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Ed Markey: We can just go across, would you support legislation that raised the safety standards in the United States to those of…

On the recordMarch 15, 2011
We can just go across, would you support legislation that raised the safety standards in the United States to those of the other countries in the world which were mentioned in the BP Commission?
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey questions support for higher safety standards in U.S. offshore drilling.

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