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Rubio attacks Crist for taxpayer-funded ‘junket’ to Europe

March 12, 2010

"Crist stays in $2,000 a night luxury hotel suites where he racks up $1,300 in mini-bar charges, and doesn't pay for a dime of it…

Sen. Jim DeMint says Obey’s partial earmark ban wouldn’t apply to 90% of earmarks

March 12, 2010

"House Appropriations Chair David Obey's partial earmark ban wouldn't apply to 90% of earmarks."

Health insurers get a small percentage of overall health care spending

March 12, 2010

"Health insurance companies' costs are only 4 percent of all health care spending."

Feinstein says U.S. is only nation to rely heavily on for-profit insurers for basic health care

March 11, 2010

"We are the only industrialized nation that relies heavily on a for-profit medical insurance industry to provide basic health care."

Americans United for Change says health insurance premiums for individuals and small businesses will increase up to 39 percent without health care reform

March 11, 2010

"Individuals and small businesses will be hit by increases in health insurance premiums as high as 39 percent."

Obama’s pay increase for the military based on formula

March 11, 2010

"Obama has proposed a 1.4% pay increase for active duty military in 2011. This is THE LOWEST SINCE 1973 ... A LOWER PAY INCREASE THAN…

Rubio says GOP credit card paid with ‘my money’

March 11, 2010

Charges on the Republican Party of Florida credit card were made with "my money."

Stupak says every enrollee in the Office of Personnel Management plan would have to to pay a minimum of $1 per month towards abortion

March 11, 2010

In the Senate version of the health reform bill, "Every enrollee in the Office of Personnel Management enrolled plan, every enrollee has to pay a…

Will says that 95 percent of people with health insurance are satisfied with it

March 10, 2010

"When we started this health care debate a year ago, 85 percent of the American people had health insurance, and 95 percent of the 85…

LeMieux’s plan would eliminate deficit

March 10, 2010

"If we just froze spending at 2007 levels ... by 2013 we would balance the budget ... and by 2020 we would cut the national…

AG candidate Kottkamp says nearly all of nation’s top 50 oxycodone prescribers are in Florida

March 9, 2010

"Nearly all of the top 50 prescribers of oxycodone in the United States are in Florida."

Lipinski says Senate bill allows money to pay directly for abortion at community health centers

March 9, 2010

The Senate version of the health care reform bill "allows taxpayer money to pay directly for abortion in federal community health centers funded in the…

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