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Tommy Thompson
stated on October 16, 2012 a TV ad

Says Tammy Baldwin "voted to gut Medicare for seniors."

By Dave Umhoefer • October 21, 2012

Robert Menendez
stated on October 10, 2012 a debate on New Jersey 101.5-FM

Says the U.S. Senate has passed "a budget" over the last three years "called the Budget Control Act."

By Bill Wichert • October 14, 2012

Mitt Romney
stated on October 3, 2012 the first presidential debate in Denver

Says President Obama has "doubled" the deficit.

By Louis Jacobson • October 5, 2012

Tommy Thompson
stated on October 27, 2012 an interview

Says U.S. Senate opponent Tammy Baldwin supported a federal budget "that spent trillions -- not billions, trillions -- more money than the Obama budget."

October 5, 2012

Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 22, 2012 a campaign email

Says 7,000 millionaires "gamed the system to pay no income taxes."

September 30, 2012

Rob Zerban
stated on August 9, 2012 an interview

U.S. House opponent Paul Ryan supports "cutting funding for veterans by 24 percent."

September 23, 2012

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
stated on September 12, 2012 a TV ad

Says U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Thompson "admitted" that Washington, D.C., "changed" him into an insider selling his influence to make millions from powerful special interests.

By Dave Umhoefer • September 21, 2012

John Boehner
stated on September 4, 2012 a news release

"The president went on a stimulus-fueled spending binge that stuck every American man, woman and child with a $50,000 share of this $16 trillion debt."

By Tom Feran • September 19, 2012

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on August 29, 2012 a TV ad

Says Republican U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy "voted against paying our soldiers" and "against increasing combat pay" while voting "to protect his own pay."

By Dave Umhoefer • September 16, 2012

Reid Ribble
stated on August 30, 2012 an interview

Says President Barack Obama "built this $16 trillion debt."

September 12, 2012

David Cicilline
stated on August 28, 2012 a TV debate

"We will spend $100 billion in Afghanistan this year, fixing roads, building bridges, training police officers, and more, [and] cutting the same things in our own country."

By Tom Mooney • September 5, 2012

Michele Bachmann
stated on August 27, 2012 a Fox News interview

"A report just came out that if we continue with President Obama's policies, we're looking at over 9 percent unemployment next year in the fourth quarter."

By Becky Bowers • August 29, 2012

Paul Ryan
stated on August 27, 2012 a speech

"Household income in America has gone down for families an average of $4,000 in the last four years" while it " went up $5,000" under Mitt Romney when he was governor of Massachusetts

By Dave Umhoefer • August 28, 2012

David Cicilline
stated on August 9, 2012 a campaign flier

"(Brendan) Doherty wants to raise the eligibility age for Social Security benefits for anyone born after 1960, with no regard for the challenges it would cause for people working in physically demanding occupations."

By Tom Mooney • August 15, 2012

Michael Riley
stated on July 26, 2012 a taped debate on "State of the State"

The Congressional Budget Office "has already doubled its estimate for the cost (of Obamacare) so far from roughly $800 billion to $1.7 trillion."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 2, 2012

Scott Walker
stated on July 12, 2012 an op-ed piece

A study showed that President Barack Obama’s health-care reforms will "devastate Wisconsin" by pushing people off employer-sponsored insurance, driving up premiums, increasing dependency and making 122,000 people ineligible for Medicaid.

By Dave Umhoefer, Guy Boulton • July 29, 2012

Mark Neumann
stated on July 10, 2012 an interview

"Obamacare" is the "biggest tax increase in American history."

July 25, 2012

American Commitment
stated on July 10, 2012 a television ad

The health care law could cost up to $2 trillion, "double what we were promised."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 11, 2012

Mark Neumann
stated on June 13, 2012 an interview

If the U.S. didn't borrow $1.2 trillion every year "to fund government operations," that money would be available "for entrepreneurs and business people to put to work creating jobs and building and expanding their businesses."

July 8, 2012

Barry Hinckley
stated on June 28, 2012 a fundraising letter

President Obama’s health-care law will "add trillions of dollars in debt."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 30, 2012

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