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Ed Markey: Are you saying that these 500,000 people are parasitic?

On the recordNovember 7, 2017
Are you saying that these 500,000 people are parasitic?
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey questions the characterization of renewable energy workers.

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