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Jack Kingston
Jack Kingston
stated on November 30, 2010 a presentation
"Sixteen [federal] programs exist to fight homelessness" and some of them are duplicative.
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By Eric Stirgus • December 13, 2010
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on November 16, 2010
Republicans "created a trillion dollar prescription drug entitlement program without paying for it." 
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By Wes Hester • December 7, 2010
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on November 30, 2010 an MSNBC interview
"Understand, this is unemployment insurance. It’s not welfare, as a lot of my Republican colleagues like to suggest it is. You pay into it when you’re working. You get help when you’re not."
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By Stephen Koff • December 7, 2010
Republican Party of Wisconsin
Republican Party of Wisconsin
stated on November 17, 2010 a news release
"Because of (U.S. Sen.-elect Ron) Johnson’s leadership, Senate Republicans adopted a caucus ban on earmarks."
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By Dave Umhoefer • November 22, 2010
Richard Lugar
Richard Lugar
stated on November 16, 2010 a prepared statement
"Eliminating earmarks does not reduce spending."
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By Louis Jacobson • November 18, 2010
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on November 11, 2010 n Op/Ed in The Financial Times
$65 billion "would be added to the deficit if we keep the cuts for people on the highest incomes."
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By Wes Hester • November 14, 2010
George W. Bush
George W. Bush
stated on November 8, 2010 an interview on NBC's "Today Show"
"My debt to GDP was the lowest or one of the lowest of modern presidents. My taxes to GDP was the lowest and my spending to GDP" was too.
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By Louis Jacobson • November 13, 2010
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on September 19, 2010 a TV interview.
Republican plan to extend Bush tax cuts "would double deficit projections going forward for the next couple of decades."
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By Warren Fiske • November 11, 2010
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on November 7, 2010 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
Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Doggett
stated on October 27, 2010 a campaign mailer
"Donna Campbell has called for ending all federal funding for education"
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October 28, 2010
Dino Rossi
Dino Rossi
stated on October 12, 2010 a campaign ad
The Seattle Times called Patty Murray "a 'prolific sponsor of earmarks.' Patty even defended the 'Bridge to Nowhere.' "
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 20, 2010
Jim Huffman
Jim Huffman
stated on September 2, 2010 a press release
"Twice as much (federal) money is going back to Hawaii, Virginia and Alaska than is coming home to Oregon."
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By Janie Har • September 30, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 8, 2010 a speech in Cleveland, Ohio.
"When these same Republicans –- including Mr. Boehner –- were in charge, the number of earmarks and pet projects went up, not down."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 9, 2010
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on August 2, 2010 a campaign video
"If we ban the practice of earmarks, we could save the American taxpayer anywhere between $15 (billion) to $20 billion dollars a year in pork-barrel spending."  
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By Amy Sherman • August 10, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 22, 2010 remarks at a bill signing
The president's budget "would take ... non-defense spending to its lowest level ... as a percentage of the economy since JFK."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2010
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on July 19, 2010 comments on her MSNBC show.
Marco Rubio's "economic proposals will add $3.5 trillion to the federal deficit."
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By Aaron Sharockman • July 23, 2010
John McCain
John McCain
stated on May 26, 2010 a political ad
As a Congressman, J.D. Hayworth was an avid earmarker who supported such pork as "$220,000 to renovate a Maine Blueberry farm" and "$5.8 million for a Vermont snowmobile trail."
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July 16, 2010
Alan Grayson
Alan Grayson
stated on March 3, 2010 an interview on CNN's Larry King Live
Reconciliation was used "for tax cuts for the rich twice under Bush."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 5, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 29, 2010 a Republican retreat in Baltimore
Obama came into office "with a $1.3 trillion deficit before I had passed any law. ... We came in with $8 trillion worth of debt over the next decade."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan, Catharine Richert • January 29, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 27, 2010 his State of the Union speech
"At the beginning of the last decade ... America had a budget surplus of over $200 billion. By the time I took office, we had a one-year deficit of over $1 trillion and projected deficits of $8 trillion over the next decade."
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By Catharine Richert • January 28, 2010
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