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Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on December 16, 2010 a news release.:
The tax-cut deal "adds more than $800 billion to the deficit over two years -- more than the cost of TARP and more than the cost of the Recovery Act" and about the same as health care reform.
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By Wes Hester • December 27, 2010
Vincent
Vincent "Buddy" Cianci
stated on December 12, 2010 an ABC-6 interview program:
"Over 80 percent of the people want the shot to vote" on whether to approve same-sex marriage, according to polls.
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 26, 2010
Ellen Freidin
Ellen Freidin
stated on December 13, 2010 comments at the launch of the NoLabels.org website.:
"We have dozens of districts that go for 150 to 200 miles, splitting counties, splintering cities and connecting areas that have very little in common."
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By Laura Figueroa • December 22, 2010
Lamar Smith
Lamar Smith
stated on November 30, 2010 an op-ed:
Once people become citizens under the DREAM Act "and turn 21, they can sponsor their illegal immigrant parents for legalization."
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December 20, 2010
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on December 14, 2010 a meeting with state legislators.:
"We are the only state in the country that state employees don't contribute [to their pensions]."
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By Aaron Sharockman • December 15, 2010
Mt. Hood Community College
Mt. Hood Community College
stated on December 9, 2010 the college's website:
Mt. Hood Community College is No. 1 on average and top faculty pay and benefits. 
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By Janie Har • December 15, 2010
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on December 1, 2010 a meeting of the Simpson-Bowles deficit commission:
"One in 19 Americans today get SSDI or SSI. That's one in 19 Americans (who) are disabled."
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By Louis Jacobson • December 14, 2010
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
Mark Brodeur
Mark Brodeur
stated on December 2, 2010 a Providence Journal story:
Rhode Island spends less than 10 percent of what the average state spends promoting tourism.
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 12, 2010
Jim Moran
Jim Moran
stated on December 2, 2010 a news release.:
The Bush-era tax cuts failed to increase employment and "work-force participation fell in 2001 and has never returned to the record level set in 2000."  
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By Wes Hester • December 11, 2010
Bill Montford
Bill Montford
stated on December 8, 2010 comments to a newspaper.:
The state has "less employees this year than we did last year."
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By Aaron Sharockman • December 10, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 7, 2010 a press conference:
"There are polls showing right now that the American people for the most part think it's a bad idea to provide tax cuts to the wealthy."
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By Louis Jacobson • December 7, 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
Howard Dean
Howard Dean
stated on November 12, 2010 a KLRU interview:
"Barack Obama's health care bill is nothing new. Mitt Romney signed one just like it four years before."
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By Ciara O'Rourke • December 5, 2010
Donald Carcieri
Donald Carcieri
stated on November 8, 2010 a commentary in The Providence Journal:
Measures taken by my administration "have saved taxpayers $1 billion."
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By Edward Fitzpatrick • December 5, 2010
Kirk Watson
Kirk Watson
stated on November 15, 2010 a speech.:
Says more than $3.5 billion in state revenue that is supposed to be dedicated to basic needs and functions is being diverted to "make the books look balanced."
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By W. Gardner Selby • December 4, 2010
Angel Taveras
Angel Taveras
stated on November 27, 2010 an appearance on WPRI-12's Newsmakers:
Providence teachers "can go five or six years without an evaluation."
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By Cynthia Needham • December 3, 2010
Oregon Healthy Kids
Oregon Healthy Kids
stated on November 22, 2010 a billboard:
"No family earns too much to qualify" for Oregon Healthy Kids program.
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By Ian K. Kullgren • December 1, 2010
Jon Kyl
Jon Kyl
stated on November 28, 2010 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
Obama's position on nuclear arms is a "march toward global zero."
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By Robert Farley • November 30, 2010
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