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Bob Corker is a senator from Tennessee.

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Bob Corker
stated on February 15, 2017 in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

"Today, 27 million people .. are enslaved."

By Jon Greenberg • February 17, 2017
Bob Corker
stated on November 24, 2013 in an interview on Fox News Sunday:

"The administration was kicking and screaming all the way with these sanctions being put in place (on Iran)."

By Steve Contorno • December 3, 2013
Bob Corker
stated on September 22, 2012 in in a press release.:

"We haven’t passed a budget in more than three years and not a single appropriations bill has been brought to the floor this year."

By Michael Collins • September 28, 2012
Bob Corker
stated on August 18, 2012 in in a story in the Chattanooga Times-Free Press:

"We have only one person on the (TVA) board, to my knowledge, who even has any corporate board experience."

By Tom Humphrey • August 26, 2012
Bob Corker
stated on November 8, 2011 in a USA Today column.:

A typical married couple "will contribute $119,000" into Medicare but will "receive $357,000 in Medicare benefits over their lifetimes."

By Michael Collins • January 24, 2012

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