosponsors 1 points	Supporting the goals and ideals of National Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month. Referred to House subcommittee on Friday, March 9, 2007
H.R.1352 Ed Markey 60 Cosponsors 5 points	Torture Outsourcing Prevention Act To prohibit the return or other transfer of persons by the United States, for the purpose of detention, interrogation, trial, or otherwise, to countries where torture or other inhuman treatment of persons occurs, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, March 6, 2007
H.R.1165 Ed Markey 1 Cosponsors 5 points	SAFE Drug Act To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to establish additional authorities to ensure the safe and effective use of drugs, to establish whistleblower protections for certain individuals, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, February 27, 2007
H.R.39 Ed Markey 147 Cosponsors 5 points	Udall-Eisenhower Arctic Wilderness Act To preserve the Arctic coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, as wilderness in recognition of its extraordinary natural ecosystems and for the permanent good of present and future generations of Americans. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, February 7, 2007
H.R.353 Ed Markey 26 Cosponsors 1 points	To prohibit the use of funds for an escalation of United States forces in Iraq above the numbers existing as of January 9, 2007. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, January 9, 2007

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H.AMDT.496 Ed Markey 0 points	An amendment numbered 4 printed in House Report 110-227 to make certain low-income tenants of the Heritage Apartments in Malden, Massachusetts eligible for enhanced housing vouchers after prepayment of a HUD mortgage and subsequent ownership transfer of the property without HUD restrictions that may jeopardize the housing affordability. The second part of the amendment would allow for the transfer of Section 8 Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) contracts in Columbus, Ohio in the University District and in Cincinnati, Ohio in the Over-the-Rhine Community. No Action on
H.AMDT.1189 Ed Markey 0 points	Amendment in the nature of a substitute. No Action on
H.AMDT.1029 Ed Markey 0 points	An amendment numbered 7 printed in Part B of House Report 110-604 to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to notify the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) of any determination by the Secretary that a proposed waterside liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility is suitable or unsuitable for the marine traffic associated with the LNG facility. Within 90 days of such notification, FERC must respond to the Secretary's determination with what action the Commission has taken regarding a proposal to construct and operate a waterside LNG. No Action on

H.R.6034 James McGovern 31 Cosponsors 3 points	To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for relief to surviving spouses and children. Placed on the Union Calendar on Friday, October 3, 2008
H.R.2933 Gary Miller 106 Cosponsors 7 points	Civil War Battlefield Preservation Act of 2007 To amend the American Battlefield Protection Act of 1996 to extend the authorization for that Act, and for other purposes. Read twice on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.CON.RES.214 Peter King 39 Cosponsors 0 points	Expressing the sense of Congress that the President should grant a posthumous pardon to John Arthur "Jack" Johnson for the 1913 racially motivated conviction of Johnson, which diminished his athletic, cultural, and historic significance, and tarnished his reputation. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.2994 Lois Capps 56 Cosponsors 0 points	National Pain Care Policy Act of 2007 To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to pain care. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.5577 Bennie Thompson 20 Cosponsors 3 points	Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act of 2008 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to extend, modify, and recodify the authority of the Secretary of Homeland Security to enhance security and protect against acts of terrorism against chemical facilities, and for other purposes. House Committee on Energy and Commerce Granted an extension for further consider... on Thursday, October 2, 2008

