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Edward Markey: “I fight alongside Bernie [Sanders] every day. And with the…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 15:18

And that is why we need a vision and a movement big enough to scare the people writing those checks. And I fight every day alongside my partner Elizabeth Warren. I fight with my colleague Bernie Sanders. I fight alongside Bernie [Sanders] every day. And with the senators who vote for a livable wage, who believe in collective bargaining and workers rights, who want to get rid of the Electoral College, overturn Citizens United, abolish the filibuster and expand the Supreme Court of the United States. And that is why. That is why I have been partnering in the House of Representatives with the brilliant Ayanna Presley and, and with Maxwell Frost to expand climate education, with Summer Lee to protect health care workers, with Greg Cassar to lower electricity rates. (15:18–15:39)

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Asserts support for abolishing the Electoral College, overturning Citizens United, abolishing the filibuster, and expanding the Supreme Court.

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