Lindsey Graham

Lindsey Graham is a U.S. senator from South Carolina. He was a candidate for the Republican nominee for president in 2016.

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Lindsey Graham
stated on August 6, 2024 una publicación en X:

El gobernador de Minnesota, Tim Walz, firmó una ley dando educación universitaria gratuita “a los inmigrantes ilegales”.

By Maria Briceño, Maria Ramirez Uribe, Marta Campabadal Graus • August 12, 2024

Lindsey Graham
stated on August 6, 2024 an X post:

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed “legislation giving free college … to illegal immigrants.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • August 9, 2024

Lindsey Graham
stated on May 8, 2022 an interview on Fox News Sunday:

“We’re one of the seven nations in the world that allow abortion on demand at 20 weeks.”

By Jon Greenberg • May 13, 2022

Lindsey Graham
stated on December 12, 2021 an interview on Fox News Sunday:

“The CBO says (the Build Back Better Act) is $3 trillion of deficit spending.”

By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson • December 14, 2021

Lindsey Graham
stated on October 13, 2020 in comments during Senate Judiciary Committee hearing:

“Under the Affordable Care Act, three states get 35% of the money, folks. Can you name them? I'll help you: California, New York and Massachusetts.”

By Phil Galewitz • October 28, 2020

Lindsey Graham
stated on September 19, 2020 a tweet:

On confirming a Supreme Court justice nominee in a presidential election year.

By Jon Greenberg • September 21, 2020

Lindsey Graham
stated on October 24, 2019 a Senate resolution:

Says House Democrats leading the impeachment inquiry are "denying President Trump basic fairness and due process accorded every American."

By Bill McCarthy • October 28, 2019

Lindsey Graham
stated on June 2, 2015 an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper:

The USA Freedom Act undercuts privacy because "the phone records will be in the hands of the phone companies with hundreds of people available to look at the records, versus 20 or 30 people in the government."

By Lauren Carroll • June 4, 2015

Lindsey Graham
stated on March 8, 2015 a speech in Concord, N.H.:

"If you took every penny of the 1 percent, including their dog, you wouldn't even begin to balance the budget."

By Clay Wirestone • March 27, 2015

Lindsey Graham
stated on March 8, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"The labor participation rate is at an all-time low."

By Lauren Carroll • March 8, 2015

Lindsey Graham
stated on October 5, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union":

Under sequestration, the military was cut "down to the smallest Army since 1940, the smallest Navy since 1915."

By Lauren Carroll • October 5, 2014

Lindsey Graham
stated on August 10, 2014 comments on "Fox News Sunday":

Top U.S. intelligence officials have told "every member of Congress, including the president, we’re about to be attacked in a serious way because (of) the threat emanating from Syria and Iraq."

By Jon Greenberg • August 10, 2014

Lindsey Graham
stated on July 27, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union":

Russia "has an economy the size of Italy."

By Lauren Carroll • July 27, 2014

Lindsey Graham
stated on February 14, 2013 a Senate hearing:

South Carolina has a labor shortage, specifically in the meatpacking industry.

By Janel Davis • May 3, 2013

Lindsey Graham
stated on July 28, 2010 an interview with Fox News' "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren":

"People come here to have babies. They come here to drop a child. It's called 'drop and leave."

By Louis Jacobson • August 6, 2010

Lindsey Graham
stated on March 24, 2010 an appearance on the Fox News show "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren:

"The average student will be spending $1,700 to $1,800 more during the life of their loan because of this surcharge."

By Catharine Richert • March 30, 2010

Lindsey Graham
stated on July 13, 2009 a Senate hearing:

"Now, there was a time when someone like Scalia and Ginsburg got 95-plus votes."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 13, 2009

Lindsey Graham
stated on April 26, 2009 a TV interview:

"The Geneva Convention did not apply, until 2005, to the war on terror."

By Robert Farley • April 28, 2009

Lindsey Graham
stated on August 31, 2008 an interview on ABC News' This Week :

Joe Biden "voted against the first Gulf War. He opposed the surge. He wanted to partition Iraq."

By Adriel Bettelheim • September 1, 2008

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Hillary Clinton
stated on May 5, 2015 an appearance at a high school in Las Vegas, Nev.:

"Not a single Republican candidate, announced or potential, is clearly and consistently supporting a path to citizenship. Not one."

By Louis Jacobson • May 7, 2015

Dustin Inman Society
stated on April 15, 2013 a billboard advertisement:

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham says South Carolina "has a labor shortage and wants more immigration."