"As a result of the House Republican bill, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office now confirms that families will see their health care premiums reduced by up to 10 percent."
"I didn't endorse" the federal stimulus bill.
"That 3.5 percent (increase in the third quarter GDP) came from two things — government spending on Cash for Clunkers — they just moved fourth-quarter auto sales into the third quarter — and the first-time home buyer thing."
Page 92 of the House health care bill "says specifically that people can't purchase private health insurance after a date certain."
Health care reform "requires the use of federal dollars to fund abortions through the government-run health plan."
Health care reform "establishes a new board of federal bureaucrats (the 'Health Benefits Advisory Committee') to dictate the health plans that all individuals must purchase."
Research shows the employer mandate in the House health reform bill would "place millions 'at substantial risk of unemployment' — with minority workers losing their jobs at twice the rate of their white counterparts."
Three presidents in the last century — Harding, Kennedy and Reagan — all cut taxes during recessions and produced "rapid and dramatic economic recoveries," while two, Herbert Hoover and Barack Obama, did "the opposite."
"Forcing Americans off of their current health coverage and onto a government-run plan isn't the answer, but that's exactly what the Democrats' plan would do."
A president must "obtain Congress' consent before formally accepting the Nobel Prize."
"For the last decade the climate has been cooling."
The Obama administration notified Poland and the Czech Republic about cancellation of major missile-defense facilities "at the last minute in midnight phone calls."
"Usually it's about $900 a month to get health coverage. (Florida's program has) reduced that, on average, to about $150 a month."
"Democrats rang up a $1.42 trillion budget deficit in 2009 — the single largest in American history."
"The first installment of health care reform ... will raise the deficit by $250 billion."
The proposed excise tax on "Cadillac" health plans will hit "those making less than $200,000" the hardest.
“Here in Florida, I’ve slashed government by 10 percent. That’s $7 billion.”
"Husbands rarely beat up their wives. Single women get beaten up more."
Under the Hate Crimes bill, "any pastor, preacher, priest, rabbi or imam who gives a sermon out of their moral traditions about sexual practices could be found guilty of a federal crime."
Barack Obama and the Democrats have "proposed a tax for not having health insurance."
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