An economic impact study found that for every $1 invested in pre-K in Pennsylvania, a total of $1.79 is generated in total spending within the state.


According to ATF data, 70 percent of firearms recovered and traced in drug cartel crimes in Mexico originated from the United States.


Glenn Nye voted in lock step with Nancy Pelosi 83 percentof the time.


Tom Barrett supports a government takeover of our health care


Justice Antonin Scalia agreed for the Supreme Court to hear a case about whetherBarack Obama is eligible to be President.


George Allens flat tax plan would actually shrink revenues further thanthe Perry (flat tax) plan.


After the 2012 redistricting, Wisconsin has competitive congressional districts.


Mark Hass raised your taxes by $1 billion in a single day.


More than eight countries lead the United States in the percentage of college graduates.


New Jersey has the highest unemployment rate in the region and stagnant job growth.


Florida has reduced its carbon emissions by 20 percent since 2005.


Barbara Buono by the numbers: As a Trenton politician, she voted to raise taxes 154 times. Under her, property taxes up 70 percent. Backed a 16 percent sales tax increase. Utilities, nursing homes, cell phones, parking lots, lottery wins, gyms She taxed them all. Architect of Corzines budget, she drove New Jersey $2 billion into debt. Barbara Buono by the numbers: taking New Jersey backwards.


Edward Snowden could have gotten all of the protections of being a whistleblower.


Earmarked dollars have doubled just since 2000, and more than tripled in the last 10 years.


Traffic fatalities have fallen dramatically, even as population has risen. You are more likely to stay alive biking, walking and driving around Portland than you were before he took over the Portland Bureau of Transportation.


Obama, instead of nominating a health professional, he nominated someone who is an anti-gun activist (for surgeon general).


Democratic Party candidates for the state Assembly actually received 200,000 more votes statewide than their Republican counterparts in the 2012 election


Mark Sharpe has lowered property taxes by 17 percent.


In the past decade in New York State more than 30 current and former state officeholders have been convicted, sanctioned or accused of wrongdoing more than any other state.


700 jobs (were) lost because Allen Boyd voted for the health care bill.


A few weeks ago, (the) education committee in Congress is deciding whats going to be in your local salad bar.


He leant his name to a bill, did little or nothing three years ago to try to get it passed, (and) since then has done absolutely nothing other than disavow any attempt to move on the legislation.


A proposed immigration bill will bankrupt Georgia if passed.


The ammunition used in the Orlando shooting is banned by Geneva Convention. It enters the body, spins explodes.


Budget savings by reducing pay and benefits for federal employees total $103 billion over 10 years -- more than $50,000 per worker.


One out of 10 minimum-wage workers in the U.S. live in Texas.


Rhode Island voters are moving away from the Democratic party to non-affiliation


David Cicilline was required to provide key information about city finances to an independent outside auditor. The deadlines were clear -- yet [he intentionally] missed them by months until after the November 2010 election.


Mitt Romney wants to add $2 trillion to defense budget that the military hasnt asked for.


Last week the Blue Chip Economic Indicators came out that surveys lots of private forecasters. Almost all of them are predicting a turnaround in the third quarter and positive growth in the fourth quarter.


A recent Obama executive order could lead to a number of investigations by Interpol in the United States, potentially aimed at American officials.


The states that actually have lots of teachers in teacher unions tend to be the states that have done the best in terms of academic success in this country.


Obamacarerepresents the largest tax increase in the history of the world.


Dwight Holton has never set foot in an Oregon courtroom.


Gerald Daugherty is endorsed by the Austin American-Statesman.


He faced a record budget deficit in Virginia in 2014.


The Democratic health care plan is a "government takeover of nearly 20 percent of our economy."


Charlie Crist "bizarrely vetoed" $9.7 million for a teaching hospital at the University of Florida "despite having previously argued the budget request had merit."


Every billion dollars we spend on highway construction results in 47,500 jobs. But the fact is the average American is sitting in traffic 38 hours a year.


It was under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that changed the rules of engagement that probably cost (Capt. Humayun Khans) life.


The Republican Party raffled off an AR-15 assault rifle at the 2010 Oregon State Fair.


Currently, it takes up to 25 years to obtain U.S. citizenship legally but the Senate bill would allow immigrants who came to the United States illegally to obtain citizenship in just 13 years.


Current projections indicate that Medicare will go bankrupt by 2017, while Social Security will bottom out by 2037.


No one in the country has ever built a brand new sports facility and created this kind of development at the same time.


Gerry Connolly and his fellow Democrats went on a spending spree and now their credit card is maxed out.


There are approximately 20,000 annual gun purchases in Rhode Island.


Health insurance premiums will rise under Obamacare.


If West Virginia had voted for our Democratic nominee in 2000 and 2004, we wouldn't have had to put up with George Bush for the last 7 years.


Texas law requires state agencies to give preference to goods produced and grown in Texas.


Over the last 40 years, real wage growth has been flatlined because of the policies of the Federal Reserve ... It was all driven by the Federal Reserve.


California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner, a Republican, "gave $10,000 to Al Gore's recount" effort in 2000.


The last time there was a sustained surge of confidence in governments competence was under Ronald Reagan.


I have 35 years' experience making change.


Over the last 10 years, incomes for the top 1 percent have grown. Meanwhile, the bottom half of the country, theyve seen their wages stagnate.


The Democratic Party createda debate schedule to maximize the opportunity for voters to see our candidates.


Not a single segment of the proposed Beltline intersects the MARTA system at MARTA stations.


My 7-step plan creates 700,000 jobs in 7 years.


There are no similar clips of Newt Gingrich talking about how ineffective President Bush was in trying to control North Korea.


Oregons Umpqua Community College where the shooting occurred was a gun-free zone.


If the space-shuttle program is terminated, Russia and China will be the only nations ...with the capability to launch humans into space.


Ryan Sittons company accepted over $650,000 in Obama stimulus dollars.


This is the worst jobs recovery since the Great Depression.


HB2 hasnt moved the needle one iota on North Carolinas economy.


State legislators quietly shifted $2 billion from education to road building in 2013.


The alternative to higher state worker pension and health care payments is to look at 1,500 layoffs of state employees or close to 200,000 children who would be bumped off Medicaid-related programs.


Wisconsins new state budget includes a 15 percent increase for road construction and yet weve got local towns tearing up paved roads and replacing them with gravel.


Bill White didnt pay taxes while earning $133,600 annual salary as deputy secretary of energy.


U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson was the deciding vote for the health care law.


Weve got four Supreme Court justices who signed their name to a declaration that Americans have no fundamental right to self-defense.


In the United States, 50 percent of social services are provided by the Catholic church.


Woodrow Wilson borrowed $30 billion to fund World War I in 1917. That money has not been paid back. And we are still paying interest on it.


#GradInsurance debacle is a DIRECT result of #ObamaCare. #MIZZOU has to break the law to do the right thing.


Floridas proposed medical marijuana amendment would make Florida one of the most lenient medical-marijuana states, allowing use for limitless other conditions specified by any physician.


Weve seen priests beheaded by the Islamic rebels on the other side. Weve also seen an Islamic rebel eating the heart of a soldier.


Florida's legal challenge of the federal health care bill is "bipartisan."


There are more people living in this country who were not born here than at anytime in the history of the country.


She was the first in her family to go to a four-year college.


His executive order requiring young girls to be vaccinated against HPV wasnt mandatory.


For people with insurance, the only impact of the health care law is that their insurance is stronger, better and more secure than it was before. Full stop. Thats it. They dont have to worry about anything else.


Neighborhoods have become more violentunder President Barack Obamas watch.


The U.S. Army had a training program that put evangelical Christians, Catholics and Mormons in the same category of religious extremism as we do al-Qaida.


Today, the United States is the most respected country on Earth.


Public-employee unions spent $30 million in Wisconsin unsuccessfully trying to flip the state Senate to Democratic control.


Pepper ... kicked off a jock tax, imposing a levy on the sports and entertainment industry.


Rep. Jim Renaccis plan to end Medicare also puts nursing home care for 3,000 seniors in the district in immediate jeopardy.


The financial services regulatory bill "will end taxpayer bailouts."


The president by executive order could grant voting rights to illegal immigrants who are newly legalized under pending legislation.


The per-pupil cost in the [Blackstone Valley Prep] Mayoral Academy far outweighs the per-pupil cost in Cumberland public schools.


Florida is a model for successful pretrial release programs.


I opposed the only multilateral trade deal that came before the Senate while I was there.


The House did vote against engagement in Kosovo, and Bill Clinton kept fighting anyway. And, then, ultimately, a vote did pass.


97 percent of food stamp benefits are paid in the proper amounts to people who are really eligible.


Six justices on the U.S. Supreme Court have been confirmed in presidential election years since 1912.


Florida has more concealed weapons permits than any other state.


People have actually broken down the transcripts for oral arguments and (Antonin Scalia) told more jokes and got more laughs than any of the other justices.


MittRomneys tax plans would give an additional $250,000 tax cut to millionaires and billionaires while raising taxes on the middle class.


House Republicans spent $50 million on 33 votes to repeal Obamacare.


An independent payment advisory board created by the health care reform law can ration care and deny certain Medicare treatments.


In polls about 2016 candidate leadership skills, he comes out two and three and four times higher than anybody else.


Household incomes are down more than $4,000 since the year 2000.


Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker eliminated cancer screenings for uninsured women and offered no alternatives.


Marco Rubio voted against funding health clinics that provide critical care during this public health emergency (Zika).


We balanced the budget with the 1997 Balanced Budget Act, and ultimately had four consecutive balanced budgets.


Ive cut the budget of the (lieutenant governors) office by more than half.


Hillary Clinton was asked repeatedly to provide security in Benghazi on several occasions, including direct cables.


Americanschools are more segregated than they were in the 1960s.


Under the Iran nuclear deal, we give them $150 billion, we get nothing.


A new bill was written into the new health care reform initiative ensuring that Congress will be 100 percent exempt.


Bing Energy said it decided to move to Florida because of Gov. Rick Scotts plan to eliminate the corporate tax.


