15,050 source-backed politics facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 66 of 151.
“I was at an event this past week with Gabriel Sterling. He's a Republican election official in Georgia that some listeners may remember from 2020, pushing back on President Trump's election claims then. He said all signs are pointing to Re…”
“The government is now looking at changing legislation, to allow authorities to close illegal mini-marts, barbers and vape shops for up to a year.”
“99.9% Caucasian, 0.1% Native American”
“A social media post created by a city department falsely stated that City Hall would raise the Somalian flag in recognition of Somali Independence Day... While the City recognizes and respects the aspirations of people around the world to …”
“The government outlined 34 measures in the package, including income tax reforms aimed at reducing taxes for low- and middle-income families, an overhaul of the pension system, stricter rules on sick leave, and measures to cut administrati…”
“She said she's worried that all this noise about the rules and potential restrictions to voting will mean that some people just say, you know, man, this does not seem worth it this year.”
“More than 170 civil servants are paid more than Prime Minister David Cameron's £142,500-a-year salary, according to Cabinet Office figures.”
“Contributed plagiarized French recipes to the Pow Wow Chow cookbook in 1984”
“On pensions, the coalition said it would implement recommendations from an expert panel, including a gradual rise in the retirement age linked to life expectancy, aimed at stabilising the system and avoiding sharp increases in contribution…”
“NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the verdict in the Whitewater trial has cast a shadow over President Clinton, who just a week ago was far ahead of Dole in the polls.”
“The salaries of those earning over £150,000 were revealed for the first time in a bid to aid transparency.”
“Warren thinks she would have won the 2020 presidential election if she “had a penis.””
“The protest has drawn support from opposition leaders and civil society members... Dipke also launched an outreach initiative titled 'Chai Pe Charcha with Cockroaches'... The CJP protest began on June 20 over alleged examination irregulari…”
“Next week, Congress will vote on a bill that will result in a historic overhaul of the farm programs.”
“Office of Fair Trading chief executive John Fingleton, whose annual package is up to £279,999, is the top earner.”
“Since 2020, the IIP has raked in $710,000 from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.”
“who has been working out the details of this seven-year plan to ween farmers off the subsidy government programs.”
“and the IT Director General and Chief Information Officer at the Department for Work and Pensions, Joe Harley, gets £249,999.”
“Tax filings show it received another $31,500 in 2021 from Arnold Ventures...”
“The bill will end traditional price-based subsidies and the government planting controls that control them.”
“but just three are based in the Department for Transport.”
“The MacArthur Foundation—the country’s 12th-largest private charity—added another $30,000 in 2021...”
“The bill is expected to pass through the House and Senate”
“Permanent secretaries - who head up government departments - are paid between £150,000 and £200,000 a year.”
“The Institute for Innovation in Prosecution (IIP) launched in 2015 as a partnership between the college and the Manhattan DA’s office, which provided $3 million in seed funding obtained through settlements with international banks.”
“President Clinton is expected to sign the bill.”
“He added that "transparency" is key to the coalition government's efficiency drive and will enable the public to help "deliver better value for money in public spending".”
“This year is already the most expensive campaign in history”
“Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said the move to publish public spending data "is long overdue but is nevertheless extremely welcome".”
“Congress has passed the biggest housing bill in decades.”
“We didn't prepare enough for what kind of world we were going to. We are now in a very different era than when Labour was last in government.”
“What this bill does is it really brings together essentially 40 different proposals that have been out there for a while and lumps them all together.”
“He admitted an early decision to remove winter fuel payments from millions of pensioners, a policy on which it would later U-turn, had been a mistake and had 'defined the government in a way that did us a lot of damage'... he added that he…”
“Another example is a supply fund where they're essentially trying to create incentives for state and local governments to make it easier to build. So what they said is, essentially, we'll reward you with financial resources from the federa…”
“Speaking about the end of Sir Keir's time in office, he disclosed he had found himself too sad to watch the entirety of the prime minister's emotional resignation speech in Downing Street last week... He added: 'I mean, I can't say forever…”
“I'm sending it to him on Monday, and it will become law.”
“Council leader Alec Robertson said the cuts demanded 'decisive action' and failing to act now would lead to more difficult decisions in the future.”
“President Trump has said he won't sign it unless Congress first passes an unrelated voter ID measure. But today, House Speaker Mike Johnson told Fox News he's confident the president will sign the bill as early as tomorrow.”
“A number of the measures announced today will create significant challenges for the council but we are committed to working with the unions and our other partners to ensure that we do the best we can with our diminishing resources.”
“37 states have been granted waivers to set their own rules on who is eligible for assistance.”
“A political reform bill is just one of the 22 pieces of legislation that will be brought to the House of Commons in the next year and a half.”
“Savings and Loan scandal of the 1980's”
“Do you think it will be held on Thursday 7 May in 2015? Well there is a pretty good chance of that happening...”
