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Ed Markey: “I think we do. So I do not understand why, again, we would move to our nonproliferation policy as a solution for a…”

On the recordSeptember 14, 2016
I think we do. So I do not understand why, again, we would move to our nonproliferation policy as a solution for a private sector problem that is, from the definition of what they are going to be doing with it, strictly contained within the United States.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey questions the need for a 123 agreement for nuclear testing in Norway instead of the U.S.

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