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Ed Markey: There is a proposal to have $1 trillion of new nuclear weapons systems in our country over the next 20 years. That is a…

On the recordApril 5, 2016
There is a proposal to have $1 trillion of new nuclear weapons systems in our country over the next 20 years. That is a crazy number, from my perspective.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey criticizes the proposed spending on nuclear weapons as excessive.

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