The average student loan debt in Texas is over $22,000...the cost of an average size pickup truck. But unlike car owners, students are not allowed to refinance their loans at lower rates.


Donald Trump once suggested that he would try to negotiate down the national debt.


Tampa got more (federal housing) money because they scored higher on the blight scoring system, so theyve got a much bigger problem than we do.


Only three in 10 Texas doctors are currently accepting new Medicaid patients.


He followed state law and the precedent of other Massachusetts governors when he erased electronic communications as he left office.


Switzerland (where the government) issues every household a gun . . . has the lowest gun related crime rate of any civilized country in the world!!!


Portland Schools spend $500K to deem PBJ sandwiches racist.


A rather extraordinary amount of non-classroom employees were added by Texas school districts over the last decade.


Florida unemployment has dropped more than 2 percentage points, down from 12 percent to 9.9 percent, the second-largest drop in the nation.


Mitt Romney said at a January 2012 debate that under Paul Ryans tax plan, Id have paid no taxes in the last two years.


Milwaukee blacks have 55 percent male unemployment, 60 percent truancy, a 50 percent graduation rate, the worst reading scores and lead in infant mortality.


State Sen. Randy Hopper, R-Fond du Lac, unlike typical taxpayers, didnt pay taxes


Social Security has never contributed one cent to the deficit. Not one cent.


While in the Illinois Senate, Barack Obama passed "tax cuts for hard-working families."


There are more oil rigs in operation in the United States than the rest of the world combined.


President Obama is actually increasing Bush-era defense spending by $21 billion in the new fiscal year.


The federal government has 77 different means-tested social welfare programs.


The Pasco County budget has doubled in the past three years.


Forty percent of gross domestic product is state, local, or federal money.


The majority actually want single-payer health care.


Beaverton enjoys the most diverse population (by percentage of population) among Oregon cities.


In 2000, I wrote about Osama bin Laden, Weve got to take him out.


Obama has "visited more countries and met with more world leaders than any president in his first six months in office."


Thomas Eric Duncan came into the United States with an elevated temperature.


In altered photo, says Barack Obama wants more of Texans private data via health care.


U.S. Rep. Connie Mack took seven and a half years to finish college.


In reality, there have been no problems whatsoever with the Texas voter ID law.


The debt is nearly $6 trillion more than when President Obama was sworn into office.


The projected revenue from the Mayweather/Pacquiao fight is larger than the annual GDP of 29 different countries.


How is a misogynist bigot of epic proportions (like U.S. Rep. Steven Smith) allowed to serve?


Mark Warner voted for nearly $1 trillion in new taxes and $7 trillion in new debt.


While state leaders have cut funding for our schools and other basic priorities, the amount of money the state is projected to give away through tax breaks increased by a whopping $3.4 billion.


Before the HOPE scholarship, 70 percent of the high school students who made 1400 or above on their SAT left the state of Georgia. Now, 70 percent of those stay in the state of Georgia.


The 2014-15 Texas budget increases spending by less than the rate of inflation and population growth.


An investigative report concluded Ken Cuccinelli should have been prosecuted for disclosure violations, but Virginias law was too weak.


Illegal immigration costs state taxpayers over $3 billion every year.


Obama policies contributed to gas prices rising from $1.89 in January 2009 to $3.51 today.


Obamacare is the biggest tax increase in American history.


Georgia has the second-highest rate of childhood obesity in the United States.


Under the Democratic health plan, families will be forced to spend an additional $2,100 a year to keep their current health care.


Under President Obama, domestic oil production is at an eight-year high.


Most countries have no debt ceiling.


We got back every dime used to rescue the banks.


Under the Obama plan . . . all the health care in this country is eventually going to be run by the government.


I campaigned on (the proposals in the budget repair bill for Wisconsin) all throughout the election. Anybody who says they are shocked on this has been asleep for the past two years.


The fundraising numbers are in, and our grassroots support is unmatched!


During President Barack Obamas tenure, the United States has created 15 million new jobs.


We had (a bill) in Florida where we now are prohibiting doctors to talk -- particularly pediatricians -- to talk to their patients about gun safety in the home.


100,000 are on waiting list to attend Texas charter schools.


A bill requiring ultrasounds before abortions was supported by Republicans and Democrats.


The median income in this country has declined 10 percent in the last four years.


He's promising four more years of an administration that will push for the privatization of Social Security...


I have returned money every year since taking office.


We are winning the popular vote.


Under Obamacare, Virginia taxpayers would have been forced to pay for abortions if the General Assembly had not recently intervened.


Rhode Island is at the top of the country for alcohol-related fatalities.


U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson chose to side with President Obama against the Keystone pipeline


Six institutions in our country now control two thirds of the capital.


Last year we spent more than $40 billion on highways. And Lord knows we need that. But thats more than we spent on Amtrak in its entire 40-year history.


Under the Hate Crimes bill, "any pastor, preacher, priest, rabbi or imam who gives a sermon out of their moral traditions about sexual practices could be found guilty of a federal crime."


A company that got tax breaks from the state later laid off 100 Ohioans, even as its CEO cut a half-million-dollar check to Kasichs super PAC.


He's been endorsed by "every major newspaper here in the state of Texas."


Bernie Sanders was against the auto bailout and voted against the money that ended up saving the auto industry.


Some of the things that (Megyn Kelly) said, I didnt say.


McCain opposed the border fence.


While the sequester is in effect, the federal government is still funding a study on duck penises.


Barack Obama thinks terrorists just need a good talking to.


Donald Trumps plan to repeal the estate tax would mean the Walmart Walton family would get a $53 billion tax break.


Newt Gingrich teamed with Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore on global warming.


Barack Obama's health care plan "will cost taxpayers $1,700 more to cover each new person."


Fox News said the New Black Panther Party decided the election for Barack Obama.


Already we've identified $2 trillion in deficit reductions over the next decade.


The U.S. election system is rigged.


Since that famous day in February where the governor campaigned with Barack Obama on behalf of the stimulus program, 211,000 Floridians have lost their jobs.


Mitt Romney just gave a speech a few weeks ago and said we should still have troops in Iraq.


There are many studies that indicate that the longer people get unemployment insurance, it provides some disincentive to work.


The bulk of the people who are shot with a weapon other than these drug gangs taking on one another end up being shot with their own weapon.


Austins treated wastewater, put into the Colorado River, is of higher quality than water the city takes from the lake for public use.


If we use (Tax Increment Financing) funding, thats going to take funds from the general fund for Pinellas County, as it will take funds from the general fund for the city of St. Pete.


There havent been tax cuts for the rich in Rhode Island.


Under Mayor Cicilline, [Providence] was a sanctuary city.


Hillary interned with Bob Treuhaft, the head of the California Communist Party.


My opponent here has accepted money from Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae (and) hosted subprime mortgage seminars.


We brought crime rate down by 30 percent when he was mayor of Dallas.


Since last years address, more than 10,000 jobs created -- many on the high end of the employment scale.


Obama opposed exploring for energy in Alaska.


There is a federal criminal law that says its a crime to transport dentures across state lines.


Our children do not spend any time in school learning about our own U.S. Constitution.


Sen. Luther Olsen, his recall opponent, supported the sale of state-owned power plants not to the highest bidder, but to the biggest donors with no oversight.


The Dallas Cowboys cant put a sticker on their helmets for the 5 police officers who were killed.


Eric Cantor was the co-author of the House GOP principles on immigration reform. Both the New York Times and the Washington Postsaid that thatcaptured the essence of what was in the Senate immigration bill.


A black male baby born today, if we do not change the system, stands a one-in-three chance (of) ending up in jail.


Theres pretty much no question that [the curfew ordinances] arent effective in either reducing crime or preventing harm to young people.


The minimum wage is lower right now than it was when Ronald Reagan took office.


Taxpayer resources are being used to facilitate private political agendas through automatic payroll deduction of union dues.


Ben Carson is running for president to eliminate dependency on government. But he doesnt mention that he grew up in public schools, got public housing and food stamps, got free glasses from a government program, was helped by Affirmative Action, and got Pell Grants for college.


If you don't count illegal aliens, people who qualify for other insurance, and people who make more than $75,000 a year, it leaves about 15 million people who are uninsured.


When I was in college, we used to take a popcorn popper . . . and we would fry squirrel.


Over the last 10 years, Georgias public health has declined.


This years state budget and my spending proposal for Fiscal Year 2016 represent an infusion of more than $1 billion in additional money for K-12 education.


Under Floridas voting law, a requirement to turn in voter registrations within 48 hours makes it impossible to meet the deadline if youre working right to the end of the week.


There was never a single shred of evidence presented to anyone thatthe attacks in Benghazi, Libya, were spontaneous, and in fact, the CIA themselves understood that early on.


After leaving the White House, Hillary Clinton was forced to return an estimated $200,000 in White House china, furniture and artwork that she had stolen.


A careless attitude and poor oversight by the Texas Department of Agriculture led to deaths and illnesses traced to a Texas peanut plant.


Rhode Islanders pay among the highest auto repair bills in the nation.


The Republicans' alternative health care plan "will still let insurers raise premiums four times faster than wages."


There was no surge in 501(c)(4) applications in 2010.


State Sen. Steve Ogden was the driving force behind business income tax hurting small business, crafted the Robin Hood school finance scheme making property taxes skyrocket, wrote a budget that will result in a $14 billion deficit and voted against gun freedoms.


Planned Parenthood is the only health care that a significant number of women get. About 30 percent of women, thats their health care.


When NAFTA was passed, there was an acceleration of immigration from Mexico because people were in search of jobs.


Thomas Paine wrote that the duty of a patriot is to protect his country from his government.


Vows to keep Georgias race for governor civil and focused on the positive.


I stopped requesting earmarks in 2008.


Military "recruiting went on at Harvard every single day throughout the time (Kagan) was there."


The average person who gets the minimum wage in America is 35 years old.


Said the year before he took office, the state lost 119,000 private-sector jobs, labeling them Corzine jobs losses of 2009.


Ed Perlmutter voted for Viagra for rapists paid for with tax dollars.


