“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.”
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On the recordMay 24, 1994
very briefly let me respond to my colleague by saying this amendment embraces the spirit of what we are attempting to do. It is not a duplication in detail because, as the gentleman is well aware, the piece of legislation that we offered is very detailed and very specific. A great deal of thought and effort went into it. This amendment in the nature of a substitute embraces the spirit of that amendment, but it does not get to all of the details that the gentleman and I laid out as we worked through that amendment.
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Ronald Dellums
Democratic · California
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Discussing an amendment during a legislative debate.

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