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Ed Markey: “What price? How buyable are Americans? How low do we get when we start taking our key heirlooms and we start selling…”

On the recordSeptember 20, 2011
What price? How buyable are Americans? How low do we get when we start taking our key heirlooms and we start selling them to Dutch Royal Shell or British Petroleum?
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey questions the ethics of selling national resources to foreign companies.

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