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Ed Markey: Without modern telecommunications technologies, we are going to leave behind too many people in our country.

On the recordJune 1, 2015
Without modern telecommunications technologies, we are going to leave behind too many people in our country.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey warns that lack of access to technology will exclude many from modern society.

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