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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 11, 2019 a panel at the University of Pennsylvania
"People show up in the emergency room with a sprained ankle, 25 percent get an opioid prescription."
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By Amy Sherman • April 16, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 27, 2016 a speech at the Democratic National Convention
"We have the most productive workers in the world."
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By Jon Greenberg • July 28, 2016
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 2, 2016 a post on Medium
Cervical cancer in Africa is "fully preventable with basic education, screening and vaccines."
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By Jon Greenberg • May 5, 2016
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 2, 2012 a speech
"$500 billion of the extension of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy goes to 120,000 families."  
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By Dave Umhoefer • September 9, 2012
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 22, 2012 a speech at Keene State College
Says in the last six months of the Bush administration, the U.S. lost 3.5 million jobs, including 760,000 jobs during January 2009 alone.
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By Jake Berry • June 1, 2012
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 6, 2012 a speech in Tallahassee
"Nationwide tuition at public universities is up almost 300 percent ... in the last 20 years."
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By Amy Sherman • February 9, 2012
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 1, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Today Show"
In Iraq, "violence is down to an all-time low" since the start of the war.
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By Louis Jacobson • December 2, 2011
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 21, 2011 a talk at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, N.H.
In Libya, "America spent $2 billion total and didn’t lose a single life."
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By Jake Berry • November 3, 2011
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 19, 2011 a speech in Cleveland
"We have created more jobs in this last year than the Bush administration (did) in eight years."
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By Mark Naymik • April 28, 2011
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 14, 2010 a news conference
"We went from losing 3 million jobs in the last six months of the Bush Administration," adding almost 600,000 private sector jobs in the first six months of the year.
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By Louis Jacobson • July 15, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 17, 2010 an op-ed in 'USA Today'
"In the three months before the act took effect, America lost 750,000 jobs a month. In the last three months, we've lost about 35,000 jobs a month."
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By Catharine Richert • February 17, 2010
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
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 2, 2008 St. Louis
"John McCain said...in December he was surprised there was a subprime mortgage problem."
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By Alexander Lane • October 2, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 23, 2008 Springfield, Ill.
"There's only four senators senior to me ... there's still 44 older than me."
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By Kathryn A. Wolfe • August 27, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 31, 2007 a campaign event in Ames, Iowa
"There's not a major bill I know with Hillary's name on it."
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By Adriel Bettelheim • January 7, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 12, 2007
"First, he was in favor of my plan, now he's attacking it."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 17, 2007
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 23, 2007 a news release.
"Roadside bombs are responsible for 70 percent of casualties in Iraq and these new mine-resistant vehicles can reduce those casualties by two-thirds."
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By David DeCamp • August 20, 2007
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