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Edward Markey: “For the first time since 1982, a president is not in…”

Featuring: Edward Markey, Democratic | U.S. Senate Massachusetts

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Published | Video Starts at 19:08

It's a great privilege to be with you and to be working on this. Thank you. Thank you, John. Thank you, John. So why are we here? We're here because For the first time since 1982, a president is not in negotiations with the Soviet Union or Russia on nuclear arms control. Ronald Reagan pulled out of every treaty he stopped negotiating. And that's why Congressman Silvio Conti, a Republican, and I, along with Senator Ted Kennedy and Senator Mark Hatfield, a Republican, introduced the nuclear freeze resolution in March of 1982. (19:08–19:21)

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Asserts that no current negotiations are happening between the U.S. president and Russia on nuclear arms control.

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