“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.”
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On the recordJuly 29, 2010
I just want to tell the gentleman--and I don't want to get into a partisan fight here, but there was not one person on the other side of the aisle who voted to double infrastructure spending in the stimulus bill, spend half as much money overall, and by the President's own top economic adviser, would have created twice as many jobs as what did the stimulus bill that was actually passed and signed into law. Our motion to recommit was to double the funding for infrastructure, if anybody's forgotten that. That was exactly what it was so that we could have actually created jobs here in the United States. The gentleman apparently forgets that he voted against that.
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The speaker addresses opposition to infrastructure spending in the stimulus bill.

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