“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.”
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On the recordJuly 14, 2009
Are you suggesting that that figure in your testimony is strictly due to the broker contract? What about market conditions?
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia
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Editor's note · Context

Norton challenges the claim of savings attributed to brokers.

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