“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 recordMarch 21, 1994
I support English as a first language for this country. If I were going to move, and I am sure, Mr. Chairman, if Members would take their children to Russia, I would want my children to learn Russian better than they knew English. I would want them to know English as well from their home country, but I would want them to know Russian because they would have to operate not only in the school system but in the business place with that language. And to be successful, it would be mandatory. I would hope that those Russian schools would support my children in learning the language in the mother-tongue of that country.
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Randall Cunningham
Republican · California
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Opposing an amendment related to language education during House floor debate.

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