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Ed Markey: “I just want to say, Mr. Chairman, through you to Chairman Inhofe, that I actually called Ann Anderson last week to tell…”

On the recordJune 28, 2016
I just want to say, Mr. Chairman, through you to Chairman Inhofe, that I actually called Ann Anderson last week to tell her that we had overhauled TSCA and that this chemical which was the principal culprit in giving her son leukemia, and other children in that neighborhood, was now going to be potentially regulated and potentially banned under this new law.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey informs Inhofe about the potential regulation of a harmful chemical linked to leukemia cases.

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