The sales tax increase, if approved, will cost taxpayers up to $300 million per year, in perpetuity, to finance a rail system for the City of Tampa.


The majority last quarter of Sherrod Browns campaign contributions came from outside of the state of Ohio.


Heroin .. pours across our southern borders.


(Birmingham, Ala.) is the cradle of the civil rights movement.


After a decade of decline, this country created over half a million manufacturing jobs in the last two and a half years.


Sometime in the next decade, there will be more Latinos in the state of Texas than there are Anglos. That will happen sometime in the next five to eight to ten years.


Michelle Nunn is for amnesty.


Theres been no conclusive or specific report to say Russia was trying to muddy the election.


In the history of the United States, 168 presidential nominees have been filibustered, 82 blocked under President Obama, 86 blocked under all the other presidents.


The Mormon religion has "a plan that will see the Constitution thrown out and replaced by a theocracy."


The Massachusetts health care plan is wildly unpopular among state residents.


In the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama "has not reached across party lines to get anything significant done."


Dollar General added 2,500 stores and 20,000 jobs during his four-year tenure as CEO.


Mayor Giuliani's lawsuit killed the line-item veto.


Since the beginning of the economic downturn in FY 2008, the state workforce has been reduced by 12.4 percent as part of overall cost savings measures to balance the budget to reduce revenues.


More Republicans than Democrats voted for the Wall Street bailouts.


Nearly 65 percent -- almost two-thirds -- of all new permanent residents obtained that status by virtue of their family status.


Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen knew about (the Ken Kratz sexting) case for nearly a year and did nothing about it.


John Oxendine is under a state ethics investigation because he illegally funneled more than $120,000 to his campaign from shady insurance political action committees in Alabama.


Elena Kagan is a New York City radical, Marxist lawyer through and through.


These people that we were going to deport for good reason ended up becoming citizens. Ended up becoming citizens. And it was 800. And now it turns out it might be 1,800, and they dont even know.


When John Kasich became governor of Ohio, there was an $8 billion budget deficit and now theres a $2 billion surplus.


The federal government borrows almost $60 billion per week.


While (Barack) Obama preaches we are our brothers keeper, his brother and aunt live in real poverty in Kenya.


Texas ranks: #1 in worker deaths, #1 carbon emissions, #50 in high school graduates, #50 in funding for mental health patients.


During a town hall meeting on health care, "ABC didn't even allow ads that opposed the president's health care plan to be aired."


Our businesses have created jobs every single month since (Obamacare) became law.


Republicans Chuck Grassley, John Boehner and John Mica flip-flopped on providing end-of-life counseling for the elderly.


One out of every four homeless people on our streets is a veteran.


Oregon state employees received a catch-up pay raise in 1981 -- just two years after they agreed not to take a raise in exchange for a retirement benefit.


The black unemployment rate (has) increased since the recovery has begun.


His bill, HB 97, would prevent the use of taxpayer dollars on abortions.


The CBO estimates that fully extending the Bush tax cuts would add 600,000-1.4 million jobs in 2011 and 900,000-2.7 million jobs in 2012.


After Fahrenheit 9/11 came out, "Bush's approval rating never was better, it only got worse."


All of Floridas four-year state colleges now offer bachelors degrees for only $10,000.


Thom Tillis gives tax breaks to yacht and jet owners.


Ted Kennedy sent a letter to then Soviet leader Yuri Andropov apologizing for Ronald Reagan and begging the Soviets not to overreact.


Risk analysts listed Donald Trump, a Donald Trump presidency, as one of the top threats facing the global economy, ahead of terrorism.


Amendments (Hillary Clinton) supported and voted for in 2006, she no longer supported in 2008, showing she changed positions on an India nuclear deal.


Daraprim is still underpriced, relative to its peers.


In New Mexico, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Diane Denish spent federal stimulus funds on campaign Christmas cards.


Senator McCain would pay for part of his (health care) plan by making drastic cuts in Medicare $882-billion worth.


He made time to go to the gym, but canceled a visit with wounded troops. Seems the Pentagon wouldn't allow him to bring cameras.


The Tampa Bay Rays prices have been judged the most affordable in all of professional sports.


A monthly police and fire protection fee on all Wisconsin phone bills does nothing to support police and fire.


Texas has the sixth-highest property taxes in the nation.


Pennsylvania has lost 35 percent of its manufacturing jobs since 2001 and Harrisburg has lost 40 percent of its manufacturing jobs since 2001.


Personal-injury trial lawyers have provided over 80 percent of the funding for the Texas Democratic Party for over a decade.


One out of five of our children live in a family thats on food stamps.


Governor Carcieri has not been campaigning with me.


State governments have little ability to stimulate job growth in the short run.


This House processed and approved as many bills as previous Legislatures.


Hillary Clinton viciously attacked women abused by Bill Clinton.


In North Carolina, paid family leave is more popular than college basketball.


The number of African-American men in prison has increased fivefold since he left office.


By the time(Mitt Romney)left office, Massachusetts was 47th in the nation in job creation.


We are seeing dramatic rate cuts to Medicare that will affect seniors ability to keep their doctor, hospital and prevention services.


The Central Falls fire department is one of the lowest, if not the lowest, paid fire departments in the state and entire region.


Florida has the third most-regressive tax structure.


The 3C Corridor train would have taken an hour and 15 minutes longer to carry passengers across Ohio than it would have taken on a New York Central train in 1935.


He never called teachers thugs and has said nothing but great things about them during the fight over his curbs on unions


Federal officials declared that grant funds could be used only for Milwaukees streetcar project, meaning it isnt possible to redirect the money to other modes of public transportation or to our public schools.


Rick Scott called education not a core function of the state.


Our deficits are falling at the fastest rate in 60 years.


Oregon has never before tried to create a land-use plan for what it should look like for 50 years.


State Supreme Court candidate Joe Donald twice supported incumbent Justice Rebecca Bradley.


An Environmental Protection Agency regulation that goes into effect Jan. 1, 2012, regulates dust.


Hidden in the healthcare.gov code is language that means users waive any reasonable right to privacy of your personal information.


President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sent his advisers to study socialism with Soviet dictator Josef Stalin so the president could replicate it in the United States.


New Hampshire is currently the only state in the nation that does not have a full-service veterans hospital or equivalent access.


We rank below Ethiopia, Im told, in terms of our exports per capita, well below any of the other developed countries we trade with, and well below China and (South) Korea.


Nancy Pelosi said, Waiting long hours in the emergency room will allow you to make new friends!


President Barack Obamas veto of the Keystone XL pipeline killed 42,000 jobs.


NAFTA, signed by Bill Clinton, has been a disaster for Pennsylvania.


Over the history of Austin, its always gotten more expensive.


Hillary Clinton invented ISIS with her stupid policies. She is responsible for ISIS.


We have killed lots of innocent people in the state of Texas.


Democrat Stephen Webber voted to allow sex offenders to be within 500 feet of childcare centers and playgrounds, and even voted to allow sex offenders to be coaches.


Seniors with coverage under Medicare Advantage will give up "more than their share" because of health care reform


One of the biggest polluters in our country is the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District.


I can't sign money. That's illegal.


He did not say Republicans would filibuster immigration reform.


I didnt raise taxes once.


Ted Cruz distributed the ad showing a nude Melania Trump on a rug.


The Democrats in the Senate and some members of Congress defended what Fannie and Freddie were doing. They resisted any change.


U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz voted to cut off Floridas veterans and their benefits.


It used to be that the only children at school who werent vaccinated were those who had true medical conditions. Now there are 19 states that allow personal belief exemptions.


People are five to seven times more likely to be murdered in workplaces that allow firearms than in those that prohibit it.


Fully inflating tires is "a step that every expert says would absolutely reduce our oil consumption by 3 to 4 percent."


Under Rosemary Lehmberg, the Travis County D.A.s office convened the grand jury that indicted Rick Perry.


Paul Ryan shut off the C-SPAN cameras when the Democrats started their sit-in.


Under Scott Walker, Wisconsin unemployments up from 4.8% to 6.2%


Things like having Friday classes have been shown to be very effective on college campuses in reducing drinking.


As the election tracker FiveThirtyEight has reported, whoever wins Pennsylvania will be our next President.


Wall Street megabanks that received bailouts in 2009 now get taxpayer-funded advantages not available to community banks in Ohio.


Detroit dumping a bunch of sewage in Lake Erie causes big problems for Ohio.


Its the first time in the nation this many members have been drawn (by a Legislature) into the same districts where it wasnt a court order.


Banks paid Hillary Clinton over $1 million and are contributing millions more to elect her.


We have 10,000 baby boomers retiring every day.


From 2008 to 2011, the pages in the conforming bills have gone from 400 pages to 2,200.


Hillary Clinton called Barack Obama naive for saying he was would sit down and talk to the Iranians during the 2008 Democratic primary.


Weve got 40 years of study now that show that, with a good preschool start, youre less likely to be on public dole, youre less likely to be in prison.


We spent approximately $20-billion of that money on pork barrel, earmark projects. Maybe if we had done it right, maybe some of that money would have gone to inspect those bridges and other bridges across the country.


Americans invented the automobile.


President Obama in November of last year wiped away (a program) that allows for shared fingerprinting for those who are behind bars so you know who is here legally and illegally.


The United States is the oldest democracy in the world.


A Republican-drawn map of proposed U.S. House districts for Texas gerrymanders more than nine million Latinos in Texas to make sure that we have no more electoral opportunity than we did in 1991.


Bill White has a long history of trying to limit or even disenfranchise military voters.


Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state. They gave away their nuclear arms with the understanding that we would protect them.


This year, the Blackstone Valley Mayoral Academy became the first public school in Rhode Island history to have 100 percent of its elementary-age students proficient in reading on state assessments.


Guantanamo Bay detainees will get the H1N1 vaccine.


The world food demand is going to double sometime between now and 2070.


For most black people in the history of this country it was illegal to pass as a white person. You were actually put in jail if you tried to pass.


West Linn has one of the highest per capita rates of home-based businesses in the United States.


