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Ed Markey: That is obviously, looking back retrospectively, that the Department of Defense thought that this was all kind of just a…

On the recordJune 8, 2021
That is obviously, looking back retrospectively, that the Department of Defense thought that this was all kind of just a sacrifice in the areas around these defense facilities, that the communities would have to pay in perpetuity for having a military base which was sited there. So obviously, that was just fundamentally wrong.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey criticizes the Department of Defense's past negligence regarding community impacts from military bases.

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