“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 recordApril 2, 2009
How does the Metro handle three jurisdictions, all with vast amounts of the Federal presence, who have their own quite different gun laws?
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia
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Norton questions the complexities of differing gun laws across jurisdictions.

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