“four redesigned Congressional districts”
“...when we do go to the polls again in Northern Ireland we may be voting for fewer MPs as there are plans to cut the size of the House of Commons.”
“since 1993”
“If more than 10% of electors want their MP removed and they sign a petition, a by-election would be held in the seat.”
“while he was imprisoned in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963.”
“The Queen's Speech also revealed that plans for ID Cards will be scrapped, CCTV will be more tightly regulated and there will be a cap on non-EU Migrants entering the UK.”
“She was discharged from the service in 1992 because she revealed that she is a lesbian”
“Employment Support Allowance was brought in to replace the creaking incapacity benefit system and was designed to help a million people back into employment.”
“She challenged the ruling, and was reinstated in July.”
“The reality has taken even the government by surprise and has found more than two-thirds of sickness claimants fit for work. That's almost 20% more than the DWP had anticipated.”
“as soon as Monday”
“Our Freedom of Information request revealed that ESA appeals are running at about 8,000 hearings a month, which is double the number of the next most commonly appealed benefit, Disability Living Allowance.”
“GARTON ASH'S classic account of the Prague Uprising in 1986 is "The Magic Lantern".”
“About 40% of those ESA claimants who do appeal have their decisions reversed.”
“who in 1958 became Selma, Alabama's first and only black lawyer.”
“I think the DWP are surprised at how few people are passing this new test and moving onto ESA. I'm concerned in a sense that too many of the people who the system I was designing for are not entering that space and potentially not benefiti…”
“This interview was originally broadcast in 1990.”
“The Reverend Canon Geoffrey Annas has been chosen to succeed the Right Reverend Gordon Mursell, who stood down in May for health reasons.”
“The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, The Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics (Simon and Schuster, 1995)”
“At the end of 2009, the chief executive of the authority, David Wilcock, resigned only two months after he was appointed to the post.”
“discussion of populist themes in the 1996 presidential campaign”
“The Regional Environmental Assessment is due to be submitted to the island's government, the Chief Pleas, on 7 July.”
“Yeltsin has decided to not meet President Clinton in France next week as part of the annual economic summit of the G-7 group of industrialized nations.”
“The 63-year-old was an agriculture minister under John Major's government”
“Yeltsin got a boost today from another candidate he defeated last Sunday.”
“Angela Browning, MP for Tiverton and Honiton from 1992 until 2010”
“Ultra-nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky today told his supporters to not vote for the communists in next month's run-off.”
“She announced in November 2006 that she would step down at the 2010 election”
“(RCA 6660-2RC)”
“She had a majority of about 11,000 when she was re-elected to Parliament in 2005”
“Tonight, the city council votes on an ordinance to ban drumming between the hours of 8PM and 10AM.”
“Sir Reg announced he would be standing down in the autumn following a disappointing election during which the party failed to win a single seat.”
“for the tenth consecutive day.”
“Residents have been asked if they would support increases of three, five or 10%.”
“November 17th”
“yesterday”
“asked to resign more than 4 years ago because information found in his security file.”
“in the late 1960's”
“resigned from CBS in 1976”
“narrated a five-part BBC documentary on the Discovery channel, 'Watergate'”
“(REBROADCAST from 8/3/94)”
“Robert Dornan now looks as if he's lost his bid to return to Congress for a tenth term.”
“Loretta Sanchez is ahead by close to 1,000 votes, a week after the election, with only two or three thousand absentee and provisional votes still to count.”
“More than 10,000 students nationwide, including students at the University of Maryland, took part in a mock primary this week, the results show many young people are looking at candidates to address their issues and reach out to them.”
“after it spent $15,000 on radio ads in 1986 against a Democratic Senate candidate.”
“beginning in 1960, when she performed on drummer Max Roach's We Insist! Freedom Now Suite.”
“MR. MAZAWIECKI RESIGNED HIS POST IN JULY TO PROTEST THE SERBS' CAPTURE OF THE MUSLIM ENCLAVE OF SREBRENICA”
“He wrote the book, 'Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women In World War II,' (1990, The Free Press).”
“For it, BERUBE spent ten years interviewing gay and lesbian veterans, searching out wartime letters, and consulting newly declassified government documents.”
“Today is the 25th anniversary of the 26th Amendment to the Consitution.”
“since the Amendment was approved in 1971.”
“He launched the network in 1979 because he felt society was being unfairly treated by the television news.”
“The network has no advertisers, no government or corporate funding, and has no concern for ratings.”
“Holding immigrants responsible for various health epidemics has been an American pastime for two centuries”
“Just as the Irish were wrongly blamed for the cholera epidemic in the 1830's”
“so too were Haitians in Miami branded as AIDS carriers in the 1980's”
“NPR'S DAVID MOLPUS REPORTS ON OSEOLA (oh-see-OH-lah) McCARTY OF HATTIESBURG (HAT-eez-berg), MISSISSIPPI, WHO IS BEING HONORED TONIGHT AT A DINNER OF THE CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.”
