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On the recordNovember 16, 2011
Today Americans are focused on the oversized influence of the oil companies and others through the Occupy Wall Street movement, yet Republicans are pushing their own pre-occupy movement in the hopes that Americans will be too preoccupied with this one loan to a clean energy company that they won't see the tens of billions of dollars in government subsidies given to the oil, coal, and nuclear industries, the Republican favorites.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey criticizes Republicans for diverting attention from subsidies to fossil fuels.

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