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Ed Markey: We had to act in a bipartisan fashion to kind of work with the telephone companies to try to figure--let's solve this…

On the recordJuly 28, 2015
We had to act in a bipartisan fashion to kind of work with the telephone companies to try to figure--let's solve this problem.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey discusses the necessity of bipartisan cooperation to resolve communication issues in urban areas.

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