What is the maximum number of students allowed in your classroom? ... 30 or more!


Robert Hurt supported a bill that helped the uranium industry after taking contributions from the industry and because his father had a stake in it.


Obamacare carries on even under a government shutdown.


Georgia crackdown on illegal immigration costs state farmers $400 million last year.


I was able to go and buy an automatic weapon Most people can go out and buy an automatic weapon.


Texas has one state inspector for every 4,500 oil and gas wells.


A report just came out that if we continue with President Obamas policies, were looking at over 9 percent unemployment next year in the fourth quarter.


Since Newtown, more people have died at the end of a gun than we have lost in Afghanistan.


The steel industry is producing as much steel in the United States as it ever was. Its just (that) it needs one-tenth of the workers that it used to.


The Congressional Budget Office has already doubled its estimate for the cost (of Obamacare) so far from roughly $800 billion to $1.7 trillion.


Federal spending on entitlements is projected to consume all revenue by 2045.


New Jersey has the second highest rate of institutionalization of people with developmental disabilities in America. Only Texas puts more of its citizens -- confines more of its citizens -- to institutions than New Jersey.


You know what Truman said, You want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.


Teachers were not involved in developing the Common Core State Standards.


While (Charlie Crist) was governor, utility costs went up 30 percent and went from below the national average to above the national average. Since I got elected, utility rates have come down 11 percent and now we are below the average.


The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over. John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence.


Just in the past 10 years, college tuition has increased 28 percent.


Scott Walkers school-aid cuts were so devastating that students are without chairs and a government survey found 47 kids in a classroom.


Hillary Clinton wanted the wall.


In 1952, the corporate income tax accounted for 33 percent of all federal tax revenue. Today, despite record-breaking profits, corporate taxes bring in less than 9 percent.


Oregons three largest employers, and 13 of the top 25, are health care providers.


Wisconsin pays criminal defense lawyers who represent the indigent $40 per hour, the lowest in the country.


Under Scott Walker, Wisconsin moved from 16th to third in percentage of people with student loan debt.


The Iranians continue in the view of every objective observer continue to pursue the acquisition of nuclear weapons.


More people are struck by lightning than commit in-person voter fraud by impersonation.


The governor having a meeting ... isnt covered by the open meetings act.


Senator Webb was a reliable vote for President Obama and Senator Harry Reid.


Hillary Clinton voted for virtually every trade agreement that has cost the workers of this country millions of jobs.


A drug test can be performed for just $4 or $5.


The vaccine to prevent HPV can cause mental retardation.


13 percent of Americans, the lowest ever, are without health care.


President Obama promised families making less than $250,000 a year would not see taxes go up, but Obamacare raises 18 different taxes.


When we go to vote, they ask for drivers license and verify that you are a voter and a citizen in the state of Texas.


Ninety percent of Texans say they do not want the nursing homes to close. It polls higher than anything else.


Animal abuse is often an indicative trait of future acts of violence against humans.


Some even advocate wiping out 401(k)s entirely and replacing them with government-run accounts.


While President Barack Obama promised to work with your employer to lower your premiums by $2,500 per family per year, his health care law raises premiums in the individual market by $2,100 per family.


Marco Rubio voted against the bipartisan Violence Against Women Act.


U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson voted to cut $700m from Medicare.


Young women, account for a shocking 74% of all new HIV infections among adolescents in Africa.


Regarding the USA Freedom Act, There is nothing we are allowed to do under this bill that we could not do before.


Mitt Romney supports a plan to slowly and gradually raise the retirement age of Social Security.


Almost 1,000 people a day are moving to Florida because they are more free here than they are in some other states.


Mahatma Gandhi once said, First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.


President Barack Obamasown administration has done five environmental impact assessments of the Keystone XL pipeline, all of which have said it would have a minimum impact on the environment.


Rhode Islands state pension system underperformed the median three out of the four years that Mr. [Frank] Caprio was in office.


In Liberia, a girl is more likely to be married by 18 than to know how to read.


Barack Obama "wants to nearly double the capital gains tax" increasing taxes on "mutual funds, 401(k)s" for "policemen, firemen, nurses."


You know how many children in the history of the United States have died in a fire (at school)? Zero.


When we had a conservative Republican president we were losing 750,000 jobs a month.


We have a tax code that allows groups to use their political operations within the tax code, under the guise of a charity, to use undisclosed millions of dollars to do political campaigns.


Professional football coach Rex Ryan won championships in New York.The AFC, I think, twice.


Were the only system of federalism in the world.


With only 67 bills or so passed into law, 2013 was the least productive year in congressional history since weve been keeping record.


We actually have not required in this law that you carry health insurance.


Donald Trump supports the Wall Street bailout.


Rhode Island has the highest dropout rate in New England at twenty-three percent.


Debbie Wasserman Schultz has voted for huge subsidies for the sugar industry ... as well as for delays in cleanups.


California Republican gubernatorial hopeful Meg Whitman "contributed to, and campaigned, for" Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer.


Weve dedicated more money from (Washington Countys) transportation budget to bike and ped projects under my watch than at any time in the history of Washington County.


One in four Texans lacks health insurance, the highest proportion in the nation.


Two years after the worst recession most of us have ever known ... corporate profits are up.


The Mack Penny Plan for the federal budget would balance our budget by 2019 and continues to gain support.


Obamacare could force thousands of volunteer fire stations to cut service or close entirely!


The Family Research Council, according to some government agencies, is a terrorist group.


His average federal tax rate was 36 percent.


Excise taxes are...disproportionately burdening middle- and lower-income consumers.


Almost every state has offered an insurance plan on its health exchange that does not cover abortion.


In 2010 about 75 percent of child abuse and neglect reports in Oregon were made by those required to report by law.


Barack Obama has "reversed" on his commitment "to begin withdrawing American troops from Iraq immediately."


Spending increases, not tax cuts, are the major cause of the federal budget deficit.


Gov. Scott Walkers proposed reduction in university spending is about the size of the one under Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle, but Democrats didnt treat Doyles cut as so dire.


Creflo Dollar has endorsed Republican Donald Trump for president.


We have no regulation of drones in the United States in their commercial use.


Scott Fisher tried to expand Obamacare in Texas and even voted for an official resolution to force 1 million Texans into Obamacare.


Republican leaders said "no" to "tax cuts for 95% of working Americans."


The average rate of fraud in the Earned Income Tax Credit, Medicare, Medicaid and food stamps programs is 20 to 25 percent.


Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have cost every U.S. family $45,000.


Almost all of the polls that have come out suggest that I am a much stronger candidate against the Republicans than is Hillary Clinton.


, Oregon has the third largest class size in the nation.


4.7 million people have lost their insurance in 32 states due to Obamacare.


With Rick Scott, there are more funds for preschool education.


There's more than 100,000 people working at the Department of Agriculture. That's 1 employee for every 30 farmers.


Only 25 percent of Texas high school students graduate prepared for college or careers.


Wholly domestic communication between you and your wife can go to New York to London and back and get caught up in the (NSA) database.


Under Mitt Romney, Medicare could end as we know it, leaving Julia with nothing but a voucher to buy insurance, which means $6,350 extra per year for a similar plan.


President Abraham Lincoln enforced the Fugitive Slave Act until the Civil War ended.


Under the clear letter of the law, (Justice Clarence Thomas) must recuse himself from the case challenging the constitutionality of the health care law.


Oregon school districts are directing 24 percent of their food budgets to purchase local foods. Thats the highest percentage in the country.


Sixty-one percent of our active military are currently listed as overweight.


The substitute budget now adds in tax breaks and tax deductions for those who buy these prisons.


President Obama is shrinking our military.


A judges order means theres a Constitution exemption zone if you live within 100 miles of the United States border.


Eighty-five percent of governments running right now. Only 15 percent of government spending is shut down.


Obama's tax plan cuts taxes "for 95 percent of all working families."


Congress has cut funding, has slashed funding, for veterans benefits over these last years.


When the presidents spokesman was asked about (Anwar) al-Awlakis son, he said he should have chosen a more responsible father.


Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg agreed to use a technicality to give a convicted sex offender a new hearing because he didnt understand the charge.


Mitt Romney wants to get rid of Planned Parenthood.


Bill McCollumhas "recovered $200 million in Medicaid fraud."


If labor force participation rate were the same as when Barack Obama became president, unemployment would be 11 percent.


I was among the earliest to criticize the rush to war (in Iraq), and yes, even before the war ever started.


Clackamas County has more urban renewal debt than all the other Oregon counties combined.


Any child born prematurely, according to the president, in his own words, can be killed.


Under Obama, home values in Florida collapsed, construction jobs were lost and the state had a high foreclosure rate.


Today 46 percent of all Floridians owe more on their home than it is worth.


When Chuck Schumer and Marco Rubio tried to push amnesty, it was Ted Cruz who stopped them.


Tom Suozzi raised taxes by hundreds of millions of dollars as Nassau County executive.


Nearly 40 percent of his McAllen-area constituents suffer from obesity.


When career politician Daniel Webster became speaker of the House, he wasted $32,000 of our money on a spiral staircase for his office.


Donald Trump says he has foreign policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia.


15,000 IRS employees have to be added to administer ObamaCare and look at the tax implications.


The premiums on Medicares prescription drug program have fallen almost every year since it began.


The United States has seen a net loss of people with health insurance because of Obamacare.


United States of America is twenty-sixth in school performance in the world.


Wisconsin education agency urged white students to wear white wristbands as a reminder about your (white) privilege.


Congress is on vacation.


The Koch brothers are the richest people in the world. Individually, theyre only fifth. Put them together theyre the richest in the world.


Crime is down in Arizona.


The governor does not have any power to veto a referendum [on same-sex marriage] that would be a constitutional amendment.


President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry agreed to lift Irans economic and arms sanctions without any proof of change in conduct.


A new manufacturing plant is slated to create about 3,000 jobs in central and northeast Georgia and create about a $3 billion infusion into the economy.


We created as many jobs in the first six months of this year as we did in all of 2011 and 2011 was the best single year for private-sector job growth since the year 2000.


