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Edward Markey: “My opponent actually trades stocks on businesses that appear…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 14:13

So what's your rejoinder to that? Well, again, it's not your age, it's the age of your ideas. And I've always been the youngest person in the room. My opponent actually trades stocks on businesses that appear before the committee that he serves on in the House of Representatives. It's a personal self enrichment program for him and for his family. I don't take corporate PAC money. He does. He says he does not support Medicare for all that that's too high of a bond to create. (14:13–14:27)

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