Ranking Democrat, Natural Resources Committee. Member, Energy and Commerce Committee; House Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Member and former Founder, Bipartisan Task Force on Nonproliferation. Co-Founder, Congressional Caucuses on Privacy, Alzheimer's Disease and Cystic Fibrosis. Member, Leader in House on climate change and energy independence legislation and co-sponsor, Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act, passed in US House of Representatives in June 2009. Champion of telecommunications competition and consumer protection in cable television, telephone, broadband and satellite markets. Member, Global Legislators Organization for a Balanced Environment International, and co-author of its Wang-Markey principles on curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Champion of arms control and non-proliferation.