“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 recordFebruary 9, 1994
The President claims that this is a simple plan. I would just say to the gentleman that I have got the bill. It looks like we have in this bill 1,364 pages. I have read this. Some of this is the most convoluted material I have ever read in my life. I have to read it three or four times to understand what they are really saying, because they say it and then they modify it and then there are parts of exclusion and further modification. And it seems anything but simple. Let me just ask the gentleman, from your study of the material, what do you think he means when he says that this is a simplified plan, this 1,300-plus page plan?
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John Doolittle
Republican · California
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Speaker Doolittle critiques the complexity of a proposed bill despite claims of its simplicity.

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