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Charles Grassley (R-IA) History CheckMay 2, 2019

Senator Grassley says the New Deal didn’t work; historians have other ideas

Senator Grassley’s claim about the New Deal is stark and definitive. Quite simply, in his mind, it did not work. The historians who responded to our request for input disagreed strongly.

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Milton Friedman with a lot of money
Charles Schumer (D–NY) Democrats History CheckApril 2, 2019

Senator Chuck Schumer says corporations used to care; here’s how historians responded

Historians say… Bottom Line: Most historians who responded agree that Senator Schumer is on solid ground, but their caveats and the statements of the historians […]

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Mick Mulvaney Republicans Trump AdminJuly 14, 2017

Mick Mulvaney: Reagan challenged “malaise” and “steered us to a boom”

For merely suggesting that we can get back to that level [3 percent annual growth], the administration has been criticized as unrealistic. That’s fine with […]

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Donald Trump Republicans Trump AdminJune 19, 2017

Trump: “Job enthusiasm” and “business enthusiasm” has “never been higher”

We have a lot of companies moving into this country.  You see the unemployment rate is at a very, very low level.  Job enthusiasm and […]

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Andy Barr (R–KY) House of Representatives RepublicansJune 8, 2017

Rep. Andy Barr: Dodd-Frank led to “weakest economic recovery in 70 years,” lowest workforce participation since late 1970s

Nearly 9 years after the financial crisis, Americans are still stuck in the slowest, weakest economic recovery in 70 years. The percentage of Americans who […]

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Democrats House of Representatives Louise Slaughter (D–NY)June 8, 2017

Rep. Louise M. Slaughter: Dodd-Frank led to “record-setting private sector job growth” and business lending

We have all seen the results of the law in the form of record-setting private sector job growth, millions of new jobs, and historic rates […]

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Mick Mulvaney Republicans Trump AdminMay 24, 2017

Mick Mulvaney: Obama administration first ever to “not have a 3 percent growth rate”

I went back and looked at some of the economic assumptions that the Obama administration made in its first couple of years, and I want […]

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Mick Mulvaney Republicans Trump AdminMay 24, 2017

Mick Mulvaney: Three percent growth rate “normal for the history of the country”

We have been attacked, stunningly, by some folks on the left and even in the mainstream who say that that’s an unreasonable assumption.  We should […]

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House of Representatives RepublicansMay 22, 2017

Rep. Doug LaMalfa: Consumer Protection Bureau Most Unaccountable Agency in US History

Dodd-Frank was supposed to help lift up our economy; instead, what we got was the slowest, weakest recovery in 70 years. It was supposed to […]

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Republicans Sean Spicer Trump AdminMay 19, 2017

Sean Spicer: Economic Growth Followed Reagan and Kennedy Tax Cuts

As we do that, one of the things that you recognize through a lot of the models here is you’re going to achieve greater economic […]

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