Edward Markey actually said...

If you are serious about the deficit reduction, let us tax the oil companies much more than they are today.

Markey advocates for higher taxes on oil companies to aid deficit reduction.

09/20/2011

More Edward Markey Quotes

A lot of times you hear from people saying, it really hurts the economy of the United States when there is a clean air law that goes on the ...

We have now created 80,000 clean energy jobs in Massachusetts.

We have seen a 23 percent expansion in the Massachusetts economy while we have had a cap and trade system in place in Massachusetts.

But we are seeing this huge increase in the number of people who don't die or don't get sick because of the Clean Air Act.