“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 recordMarch 24, 1994
I have been on the Hill all day, and I have yet to see a black Member of Congress. And I just wanted to see and talk to one. It reminded me of the importance of minority representation again in this body, against the backdrop that Monday of this coming week the trial of the case in Shaw versus Reno will commence. So I wanted to come today to remind my colleagues and to appeal to them to support minority representation. We have two cogent things that are upon us in the next month or so. This case, Shaw versus Reno, and what we are about in South Africa. We should demand in our country the same standard of representation among black residents that we demand of South Africa for whites in that country after the free elections.
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Melvin Watt
North Carolina
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Addressing the importance of minority representation in Congress.

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