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"One state even spent a million bucks to put up signs that advertise that they were spending on the federal stimulus projects."
"Barack Obama had 150 days in the U.S. Senate where he was able to vote quite often 'present.' "
"The law is very clear! 'The monies recouped from the TARP shall be paid into the general fund of the treasury for the reduction of the public debt.'"
Some Republicans who voted against the stimulus "have been all too happy to claim credit for Recovery Act projects and the jobs those projects have produced. They come to the ribbon cuttings."
"We're also cutting a Forest Service economic development program that strayed so far from any mission that it funded a music festival."
On whether he supports 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.'
The Senate-passed health care bill "is identical to the Massachusetts health care plan -- the same thing."
"Federal employees are making twice as much as their private counterparts."
"Thomas Jefferson created the Marines for the Islamic pirates that were happening."
"We passed without, frankly, the help of the Republican caucus, we passed 25 tax cuts last year, mostly aimed at the middle class and small businesses."
On a bipartisan task force on ways to improve fiscal policy.
Health care reform "would bring down the deficit by as much as $1 trillion over the next two decades."
"What were the old annual deficits under Republicans have now become the monthly deficits under Democrats."
Obama came into office "with a $1.3 trillion deficit before I had passed any law. ... We came in with $8 trillion worth of debt over the next decade."
"Mr. President, multiple times from your administration there have come statements that Republicans have no ideas and no solutions" on health care.
"I have had the challenge during this administration to suspend no less than 37 public officials in about 36 months."
The president's health care proposals will cause "most Americans to have their premiums increased, not decreased, and hundreds of millions of people lose their current insurance coverage."
"President Obama's proposed 'spending freeze' will only reduce the $42 trillion in government spending proposed between 2011 and 2020 by little more than one-half of 1 percent."
"President Obama pledged to go through the budget 'line by line,' but on his watch, non-defense spending has spiraled out of control, increasing by 67 percent in the last year alone."
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