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Nicole Malliotakis
Nicole Malliotakis
stated on March 8, 2021 in a Tweet:
"If you are a hard-working law-abiding citizen who earns $80,000, you don’t get a stimulus check. But if you are a convicted murderer or rapist sitting in jail, you do."
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 19, 2021
Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton
stated on March 6, 2021 in a tweet:
“Senate Democrats just voted to give stimulus checks to criminals in prison.”
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By Jon Greenberg • March 9, 2021
Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland
stated on October 20, 2016 in the Ohio Senate debate:
Says Rob Portman "said the auto rescue was a lousy deal for Ohio."
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By Allison Graves • October 21, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on May 24, 2016 in an advertisement:
"In 2006, Donald Trump was hoping for a real estate crash."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 26, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 6, 2016 in a Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.:
"President Obama took more money from Wall Street in the 2008 campaign than anybody ever had."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 7, 2016
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 2, 2015 in a speech:
"We've cut the deficit by two-thirds."
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July 8, 2015
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on October 10, 2014 in a gubernatorial debate:
If Florida had not taken the stimulus, it "would have led to the firing of 20,000 teachers."
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By Amy Sherman • October 10, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on November 5, 2013 in an interview on MSNBC:
Says Rick Scott "cut education by $1.3 billion" in his first year, then "in his second year he decreases funding by $300 million to our state universities."
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By Amy Sherman • November 11, 2013
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 22, 2012 in on the Internet:
Says Mitt Romney is wrong to claim that spending under Obama has "accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history," because it's actually risen "slower than at any time in nearly 60 years."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 23, 2012
Tennessee Democratic Party
Tennessee Democratic Party
stated on January 7, 2012 in a press release:
"Congressman Phil Roe hands out $1.3M government check" from a federal program that "he voted against."
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By Michael Collins • January 29, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 11, 2011 in a press conference:
"As we've seen that federal support for states diminish, you've seen the biggest job losses in the public sector -- teachers, police officers, firefighters losing their jobs."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 12, 2011
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on June 12, 2011 in an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press':
The Obama administration has cut taxes on small businesses 17 times.
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June 13, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 18, 2011 in an interview:
"Gov. (Rick) Perry helped balance his budget with about $6 billion worth of federal help, which he happily took, and then started blaming the members of Congress who had offered that help."
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By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • April 24, 2011
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on March 2, 2011 in an interview with Fox News.:
Says the high-speed rail project provides "short-term jobs."
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By Aaron Sharockman • March 3, 2011
Lars Larson
Lars Larson
stated on December 21, 2010 in Twitter:
TriMet is "spending 4.2 million in fed funds to save $168K per year."
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By Ian K. Kullgren • January 15, 2011
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on December 16, 2010 in a news release.:
The tax-cut deal "adds more than $800 billion to the deficit over two years -- more than the cost of TARP and more than the cost of the Recovery Act" and about the same as health care reform.
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By Wes Hester • December 27, 2010
Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson
stated on November 8, 2010 in an Orlando rail conference.:
"The amount of the revenue required by the state (for the construction of high-speed rail) is around 10 percent."
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By Aaron Sharockman • November 9, 2010
Back to Basics
Back to Basics
stated on October 5, 2010 in a newspaper ad:
Says "the Texas unemployment rate has even grown more than the nation's as a whole."
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By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • October 7, 2010
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on August 3, 2010 in a press release:
"Taxpayer money will provide iPod Touch devices to high school students in Utah, BlackBerry smart phones to smokers who kick the habit and funding for a study of exotic ants in East Africa."
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August 24, 2010
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on August 2, 2010 in a press release:
Georgia has lost more than 124,000 jobs and the unemployment rate has increased since the stimulus passed
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By Eric Stirgus • August 5, 2010
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