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Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
stated on June 7, 2010 in a video on his campaign website:
California's credit rating is "the worst in the country."
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By Alex Holt • June 11, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on May 9, 2010 in a roundtable segment on ABC's This Week:
Greece "has a GDP the size of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2010
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on April 25, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":
"Fifteen years ago, the assets of the six largest banks in this country totaled 17 percent of GDP ... The assets of the six largest banks in the United States today total 63 percent of GDP."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 27, 2010
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on March 28, 2010 in a U.S. Senate primary debate on FOX News Sunday:
"Since that famous day in February where the governor campaigned with Barack Obama on behalf of the stimulus program, 211,000 Floridians have lost their jobs."
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By Amy Hollyfield • March 28, 2010
Citizens for Lower Taxes and a Stronger Economy
Citizens for Lower Taxes and a Stronger Economy
stated on March 10, 2010 in an Internet ad.:
Because of a local version of Amendment 4, "the taxpayers of St. Pete Beach have had to pay hundreds of thousands in legal bills."
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By Aaron Sharockman • March 17, 2010
Charlie Justice
Charlie Justice
stated on December 18, 2009 in a news release:
"The Florida Legislature raised taxes and fees by almost $2 billion" in the 2009 session.
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By Lee Logan • March 8, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on March 2, 2010 in a speech:
"There's almost 1 million Texans who are unemployed and that's an all-time record number in our state."
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By Ciara O'Rourke • March 7, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on March 4, 2010 in a speech:
"Debt has almost doubled in Austin under Gov. Perry."
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By Ciara O'Rourke • March 4, 2010
Farouk Shami
Farouk Shami
stated on February 8, 2010 in a debate.:
Houston is "the third-most toxic city in the United States of America."
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By W. Gardner Selby • February 9, 2010
Judd Gregg
Judd Gregg
stated on February 2, 2010 in a Senate budget hearing:
"The law is very clear! 'The monies recouped from the TARP shall be paid into the general fund of the treasury for the reduction of the public debt.'"
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By Catharine Richert • February 5, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 2, 2010 in a town meeting in New Hampshire:
Some Republicans who voted against the stimulus "have been all too happy to claim credit for Recovery Act projects and the jobs those projects have produced. They come to the ribbon cuttings."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 5, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on January 27, 2010 in a blog post:
"President Obama's proposed 'spending freeze' will only reduce the $42 trillion in government spending proposed between 2011 and 2020 by little more than one-half of 1 percent."
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By Robert Farley • January 28, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 27, 2010 in a State of the Union speech:
"We cut taxes for 95 percent of working families."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 28, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on November 30, 2009 in a press release:
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison "has voted nine separate times to raise the national debt ceiling."
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By W. Gardner Selby • January 27, 2010
Carolyn Maloney
Carolyn Maloney
stated on January 21, 2010 in a floor speech in the House:
Democratic presidents "have been considerably more effective at creating private-sector jobs."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2010
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on January 20, 2010 in a televised interview:
"The No. 1 issue that the American people care about is getting America back to work."
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By W. Gardner Selby • January 20, 2010
Linda Chavez-Thompson
Linda Chavez-Thompson
stated on January 4, 2010 in a speech:
"Most Texans aren't millionaires."
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By W. Gardner Selby • January 20, 2010
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Kay Bailey Hutchison
stated on January 14, 2010 in a debate.:
"We definitely lost way more jobs in Texas this year than we gained — we lost 300,000 jobs in Texas alone this year."
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By Ciara O'Rourke • January 15, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 6, 2009 in remarks from the White House:
"History tells us that job growth always lags behind economic growth."
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By Robert Farley • November 9, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 9, 2009 in a statement at the White House:
"In the first round of repayments"  from financial institutions that received TARP money, "the government has actually turned a profit."
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By Robert Farley • June 10, 2009
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