Charlie Crist signed into law an automatic 15 percent annual tuition increase that put college further out of reach for many Floridians.


Mitt Romneys plan makes catastrophic cuts to education.


Gov. Scott Walker has caused Wisconsin to lose more jobs than any other state in the country.


Your tax dollars are not being used to sue you, the people.


Todays marijuana is 300 percent to 800 percent more potent than the pot of yesteryear.


Republican state leaders are using "Soviet-style" budget management.


Federal employees are making twice as much as their private counterparts.


Sen. Thad Cochran voted to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on ... the Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska instead of shifting the money to repair a bridge damaged by Hurricane Katrina.


Rep. Paul Ryans Medicare plan lines the pockets of the private insurance companies, increases costs for seniors and does not reduce the deficit.


House Bill 2301 never had a public hearing


President Barack Obama got a pass over controversalremarks byRev. Jeremiah Wright, while a12-year-old speech by House Majority Whip Steve Scalise hasblown up into a national story.


Virginia is the No. 1 recipient of federal dollars.


New Mexico was 46th in teacher pay (when he was elected), now we're 29th.


The Obama administration has even joined Islamist governments in sponsoring a U.N. resolution that would shred our First Amendment by threatening to make discussion of radical Islamism potentially illegal.


There has never been a death caused by a [commercial nuclear] reactor in the United States, even when Three Mile Island failed in the 1970s.


Donald Trump said he intends to open up additional areas off the coast to oil drilling during the campaign.


Scott Walker cut funding to local governments in Wisconsin, contributing to the second-largest increase in violent crime in the Midwest.


Gov. John Kasich implied that a portion of workers compensation rebates to employers should be directed back to him in the form of campaign cash.


This guy didn't even support Ronald Reagan.


Over the past few months, we've learned that "we just can't count on the media to debunk" lies about health insurance reform.


Close to 90 percent of the population growth in Texas over the last decade was non-Anglo.


Im self-funding my own campaign.


The median net worth of American households hasnt changed much over the past decades, its about $20,000 ... but Congress average median net worth has ballooned, more than doubled.


Many of (Hillary Clintons) friends took bigger deductions (than me). Warren Buffett took a massive deduction. (George) Soros, who is a friend of hers, took a massive deduction.


We have to recognize that our salaries for faculty are the lowest in New England with the exception of the University of Maine.


U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham says South Carolina has a labor shortage and wants more immigration.


Rick Scott didnt even come to his own education summit. But he did take time to go to the tea party convention the same week.


Kohls Department Stores in 2012 announced the creation of 3,000 new jobs.


As governor of Arkansas, I cut taxes and fees almost 100 times, saving the taxpayers almost $380-million. I left a surplus of nearly $850-million.


In annual surveys of Rhode Island communities that receive Drug Free community grants, many report that more than 50 percent of youth surveyed do not think daily marijuana use poses any serious risk of harm.


Under President Obama, U.S. security funding for Israel is at an all-time high.


Maryland is creating jobs at 2 times the rate that Virginia is.


Starbucks took Christmas off of their brand new cups.


Harry Reid voted to use taxpayer dollars to pay for Viagra for convicted child molesters and sex offenders.


John McCain "has threatened extinction for North Korea and sung songs about bombing Iran."


Republicans control the U.S. Senate with 54 seats, but those 54 senators were elected by only two-thirds the number of voters who elected the Democrats. In the Senate, the majority party represents a minority of the people.


The board of a nonprofit organization on which Obama served as a paid director ... granted funding to a controversial Arab group.


National debt plus unfunded liabilities adds up to $520,000 per American household.


In the United States, weve had 12 years in a row of wages declining.


About $4.89 billion in one-time money was used to balance the current state general revenue fund budget.


Abortion coverage is a standard insurance benefit in nearly 90 percent of private plans sold in the U.S.


We spend more money on lobbying than we do on campaigns.


Voting in the wrong precinct led to over 14,000 registered voters statewide to lose their vote in 2008.


One in three American women will have had an abortion by the time she reaches the age of 45.


Eighty percent of the oil were discovering, were discovering in the deep Gulf of Mexico.


Food stamp growth, while high, lagged the rise in unemployment.


President Barack Obama is the first president weve ever had who thinks he can choose which laws to enforce and which laws to ignore.


Today, we import triple the amount of oil than we had on the day Senator McCain took office.


Just 9 percent of Muslims in Pakistan viewISIS favorably. Unfortunately, that 9 percent is 16 million people. And thats just one country.


Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur actually lives in a fancy condo in the Washington, D.C. suburbs.


One-third of the health care dollar goes to no such thing as health care; it goes to the insurance companies.


Under a new law, doctors performing drug-induced abortions could be charged if women dont return to them for follow-up care


Weare picking up oil with shovels and paper and plastic bags.


One would have to go back more than a century to find a scenario where a presidents nominee for the Supreme Court was confirmed by the opposition party in the Senate when the vacancy occurred during an election year.


I was speaking out on pension reform almost 17 years ago.


As a state rep, I was considered the fourth-most conservative in the Legislature. states rick-green republican 0 1 1 0 0 a speech 2552.json mostly-true Rand Paul wants us to pay $2,000 just to get Medicare. health-care,medicare,message-machine jack-conway Kentucky Attorney General Kentucky democrat 0 1 0 2 0 a campaign commercial 9353.json mostly-true Says Hillary Clinton opposed an individual mandate and favored an employer mandate back in 1993. health-care,public-health bobby-jindal Governor of Louisiana Louisiana republican 0 1 4 4 0 an op-ed for Politico Magazine 9577.json mostly-true There are more than 46 million Americans living in poverty today -- the largest number in 54 years. medicaid,poverty kirk-cox House majority leader Virginia republican 0 0 0 1 0 a speech. 4318.json half-true Since I introduced my budget -- first budget -- in March of 2010, weve created 50,000 new private-sector jobs for the people of this state. jobs,state-budget chris-christie Governor of New Jersey New Jersey republican 10 17 27 19 8 a news conference in Belmar  9864.json mostly-true Scott Walker cut school funding more per student than any governor in America. children,education,message-machine-2014,state-budget,states,taxes greater-wisconsin-political-fund Wisconsin none 3 3 3 1 1 a TV ad 8243.json true Says he would be first CPA to serve as Texas comptroller. state-finances raul-torres Accountant, politician Texas republican 0 0 0 0 0 a campaign video 13500.json mostly-true On Donald Trumps plan to cut federal funding to sanctuary cities, because of a decision by the Supreme Court, no presidents in a position to cut off funding across the board. It has to be very specific to the matter at hand. city-budget,county-budget,federal-budget,homeland-security,immigration,state-budget bill-de-blasio New York City Mayor New York democrat 1 0 0 1 0 a WNYC interview 9854.json false Thomas Jefferson said, That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. elections jody-hice republican 0 1 0 0 0 a Facebook post 7737.json barely-true Proposed gun control legislation will outlaw practically every firearm, make you pay $100 per firearm, put you into a police database and make it nearly impossible to get a permit to carry a concealed weapon. crime,criminal-justice,government-regulation,guns,market-regulation ed-doyle administrator, Rhode Island chapter, Gun Rights Across America. Rhode Island activist 1 0 0 0 0 a news release and Facebook post 12293.json barely-true Says Donald Trump thinks a grown man pretending to be a woman (should) be allowed to use the womens restroom. candidates-biography,corrections-and-updates,gays-and-lesbians,campaign-advertising ted-cruz Senator Texas republican 36 33 15 19 8 an attack ad 457.json half-true McCain has voted repeatedly at least six times against funding for global HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB fund, once as one of only 14 senators."


In Florida, its not illegal for an immediate family member of state officials to prosper from legislation supported by a spouse.


Unsuccessful Texas abortion legislation was supported by a majority of Texans.


The fertilizer plant that exploded in West, Texas,had not been inspected by the state of Texas since 2006.


Photos prove the Denver light rail system has low ridership.


Chris Christie has refused to fund pensions by billions of dollars, and got legislative approval to begin properly funding pensions in 2018.


Thirty million Americans, including a lot of people in Florida, are going to be able to get healthcare next year because of that law.


A 10-year state program that created 202 jobs at a cost of $247,000 per job was approved by former Gov. Jim Doyle.


Jeanne Shaheen voted to pave the way for a new national energy tax.


There are 30,000 people that have been killed with seat belts.


Fifty percent of our students who enter higher education need to take remedial courses because they are not prepared for college-level work.


As Alaskas attorney general, (U.S. Senate candidate Dan) Sullivan successfully fought to protect our Second Amendment rights and passed stand your ground.


The Supreme Courts views are radically out of step with public opinion regarding its decision to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.


Missouri is #1 in the nation for holding down tuition increases at public universities.


Houston is the third-most toxic city in the United States of America.


Most Texas schools spend 45 out of 180 school days in mandated testing.


Libya supplies the oil for China. We get no oil from Libya.


In about three weeks over a half million Floridians are going to lose their coverage again through Obamacare.


Were spending millions for each individual held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.


Florida sheriffs unequivocally support the stand your groundlaw.


The sequester has already lost 1.6 million jobs.


Deborah Ross supports the Iran nuclear deal and the ransom it paid for hostages.


Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp is a "career politician."


In 2010, 2,694 young people were killed by gunfire. 1,773 were victims of homicide; 67 were elementary school-age children.


Heroin and prescription opioids are the number one cause of accidental or preventable death in Wisconsin.


Inner-city crime is reaching record levels.


The Arizona immigration law expressly bans racial profiling.


Hillary (Clinton) wants to increase the number (of Syrian refugees) by 500 percent.


Sherrod Brown voted for the $1.17 trillion health care law that adds a new tax on Ohio manufacturers.


Data from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities suggest that the Texas budget gap is worse than New Yorks, about as bad as Californias, but not quite up to New Jersey levels.


The oddest thing is he doesn't want to do for America what he did for Massachusetts. He did mandate health care for Massachusetts, which is HillaryCare, and he doesn't want to do that for America.


