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Ed Markey: “It's reasonable. It gives the consumer some rights, some sense of expectations about what they can expect.”

On the recordJuly 11, 2016
It's reasonable. It gives the consumer some rights, some sense of expectations about what they can expect.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey discusses consumer rights in relation to ISP contracts.

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