Ed Markey
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 7th district
Incumbent
Assumed office November 2, 1976
Preceded by	Torbert Macdonald
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the 16th Middlesex district
In office January 3, 1973 – November 2, 1976
Preceded by	William R. Callahan
Succeeded by	A. Joseph DeNucci
Personal details
Born	(1946-07-11) July 11, 1946 (age 65) Malden, Massachusetts
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Susan Blumenthal
Residence	Malden, Massachusetts
Alma mater	Boston College
Occupation	Attorney
Religion	Roman Catholic
Military service
Service/branch	United States Army
Years of service	1968–1973
Unit	Reserves

Edward John "Ed" Markey (born July 11, 1946) is the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 7th congressional district, serving since 1976. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes most of Boston's northern and western suburbs, such as Medford and Framingham. Markey is the Dean of both the Massachusetts and New England House delegations. He is the second longest-serving member of Congress from New England, behind Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont.

Markey was born and raised in Malden, Massachusetts. He graduated from Boston College and Boston College Law School. He worked as an attorney and served in the United States Army Reserve for five years before being elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where he served two terms as a state representative. In 1976 he won a crowded special election to succeed deceased incumbent Torbert Macdonald, and took office in November 1976.

In the U.S. House, Markey is a Progressive representative who has made energy policy his top priority. He sits on several energy committees and subcommittees, and is the former chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

Early life, education, and early career[link]

Markey was born and raised in Malden, the son of Christina M. (née Courtney) and John E. Markey, a milkman.^[1][2] He was raised in an Irish Catholic family and educated at Immaculate Conception Grammar School and Malden Catholic High School. He graduated from Boston College in 1968 with a B.A. and from Boston College Law School in 1972 with a J.D.^[3] After graduating, he worked as a lawyer in private practice, and served in the United States Army Reserve from 1968 to 1973.

He was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where he represented the 16th Middlesex district (Malden and Melrose) from 1973 to 1976.^[3][4]

U.S. House of Representatives[link]

Elections[link]

In May 1976, longtime 7th District Congressman Torbert Macdonald died in office. Markey won a crowded seven-way primary for the seat, which was tantamount to election in this heavily Democratic district. He has been re-elected 16 times with no substantive opposition and never won re-election with less than 62% of the vote.

Tenure[link]

Markey is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. The National Journal generally gave him a "Composite Liberal" score in the mid-90s.^[5] Since May 2005, he has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post.^[6]

Environment and energy issues

In December 2007, Markey became the first US politician to utilize the medium of Second Life, through which he addressed the delegates of the UNFCCC in Bali as part of OneClimate's Virtual Bali event. It was estimated that the carbon dioxide saved in not flying Rep. Markey to Bali was around 5.5 tons.^{[citation needed]} An example of his legislation is the Waxman-Markey bill (American Clean Energy and Security Act).

Markey's paramount issue is energy policy. He is the former chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment.

Markey signed the Accuracy in Fuel Economy Standards Act which requires the Department of Transportation to use realistic and rational gas price assumptions as it calculates the maximum feasible fuel economy standards for the coming years as required by the energy bill passed by Congress last year.^{[citation needed]}

Pressure from Markey prompted BP to provide a live underwater video feed showing the oil leaking out of a pipe in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.^[7] Rep. Markey also signed the Responsible Ownership of Public Lands Act in 2008 to compel Big Oil to utilize the 68 million acres (280,000 km²) onshore and offshore of public land that they are already leasing but not used to produce energy.^{[citation needed]}

In March 2008, Markey signed the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Act to direct the President to seek to establish the 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.^{[citation needed]}

Markey has been a longtime critic of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He 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.^[8][9]

In reply to a Sarah Palin piece about the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act, Markey wrote an article criticizing Palin's inaction on global warming and her environmental positions. He said that he agreed that there were many threats to the American economy, but said that her "strategy of inaction on clean energy and global warming" was one of the them. Markey praised the recent House passage of the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act, which, he said, would be responsible for investing $190 billion for clean technology, exceeding the goal set by President Obama. He said that it would be responsible for over a trillion dollars in private-sector capital investment in clean-tech and went on to reject Palin's suggestion that Waxman-Markey was a tax bill.^[10]

Domestic issues

He is also responsible for introducing legislation to change the duration of daylight saving time.

