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stated on October 7, 2009 a posting on the conservative Web site TownHall.com:
The Baucus health care bill would require taxes on medical devices such as X-ray machines, female condoms, HIV tests and surgical needles.
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By Louis Jacobson • October 9, 2009
Michael Moore
Michael Moore
stated on October 2, 2009 his movie "Capitalism: A Love Story":
During the Reagan era, while productivity increased, "wages for working people remained frozen."  
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By Robert Farley • October 7, 2009
Cokie Roberts
Cokie Roberts
stated on October 4, 2009 appearance on This Week with George Stephanopoulos:
Forty percent of gross domestic product "is state, local, or federal money."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 6, 2009
Michael Moore
Michael Moore
stated on October 2, 2009 his movie "Capitalism: A Love Story":
During the Reagan era, "the richest Americans had their top income tax rate cut in half."
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By Robert Farley • October 6, 2009
Michael Moore
Michael Moore
stated on October 2, 2009 in his movie "Capitalism: A Love Story":
In the 1950s,  "A lot of people got rich — and they had to pay a top tax rate of 90 percent."
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By Robert Farley • October 2, 2009
Michael Moore
Michael Moore
stated on September 29, 2009 a news conference in Washington, D.C.:
"The richest 1 percent have more financial wealth than the bottom 95 percent combined."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 1, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on September 23, 2009 a speech to investors in Hong Kong:
"The Defense Department received only one-half of 1 percent of the nearly trillion-dollar stimulus package funding."
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By Ian Jannetta • September 29, 2009
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on September 22, 2009 his Fox News program:
"Our own National Security Agency says that (Iran's) nuclear ambitions are advancing, and at the same time ... we are slashing our own nuclear arsenal."
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By Robert Farley • September 23, 2009
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on September 14, 2009 a fundraising letter:
"Medicare began as a public option and now holds 97 percent of the market share."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 16, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on September 15, 2009 a floor speech:
The House of Representatives has never passed a resolution of disapproval to condemn a member's behavior.
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By Catharine Richert • September 16, 2009
Paul Hipp
Paul Hipp
stated on September 9, 2009 a YouTube video:
The U.S. ranks 37th in the world for health care.
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By Louis Jacobson • September 14, 2009
Duncan Hunter
Duncan Hunter
stated on August 31, 2009 an interview on MSNBC:
"We waterboard, incidentally, hundreds of our own military personnel. They waterboard themselves in training to toughen themselves up."
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By Robert Farley • September 4, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 a town hall meeting:
"Nearly 46 million Americans don't have health insurance coverage today."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 18, 2009
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on August 13, 2009 a chain e-mail:
Obama's plan for health care reform "ends exorbitant out-of-pocket expenses, deductibles or co-pays."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan, Catharine Richert • August 14, 2009
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on August 9, 2009 an interview with This Week.:
In every committee when the health care bill was considered, Democrats voted against an amendment that would require members of Congress and their staff to take the government-run public option as their health care plan.
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By Catharine Richert • August 10, 2009
John King
John King
stated on August 2, 2009 an interview on CNN's State of the Union:
"The John McCain Twitter account has more than 1.1 million followers. The official White House Twitter account has only about 830,000."
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By Bill Adair • August 4, 2009
Bill Pascrell
Bill Pascrell
stated on July 28, 2009 a speech on the House floor:
Forty-five percent of Americans went without needed care because of costs in 2007.
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By Louis Jacobson • July 30, 2009
Bill Bennett
Bill Bennett
stated on July 26, 2009 CNN's State of the Union with John King:
"Four percent of American citizens are black males, but they are 35 percent of murder victims."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 22, 2009 a speech on health care reform:
"Doctors, nurses, hospitals, even the pharmaceutical industry, (and) AARP" say that health reform "makes sense to do."
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By Catharine Richert • July 27, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 22, 2009 a news conference.:
"14,000 Americans . . . lose their health insurance every single day."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 24, 2009
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