H.R.5853 Niki Tsongas 10 Cosponsors 0 points	Minute Man National Historical Park Boundary Revision Act To expand the boundary of the Minute Man National Historical Park in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to include Barrett's Farm, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.6064 Lloyd Doggett 70 Cosponsors 0 points	National Silver Alert Act To encourage, enhance, and integrate Silver Alert plans throughout the United States, to authorize grants for the assistance of organizations to find missing adults, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.1424 Patrick Kennedy 270 Cosponsors 27 points	Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007 A bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes. Passed/agreed to in Senate on Wednesday, October 1, 2008
H.R.1187 Lynn Woolsey 51 Cosponsors 0 points	Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries Boundary Modification and Protection Act To expand the boundaries of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary, and for other purposes. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders on Wednesday, October 1, 2008
H.R.1343 Gene Green 247 Cosponsors 0 points	Health Centers Renewal Act of 2007 To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide additional authorizations of appropriations for the health centers program under section 330 of such Act, and for other purposes. Presented to President on Tuesday, September 30, 2008
H.R.5265 Eliot Engel 123 Cosponsors 0 points	Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research, and Education Amendments of 2008 To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for research with respect to various forms of muscular dystrophy, including Becker, congenital, distal, Duchenne, Emery-Dreifuss facioscapulohumeral, limb-girdle, myotonic, and oculopharyngeal, muscular dystrophies. Presented to President on Tuesday, September 30, 2008
H.R.6874 James McGovern 10 Cosponsors 5 points	To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 156 Taunton Avenue in Seekonk, Massachusetts, as the "Lance Corporal Eric Paul Valdepenas Post Office Building". Cleared for White House on Tuesday, September 30, 2008
H.R.6946 John Dingell 5 Cosponsors 27 points	To make a technical correction in the NET 911 Improvement Act of 2008. Presented to President on Tuesday, September 30, 2008
H.R.7122 John Olver 12 Cosponsors 3 points	To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require State Medicaid plans to continue to cover non-emergency transportation to medically necessary services. Referred to House committee on Friday, September 26, 2008
H.R.758 Rosa DeLauro 222 Cosponsors 24 points	Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2007 To require that health plans provide coverage for a minimum hospital stay for mastectomies, lumpectomies, and lymph node dissection for the treatment of breast cancer and coverage for secondary consultations. Received in the Senate on Thursday, September 25, 2008
H.R.6045 Peter Visclosky 170 Cosponsors 4 points	Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 2008 To amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to extend the authorization of the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program through fiscal year 2012. House floor actions on Thursday, September 25, 2008
H.RES.988 Jim Matheson 88 Cosponsors 0 points	Designating the month of March 2008 as "MRSA Awareness Month". Passed/agreed to in House on Thursday, September 25, 2008
H.R.7090 Anna Eshoo 70 Cosponsors 3 points	Act to Save America's Forests To amend the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 and related laws to strengthen the protection of native biodiversity and ban clearcutting on Federal land, to designate certain Federal land as Ancient forests, roadless areas, watershed protection areas, and special areas where logging and other intrusive activities are prohibited, to transfer administrative jurisdiction of Giant Sequoia National Monument to the National Park Service, to consider areas for inclusion in the National Park System, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Thursday, September 25, 2008
H.R.1497 Earl Blumenauer 67 Cosponsors 0 points	Legal Timber Protection Act To amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to extend its protections to plants illegally harvested outside of the United States, and for other purposes. Placed on the Union Calendar on Wednesday, September 24, 2008
H.RES.1000 Michael Doyle 58 Cosponsors 0 points	To commemorate the 250th Anniversary of the Naming of Pittsburgh as the culmination of the Forbes Campaign across Pennsylvania and the significance this event played in the making of America, in the settlement of the Continent, and in spreading the ideals of freedom and democracy throughout the world. Passed/agreed to in House on Wednesday, September 24, 2008
H.R.998 Carolyn McCarthy 82 Cosponsors 0 points	Civil Rights History Project Act of 2007 To direct the Librarian of Congress and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution to carry out a joint project at the Library of Congress and the National Museum of African American History and Culture to collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of individuals who participated in the Civil Rights movement, and for other purposes. Received in the Senate on Monday, September 22, 2008
H.CON.RES.163 Heather Wilson 104 Cosponsors 0 points	Expressing the sense of Congress in support of further research and activities to increase public awareness, professional education, diagnosis, and treatment of Dandy-Walker syndrome and hydrocephalus. Passed/agreed to in Senate on Monday, September 22, 2008
H.R.6503 Maxine Waters 25 Cosponsors 0 points	Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Alert Program Reauthorization of 2008 To amend the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to reauthorize the Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Alert Program. Received in the Senate on Monday, September 22, 2008
H.RES.1472 Chris Smith 15 Cosponsors 0 points	Supporting international health and education grant programs related to autism spectrum disorders. Referred to House committee on Monday, September 22, 2008
H.R.3114 Louise Slaughter 80 Cosponsors 0 points	National Women's Rights History Project Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to establish a commemorative trail in connection with the Women's Rights National Historical Park to link properties that are historically and thematically associated with the struggle for women's suffrage, and for other purposes. House committee/subcommittee actions on Thursday, September 11, 2008
H.R.3021 Ben Chandler 140 Cosponsors 0 points	21st Century High-Performing Public School Facilities Act To direct the Secretary of Education to make grants to State educational agencies for the modernization, renovation, or repair of public school facilities, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Friday, August 1, 2008
H.R.4806 Jane Harman 13 Cosponsors 6 points	Reducing Over-Classification Act of 2007 To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop a strategy to prevent the over-classification of homeland security and other information and to promote the sharing of unclassified homeland security and other information, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, July 31, 2008
H.R.6078 Ed Perlmutter 43 Cosponsors 3 points	GREEN Act of 2008 To encourage energy efficiency and conservation and development of renewable energy sources for housing, commercial structures, and other buildings, and to create sustainable communities. House committee/subcommittee actions on Thursday, July 31, 2008
H.CON.RES.361 Janice Schakowsky 66 Cosponsors 3 points	Commemorating Irena Sendler, a woman whose bravery saved the lives of thousands during the Holocaust and remembering her legacy of courage, selflessness, and hope. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, July 31, 2008
H.R.6578 Nick Lampson 12 Cosponsors 9 points	Consumer Energy Supply Act of 2008 To provide for the sale of light grade petroleum from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and its replacement with heavy grade petroleum. Failed of passage/not agreed to in House on Thursday, July 24, 2008
H.R.3914 John Dingell 11 Cosponsors 3 points	Protecting Consumers through Proper Forbearance Procedures Act To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prevent the granting of regulatory forbearance by default. House committee/subcommittee actions on Tuesday, July 22, 2008
H.R.415 Barney Frank 11 Cosponsors 0 points	To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the Taunton River in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Received in the Senate on Thursday, July 17, 2008
H.RES.1337 Adam Schiff 16 Cosponsors 0 points	Condemning the decision by the Government of Zimbabwe to hold the run-off presidential election on June 27, 2008;. Referred to House committee on Thursday, July 10, 2008
H.RES.1260 Melissa Bean 100 Cosponsors 3 points	Supporting the goals and ideals of "National Internet Safety Month". Passed/agreed to in House on Wednesday, July 9, 2008
H.R.65 Mike McIntyre 216 Cosponsors 6 points	Lumbee Recognition Act To provide for the recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, and for other purposes. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders on Tuesday, July 8, 2008
H.R.3195 Steny Hoyer 253 Cosponsors 15 points	ADA Restoration Act of 2007 To restore the intent and protections of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Read the second time on Friday, June 27, 2008
H.R.6381 Frank Pallone 66 Cosponsors 3 points	Medical Device Safety Act of 2008 To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting devices. Referred to House committee on Thursday, June 26, 2008