Sen. Edward “Ed” Markey

Committee Membership

Edward “Ed” Markey sits on the following committees:

• Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
  • Chairman, Subcommittee on International Development and Foreign Assistance, Economic Affairs, International Environmental Protection, and Peace Corps
  • Member, Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
  • Member, Subcommittee on European Affairs
• Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
  • Member, Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet
  • Member, Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard
  • Member, Subcommittee on Science and Space
  • Member, Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security
  • Member, Subcommittee on Tourism, Competitiveness, and Innovation
• Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
  • Member, Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety
  • Member, Subcommittee on Oversight
  • Member, Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health
  • Member, Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure
• Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Bills Sponsored

Some of Markey’s most recently sponsored bills include...

• S. 2219: Hate Crime Reporting Act of 2014
• S. 2203: Bolstering Our Nation’s Deficient Structures Act of 2014
• S. 2192: Alzheimer’s Accountability Act of 2014
• S. 2158: GRID Act
• S. 2151: Early Warning Reporting System Improvement Act of 2014
• S. 2136: A bill to ensure that oil transported through the Keystone XL pipeline into ...
• S. 2135: Tar Sands Tax Loophole Elimination Act

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Voting Record

From Jul 2013 to Apr 2014, Markey missed 6 of 226 roll call votes, which is 2.7%. This is worse than the median of 1.8% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

• The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
• Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
• United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
• Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
• GPO Member Guide for the photo
• THOMAS, for sponsored bills