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Peter Krouse is a reporter with The Plain Dealer in Cleveland.

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Bob Gibbs
stated on April 18, 2012 in a committee hearing in the House of Representatives:

"Water transportation is the most fuel efficient, least polluting, safest, and least expensive means of moving cargo."

By Peter Krouse • May 28, 2012
Sherrod Brown
stated on March 23, 2012 in a news release:

Says excessive speculation is pushing up oil prices and a recent report estimates it "adds 56 cents to every gallon of gasoline siphoned from the pump."

By Peter Krouse • May 2, 2012
Marcy Kaptur
stated on March 12, 2012 in an interview on PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton on MSNBC:

"The poorest in this country are women."

By Peter Krouse • March 26, 2012
Dennis Kucinich
stated on December 15, 2011 in a news release:

"The top 10 most well-paid CEOs in America received a combined $770 million in 2010, while the average American worker’s wage rose just 2 percent."

By Peter Krouse • January 19, 2012
Josh Mandel
stated on November 14, 2011 in a radio show:

Sherrod Brown "has been running for public office since Richard Nixon was president."

By Peter Krouse • December 14, 2011
Rob Portman
stated on November 11, 2011 in a Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction hearing:

"We have the second highest corporate tax rate among our trading partners."

By Peter Krouse • November 28, 2011
Marcia Fudge
stated on November 1, 2011 in an MSNBC interview with Al Sharpton:

"More than half of the people on food stamps today are children."

By Peter Krouse • November 14, 2011
Tim Ryan
stated on September 28, 2011 in a news release:

Attacks on Planned Parenthood "come at a time when the poverty rate among women is the highest in nearly two decades and 1 in 5 women under 65 don’t have access to health care."

By Peter Krouse • November 2, 2011
Building a Better Ohio
stated on September 15, 2011 in a campaign commercial:

Says the reforms in state Issue 2 "will save taxpayer dollars"

By Peter Krouse • October 17, 2011
Dennis Kucinich
stated on September 7, 2011 in a television interview:

"The Fed created $1.2 trillion out of nothing, gave it to banks, and some of them foreign banks, so that they could stabilize their operations."

By Peter Krouse • September 28, 2011