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"If Sen. Hillary Clinton could enact all of her campaign proposals, taxpayers would be faced with financing more than $777.6-billion in new spending over one White House term."
Republican Republican National Committee on Monday, November 26th, 2007 in Web "Spend-O-Meter"
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"Hillary’s baby bond proposal would give $5,000 to each of the 4-million babies born in the U.S. each year, totaling $20-billion per year, multiplied by four years = $80-billion."
Republican Republican National Committee on Monday, November 26th, 2007 in a Web site.
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“Mayor Giuliani’s lawsuit killed the line-item veto.”
Republican Mitt Romney on Saturday, October 6th, 2007 in
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"John McCain is right on that one. The line-item veto is the best tool the president has to rein in excessive spending."
Republican Mitt Romney on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in an interview on CNBC.
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"With the resources it takes to execute just over three months of the Iraq war, we could fully fund the expansion of health care for needy children that Bush vetoed."
Democrat Chris Dodd on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 in
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The latest Truth-O-Meter items researched by David Baumann
"If Sen. Hillary Clinton could enact all of her campaign proposals, taxpayers would be faced with financing more than $777.6-billion in new spending over one White House term."
Republican Republican National Committee on Monday, November 26th, 2007 in Web "Spend-O-Meter"
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"Hillary’s baby bond proposal would give $5,000 to each of the 4-million babies born in the U.S. each year, totaling $20-billion per year, multiplied by four years = $80-billion."
Republican Republican National Committee on Monday, November 26th, 2007 in a Web site.
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"John McCain is right on that one. The line-item veto is the best tool the president has to rein in excessive spending."
Republican Mitt Romney on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in an interview on CNBC.
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"Earmarked dollars have doubled just since 2000, and more than tripled in the last 10 years."
Republican John McCain on Monday, October 8th, 2007 in a campaign Web site.
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"We spent $223-million on a bridge in Alaska to an island with 50 people on it."
Republican John McCain on Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 in a speech in Nashua, N.H.
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Recent stories by David Baumann
Spend-O-Meter vs. Truth-O-Meter: Once you accept some assumptions about how they did the math, the RNC does a pretty good job crunching Clinton's numbers.
Sparring over spending: It's true that Rudy Giuliani sued to end the president's line item veto, it's just not clear how much that means.
Keeping it simple, sometimes wrong: The candidates from both parties want to distill the SCHIP debate into nuggets that satisfy their base voters.
Still fighting the last war: Sen. John McCain has a history of attacking 'earmarked' spending, but his facts are in the past, too.
Romney: turning over the turnaround label: In a rich biography of success, he sometimes overstates his record.
Recent stories researched by David Baumann
Spend-O-Meter vs. Truth-O-Meter: Once you accept some assumptions about how they did the math, the RNC does a pretty good job crunching Clinton's numbers.
Sparring over spending: It's true that Rudy Giuliani sued to end the president's line item veto, it's just not clear how much that means.
Still fighting the last war: Sen. John McCain has a history of attacking 'earmarked' spending, but his facts are in the past, too.
David Baumann is deputy editor of Congressional Quarterly's Weekly Report. He has covered Washington for almost 20 years and covered Congress for 14 years for National Journal Magazine and CongressDaily. He was a member of a team that won a 2005 National Headliner Award for a National Journal special report on "The State of Congress." He has a B.A in Political Science from George Washington University and a master's degree in journalism from Indiana University. He lives in Annapolis with his wife, his 22-year-old daughter having flown the coop.
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