| December 18, 2012 | -
Welfare rolls were growing for the first time in a dozen years.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| August 1, 2004 | -
Finance experts warned that the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the government agency that insures company pensions, could be forced into a situation similar to the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s, which led to a $200 billion bailout, as a result of cascading pension defaults in the airline industry.
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 4, 2004 | - Good Jobs First, a Washington, D.C., research group, reported that Wal-Mart has received more than $1 billion in subsidies from state and local governments around the country.
| Source:
Elizabethton Star
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| March 2, 2004 | - Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, suggested cutting Social Security and Medicare to help pay for President Bush's massive tax cuts for the rich.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 6, 2003 | - Conservatives were beginning to complain about the president's spending habits. One conservative economist said that "the budgetary situation is getting so off track that you simply can't propose any more tax cuts without looking like an idiot."
| Source:
Washington Post
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| December 5, 2003 | -
President Bush explained in a written statement that he repealed his tariffs on foreign steel, which were ruled illegal by the World Trade Organization, not because Europe and Japan planned to retaliate with damaging tariffs (carefully aimed at states Bush needs to capture in the upcoming election) but because the economic outlook for the steel industry has improved and they are no longer necessary.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 3, 2003 | - Thomas Scully, the federal official who runs Medicare, was preparing to take a job in the private sector, probably with a company that will directly benefit from the new bill, which he helped draft.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 21, 2003 | - Senate Democrats and moderate Republicans used a fillibuster to block a $30 billion energy bill that would have given immunity from lawsuits to petrochemical companies that have polluted water supplies with MTBE, a carcinogenic fuel additive.
| Source:
Forbes
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| July 24, 2001 | - Vice President Dick Cheney thought it would be a good idea for the Navy to pay his $186,000 home electric bill.
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| February 6, 2001 | -
President George W. Bush, a former oil man, named Vice President Dick Cheney, a former oil man, to head a special task force to devise ways to increase the profits of oil companies.
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