“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.”
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On the recordDecember 13, 2011
My concern is that should the labor text go beyond the May 10th Agreement it would create, first, unnecessary controversy.
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Jim McDermott
Democratic · Washington
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McDermott expresses concern about potential controversy from changes to labor agreements.

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