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Ed Markey: I yield myself an additional 30 seconds. This is their agenda. Nothing on safety; nothing on wind and solar; nothing on…

On the recordMay 5, 2011
I yield myself an additional 30 seconds. This is their agenda. Nothing on safety; nothing on wind and solar; nothing on corralling the speculators. And what do they say? What they say is they're going to in fact go into the Medicare budget of Grandma and Grandpa and cut their programs and then put an oil rig on top of Medicare to suck out the money like a pipeline out of the pockets of Grandma and Grandpa and put it into the profits of the oil industry with more tax breaks for them, even as they report the greatest profits in the history of any companies in the history of the world. Ladies and gentlemen, vote ``no'' on this legislation.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts
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May 5, 2011

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