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Ed Markey: And I would be glad to yield the floor to any of them who would be willing to be recognized, but, through the leader…

On the recordMarch 6, 2019
And I would be glad to yield the floor to any of them who would be willing to be recognized, but, through the leader, the problem is that they keep talking about a $93 trillion cost, which is a report from the American Action Forum, a partisan, rightwing group funded by the Koch Brothers and Karl Rove as a sister group to his Crossroads USA 501(c)(3). That is what we are now debating out here on the floor, and not the science.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts
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Mar 6, 2019

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