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Ed Markey: It is the same culprit. It is the same rear view look at history, and we were trying to give them a bridge to the future…

On the recordJune 8, 2016
It is the same culprit. It is the same rear view look at history, and we were trying to give them a bridge to the future so they did not have to go into bankruptcy.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey criticizes the coal industry's resistance to change.

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