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Barack Obama
stated on June 29, 2016 in remarks in Ottawa, Canada:
"The steel industry is producing as much steel in the United States as it ever was. It’s just (that) it needs one-tenth of the workers that it used to."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 5, 2016
Barack Obama
stated on November 16, 2014 in a press conference in Australia.:
"My position hasn’t changed" on using executive authority to address immigration issues.
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By Steve Contorno • November 20, 2014
Barack Obama
stated on September 7, 2014 in an interview on "Meet the Press.":
Says his comment about extremists being a JV team "wasn’t specifically referring to" Islamic State.
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By Steve Contorno • September 7, 2014
Barack Obama
stated on March 11, 2014 in a Funnyordie.com "Between Two Ferns" interview with Zach Galifianakis:
"Most young Americans right now, they’re not covered" by health insurance.
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By Louis Jacobson • March 11, 2014
Barack Obama
stated on February 20, 2014 in a speech to Democratic governors:
"We’ve got close to 7 million Americans who have access to health care for the first time because of Medicaid expansion."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 25, 2014
Barack Obama
stated on July 27, 2013 in an interview with the 'New York Times':
The "most realistic estimates" for jobs created by Keystone XL are "maybe 2,000 jobs during the construction of the pipeline."
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By Jon Greenberg • July 31, 2013
Barack Obama
stated on February 12, 2013 in the State of the Union address:
"We have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas."
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By Molly Moorhead • February 14, 2013
Barack Obama
stated on February 12, 2013 in the State of the Union Address:
"Throughout, we have kept Congress fully informed of our efforts" to create a legal framework on counterterrorism.
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By Louis Jacobson • February 13, 2013
Barack Obama
stated on December 5, 2012 in a report:
"If the House of Representatives fails to extend the middle-class tax cuts, 400,000 middle-class Rhode Island families will see their federal income taxes increase."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 16, 2012
Barack Obama
stated on October 16, 2012 in the second presidential debate:
Says Mitt Romney "called the Arizona law a model for the nation."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 17, 2012
Barack Obama
stated on October 3, 2012 in the first presidential debate in Denver:
"Under Gov. Romney's definition … Donald Trump is a small business."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 4, 2012
Barack Obama
stated on October 3, 2012 in a debate in Denver:
Because of Obamacare, "over the last two years, health care premiums have gone up – it's true – but they've gone up slower than any time in the last 50 years."
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By J.B. Wogan • October 4, 2012
Barack Obama
stated on September 23, 2012 in an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes":
"Over the last four years, the deficit has gone up, but 90 percent of that is as a consequence of" President George W. Bush’s policies and the recession.
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By Louis Jacobson • September 27, 2012
Barack Obama
stated on September 20, 2012 in an interview on Univision:
"Fast and Furious" began under the Bush administration.
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 24, 2012
Barack Obama
stated on July 17, 2012 in a speech in San Antonio.:
Mitt Romney "says the Arizona immigration law should be a model for the nation."
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By W. Gardner Selby • July 17, 2012
Barack Obama
stated on May 10, 2012 in a Web ad:
Says Mitt Romney would deny gay people the right to adopt children.
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By Molly Moorhead • May 14, 2012
Barack Obama
stated on May 8, 2012 in a speech in Albany, N.Y.:
"The only time government employment has gone down during a recession has been under me."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 10, 2012
Barack Obama
stated on May 3, 2012 in a graphical tool on the campaign website:
"Under the Romney/Ryan budget, interest rates on federal student loans would be allowed to double."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2012
Barack Obama
stated on April 2, 2012 in a Rose Garden press conference:
If the Supreme Court throws out the federal health care law, it "would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress."
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By Molly Moorhead • April 4, 2012
Barack Obama
stated on February 15, 2012 in a speech at Milwaukee's Master Lock plant:
"For the first time since 1990, American manufacturers are creating new jobs."
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By Dave Umhoefer • February 22, 2012
Barack Obama
stated on February 10, 2012 in a briefing at the White House:
"Preventive care … saves money, for families, for businesses, for government, for everybody."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 10, 2012
Barack Obama
stated on November 1, 2011 in a Fox television interview:
"Thirty million Americans, including a lot of people in Florida, are going to be able to get healthcare next year because of that law."
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By Molly Moorhead • November 3, 2011
Barack Obama
stated on October 25, 2011 in a speech at a fundraiser:
"I made a bunch of these promises during the campaign. … We've got about 60 percent done in three years."
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By Louis Jacobson • November 1, 2011
Barack Obama
stated on May 10, 2011 in a speech in Austin, Texas:
Under President Barack Obama, the United States has "doubled our exports."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 11, 2011
Barack Obama
stated on April 27, 2011 in a press conference:
Says stories about his birth certificate drowned out media coverage of the Republican and White House budget plans the week of April 11.
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 28, 2011
Barack Obama
stated on February 22, 2011 in a speech in Cleveland, Ohio:
The president’s proposed budget "will help reduce the deficit by $400 billion over the next decade to the lowest level since Dwight Eisenhower was president."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2011
Barack Obama
stated on February 15, 2011 in a press conference:
Under the White House’s budget proposal, "we will not be adding more to the national debt" by the middle of the decade.
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By Louis Jacobson • February 15, 2011
Barack Obama
stated on February 6, 2011 in an interview on Fox:
Twelve judges have thrown out legal challenges to the health care law because they rejected "the notion that the health care law was unconstitutional."
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By Robert Farley • February 8, 2011
Barack Obama
stated on February 6, 2011 in an interview on Super Bowl Sunday:
"I didn't raise taxes once."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 7, 2011
Barack Obama
stated on December 7, 2010 in a press conference:
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt started Social Security, "it only affected widows and orphans," and when Medicare began, "it was a small program."
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By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2010