Rep.
Edward J. Markey, (D-MA)
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Edward
J. Markey, a Democrat, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976
from a district which includes both blue-collar and high-tech suburbs north and
west of downtown Boston.He serves
on the House Budget and Commerce Committees. He is Co-Chair with Rep. Chris
Shays (R-CT) of the Bipartisan Task Force on Non-Proliferation to help educate
their Congressional colleagues on the spread of nuclear weapons and other
weapons of mass destruction and on the urgent need to control and reverse that
trend.He is a veteran of
Congressional battles for the Nuclear Freeze, for the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty,
for restrictions on resale of nuclear technology by China and North Korea, and
for maintaining a wall between nuclear weapons and civilian nuclear power at
home and abroad.He is now leading
the effort in Congress for mutual U.S.-Russian cooperation to de-alert their
nuclear weapons. He is also a leader on telecommunications policy, consumer
rights, health reform, elimination of large monopolies, and conservation of
energy and environmental resources. He has worked closely with the Nuclear
Control Institute, the Conservation Law Foundation, the Consumer Federation of
America, the Children's Defense Fund and the National Education Association.He attended Boston College (B.A., 1968) and Boston College Law School
(J.D., 1972). He served in the U.S. Army Reserve and was elected to the
Massachusetts State House where he served two terms.
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