“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
If they have a high school diploma already, then we can conclude that they probably do not need a very costly job training program. They need training for jobs, but they have a lot to offer when they come to the training for the jobs, and what they need is training for jobs that are realistic, that are going to be there. Once the training is finished, they are going to have jobs there. We have some jobs of that kind in my district. My congressional district has a medical complex which includes a large municipal hospital and also a medical school, a down state medical center that has a medical school and a hospital attached to it, and it has an allied health professions program there with the medical complex.
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Discussing job training needs and resources in his congressional district.

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