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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on February 11, 2011 a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference
"In the month of January, Canada created more new jobs than we did."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 11, 2011
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on February 4, 2011 an interview with ABC News
Israel's per capita income "is greater than probably three-fourths of the rest of the world."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 4, 2011
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on January 20, 2011 a speech to the Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce
Says the United States does not "trade as much as other developed nations."
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By Stephen Koff • February 1, 2011
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on January 25, 2011 a response to the State of the Union address
"The debt will soon eclipse our entire economy."
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By Stephen Koff, Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 25, 2011 the State of the Union address
The United States has "one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 25, 2011 the State of the Union address
"Two years after the worst recession most of us have ever known ... corporate profits are up."  
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By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2011
Brent Larkin
Brent Larkin
stated on January 2, 2011 a newspaper column
Says the 3C Corridor train would have taken  "an hour and 15 minutes longer" to carry passengers across Ohio "than it would have taken on a New York Central train in 1935."
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By Tom Feran • January 7, 2011
David Wyss
David Wyss
stated on December 13, 2010 a newspaper article
State governments have little ability to stimulate job growth in the short run.
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By Willoughby Mariano • January 5, 2011
Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland
stated on December 20, 2010 an interview with The Plain Dealer
"We are one of only two states to have eight consecutive months of declining unemployment. Twenty-one states had increased unemployment last month. Ours went down."
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By Reginald Fields • January 3, 2011
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 30, 2010 a Senate floor speech
In 2007, "the top 1 percent of all income earners in the United States made 23.5 percent of all income," which is "more than the entire bottom 50 percent."
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By Louis Jacobson • December 10, 2010
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on December 6, 2010 a floor speech.
The national debt grew an estimated $15 billion last weekend.
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By Wes Hester • December 9, 2010
Jim Zehringer
Jim Zehringer
stated on November 16, 2010 a news conference
"Ohio is losing over 700 family farms a year, some of them just to pay the inheritance tax."
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By Joe Guillen • December 9, 2010
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on December 6, 2010 a press conference
Says the military accounts for about 10 percent of Florida's economy.
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By Aaron Sharockman • December 7, 2010
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on September 27, 2010 a speech on the Senate floor.
"The law, right now, permits companies that close down American factories and offices and move those jobs overseas to take a tax deduction for the costs associated with moving the jobs to China or India or wherever."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 21, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on November 2, 2010 in "Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America from Washington"
"The (federal) debt is growing by more than $4 billion a day."
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November 17, 2010
Kent Conrad
Kent Conrad
stated on November 14, 2010 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
Federal spending is "the highest it's been as a share of our economy in 60 years (and) revenue is the lowest it's been as a share of our economy in 60 years."
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By Louis Jacobson • November 15, 2010
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on November 14, 2010 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"
"We now consume at the federal level 25 percent of the gross domestic product. Historically we were at 20 percent. So we've taken 5 percent away from the private sector."
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By Louis Jacobson • November 15, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 27, 2010 an interview on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart"
"Most of the jobs that we lost were lost before the economic policies we put in place had any effect."
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By Martha M. Hamilton • October 28, 2010
Donna Campbell
Donna Campbell
stated on October 19, 2010 an ad
Says Lloyd Doggett voted for the health care, stimulus and cap-and-trade bills.
True
October 26, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on October 13, 2010 an ad
"More Texans have new jobs today than the entire population of Fort Worth."
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By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • October 25, 2010
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