“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
You don't have a right under the Stafford Act to be where you were before, to be close to work.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia
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Editor's note · Context

Norton explains limitations of the Stafford Act regarding federal funding for disaster recovery.

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