In May 2011, he drafted the Do Not Track Kids Act of 2011 significantly increasing privacy controls over children online.^[11]

Defense

Markey is known for his advocacy against torture and the practice of extraordinary rendition through the Torture Outsourcing Prevention Act.^{[citation needed]}

In 2003, he began to call attention to the lack of security surrounding air cargo placed on commercial passenger planes, arguing that if all passenger baggage is screened for explosive devices, air cargo on the same plane should be as well. In 2007, he succeeded in getting a 100 percent air cargo screening requirement signed into law, which must be implemented within three years.^{[citation needed]} Rep. Markey authored the mandate requiring all cargo on passenger planes to be screened by August 2010, in the law implementing the 9/11 Commission's recommendations. In light of the recent cargo scare, Rep. Markey continues to press that the requirement be enforced and plans to explore legislation mandating screening for air carriers that transport only cargo.^{[citation needed]}

He was one of the 31 members of the House who voted not to count the electoral votes from Ohio in the 2004 Presidential election.^[12]

Committee assignments[link]

• Energy and Commerce
  • Communications and Technology
  • Energy and Power
  • Oversight and Investigations
• Natural Resources (Ranking Member)
  • As ranking member of the full committee, Rep. Markey may sit as an ex officio member of all subcommittees.

Caucus memberships

• Bipartisan Caucus on Nonproliferation (Co-chair)
• Bipartisan Caucus on Privacy (Co-chair)
• Bipartisan Caucus on Alzheimer's Disease (Co-chair)
• Bipartisan Caucus on Cystic Fibrosis (Co-chair)
• Congressional Progressive Caucus
• International Conservation Caucus

Speculation of U.S. Senate elections[link]

In 2004, Markey was considered a possible contender for John Kerry's seat in the United States Senate if Kerry were to be elected President of the United States.^[13] Although Kerry lost the election, Markey was easily reelected in 2004 over Republican Kenneth Chase and Independent Jim Hall. Markey was considered a leading contender to run in the January 19, 2010 special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Edward M. Kennedy. On September 12, 2009, however, he announced his decision to remain in the U.S. House, and instead endorsed U.S. Representative Michael Capuano.^[14]

Electoral history[link]

Personal life[link]

Markey is married to Dr. Susan Blumenthal. He was one of several politicians who appeared in a cameo in the 2003 film Gods and Generals. He played an Irish Brigade officer.^[17]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikisource has original works written by or about: Edward John Markey

• Congressman Ed Markey official U.S. House website
• The Markey Committee official campaign website
• Biography at WhoRunsGov.com at The Washington Post
• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Voting record maintained by The Washington Post
• Biography, voting record, and interest group ratings at Project Vote Smart
• Congressional profile at GovTrack
• Congressional profile at OpenCongress
• Issue positions and quotes at On the Issues
• Financial information at OpenSecrets.org
• Staff salaries, trips and personal finance at LegiStorm.com
• Campaign finance reports and data at the Federal Election Commission
• Appearances on C-SPAN programs
• Profile at SourceWatch
• Ed Markey speaks on Second Life to delegates during OneClimate's Virtual Bali event in December 2007

Ray Suarez
Suarez in 2007
Born	Rafael Suarez, Jr. (1957-03-05) March 5, 1957 (age 55) Brooklyn, New York, USA
Ethnicity	Puerto Rican
Education	BA, New York University MA, University of Chicago
Occupation	Journalist, Anchor
Notable credit(s)	PBS NewsHour, Talk of the Nation, American RadioWorks
Religion	Episcopalian
Spouse	Carole Suarez
Children	Rafael, Eva and Isabel

Rafael Suarez, Jr. (born March 5, 1957), known as Ray Suarez, is an American broadcast journalist. Suarez joined the PBS NewsHour in 1999 and became a senior correspondent for the evening news program on the PBS television network. He is also host of the international news and analysis public radio program America Abroad from Public Radio International. He was the host of the National Public Radio program Talk of the Nation from 1993-1999. In his more than 30 year career in the news business he has also worked as a radio reporter in London and Rome, as a Los Angeles correspondent for CNN, and as a reporter for the NBC-owned station WMAQ TV in Chicago.

Personal life[link]

Born and raised in Brooklyn,^[1] Suarez attended public schools in the borough from kindergarten through 12th grade, graduating in 1974 from John Dewey High School. In 1975 he earned the rank of Eagle Scout in the Brooklyn Council. In 2009, Suarez was awarded the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award by the NCAC.^[2][3] He earned a BA in African History from New York University and an MA in the Social Sciences from the University of Chicago.^[4] He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and three children, Rafael, Eva, and Isabel. Suarez is active locally and nationally in the Episcopal Church.^[5]

Career and publications[link]

He is the author of the 1999 book The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration: 1966-1999,^[6] a social commentary on the causes of the destitution found in the inner city. He also authored the 2006 book, The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America,^[7] which examines the way Americans worship, how organized religion and politics intersect in America, and how this powerful collision is transforming the current and future American mind-set. The book is beginning to gather accolades for its timeliness and fair coverage from many sides of the issue. Suarez was a contributing editor for Si Magazine, a short-lived magazine depicting the Latino experience in the U.S.

