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“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
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On the recordJuly 6, 2010
I demanded from Tony Hayward that he make accessible to the National Institutes of Occupational Health and Safety all of the information about all of the workers down there in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts
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transcripts.cnn.com

Editor's note · Context

Markey recounts his demand for transparency from BP regarding the health information of cleanup workers.

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