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Ed Markey: It always has been and it continues to be where we kind of preach temperance but from a bar stool, saying do not do it…

On the recordSeptember 14, 2016
It always has been and it continues to be where we kind of preach temperance but from a bar stool, saying do not do it, but yet here, once again, we are going to allow Norway to take our materials and take it to France.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey criticizes the hypocrisy in U.S. nuclear policy regarding Norway and France.

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