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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."
True
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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By Ciara O'Rourke • 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.
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By Ciara O'Rourke • 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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