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David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst
stated on June 9, 2010 a campaign video:
Says the Republican "state convention is actually larger than the Republican National Convention."
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By W. Gardner Selby • June 17, 2010
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on February 17, 2010 a news release:
Rubio admitted he "would have accepted the stimulus money."
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By Lukas Pleva • March 16, 2010
Kendrick Meek
Kendrick Meek
stated on February 20, 2010 a statement on his Web site:
Florida "has the second-highest foreclosure rate in the nation."
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By Lukas Pleva • March 2, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on February 11, 2010 a press release:
Despite touting the economic stimulus as a great triumph, "The very same report, however, notes that unemployment will average 10 percent for the rest of the year."
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By Robert Farley • February 12, 2010
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart
stated on February 3, 2010 an interview with Bill O'Reilly:
One-third of the economic stimulus package was tax cuts.
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By Catharine Richert • February 10, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 29, 2010 a Republican retreat in Baltimore:
Obama came into office "with a $1.3 trillion deficit before I had passed any law. ... We came in with $8 trillion worth of debt over the next decade."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan, Catharine Richert • January 29, 2010
Ronnie Earle
Ronnie Earle
stated on January 18, 2010 a speech:
"Inequality in Texas is steadily getting worse, with very few rich people, a great many poor people, and fewer and fewer in the middle."
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By W. Gardner Selby • January 28, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 27, 2010 his State of the Union speech:
"At the beginning of the last decade ... America had a budget surplus of over $200 billion. By the time I took office, we had a one-year deficit of over $1 trillion and projected deficits of $8 trillion over the next decade."
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By Catharine Richert • January 28, 2010
Lamar Smith
Lamar Smith
stated on December 15, 2009 in a press release:
"Illegal immigrants currently occupy 8 million jobs."
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By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 12, 2010
Jeff Miller
Jeff Miller
stated on November 19, 2009 a newsletter:
Recovery.gov listed congressional districts that "do not exist."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 24, 2009
Lou Dobbs
Lou Dobbs
stated on October 15, 2009 on his television show:
U.S. taxpayers paid $71,500 per job created by the stimulus bill.
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By Catharine Richert • October 19, 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 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
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
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
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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