“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
It reminds me of that 1986 Tax Reform and Simplification Act, which was a very large bill similar to this. And you do not hear any body talking about how simple the Tax Code is today. I just have the feeling that the exact same thing is going to happen with this socialized medicine plan. It is not going to be all that simple at all, and it will result in many changes. Let me ask you this, a lot of people think they like socialized medicine. They point to Canada and Great Britain and Germany, maybe Sweden. What is the experience on that?
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John Doolittle
Republican · California
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Speaker Doolittle discusses concerns about the complexity of a proposed socialized medicine plan.

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