“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 13, 2009
So should some other Federal agency have been charged as more and more cities and States developed mass transit systems?
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia
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Editor's note · Context

Norton suggests the need for a federal agency to oversee mass transit systems.

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