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All 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."

In the 1970s, "the swine flu broke out . . . under another Democrat, President Jimmy Carter."

"Secretary Geithner has left the option on the table" of abandoning the dollar for a multinational currency.

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