“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 13, 2009
When you develop standards, have you found that transit systems across the United States readily develop these standards, and did WMATA do so?
Said by
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia
Source
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Editor's note · Context

Norton inquires about the adoption of safety standards by transit systems.

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