“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 recordFebruary 6, 2012
How can we make a judgment on this without having actual numbers of what the cutback is going to be?
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho
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Editor's note · Context

Risch questions the lack of data on import reductions for informed decision-making.

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