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Luis Gutierrez
Luis Gutierrez
stated on July 11, 2010 in an interview on ABC's 'This Week':
"Forty percent of the undocumented workers in this country" entered the U.S. legally and "overstayed their visa."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 12, 2010
John McCain
John McCain
stated on July 4, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":
As a senator, Barack Obama supported "an amendment that basically gutted the legal temporary worker program."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 7, 2010
Jorge Ramos
Jorge Ramos
stated on July 4, 2010 in an interview on ABC's 'This Week':
"President Barack Obama has deported more people in his first year in office than George W. Bush in his last year in office."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 6, 2010
John Kerry
John Kerry
stated on June 6, 2010 in an interview on ABC's "This Week'':
"We now actually import more oil than we did before 9/11."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 7, 2010
Bobby Jindal
Bobby Jindal
stated on May 30, 2010 in an interview on ABC news "This Week'':
The federal government only ordered BP to pay "to do one of those six segments" of sand barriers for Louisiana.
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 1, 2010
Joe Lieberman
Joe Lieberman
stated on May 6, 2010 in a press conference:
The president can "authorize the killing of a U.S. citizen who fights for a foreign terrorist organization."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 11, 2010
Janet Napolitano
Janet Napolitano
stated on May 2, 2010 in an interview on ABC's 'This Week':
Numbers on illegal immigrants "are down in terms of apprehensions, which indicates fewer illegal crossings, but also up in terms of actual enforcement actions."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 3, 2010
Bob Corker
Bob Corker
stated on April 25, 2010 in an interview on ABC's This Week:
The Banking Committee voted a 1,336-page bill "out of committee in 21 minutes with no amendments, with the understanding that before the bill came to the floor, we would reach this bipartisan agreement."
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By Catharine Richert • April 25, 2010
Robert Gates
Robert Gates
stated on April 11, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":
"The video doesn't show the broader picture of the firing that was going on at American troops."
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April 12, 2010
Lawrence Summers
Lawrence Summers
stated on April 4, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":
On financial reform, there is "a million dollars being spent, per congressman, in lobbying expenses on this issue. (The) industry has four lobbyists per member of the House and Senate working on this."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 7, 2010
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on February 28, 2010 in an interview on ABC's 'This Week':
The Democrats' health care bills would end "the denial of ... coverage to those who have a pre-existing condition," while the Republican bill would not.
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By Louis Jacobson • March 3, 2010
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