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On the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)
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On support for Ronald Reagan's policies
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After they bought GST Steel, "Mitt Romney and his partners loaded it with debt, ...
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There are "49 different federal job training programs that report to eight agencies."
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"Over the past five years the federal government has paid out $601 million in retirement and disability benefits to deceased former federal employees."
Promise: Upgrade state website to put government services such as obtaining drivers licenses online
Update: Online driver’s license renewal fulfills one element of Chafee promise, but at a small price
"Jimmy Langevin is having a fundraiser . . . to retire the debt from his campaign for secretary of state, which was 12 years ago."
Promise: Support same-sex marriage, support repeal of Defense of Marriage Act
Update: Recognition of out-of-state unions goes beyond "support" of same-sex marriage
"When these [undocumented] students graduate from college, they're still illegal aliens. They cannot get a job."
Promise: Reform municipal employee pension plans
Update: After state pension reform, focus now on cities, towns
"If you put the $47 billion in revenue (raised over 10 years by the Buffett rule) into infrastructure you could create 611,000 infrastructure jobs."
"We have to recognize that our salaries for faculty are the lowest in New England with the exception of the University of Maine."
Gas prices have gone up 99 percent since Obama became president, "the highest gas price increase since Carter."
President Obama gave Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood one and a half billion dollars.
Promise: Reform state employee pension plan
Update: Chafee got pension plan changes, but not in the way he had hoped
Promise: Support anti-bullying legislation, protect gay, bisexual and transgender youths in schools
Update: Anti-bullying law includes sexual orientation issues
"The number of new businesses started per year has dropped by 100,000 during this president’s term."
"Only 14 percent of Catholics agree with the Vatican's position that abortion should be illegal."
"Rhode Island’s exports have increased by 53 percent in the last two years."
The "Buffett rule" "raises virtually no money, maybe a day and a half of our borrowing per year."
President Obama's refusal to grant permits for offshore drilling is one reason gasoline prices are soaring.
Says his reform efforts improved performance at all 10 low-performing schools in Palm Beach, Florida.
"This is the only state in the country that bypassed the General Assembly to authorize [in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants]."
"Having an entirely Democrat congressional delegation in 2009, when the [federal stimulus] bill passed, increases the per capita stimulus dollars that the state receives per person by $460."
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Tracking the promises of Lincoln Chafee
The latest from the Linc-O-Meter
- Bill to decriminalize marijuana slated for House committee vote
- Reed: Federal money available to buy some Cranston houses innundated during 2010 floods
- Chafee: 38 Studios back in default; seeking forensic audit
- 38 Studios employee: Just trying to make a cool game
- Lincoln moves to fire suspended police officer who kicked handcuffed woman
- Report touting benefits of 38 Studios loan deal cited potential 47-percent gain for state
- R.I. health panel suspends license of Providence doctor, 81
- R.I. prison dog finds heroin on Cranston overpass
- 38 Studios bond sale benefited local lawyers
- Help for 38 Studios workers who missed today's session with R.I. DLT
- Call for R.I. House Democratic caucus signals new state budget imminent
- R.I. House Republican calls for more transparency in state budget, casino negotiations
- Whitehouse small-business bankruptcy bill advances
- Chafee: No outside investment or tax credits yet for 38 Studios
- R.I. House panel endorses Woonsocket supplemental tax
- Former R.I. Senate majority leader now lobbyist for payday-loan opponents
- Paul Krugman, Elizabeth Warren and Van Jones will headline Netroots Nation conference in Providence
- R.I. House to vote on national popular vote compact
- Federal Election Commission fines Cicilline campaign for 2010 donations
- Ex-R.I. Gov. Carcieri declines comment on 38 Studios difficulties
Says Obama broke his promise to help homeowners facing foreclosure.
— Crossroads GPS
Says under Mitt Romney, "Medicare could end as we know it, leaving Julia with nothing but a voucher to buy insurance, which means $6,350 extra per year for a similar plan."
— Barack Obama
Says Mitt Romney is wrong to claim that spending under Obama has "accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history," because it's actually risen "slower than at any time in nearly 60 years."
— Facebook posts
When Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts, "we didn’t just slow the rate of growth of our government, we actually cut it."
— Mitt Romney
On President Barack Obama’s stimulus
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