“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 recordApril 28, 2010
Your observation that the United States is the only nuclear power that is not going through modernization, I think, is an important observation.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho
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Editor's note · Context

Risch highlights the U.S. lack of nuclear modernization compared to other powers.

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