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Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on August 21, 2011 in a comment on 'This Week with Christiane Amanpour':
"Over the last four years, 53 percent of black wealth has just disappeared."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 24, 2011
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington
stated on July 24, 2011 in a roundtable segment on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"Most countries have no debt ceiling."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2011
Austan Goolsbee
Austan Goolsbee
stated on June 5, 2011 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"Over the last 15 months, we've added more than 2 million jobs in the private sector. That's far in excess of what it was in the comparable period after the last recession."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2011
Austan Goolsbee
Austan Goolsbee
stated on June 5, 2011 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"Manufacturing is having its best employment year in almost 15 years."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2011
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington
stated on May 1, 2011 in a roundtable segment on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
Says although the unemployment rate seems to be improving, it does not reflect real job creation -- it’s caused by a "shrinking of the actual labor force."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2011
Chris Van Hollen
Chris Van Hollen
stated on April 10, 2011 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"The Republicans have demanded deep cuts in education. They've demanded cuts in cancer research and other research to find cures and treatments to diseases."
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By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2011
Deval Patrick
Deval Patrick
stated on February 27, 2011 in an interview on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour.":
The 2006 Massachusetts health care law has "added (only) about 1 percent to our state budget."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 2, 2011
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on February 20, 2011 in an interview on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour.":
"The (Wisconsin) governor has proposed tax giveaways to corporations."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 22, 2011
Kent Conrad
Kent Conrad
stated on January 23, 2011 in "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"The American people say, don't touch Social Security, don't touch Medicare, don't cut defense. That's 84 percent of the federal budget."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 27, 2011
Matthew Dowd
Matthew Dowd
stated on January 23, 2011 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
Poll results from the past 35 years show that State of the Union speeches "do not move" presidential approval numbers.
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By Louis Jacobson • January 24, 2011
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on November 7, 2010 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"The interest on the debt now is going to approach in the next couple of years ... what we spend in the national defense budget."
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By Louis Jacobson • November 8, 2010
Austan Goolsbee
Austan Goolsbee
stated on September 12, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":
Extending current tax rates would "average more than $100,000 a year to millionaires and even billionaires."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 13, 2010
Mary Jordan
Mary Jordan
stated on September 5, 2010 in a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"The president's party always gets shellacked in midterms. It's only twice, 1934 and 2002, that the president's party actually gained in both the House and the Senate."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2010
Mary Jordan
Mary Jordan
stated on September 5, 2010 in a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
Likens Obama's predicament to 1982, saying, "when Reagan just started out, (unemployment was at) exactly the same point. He was two years into his term. The unemployment was well over 10 percent, and it did come out of it."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2010
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on August 29, 2010 in a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"Forty-five percent of those who've been unemployed, they've been unemployed for six months or longer."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2010
Laura Tyson
Laura Tyson
stated on August 15, 2010 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour'':
"Unemployment for those with college educations is now 4.5 percent. Unemployment for those with more than a college education, below 4 percent."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2010
Matthew Dowd
Matthew Dowd
stated on August 15, 2010 in a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour'':
Obama's approval numbers 'are in the low 40s.'
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By Louis Jacobson • August 16, 2010
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on August 1, 2010 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":
House Democrats "have a two-to-one advantage money-wise" against House Republicans.
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By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2010
Stephen Hayes
Stephen Hayes
stated on July 25, 2010 in a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week":
Shirley Sherrod "was forced to resign before anybody on Fox said a word about this."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 26, 2010
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on July 11, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":
Republicans extended unemployment insurance under President Bush "when he asked to extend unemployment insurance."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 13, 2010
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