“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 recordJuly 26, 2009
I can tell you this much, we are going to build a Department of Homeland Security over in Ward 8. It is going to be a LEED building.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia
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Editor's note · Context

Norton commits to building a sustainable LEED-certified facility for the Department of Homeland Security.

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