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Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on August 9, 2009 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in a news conference.:
"14,000 Americans . . . lose their health insurance every single day."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 24, 2009
Steny Hoyer
Steny Hoyer
stated on July 21, 2009 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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
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