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Steny Hoyer
Steny Hoyer
stated on July 21, 2009 a statement on the House floor.:
There were more job losses per month in the last three months under President Bush than in the past three months under President Obama.
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By Louis Jacobson • July 23, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on July 14, 2009 an op-ed article in the Washington Post.:
"Job losses are so certain under this new cap-and-tax plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting dried-up energy sector, to the tune of $4.2 billion over eight years. So much for creating jobs."
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By Catharine Richert • July 16, 2009
Jon Kyl
Jon Kyl
stated on July 12, 2009 an interview on This Week with George Stephanopolous.:
"Only about 6.8 percent of the (stimulus) money has actually been spent."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 15, 2009
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 9, 2009 a news release.:
"Across the country, $174 billion of the Recovery Act have been committed in its first 130 days."
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By Catharine Richert • July 15, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 29, 2009 a speech at the White House.:
"Californians consume 40 percent less energy per person than the national average"
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By Catharine Richert • July 7, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 24, 2009 a town hall meeting:
"Medicare and Medicaid are the single biggest drivers of the federal deficit and the federal debt by a huge margin."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 25, 2009
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on June 22, 2009 a column:
Even high estimates for an early draft of the health care plan are "less than the $1.8 trillion cost of the Bush tax cuts."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 24, 2009
Steny Hoyer
Steny Hoyer
stated on June 16, 2009 a press availability.:
"Some 500 detainees were released from Guantanamo during the Bush administration."
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By Bill Adair • June 18, 2009
Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson
stated on June 15, 2009 a statement.:
Oil money from federal leases "can only be used to clean up the mess and damages from drilling."
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By Robert Farley • June 15, 2009
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
stated on May 21, 2009 a speech at the American Enterprise Institute:
"President Obama's own director of national intelligence, Admiral Blair, put it this way: 'High-value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al-Qaida organization that was attacking this country.'"
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By Robert Farley • May 22, 2009
Roy Blunt
Roy Blunt
stated on May 14, 2009 a news release:
"Democrats have failed to answer the most basic question of how they want to pay for the more than $1 trillion of health care spending."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 19, 2009
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on May 5, 2009 a Web ad.:
The Republican Party has "21 percent party ID and shrinking."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 6, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on May 1, 2009 a radio show:
Sen. Arlen Specter's party switch could "end up giving Republicans the ability to filibuster judicial nominees at the Judiciary Committee level so that the nominees never get out of committee."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 5, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 19, 2009 a news conference.:
"Venezuela is a country whose defense budget is probably 1/600th of the United States."
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By Robert Farley • April 21, 2009
Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann
stated on April 8, 2009 an episode of his TV program.:
"President Obama is actually increasing Bush-era defense spending by $21 billion in the new fiscal year."
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By Robert Farley • April 13, 2009
Arlen Specter
Arlen Specter
stated on March 24, 2009 a speech on the Senate floor:
The Employee Free Choice Act mandates the "elimination of the secret ballot."
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By Alexander Lane • March 27, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 24, 2009 in a news conference.:
His proposed budget would "cut our deficit in half by the end of my first term."
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By Robert Farley • March 25, 2009
Judd Gregg
Judd Gregg
stated on March 25, 2009 in a Fox News interview.:
Obama's proposed budget "doubles the debt in five years, triples it in 10 years."
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By Robert Farley • March 25, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 19, 2009 remaks made at an electric car testing center:
"The 1908 Model T earned better gas mileage than a typical SUV sold in 2008."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 19, 2009
Ron Wyden
Ron Wyden
stated on March 17, 2009 an interview on The Rachel Maddow Show:
"We had bipartisan legislation that got through the Senate" that would have prevented bonuses like AIG's "and then somehow mysteriously disappeared."
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By Alexander Lane • March 18, 2009
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