Senate health care legislation will "levy a new 'abortion premium' fee on Americans in the government-run plan."
The Senate health care bill "would leave 24 million people without insurance coverage."
If you look at last year's presidential campaign, "you can't find a mention of public option."
The Senate health care bill is longer than Tolstoy's 'War and Peace.'
Obama "closed offshore tax safe havens."
Obama has "visited more countries and met with more world leaders than any president in his first six months in office."
A small business receiving a federal tax credit "to provide health care for its employees ... would be barred under the Stupak Amendment from allowing their employees to use ... the health care that they offer them for abortion."
In the House health care bill, "Something like 2 percent of the people would [be] eligible even to get the public option."
The United States has a supply of "more than 100 years of natural gas."
"Ronald Reagan faced an even worse recession" than the current one.
The McCain campaign "did not elaborate" on Obama's ties to ACORN.
A cap-and-trade plan promoted by Barack Obama would hit hardest "those already struggling to make ends meet."
Obama has admitted a cap and trade plan would cause electricity bills to "skyrocket."
Says she couldn't take stimulus money because it required "universal building codes."
"The Stupak Amendment doesn't just say you can't use your federal insurance subsidy to pay for an abortion, it says, if you're getting a federal subsidy of any kind, you're not allowed to buy an insurance plan that covers abortion even with your own money."
Under the House health care bill, the government "will have to penalize citizens if we choose not to buy a plan that will cost a minimum of about $15,000 per family per year."
Maj. Nidal Hasan, the man accused of the Fort Hood shootings, "was an ADVISOR to the Obama Administration."
"The public option is not funded with public money. It's funded with private insurance premiums."
"In the health care bill, we're now offering insurance for dogs."
"There were more people at the Air and Space Museum" than at a rally against the health care bills.
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