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08-20-2002, 11:30 PM
Court dismisses claims related to GOP ad (http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/08/20/barbour.challenge.ap/index.html)
<font size=1>August 20, 2002 Posted: 3:17 PM EDT (1917 GMT)</font>
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An appeals court threw out efforts to force former Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour to pay $1 million to a Democratic lawmaker who accused the GOP of cutting Medicare.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit said Barbour's assertion was not false.
Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Mississippi, went to court to try to collect the $1 million that Barbour, in an advertisement, promised to give to the first person who could prove the following statement false:
"In November 1995, the U.S. House and Senate passed a balanced budget bill. It increases total federal spending on Medicare by more than 50 percent from 1995 to 2002, based on figures from the Congressional Budget Office."
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Click here to read more (http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/08/20/barbour.challenge.ap/index.html)
<font size=1>August 20, 2002 Posted: 3:17 PM EDT (1917 GMT)</font>
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An appeals court threw out efforts to force former Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour to pay $1 million to a Democratic lawmaker who accused the GOP of cutting Medicare.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit said Barbour's assertion was not false.
Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Mississippi, went to court to try to collect the $1 million that Barbour, in an advertisement, promised to give to the first person who could prove the following statement false:
"In November 1995, the U.S. House and Senate passed a balanced budget bill. It increases total federal spending on Medicare by more than 50 percent from 1995 to 2002, based on figures from the Congressional Budget Office."
...
Click here to read more (http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/08/20/barbour.challenge.ap/index.html)