If anyone should know irresponsible it should be Senator Buono. Shes the one, her budget left us with a $2 billion budget deficit in fiscal 10 that I had to fix. Her mistakes. And for fiscal year 2011 an $11 billion budget deficit. Her mistakes, along with her partner Jon Corzine.


The results of Atlanta Public Schools 2010 and 2011 CRCT tests have not been questioned.


Since the president became the president, we have lost 3.3 million jobs in the private sector. But you know whos done OK and whos not complaining today? The public sector. Weve gained 590,000 public sector jobs.


More than 32,000 Americans lose their lives to gun violence each year.


South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is an immigrant.


Every one of the mass shootings except two in America since 1950 have been in gun-free zones.


I created a flat tax in the state of Utah. It took that state to the number-one position in terms of job creation.


Tammy Baldwin voted to gut Medicare for seniors.


Republican gubernatorial candidate Eric Greitens spent another $600,000 on image consultants to rebrand his charity, The Mission Continues.


Women in the United States are paid about 70 percent of what men earn for the same work.


Florida didnt offer special incentives to Deutsche Bank, which announced it will add 300 jobs in Florida.


Anyone who knows you can just look it up to see if you voted.


No doctors who went to an American medical school will be accepting Obamacare.


The departments of Commerce, Education and Energy and the EPA saw their spending increase by between 130 percent and 219 percent between 2008 and 2010.


We are 49th in the nation for our graduation rate


Today California is kicking our butt, creating more jobs and more economic growth than Texas.


The Ryan budget gets rid of Medicare in 10 years and turns it into a voucher program.


The health care reform law reduces the deficit by nearly $1.2 trillion over the next two decades.


Bill Nelson cast the deciding vote for Obamacare cutting Medicare spending by $700 billion and letting an unelected board decide what gets covered here.


Despite keeping distance from national media interviewers, I did local press all along, the last three months.


Pending a federal waiver, the 2013 Legislature eliminated the overtesting of students in grades 3-8 by decreasing the number of tests from 17 to 8.


Clinton's former pastor convicted of child molestation.


Our 12 month job increase was the sixth highest in the nation.


Schoolchildren across the nation "will be forced to watch the president justify his plans for government-run health care, banks, and automobile companies, increasing taxes on those who create jobs, and racking up more debt than any other president."


More astronauts have been to the moon than farmers who paid the inheritance tax in 2013.


As a prosecutor, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser did not investigate or file charges in a case involving 30-year pedophile priest, then participated in cover-up.


A Florida judge ruled parts of Obamacare unconstitutional.


Georgia has the most lax gun laws in the nation.


The Texas leg of the Keystone pipeline has already created 4,800 jobs in just the year its been up and running.


$29 is what families on SNAP (i.e. food stamps) have to live on for a week.


Mitt Romneys companies were pioneers in outsourcing U.S. jobs to low-wage countries.


He eliminated an EPA rule that treated spilled milk like it was oil.


There are over 100 pipelines between the United States and Canada right now.


In the entire public school system in Camden last year, only three students graduated college ready.


PWNED: House GOP Dominates Twitter, YouTube, Social Media in Congress.


More people were killed in the United States last year by tainted food than U.S. troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since the wars began.


The General Assembly has no explicit constitutional authority to impose income, sales, estate and the myriad of other taxes upon us.


Sen. McConnell offered a fully paid two-month extension of unemployment insurance.


Were practically not allowed to use coal any more. What do we do with our coal? We ship it to China and they spew it in the air.


Theres nothing in the voting instructions that weve been getting in the last several elections that lets you know about the limitations of the master lever.


The No. 1 issue that the American people care about is getting America back to work.


He has engaged in the political process only in the past decade.


Higher beer production and higher consumption go hand-in-hand.


Has created 60,000 net new jobs since taking office.


John Boozman is excited about putting a 23 percent national sales tax on everything you buy.


A Cornell University research study concludes that ethanol generates a 29 percent energy loss, meaning it takes more than a gallon of gasoline to produce a gallon of ethanol.


Its just been announced that the residents of Florida are going to experience a massive, double-digit premium hike.


For the first time in 35 years, we have more businesses dying than we do starting.


Justice Elena Kagan recused herself in many cases where she had little role as solicitor general, simply because of the appearance of a conflict of interest.


A clear majority of Americans support removing the cost-sharing requirement for prescription contraceptive coverage.


He's sued gun manufacturers. He was supportive of Brady. He was supportive of things like assault weapon bans.


Since 2007, Texas has gained 440,000 people while Maryland has lost 20,000.


Cincinnati is already one of the biggest cities in the country to run 100 percent on clean energy.


The (State Board of Administration) transparency issue got a great airing the last legislative session.


This year, we have added an average of 200,000 jobs per month, a majority in the private sector, a stark contrast to the Bush Administration record of losing an average of nearly 750,000 jobs per month in its last three months.


A Census Bureau worker says he was told to skew information to bring the unemployment rate down as we headed into an election season.


The State Election Board has issued nearly $275,000 in fines to violators of absentee ballot laws.


Hillary Clinton has taken over $800,000 from lobbyists.


We pay among the highest tolls in the nation for the privilege of crossing that bridge.


Hillary Clinton wants to abolish the Second Amendment.


Tommy Thompson favors Obamas health care mandate, was publicly thanked by Obama for health reform support and that Thompson says we cant repeal Obamacare.


After Arizona banned smoking in all public places in 2007, admissions for acute myocardial infarction stroke, asthma, [and] angina decreased following the implementation of the ban.


We are now, for the first time ever, energy independent.


A year ago, in March 2007, I called for immediate action to address abuses in the subprime market, and I laid out detailed concrete proposals for how to do so.


If you have ever visited Nashville or Washington D.C. you will see MANY names and initials carved into ... desks.


Forty-six cents of every dollar Ohio could get for Medicaid expansion is going to come from China or some other country that doesnt like us very much.


Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst would privatize Social Security.


Nobody has been talking about it (Medicaid fraud), focused on it, or paying attention to it.


Milwaukees police chief can fire officers for basically no cause.


Believe it or not, consumer spending is up over the last eight months.


Milwaukee has the second-highest number of children recovered from sex trafficking.


Donald Trump is the first person running for president, Republican or Democrat, who refused to say that he would respect the results of this election.


As Governor: Romney did not keep public safety funding in line with inflation.


Florida remains the top travel destination across the world.


If youre one of the more than 250 million Americans who already have health insurance, you will keep your health insurance.


Just on the issue of immigration alone, it is next to impossible to find a policy difference between (Donald) Trump and Congressman (Joe) Heck.


Ninety percent of the job growth in Virginia has been in the private sector.


During the 2005 fight over Social Security, there were noisy demonstrations but they were outside the events, and opponents were not disruptive crowds booed lines they didnt like, but that was about it.


The D.C.citycouncilpasseda lawbanninglethalrat trapping.


The Ukraine Orange Revolution in 2004 was the first color revolution.


Today gasoline hit $6 a gallon in Florida.


Most private sector jobs in the history of Buffalo exist in Buffalo today


Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to raise taxes on dividends, a move that would crash the stock market.


Joe Heck voted 10 times to defund Planned Parenthood ... and Heck opposes a womans right to choose, even when her health is at risk.


Big rooftop solars plan forces Nevada families who dont have solar panels to pay higher power bills to subsidize rooftop solar.


I am the only candidate that has endorsed Bernie Sanders for President. In PA, Ive got Bernies back.


Ron Wyden spent $2 million to study exotic ants.


The largest tax increase that we have ever had in our state is yours it is the business margins tax that you signed, governor.


Between 1990 and 2013, the maternal mortality rate for women in the U.S. has increased by 136%.


You cant raise taxes in Ohio. We are one of the highest taxed states in the country.


Weve had the private sector more than double the investment that was made by the public sector at Quonset Business Park.


More than 40 percent of sales nationally are made without background checks.


The name Frank has risen in popularity by 20 percent since the debut of House of Cardson Netflix.


Two-thirds of the federal budget is permanent law ... its permanently appropriated.


In Rhode Island there are 150 different pension plans for public workers.


The (national) debt really added up $75 trillion in 2010 and is on track to hit $99 trillion this year.


He forced Washington to open up the Arctic Ocean to oil drilling.


House Republicans pledged to introduce a bill to reform Americas health care system, but "the 'party of no' has . . . failed to produce legislation."


A government shutdown could disrupt ... veterans benefits.


In every single country, she had a majority of the vote -- or more of those who'd already made up their minds.


The U.S. spends $4 billion on research and development for energy, while spending $350 billion on oil from foreign countries, "many of whom are our enemies."


Under Gov. Scott Walker, Wisconsin projected a $1 billion (budget) surplus and it turns out to be a deficit of $2.2 billion.


In 2009, the Small Business Entrepreneurship Council ranked Ohio 11th in the nation and 1st in the Midwest for overall business climate.


According to the CDC, 110 million Americans now have a sexually transmitted illness.


John McCain has changed position on invading Iraq.


Unions call Obamacare bad for workers.


There are at least 23 countries that refuse to take their people back after theyve been ordered to leave the United States, including large numbers of violent criminals.


51 percent of federal tax filers paid zero federal income tax.


More people have watched Morning Joe than CNN and HLN 5 years in a row.


The National Park Service has an annual budget that is less than the city of Austin.


Austin is the largest city in America without a congressional district anchored in it.


He fought for the repeal of a septic tank inspection program after Tallahassee pulled a fast one.


The average person only pays about $1,800 in state taxes which is the lowest of all 50 states.


We flood communities with so many guns that it is easier for a teenager to buy a Glock than get his hands on a computer or even a book.


Wisconsin is called the Badger State because our ancestors came here with the hopes of living the American dream by mining.


The 2010-11 New Hampshire budget ended with an $18 million surplus, while the Republican-led 2012-13 budget has a $40 million deficit.


Texas has been waiting for two years for the federal government to act on a proposal to allow the state to "create insurance opportunities for those that are uninsured today."


Richard Devlin raised your taxes by $1 billion in a single day.


