“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 recordNovember 1, 2023
It is unfortunate that our often-unelected bureaucrats can have so much influence on rural America, on the places that they have never visited, and on the people that they will never meet.
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Jim Baird
Republican · Missouri
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Baird criticizes bureaucratic influence on rural communities regarding environmental regulations.

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