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Former Government & Politics Editor, St. Petersburg Times

Scott Montgomery is the former Government & Politics Editor of the St. Petersburg Times. He joined the Times in 2003 after a tenure as managing editor of CQ Weekly, the magazine of Congressional Quarterly. He also worked for the Dayton Daily News and the Palm Beach Post.

Featured Statements

Bill Pascrell
stated on July 28, 2009 in a speech on the House floor:

"As many as 22,000 Americans die each year because they don’t have health insurance."

By Louis Jacobson • August 20, 2009
Dan Lungren
stated on July 28, 2009 in a speech on the House floor:

President Barack Obama suggested on national TV that the Democratic health care bill "will have government decide" that a healthy, 100-year-old woman in need of a pacemaker "should take a pain pill" instead.

By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2009
Bill Pascrell
stated on July 28, 2009 in a speech on the House floor:

"53 percent of Americans cut back on their health care in the last year because of costs."

By Louis Jacobson • July 30, 2009
Bill Pascrell
stated on July 28, 2009 in a speech on the House floor:

Forty-five percent of Americans went without needed care because of costs in 2007.

By Louis Jacobson • July 30, 2009
Chain email
stated on July 28, 2009 in a chain e-mail:

"All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free health care services."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 30, 2009
Chain email
stated on July 28, 2009 in a chain e-mail:

"All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 30, 2009
Chain email
stated on July 28, 2009 in a chain e-mail:

In the health care bill, "The 'Health Choices Commissioner' will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 30, 2009
Glenn Beck
stated on July 22, 2009 in his TV program:

John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, "has proposed forcing abortions and putting sterilants in the drinking water to control population."

By Robert Farley • July 29, 2009
Chain email
stated on July 14, 2009 in a chain email:

"The Senate voted this week to allow illegal aliens access to Social Security benefits."

By Catharine Richert • July 29, 2009
Arianna Huffington
stated on July 26, 2009 in This Week with George Stephanopoulos:

Only 15 percent of drug users are African-American, yet 74 percent of all drug offenders sentenced to prison are black

By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2009

Rationing? Democrat says it's happening already

By Louis Jacobson • July 31, 2009
E-mail 'analysis' of health bill needs a check-up

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 30, 2009
Break out the marshmallows!

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 29, 2009
Sorting out the players in the health care debate

By Catharine Richert • July 27, 2009
More 'birther' announcements

By Louis Jacobson • July 21, 2009
At 6-month mark, Obama has long to-do list

By Bill Adair • July 17, 2009
The (Half) Truth About Judge Sonia Sotomayor

By Bill Adair • July 10, 2009
Mailbag: Readers celebrate freedom of expression

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 3, 2009
Obama's birth certificate: Final chapter. This time we mean it!

By Robert Farley • July 1, 2009
When in-your-face is off-the-air

By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 30, 2009