“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 recordMay 4, 2009
We have decided that there are so many Federal facilities that it would be impossible to locate this money in just a few of them.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia
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Norton explains the challenge of funding distribution across federal facilities.

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