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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

dicho el Junio 17, 2019 en a tweet

Says Amazon is "paying full-time employees so little that they require gov food assistance."

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Jennifer Granholm

dicho el Enero 24, 2016 en an appearance on ABC's 'This Week'

When a Gallup poll asked about presidential candidate characteristics, "When they get to the question on, 'Would you vote for a socialist,' it is even less popular than voting for atheists."

true

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dicho el Noviembre 6, 2011 en an ABC interview with Christiane Amanpour

"Over half of the people who would be taxed under (a millionaire surtax) are, in fact, small businesspeople."

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Michele Bachmann

dicho el Octubre 11, 2011 en a debate in New Hampshire

"These 15 political appointees (on the IPAB) will make all the major health care decisions for over 300 million Americans."

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dicho el Agosto 21, 2011 en a comment on 'This Week with Christiane Amanpour'

"Over the last four years, 53 percent of black wealth has just disappeared."

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dicho el Julio 31, 2011 en on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour."

"The average Republican voter thinks there should be some revenue as part of this deal."

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Arianna Huffington

dicho el Julio 24, 2011 en a roundtable segment on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"

"Most countries have no debt ceiling."

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dicho el Junio 26, 2011 en an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"

"We do not want to raise anybody's tax rates. That's never been on the table."

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barely-true

Austan Goolsbee

dicho el Junio 5, 2011 en an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"

"Over the last 15 months, we've added more than 2 million jobs in the private sector. That's far in excess of what it was in the comparable period after the last recession."

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Austan Goolsbee

dicho el Junio 5, 2011 en an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"

"Manufacturing is having its best employment year in almost 15 years."

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dicho el Mayo 29, 2011 en ABC's "This Week"

Medicare "only has about 50 percent of it paid for by either premiums or payroll taxes, and the rest is deficit spending ... or debt spending."

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dicho el Mayo 1, 2011 en an interview on 'This Week with Christiane Amanpour'

Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposal cuts "nothing" from Medicare, Social Security or defense in the next two to three years, and "in three years, he does not cut one dime from the debt."

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Arianna Huffington

dicho el Mayo 1, 2011 en a roundtable segment on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"

Says although the unemployment rate seems to be improving, it does not reflect real job creation -- it’s caused by a "shrinking of the actual labor force."

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dicho el Abril 17, 2011 en an interview on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"

"Every time we've cut taxes, revenues have gone up, the economy has grown."

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Chris Van Hollen

dicho el Abril 10, 2011 en an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"

"The Republicans have demanded deep cuts in education. They've demanded cuts in cancer research and other research to find cures and treatments to diseases."

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dicho el Abril 10, 2011 en an interview on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"

A Republican proposal changes Medicare for those under age 55 so that they will "participate in the same kind of health plan that members of Congress do."

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dicho el Abril 3, 2011 en a roundtable segment on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"

"We lost more jobs in this great recession than the last four recessions combined."

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true

dicho el Marzo 20, 2011 en an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"

The coalition of Arab states against Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi is the biggest coalition against a fellow Arab leader since the Persian Gulf War in 1990-1991.

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true

dicho el Marzo 13, 2011 en an interview on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour."

Federal spending is "all discretionary, other than interest on the national debt. Social Security is discretionary. We have the discretion to change the law. Same is true with Medicare and Medicaid."

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dicho el Marzo 6, 2011 en an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"

Says iPads and iPhones "are built in the United States of America."

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