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Republican from Minnesota
Michele Bachmann, first elected to the U.S. Congress in 2006, represents the 6th Congressional District of Minnesota. She was reelected in 2008. Previously, she served in the Minnesota State Senate. Prior to that, she spent five years as a federal tax litigation attorney. Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, who have five children and have opened their home to 23 foster children, live in Stillwater, Minn., and own a mental health care practice.
Recent statements involving Michele Bachmann
Page 92 of the House health care bill "says specifically that people can't purchase private health insurance after a date certain."
Ezekiel Emanuel, one of President Obama's key health care advisers, "says medical care should be reserved for the nondisabled. So watch out if you're disabled."
ACORN will be a paid partner with the Census Bureau and "they will be in charge of going door-to-door and collecting data from the American public."
Says the Constitution only requires her to tell the census "how many people are in our home."
ACORN "could get up to $8.5 billion more tax dollars despite being under investigation for voter registration fraud in a dozen states."
Recent stories featuring Michele Bachmann
Speed-reading the health care reform bill?:
Rep. Michele Bachmann says three days isn't enough to read the big health care bill. We ask experts how long a typical person would take to read the 1,000 pages.
Bachmann earns two more Pants on Fires:
Since January, the Minnesota congresswoman is 0 for 5 on our Truth-O-Meter. Her latest ratings involve two ridiculously false statements about the Census.
Distorting Geithner's comments about the dollar:
A Minnesota congresswoman suggests incorrectly that the treasury secretary wants to dump the dollar.
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