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Ed Markey: “Otherwise, we wind up closing the barn door after the horse is out, gone, and died of old age.”

On the recordNovember 30, 2021
Otherwise, we wind up closing the barn door after the horse is out, gone, and died of old age.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey warns against insufficient oversight in the decommissioning process.

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