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Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on February 14, 2011 an interview on Fox Business News:
The federal government "can cut all of the non-military discretionary spending and not balance the budget."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 17, 2011
Cenk Uygur
Cenk Uygur
stated on February 9, 2011 MSNBC Live:
Orrin Hatch co-sponsored a 1993 health care bill that had an individual mandate.
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 14, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on February 11, 2011 a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference:
"In the month of January, Canada created more new jobs than we did."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 11, 2011
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on February 6, 2011 an interview with President Barack Obama:
Tells President Barack Obama that he also asked former President George W. Bush about how he felt about Americans hating him.
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By Louis Jacobson • February 8, 2011
Americans Against Food Taxes
Americans Against Food Taxes
stated on February 6, 2011 a television commercial:
"Some politicians … want to put new taxes on a lot of groceries."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2011
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on February 4, 2011 an interview with ABC News:
Israel's per capita income "is greater than probably three-fourths of the rest of the world."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 4, 2011
Ross Douthat
Ross Douthat
stated on January 30, 2011 a newspaper column:
Under Hosni Mubarak's rule, "Egypt received more American dollars than any country besides Israel."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 4, 2011
Kent Conrad
Kent Conrad
stated on January 23, 2011 an interview on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour.":
"We're borrowing 40 cents of every dollar we spend."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 27, 2011
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on January 25, 2011 a response to the State of the Union address:
"The debt will soon eclipse our entire economy."
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By Stephen Koff, Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 25, 2011 the State of the Union address:
The United States has "one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 25, 2011 the State of the Union address:
"Two years after the worst recession most of us have ever known ... corporate profits are up."  
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By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2011
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on January 12, 2011 a video statement on Facebook:
Says she condemned violence at a campaign stop in Arizona in March.
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 12, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 13, 2010 a television interview:
"When Social Security was passed, there were all kinds of lawsuits," just as there have been in the legal battle over the new health care law.
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By Louis Jacobson • December 15, 2010
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on December 13, 2010 a Twitter message:
Under the compromise tax agreement, "99.7% of American families will not pay 1 nickel in an estate tax."
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By Robert Farley • December 14, 2010
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 30, 2010 a Senate floor speech:
In 2007, "the top 1 percent of all income earners in the United States made 23.5 percent of all income," which is "more than the entire bottom 50 percent."
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By Louis Jacobson • December 10, 2010
Mike Mullen
Mike Mullen
stated on November 21, 2010 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"Historically," Senate ratification of arms control treaties "has been bipartisan."
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By Louis Jacobson • November 30, 2010
John Pistole
John Pistole
stated on November 16, 2010 an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper.:
The radiation coming from the new TSA body scanners is "equivalent to about three minutes' worth of air travel by anybody, say, at 30,000 feet."
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By Aaron Sharockman • November 18, 2010
Kent Conrad
Kent Conrad
stated on November 14, 2010 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
Federal spending is "the highest it's been as a share of our economy in 60 years (and) revenue is the lowest it's been as a share of our economy in 60 years."
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By Louis Jacobson • November 15, 2010
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on November 14, 2010 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":
"We now consume at the federal level 25 percent of the gross domestic product. Historically we were at 20 percent. So we've taken 5 percent away from the private sector."
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By Louis Jacobson • November 15, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on October 30, 2010 a Saturday address:
Members of Congress did not have three days to read the bill "when the stimulus was rushed into law."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 31, 2010
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