“The president is scared of your power, and he wants you to believe your vote does not matter.”
“AI is not going anywhere. It has both promise and peril. I just want us to be thinking critically about this from all angles.”
“I’d be worried about a massive economic slowdown. You know, the impact of Wall Street on Main Street, and I’d be worried about job losses.”
“He wants you to lose confidence in our electoral system so you stay home this November.”

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On the recordMay 22, 2024
I regret that the Democrats will not allow this bill to come up for a vote, which, again, would simply ensure that aid that Congress has approved is delivered promptly to Israel in the middle of a shooting war of survival--a bill that, I would remind everyone, passed the House of Representatives with a bipartisan majority. The time is now to reverse Joe Biden's de facto arms embargo on Israel. I yield the floor. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Republican whip.
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