Were importing about 10 percent of our milk supply. Were Americas Dairyland, but yet we dont have enough milk in this state to meet the demand for our cheesemakers.


U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy voted to allow members of Congress to receive taxpayer-funded health care for life.


President Eisenhower, on the night before the Normandy invasion...[wrote a] letter of resignation to the United States Army for the failure of the landings at Normandy.


Our crime rate continues to plummet.


Fifty years ago, the average GM employee could pay for a year of a son or daughters college tuition on just two weeks wages.


South Carolina has the fastest-growing economy in the Southeast.


Bill McCollum diverted a state plane to his home 53 times. A state auditor called it: likely a misuse of state resources.


A college loan is the only loan in the United States that you cannot refinance when interest rates go down.


Democratic state Sen. Jim Holperin voted against a property tax freeze in 2009 and then voted for a $1.5 billion property tax hike.


Under Republican-backed state budget, the state education agency estimates expansion of Wisconsins school voucher program could cost nearly $2 billion annually


We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers.


The best evidence is that you lose -- if you use marijuana as a teenager regularly -- eight IQ points.


Jeanne Shaheen voted for a measure that would have amounted to a new national energy tax.


The group that organized Texas Muslim Capitol Day in Austin was recently listed as one of 82 organizations designated as a terrorist group by the United Arab Emirates.


During her first four years in Washington Sen. Ayotte voted with the Koch brothers nearly 90 percent of the time.


Damascus disincorporation would produce NO significant tax savings.


The United States sends $300 billion -- half our trade deficit -- overseas for oil to unstable and unfriendly regimes.


Fidel Castro endorses Obama.


Secretary Geithner has left the option on the table of abandoning the dollar for a multinational currency.


Tom Barrett voted for the largest tax increase in history ... raising taxes on gas and Social Security.


Debbie Wasserman Schultz voted repeatedly to send terminally ill patients to prison.


A bill that could restrict free speech when the president is nearby was signed by President Barack Obama in secret.


Missouri needs a voter I.D. law because theres over 16 people in the state of Missouri who have been convicted of some type of voter fraud.


Americans admire Glenn Beck more than they admire the pope.


The Florida Legislature has not filed a lawsuit to fight Amendments 5 and 6.


With the tax controls we already put in place, property taxes on a typical home in December of 2014 will actually be lower than they were in December of 2010.


Hillary Clinton is "willing to have workers' wages garnisheed if they refuse to buy health insurance."


The Federal Register - which houses all Washington regulations - is 34,000 pages in length and weighs in at more than 340 pounds.


Will Rasmussen falsely claimed he had lived in the West Linn district for about a year.


Marco Rubio believes the earth is 9,000 years old and that humans hunted dinosaurs to extinction; says Rand Paul believes the earth is 10,000 years old and God removed dinosaurs to make space for humans.


The average age of the minimum wage worker is 35 years old.


I've been standing up against ... the Chinese government over women's rights and standing up for human rights.


Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke has proven on the Madison Board of Education that she supports raising taxes and spending.


Thomas Jefferson said that government is best which governs least.


British voters under 50, especially millennials, overwhelmingly voted to stay, in the European Union. It was older voters who voted to leave.


James Langevin has received almost $20 million from taxpayers and special interests to use at his own discretion to supposedly champion Rhode Islands needs.


Ive been reducing the number of Democratic Texas Senate committee chairs since I came in as lieutenant governor.


Obama says his health care plan is "universal."


An image in a ChrisAbele TV ad depicts wealthy citizens who would benefit from a lake created by the controversial Estabrook Dam.


Fifteen out of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are in India and China.


Hillary Clinton supported and continues to support fracking.


In Miami-Dade County, we spend at our school system over $20 million every year educating recent immigrants.


Since 2009, the Ohio Republican Party has made more contacts with voters nearly 6.6 million than any other GOP state organization in the nation.


The Austin City Council may give $4 million a year to subsidize a race track.


Ten years ago the Austin Water Utility used a total of 240.3 million gallons. Every summer since then our peak day of water use has been lower.


Patrick Murphys Pay More energy agenda means you could pay another $500 a year for your utility bills!


Several elected state officials have opened their homes to children in need of loving families.


Before Medicare, only 51 percent of Americans 65 and older had health care coverage and nearly 30 percent lived below the poverty line. Today, thanks to Medicare ... nearly all seniors have coverage and 75 percent fewer struggle in poverty.


Could I just point out that ... I seem to get the first question all the time?


Cell phone numbers go public this month.


A third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion, because one in three pregnancies end in abortion.


The California governor says yes to poisoning more children with mercury and aluminum in vaccines.


Iraq has been overrun by ISIS because Hillary Clinton failed to renegotiate . . . a status of forces agreement.


U.S. Rep. Allen West wants to bring back earmarks.


Ronald Reagan repeatedly talked about how irresponsible it would be to allow the full faith and credit of the United States to be impaired in any kind of way.


85 percent of Milwaukee shootings involve people with extensive criminal records shooting other people with extensive criminal records.


Barack Obama said, If we keep talking about the economy, were going to lose.


In the last five years, 28,000 people have been killed along the U.S.-Mexico border.


The amount of money that we put into running our own state legislature is nearly as much as we put into the University of Rhode Island.


U.S. unemployment among people ages 16 to 24 is 18.4 percent, which is a 60-year high.


Floridas proposed amendment for medical marijuana would allow people who alleged minor ailments such as muscle spasms, neck pain, back pain and even menstrual cramps (to qualify) for government-sanctioned pot-smoking.


The startup rate of Hispanic businesses is three times the national rate.


When one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.


During his 18-year Senate career, (Russ Feingold) supported judges who voted to deny your individual Second Amendment right. (He) promises to protect those rights, but thats not what his record shows.


He had to impose tougher cost controls on state employees than any previous Wisconsin governor.


25% of human trafficking victims are located in Texas.


I didnt inherit money from my parents.


The economy we preside over today is better than the one we inherited.


DeKalb County has been recognized in recent years as having one the best sheriffs departments in the nation.


Why are Muslim armies so useless against ISIS? ... There are 20,000 or 30,000 (ISIS fighters). The countries surrounding ISIS have armies totaling 5 million people.


The state budget will include scholarship money for minority students as a concession to Senate Democrats for supporting the GOP-initiated transportation bill.


There isnt a single (Texas) legislator under the age of 30, even though millennials make up 25 percent of the electorate in Texas.


And 100 percent, John, of your ads . . . 100 percent of them have been negative.


Americas gun-related homicide rate would be about the same as Belgiums if you left out California, Illinois, D.C. and New Jersey, places with some of the strictest gun control laws in the U.S.


Just like Hillary Clinton, Russ Feingold had a run-in with corruption and scandal by using a personal slush fund -- a.k.a. the Feingold Foundation -- while plotting another run for U.S. Senate.


A poll conducted in Egypt revealed that 80 percent of Egyptians oppose receiving foreign aid from the United States.


In terms of the wealthiest Americans, were at the lowest tax rate since the 1950s.


There are mechanisms in place to shut down the Internet privately.


By advocating new requirements for voters to show ID cards at the polls, Republicans want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws.


Marco Rubio said that people who essentially dont agree with him, ought to leave the country, like Keith Olbermann.


We havent yet taken out a negative ad.


Georgia lawmaker pushes bill banning creation of glow in the dark human-jellyfish hybrids.


Seneca Jones Timber Co., aiming to increase logging and allay fears that old growth will be cut, says mills have shifted to second-generation trees. An ad from the company asks: Do you know that most all mills in Oregon have retooled over the past 20 years?


As bank president, Alex Sink eliminated thousands of Florida jobs while taking over $8 million in salary and bonuses.


Quotes Mark Cuban as saying,I worry that millions of millennials are voting Democrat this year because they fact-check everything.


PolitiFact issued a True ruling on Paul Krugman calling Governor Christie a fiscal phony.


(Mary) Burke was a senior member of the Doyle administration that left Wisconsin with 130,000 fewer jobs.


A Republican-led softening of firearms training rules means that untrained individuals would be allowed to carry guns with a state permit.


We have more people working in clean and green energy than in oil and gas in this country.


U.S. House candidate Carlos Curbelo opposes the repeal of Obamacare.


Now, I also support the Bush tax cuts. Sen. McCain voted against them originally. He now believes they should be made permanent. I'm glad he agrees they should be made permanent.


As a senator, Barack Obama supported "an amendment that basically gutted the legal temporary worker program."


Despite having their budget increased by over 40 percent since 2009 pending claims for benefits with the (Department of Veterans Affairs) have increased from 391,000 to 890,000 under the Obama Administration.


Nearly half of African-American children under the age of 6 are living in abject poverty.


Mitt Romney told university students in Ohio that to start a business, they should borrow money if you have to from your parents.


Alaska Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich vote as much as 80 percent of the time together.


The state share of Texas public education spending increased 82 percent over the past decade, reaching $20 billion in 2009.


She stood up to Gov. Scott Walker on tax cuts for wealthy corporations while her congressional opponent voted with Walker.


Virtually every person across this country has seen premiums going up and up and up due to Obamacare.


President Barack Obama has not raised taxes.


His plan to end the toll on Ga. 400 fulfills his campaign promise to commuters.


The Trans-Pacific trade deal could cost America 448,000 more jobs.


Donald Trumpsfoundation took money other people gave to his charity and then bought a six-foot-tall painting of himself.


The Texas Board of Nursing has a backlog of 3,000 complaints against nurses, many of them sexual assaults, malfeasance.


Rigells car dealership made over $400,000 off the Cash for Clunkers bailout.


Under Maggie Hassans leadership, we increased state spending in the middle of the great recession by 24 percent leading up to and following it.


Texas U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions said the GOPs goal is to go back to the same exact policies that were in place before this president took office... policies that crashed the economy.


Mitt Romneys campaign has already spent more on negative ads than John McCain did during his entire presidential run.


Eighty percent of the antibiotics in this country are fed to livestock.


The right-to-work states have much lower level of unemployment than the union states do.


Rhode Islands graduated driving license has saved hundreds of lives.


