“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 recordMarch 1, 1994
The National Taxpayers Union just released a poll done of 1,000 Americans asking about this constitutional amendment: Favoring it, 67 percent; opposing it, 18 percent. That is almost 4 to 1. That simply underscores it. Then, in terms of the statutory suggestion the Senator makes in changing the law, the reality is we have a law right now, believe it or not, introduced by Senator Harry Byrd a long time ago, which requires us to have a balanced budget. We just ignore it. That is the problem with the law. We either ignore it or we change the law. That is why we need the constitutional amendment.
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Sen. Paul Simon
Illinois
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The speaker discusses public support for a constitutional amendment regarding the balanced budget.

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