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Ed Markey: we would run all the risks and get very little of the benefits. That is, we are not an oil or natural gas economy. We…

On the recordJuly 23, 2018
we would run all the risks and get very little of the benefits. That is, we are not an oil or natural gas economy. We are a--we are an economy of tourism and fishing.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey emphasizes the economic focus on tourism and fishing over oil drilling.

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