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Ed Markey: “I was able to author with Fred Upton a piece of legislation, informed by expert testimony from our national security…”

On the recordJuly 24, 2013
I was able to author with Fred Upton a piece of legislation, informed by expert testimony from our national security experts, to put in place a set of protective policies so that our electricity grid would be difficult to attack successfully.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey discusses his legislative efforts to protect the electricity grid.

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