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Emanuel Cleaver
@emanuelcleaver· Democratic · MO· Jun 17, 2014

The one department that I think the whole world recognized as having the most serious problems in the Federal Government on the issue of discrimination was the Department of Agriculture.

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Al Green
@algreen· Democratic · TX· Jun 17, 2014

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is here. If we did not have it, we would be trying to create it.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

Maybe you could talk about that issue, about the job creation aspect of this, especially since it seems to be a core argument here using medieval blood letting terms to describe what the impact is since the States in the RGGI have actually…

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

So you agree. Do you agree with that, Mr. Healey?

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

Will your companies commit to not using these types of materials that could be to particularly appeal to children?

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

I think that we know what's going on here. You don't have to be Dick Tracey to figure this out.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

This was just an avoidable catastrophe. And we just have to make sure that other young people... aren't actually made vulnerable by the marketing of these companies.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

And we still are in your debt, Dick, for that day. It changed the whole course of history.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

If that is the case and they're addictive, than what possible argument can they make in order to keep these products on the market or targeted toward children?

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

Will you commit to going through your social media sites to erase any past images such as those that appeal to those who are young kids?

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

I spoke on the Durbin Amendment on the House floor in 1987, I think it was, which was the first amendment ever brought out on the House or Senate floor to ban smoking on flights 2 hours or less.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

So 'cool' was a word then and it's a word now, and each time it's just kind of trying to get the young kid into the pattern of smoking cigarettes.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

For many, the thought of Santa Claus brings back nostalgia of childhood cookies and big white beard.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

Will you commit to not using any kind of cartoons in the future, Mr. Healey?

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

So, Dr. Tanski, if you could give me a yes or a no, is the nicotine that is present in e-cigarettes and e-liquids any less addictive than nicotine in traditional cigarettes?

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

It's clear that many of these images are quite glamorous and quite attractive and they really are taking a lesson from the 1950s playbook of the tobacco companies.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

Do you agree that the blu's tagline 'Nobody likes a quitter' may be encouraging continued nicotine and tobacco use by those who would otherwise quit altogether?

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

I am the son of a milkman so I know that technological change can occur.

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