“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.”
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On the recordJune 19, 2013
Every generation has been subjected to that since I've been in Congress; it is not going to be here by the year X.
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Jim McDermott
Democratic · Washington
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Editor's note · Context

McDermott criticizes ongoing fears about Medicare's financial stability.

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