All statements involving John Boehner
"There's no plan from Senate Democrats or the White House to replace the sequester."
"The problem with raising tax rates on the wealthiest Americans is that more than half of them are small business owners."
"The president went on a stimulus-fueled spending binge that stuck every American man, woman and child with a $50,000 share of this $16 trillion debt."
The United States has "the best health care delivery system in the world."
"Student loan rates set to double because a Democratic-controlled Congress voted to double them."
"The Democrat-controlled Senate, it hasn't passed a budget in more than 1,000 days."
"The Social Security trust fund … is already facing imminent bankruptcy."
"We've got a personal tax system that's so complicated it costs Americans about $500 billion a year to comply with the current tax code."
"Over half of the people who would be taxed under (a millionaire surtax) are, in fact, small businesspeople."
"Our unemployment rate has been higher than 8 percent for more than two-and-a-half years, far above what the Obama Administration promised with the 'stimulus.' "
"We have 10,000 baby boomers retiring every day."
The House passed "cut, cap and balance" with "bipartisan support."
"POTUS’ economists: ‘Stimulus’ Has Cost $278,000 per job."
"The American people don't want us to raise taxes."
The Bush tax cuts "created about 8 million jobs over the first 10 years that they were in existence. We've lost about 5 million of those jobs during this recession."
The "six largest cities in Ohio all have higher rates of violence and crime than every major city along the U.S.-Mexico border."
President Barack Obama "took exactly none of his own deficit reduction commission’s ideas. Not one."
"We’ve introduced a bill that includes $12 billion in cuts over the next week."
Says the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act adopted last year contains "a series of slush funds, set up to stay on the books automatically, with little or no oversight."
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