“The president is scared of your power, and he wants you to believe your vote does not matter.”
“He wants you to lose confidence in our electoral system so you stay home this November.”
“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.”
“Here is what you need to know: The 2020 election was not stolen; we won and he lost.”

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On the recordJuly 28, 2009
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We have been talking about NextGen for quite a while in this Committee, and I confess that just sometimes I get very confused as to what we are really talking about.
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Mazie Hirono
Democratic · Hawaii
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Expressing confusion about the NextGen discussions in the Committee.

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