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Markey: 'The Green New Deal Is in the DNA’ of Reconciliation Bill

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Aug 12, 2021, 1:39:16 PM8/12/21
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On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) stated that
“the Green New Deal is in the DNA” of the reconciliation bill and “All of the
things that are in” the bill, “we talked about in the Green New Deal.”

Host Mehdi Hasan asked, “[W]hat you are describing there, some of the
measures in that budget reconciliation, they sound like measures that were in
the Green New Deal that you were one of the architects of. Is that something
you’re allowed to say, or are you worried that, if you say that, Republicans
lose their mind, because they’ve so successfully demonized a Green New Deal
as somehow bad on the right?”

Markey responded, “No. Without question, the Green New Deal is in the DNA of
this green budget resolution. All of the things that are in, we talked about
in the Green New Deal. Now, we have to go even further in the years ahead. We
can’t stop here. And it includes increasing the fuel economy standards for
the vehicles which we drive. It means that we have to have a big agreement in
Glasgow that brings the whole world together, later on this year, with
President Biden, finally having a piece of legislation which passes, so that
the rest of the world sees that we’re serious, that we’re the leader and not
the laggard. You cannot preach climate temperance from a barstool. You can’t
be the worst polluter in history and, simultaneously, tell other countries to
stop, unless you are doing so yourself.”

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