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Michele Bachmann stated on June 26, 2011 in CBS' Face the Nation:

"Under Barack Obama the last two years, the number of federal limousines for bureaucrats has increased 73 percent."

By Robert Farley • June 27, 2011

Michele Bachmann stated on June 1, 2011 in an interview on WKXL-AM in Concord, N.H.:

"If you threw a barbecue yesterday for the Memorial weekend, it was 29 percent more expensive than last year because Barack Obama's policies have led to groceries going up 29 percent."

By Jake Berry • June 27, 2011

Michele Bachmann stated on June 26, 2011 in an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation":

"The president released all of the oil from the Strategic Oil Reserve."

By Louis Jacobson • June 27, 2011

Michele Bachmann stated on June 13, 2011 in a debate in New Hampshire:

Then-Sen. Barack Obama "refused to raise the debt ceiling because he said President Bush had failed in leadership."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 14, 2011

Michele Bachmann stated on June 13, 2011 in a debate in New Hampshire:

"The CBO, the Congressional Budget Office has said that Obamacare will kill 800,000 jobs."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 14, 2011

Michele Bachmann stated on April 13, 2011 in an interview on NBC's "Today" show:

"The top 1 percent of income-earners pay about 40 percent of all taxes into the federal government."

By Louis Jacobson • April 18, 2011

Michele Bachmann stated on March 26, 2011 in a speech at the Conservative Principles PAC Conference:

"One. That's the number of new drilling permits under the Obama administration since they came into office."

By Robert Farley • March 29, 2011

Michele Bachmann stated on March 6, 2011 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"Secretly, unbeknownst to members of Congress, over $105 billion was hidden in the Obamacare legislation."

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2011

Michele Bachmann stated on February 15, 2011 in an interview on "The Laura Ingraham Show":

The government will "go out and buy my breast pump for my babies."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 18, 2011

Michele Bachmann stated on January 25, 2011 in a rebuttal to the State of the Union address:

"While the government grew, we lost more than 2 million jobs."

By Louis Jacobson • January 27, 2011

Michele Bachmann stated on January 25, 2011 in a response to the State of the Union address:

The federal government "now tells us which light bulbs to buy."

By Angie Drobnic Holan, W. Gardner Selby • January 26, 2011

Michele Bachmann stated on January 25, 2011 in a rebuttal to the State of the Union address:

The federal government "may put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill."

By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2011

Michele Bachmann stated on January 25, 2011 in a response to the State of the Union:

"The White House promised us that all the spending would keep unemployment under 8 percent."

By Robert Farley • January 26, 2011

Michele Bachmann stated on November 16, 2010 in an interview on "Good Morning America.":

Small businesses that have "$250,000 in gross sales for the business. They're the ones that are looking at massive tax increases."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 17, 2010

Michele Bachmann stated on November 3, 2010 in a CNN interview:

"The president of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day."

By Robert Farley • November 4, 2010

Michele Bachmann stated on September 17, 2010 in a speech to the Values Voter Summit:

"Speaker Pelosi ... has been busy sticking the taxpayer with her $100,000 bar tab for alcohol on the military jets that she's flying."

By Louis Jacobson • September 21, 2010

Michele Bachmann stated on June 11, 2010:

"Social Security, like I told you, is out of money. This year it is borrowing from the general treasury."

By Ciara O'Rourke • June 24, 2010

Alan Grayson stated on April 26, 2010 in an email:

The more than $800,000 raised by the Alan Grayson campaign last quarter was "#1 among all 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives."

By Amy Sherman • April 29, 2010

Michele Bachmann stated on March 28, 2010 in on CBS's "Face the Nation":

"The New England Journal of Medicine released a survey the week that President Obama signed Obamacare stating that over 30 percent of American physicians would leave the profession if the government took over health care."

By Robert Farley • March 29, 2010

Michele Bachmann stated on March 3, 2010 in an interview on CNN's Larry King Live:

"President Obama's bill won't bring down the costs (of health care) for average Americans -- or really for very few Americans, if any."

By Louis Jacobson • March 5, 2010

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