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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
John McCain
John McCain
stated on February 23, 2009 a White House forum on fiscal responsibility.
A new presidential helicopter "is now going to cost as much as Air Force One."
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By Bill Adair • February 27, 2009
Bobby Jindal
Bobby Jindal
stated on February 22, 2009 an interview on "Meet the Press."
Louisiana is turning down $100 million "that would require us to change our unemployment law, that would have actually raised taxes on Louisiana businesses."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 24, 2009
Fidelis
Fidelis
stated on February 3, 2009 a news release
"Obama taps porn lawyer for #2 at Justice."
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By Robert Farley • February 6, 2009
Fred Smith
Fred Smith
stated on February 5, 2009 appearance on ABC's This Week
"The average bonus [on Wall Street] is about $100,000...The bonuses on Wall Street are down 44 percent."
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By Alexander Lane • February 6, 2009
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on January 28, 2009 a news release
"The House Democrats' so-called 'stimulus' has been stuffed with an astonishing $335 million to fund prevention programs of sexually transmitted diseases."
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By Robert Farley • January 29, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 28, 2009 in a meeting with business leaders
"In Chicago, school is never canceled" because of winter weather.
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By Robert Farley • January 28, 2009
John Mica
John Mica
stated on January 28, 2009 a comment quoted in the Washington Post.
Democrats compare the infrastructure programs in the stimulus to the Eisenhower interstate program, "but he proposed a $500 billion highway system, and they're going to put $30 billion" into roads and bridges.
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By Bill Adair • January 28, 2009
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
stated on January 18, 2009 a news interview
"We've added, in the last eight years, $4 trillion of debt to the nation's obligations."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 22, 2009
James Inhofe
James Inhofe
stated on December 15, 2008 in a news release
Energy nominee Steven Chu has called coal "his worst nightmare."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 18, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 14, 2009 statement to reporters
Geithner's failure to pay self-employment taxes while working for the IMF "is a mistake that is commonly made for people who are working internationally or for international institutions."
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By Robert Farley • January 16, 2009
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