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Ed Markey: “It is a smokescreen. It is intended to screen off the lungs of the children in America from the smoke coming out of…”

On the recordAugust 4, 2015
It is a smokescreen. It is intended to screen off the lungs of the children in America from the smoke coming out of these polluting utilities.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey criticizes opposition to his amendment as harmful to children's health.

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