His deficit plan made some adjustments to (Simpson-Bowles), and were putting it forward before Congress right now, a $4 trillion plan.


Here's a man who brags about how he made the city safe. It was the Biden crime bill that became the Clinton crime bill that allowed him to do that.


This generation, on average, is starting their careers, if theyve been to a four-year college, with just under $30,000 in debt.


400 bills have my name on them either as a sponsor or a co-sponsor. You dont get that done unless you work with folks on the other side.


Ninety-five percent of all the wages in Texas are above minimum wage.


Hurricane Sandy, the most destructive Atlantic storm ever.


Austins the fastest-growing city in the country the last five years.


I remember one of [Curt Schillings] teammates said he painted his sock, the bloody sock.


Under Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, Ohio is 44th in the country in terms of getting money actually into worker retraining.


The ratio of people working for the government and working in manufacturing today is an almost exact reversal of the situation in 1960.


Michelle Nunns own plan says she funded organizations linked to terrorists.


In a few months, this deal would give Iran $150 billion for its $300 billion to $400 billion economy, which is like $8 trillion flowing into the United States treasury.


California has the same water infrastructure from when we were 16 million people.


We have more women living in poverty in this state than almost anywhere else.


President Barack Obama gives students the right to repay (federal) loans as a clear, fixed, low percentage of their income for up to 20 years.


There have been three people tried and convicted by the last administration in military courts. Two are walking the street right now.


The United States is at historic record highs of individuals being apprehended on the border from countries with terrorist ties such as Pakistan or Afghanistan or Syria.


Unemployment rate dropped in every state that elected a Republican gov. in 2010


There is no evidence that poor people abuse drugs more frequently than any other socio-economic group.


John Bolton supported the Iraq War and said last year thatI still think the decision to overthrow Saddam was correct.


Scott Walker cut back early voting and signed legislation that would make it harder for college students to vote.


Fifty-seven of Rubios 100 ideas ultimately became law.


Roughly 500,000 Georgians -- or about 5 percent of the states residents -- have gone through a background check to legally obtain a Georgia weapons carry license.


It costs about $40,000 a year for a homeless person to be on the streets.


The U.S. "only ranks 25th worldwide on defense spending as a percentage of GDP."


There hasnt really been a lot of net growth in the federal workforce when you compare it to say, 1990.


Female genital mutilation is a central African problem, not an Islamic problem, as Bill Maher suggested.


About 106,000 soldiers had a prescription of three weeks or more for pain, depression or anxiety medication.


Carbon monoxide is still employed to euthanize dogs and cats in 29 Texas animal shelters.


Large parts of Florida have experienced years of below average rainfall.


The claim that 40 percent of guns are sold without background checks traces to information gathered before background checks were even required.


Taxpayer money will provide iPod Touch devices to high school students in Utah, BlackBerry smart phones to smokers who kick the habit and funding for a study of exotic ants in East Africa.


We have more people working in the state of New Jersey today than weve ever had in our history.


Texas has the nations most uninsured residents.


Virginia ranked 35th in job creation in 2009 under Gov. Tim Kaine, and moved up to third for 2010, while McDonnell has been in office.


Today, Florida is in 50th place in spending on education.


The words subhuman mongrel, which Ted Nugent called President Barack Obama, were used by the Nazis to justify the genocide of the Jewish community.


The violent crime rate in America is the same as it was in 1968, yet our prison system has grown by over 500 percent.


Radio Marti and TV Marti have spent more than $500 million to reach less than 1 percent of the Cuban population.


Nine out of the 10 poorest states are Red states.


The president of the University of Texas has raised four-year student graduation rates to 75 percent.


Superdelegates have never been a determining factor in who our nominee is since theyve been in place since 1984.


Alexander Hamilton was an immigration hawk.


His state budget will provide an increase in state funding for the 2011-12 school year.


New York State has been horribly, horribly hurt by NAFTA


I am the only candidate who ran in either the Democratic or the Republican primary who said from the very beginning (that) I will not raise taxes on the middle class.


Hillary Clinton sent a memo to all State Department staff that said you should not do State Department business on personal email.


The CNBC debate was supposed to be three hours, and he renegotiated it down to two hours.


Marcy Kaptur has attacked his military service and training in the Air Force, showing disrespect for veterans.


If you will go look up the definition of act of God, weve used it in legal terms for a long time in this state.


We're building a nearly $40-billion natural gas pipeline, which is North America's largest and most expensive infrastructure project ever.


Austin has the lowest property tax rate by far of the five major cities in Texas.


As Providences mayor, David Cicilline said the city had a world-class school system. Not only did Providence not have a world-class school system but as measured, was amongst the last school system in the entire country.


President Barack Obamas approval rating gained 3 points in the last couple months.


Michelle Nunns foundation directed grants to an Islamic group tied to radical terrorists.


RNC version of a Hillary Clinton valentine: "Roses are red, violets are blue, I'll raise your taxes and there is nothing you can do."


Allowing all Bush income tax cuts to expire on Dec. 31 will amount to the largest tax increase in the history of America.


Some businesses in Oregon are having to shrink back their businesses as a result of the law.


It (Georgia) was one of the earliest Christian nations. The king of then-Georgia in the third century converted to Christianity.


We havent had any legislation which took away one gun in the past 20 years from anybody in this country--not one.


Fundamental changes made to the language describing the Wisconsin Idea in the University of Wisconsin Systems mission statement were the result of a drafting error.


No member of the American public has ever been killed by commercial nuclear power a record unmatched by other fuels.


Buying the naming rights to the new Falcons stadium is the largest marketing deal in Mercedes-Benz history.


The unemployment rate for African-American youths is 59 percent.


The newly created state Immigration Enforcement Review Board can actually prosecute, and get them [violators] into jail, if we bring in the attorney general.


Texans eat more catfish than residents of all other states combined.


If you give guns to gangs, you can get out of jail free, if (Californias Proposition 57) passes. If you do a drive-by shooting, you can get out of jail free, if Proposition 57 passes. If you discharge guns on a school yard, you can get out of jail free.


Initial efforts to strip airport contractors of their special diversity status has no effect on the contracts or the citys diversity goals.


Rush Limbaugh made it clear hed rather see the country fail than President Barack Obama succeed.


Im the only governor in America ... who signed a law that says there needs to be an independent investigation any time theres a death of someone in police custody.


Tom Ganley has two Fs from the Better Business Bureau and over 160 complaints in just three years.


As a U.S. senator with salary and perks, #Bernie is in the top 1 percent, but still paid only 13 percent in taxes last year.


The Florida Department of Agricultures website FreshFromFlorida.com can be used to get a permit to carry a loaded hidden gun without ever leaving your house.


Sen. John McCain spent the July 4 weekend in Islamabad, Pakistan, selling F-16s and advanced weapons to the folks who harbored Osama bin Laden.


Tim Kaine wants to thwart right-to-work reform measures in Midwest battleground states.


Sherrod Brown gave huge bonuses to executives.


A simple review of the Backrooms health code records will reveal that the restaurant already has a long-standing problem with rodent infestations.


Mike Dovillas big ideas like expanding the Ohio Motion Picture Tax Credit, which helped bring films like The Avengers to Cleveland, have helped make our state No. 1 in the Midwest for job creation.


Rhode Island has the second highest per enrollee (Medicaid) cost of any state in the country, which is 60 percent higher than the national average.


House Republicans tried to change the definition of rape.


When Roy Barnes was governor, "Georgia created 235,000 jobs."


Denali is the Kenyan word for black power.


Barack Obama never worked in the private sector before he was elected president.


Our real unemployment is anywhere from 18 to 20 percent. Dont believe the 5.6. Dont believe it.


Since 2000, Austins tax burden rose more than 40 percent while family income rose more than 20 percent.


In 2007, when Nancy Pelosi met with President Assad of Syria, nobody got upset.


Joe Heck voted to shut down the government.


Studies show that if we opened one reserve in Alaska now, in five years, gas prices could be at $2 a gallon.


Our countrys got this huge debt, and (President Barack) Obama says raise taxes and keep spending more.


During the past four years, average wages have barely budged.


76 percent of Americans want a public health care option.


The 2011-13 state budget eliminates the structural deficit for the first time in decades.


The health care reform plan would set limits similar to the socialized system in Britain, where people are allowed to die if their treatment would cost more than $22,000.


Wisconsins monthly job reports have a margin of error of 75 percent and were way off in eight of first 10 months of 2011.


The unemployment rate among blacks in Texas is 9.5% -- far more than double white unemployment -- and wages have fallen for black workers in Texas since 2000.


The FBI is involved in an investigation about people in the Rio Grande Valley who are using cocaine to buy votes.


More than 64 percent of minimum-wage earners are women.


We've won twice as many states. We've won a greater share of the popular vote.


Austin is a city that has basically doubled in size every 25 years or so since it was founded.


Weve seen highway fatalities actually decrease in Colorado since marijuana use was legalized.


Slim Jims just recently cost 99 cents but now cost $2.69.


The average minimum wage worker is 35 years old.


The Obama administration is allowing state waivers from welfare work requirements only if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20 percent.


Sunday liquor sales could generate $3.4 million to $4.8 million a year in additional sales tax revenue for Georgia.


If you take into account all the people who are struggling for work, or have just stopped looking, the real unemployment rate is over 15 percent.


The Affordable Care Act is bringing the cost of health care in our country down.


The Democratic leader in the Senate, Harry Reid, has blocked any vote on the Keystone pipeline for years.


Expanding Medicaid will worsen health care options for the most vulnerable among us in Texas.


Since he took office as Milwaukee County executive, we have never raised bus fares and this year therell be a million route-miles more than there were five years ago.


Hillary Clinton was literally present when we pressed the reset button with Russia just a few months after Russia had invaded Georgia.


From 05 to 09, weve had 1,100 soldiers commit suicide, one every 36 hours.


The economy added more jobs during four years under Obama than it did in the entire eight years under George W. Bush.


Raising taxes on investment income has actually lowered the revenue received from the tax, while cutting capital gains tax rates has increased revenue.