“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 recordMarch 23, 1994
So those of us who are concerned about the effect on defense of the Exon-Grassley amendment--which would have something like a 60-percent effect on defense, in that neighborhood depending on the allocations of the Appropriations Committee--if those of us who are concerned about defense would be in a position, if the Lott amendment passes, to have no offset on defense cuts in the Exon-Grassley amendment, because those would have been used up, or at least the one that we had in mind would have been used up. Is that correct?
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Samuel Nunn
Democratic · Georgia
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Discussing the impact of the Exon-Grassley amendment on defense funding.

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