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Reporter, Plain Dealer Washington bureau

Sabrina Eaton has been a Washington correspondent for The Plain Dealer since 1994. She previously worked for a Washington, D.C. wire service and newspapers in New York and New Jersey. She has a bachelor's degree in psychology from University of Pennsylvania.

Featured Statements

Jim Jordan
stated on August 8, 2013 in a news release:

Says Obama "exempted Congress and their staff from the full effect of the (health care) law."

By Sabrina Eaton • September 5, 2013
Tim Ryan
stated on June 11, 2013 in a House of Representatives floor speech:

"If you are born poor in America, we rank ninth or tenth in our citizens’ ability to climb up through that ladder and get themselves into the middle class."

By Sabrina Eaton • June 26, 2013
Bob Gibbs
stated on May 17, 2013 in a tweet:

"If Obamacare is fully implemented, 30 million people will still be without health insurance."

By Sabrina Eaton • June 10, 2013
Marcy Kaptur
stated on April 11, 2013 in House of Representatives floor speech :

"The Social Security trust fund is sound. Without anything being done, it would function well into 2038; and even after that time with no changes, we could pay 80 percent of the benefits that people have earned."

By Sabrina Eaton • May 15, 2013
Marcia Fudge
stated on April 9, 2013 in a Facebook posting:

"Women in Ohio earn on average 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man."

By Sabrina Eaton • April 24, 2013
Jim Jordan
stated on March 19, 2013 in a congressional hearing:

The national debt is "larger than our entire annual economy."

By Sabrina Eaton • March 28, 2013
Steve LaTourette
stated on March 17, 2013 in an interview on “Fox News Sunday”:

"Quite frankly, it was during the Bush years of spending, multiplied now by the Obama years that we have this mess."

By Sabrina Eaton • March 26, 2013
Dave Joyce
stated on February 13, 2013 in a radio interview:

"There are 3 million jobs that go vacant each month in this country."

By Sabrina Eaton • February 19, 2013
Joyce Beatty
stated on January 14, 2013 in a floor speech in the House of Representatives:

Says each year approximately 30,000 people in the United States die as a result of gunfire, and about 80,000 people are wounded.

By Sabrina Eaton • February 8, 2013
Marcy Kaptur
stated on December 19, 2012 in a floor speech in the House of Representatives:

"States have cumulatively cut over $1.8 billion from their mental health services between 2009 and 2011. This is the largest reduction in state mental health services in half a century."

By Sabrina Eaton • February 1, 2013

Twisting the truth on windmills, pensions and prostitutes

By Jon Greenberg • October 26, 2012
Tim Ryan targets China's trade practices

By Sabrina Eaton • March 16, 2012
Invasive species claim sails onto our favorites list

By Robert Higgs • December 22, 2011
Pat Boone earns his first Pants on Fire

By Sabrina Eaton • November 28, 2011
Pat Boone earns his first Pants on Fire

By Sabrina Eaton • November 25, 2011
In interview, Cornyn revisits fact-checked statements

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • April 29, 2011
Debate over Planned Parenthood funding moves to Florida

By Bill Adair • April 21, 2011
The Voter Guide: Seven key distortions of the campaign

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 28, 2010