Suarez hosted the program Destination Casa Blanca, produced by HITN TV from 2008-2011. The program covered Latino politics and policy for a national audience from Washington, D.C.

He is a contributor to the upcoming Oxford Companion to American Politics (June 2012), and is writing the companion volume to an upcoming PBS documentary series on the history of Latinos in America, to be published by Penguin in 2013.

Suarez has contributed to many other books, including ''How I Learned English, "Brooklyn: A State of Mind", "Saving America's Treasures", and "About Men." His columns, op-eds, and criticism have been published in The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune.

He co-wrote and hosted the 2009 documentary for PBS, Jerusalem: Center of the World, and narrated Anatomy of a Pandemic, on the H1N1 outbreak, for PBS.

Honors[link]

Suarez receiving his Distinguished Eagle Scout Award

• Named as a 1996 Utne Reader "Visionaries"^{[citation needed]}
• Named as Hispanic Business "100 Influentials" among American Latinos
• 1995 Global Awareness Award by Current History Magazine^[4]
• Studs Terkel Award, Community Media Workshop
• 1993-94 duPont-Columbia Silver Baton Awards (part of NPR's award for on-site coverage of the first all-race elections in South Africa)^{[citation needed]}
• 1994-95 duPont-Columbia Silver Baton Awards (part of NPR's award for coverage of the first 100 days of the 104th Congress)^{[citation needed]}
• 1996 Rubén Salazar Award from the National Council of La Raza^{[citation needed]}
• 2005 Distinguished Policy Leadership Award from UCLA's School of Public Policy
• Distinguished Alumnus Award from NYU^{[citation needed]}
• Professional Achievement Award from the University of Chicago^{[citation needed]}
• 2009 - Distinguished Eagle Scout^[8]
• 2010-Hall of Fame, National Association of Hispanic Journalists
• 2012- Bridge-Builder Award, Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding
• Honorary doctorates
  • Muhlenberg College^{[citation needed]}
  • Westminster College^{[citation needed]}
  • Xavier University^{[citation needed]}
  • Marymount Manhattan College^{[citation needed]}
  • St. John's University^{[citation needed]}
  • Bloomfield College^{[citation needed]}
  • California State University-Monterey Bay^{[citation needed]}
  • Lewis & Clark College^{[citation needed]}
  • Dominican College (New York)^{[citation needed]}
  • Utica College
  • State University of New York-Plattsburgh
  • The University of the South (Sewanee)
  • City College of New York
• Fellowships
  • Benton Fellowship in Broadcast Journalism at the University of Chicago^{[citation needed]}

See also[link]

• National Association of Hispanic Journalists

External links[link]

• The Online NewsHour: Ray Suarez
• America Abroad: Ray Suarez
• Ray Suarez Interview on KCTS 9 Public Television

Notes[link]

This article may be unbalanced towards certain viewpoints. Please improve the article by adding information on neglected viewpoints, or discuss the issue on the talk page. (December 2011)

Chris Matthews
Matthews at the 2011 Time 100 Gala.
Born	Christopher John Matthews (1945-12-17) December 17, 1945 (age 66) Somerton, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Ethnicity	Irish
Education	College of the Holy Cross
Occupation	News anchor and political commentator
Notable credit(s)	Hardball with Chris Matthews The Chris Matthews Show
Religion	Roman Catholic
Spouse	Kathleen Matthews
Relatives	Montgomery County, PA County Commissioner Jim Matthews (brother)

Christopher John "Chris" Matthews (born December 17, 1945) is an American news anchor and political commentator known for his nightly hour-long talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, which is televised on the American cable television channel MSNBC. On weekends he hosts the syndicated NBC News–produced panel discussion program The Chris Matthews Show. Matthews makes frequent appearances on many other NBC and MSNBC programs. On March 22, 2009, Matthews renewed the contract for Hardball with Chris Matthews through 2012.^[1]

Early life and education[link]

Matthews was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Irish American parents and is a Roman Catholic.^[2] He attended La Salle College High School. He is a 1967 graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and did graduate work in economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.^[3][4]

Matthews served in the United States Peace Corps in Swaziland from 1968 to 1970^[5] as a trade development adviser.

Career[link]