DonaldTrump proposes tax cuts, too -- $3 trillion for millionaires like himself and $2 trillion for corporations like his.


Democrat Hank Gilbert has a criminal conviction for theft, has multiple years of unpaid taxes, has multiple tax liens and fines, unsafe driving convictions (and) has recently been accused of taking a bribe and is on record lying to the press this year about his criminal record.


We have the highest corporate income tax in the world right now.


At the mere request from Putin, President Obama withdrew the plans for a missile defense program based in Poland and the Czech Republic.


The ACLU didnt call for an investigation (of the Newark police department), they called for an immediate federal monitor.


There have been more terrorist attacks on U.S. soil by ... Muslims in Obamas first 18 months in office than in the six years under Bush after he invaded Iraq.


Gov. Rick Perry broke his promise that he would not accept a $40,000 pay increase.


Obama was enrolled in a Wahabi school in Jakarta. Wahabism is the RADICAL teaching that is followed by the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad against the western world.


Under Mitt Romney, Massachusetts was 47th in job creation.


More private-sector jobs were created in the first eight months of 2010 than in the eight years of the Bush administration.


Days after the (Osama bin Laden) raid, Hollywood was invited into the White House so that they could receive a briefing that revealed intelligence sources and methods.


More lives are lost from violence against women, sex-selective abortion, female infanticide, suicide, egregious maternal mortality, and other sex-linked causes than were lost during all of the wars and civil strife of the 20th century.


According to an article in the Economist magazine, Americans are guaranteed to live above the poverty line if they graduate from high school, keep their first job for over a year and get and stay married.


The IRS is already planning on 19,500 new employees to administer Obamas health care mandate.


Test scores had gone up steadily for 40 years until No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top.


Weve caught Iran cheating on the interim (nuclear) deal.


Alex Sink supported higher property taxes.


The company I created, Point Judith Capital, "is the only venture capital firm in Rhode Island."


Donald Trump made a lot of money from outsourcing jobs thanks to NAFTA but never, ever raised his voice against it when Congress was considering it.


The U.S. gives foreign aid to Cuba and Venezuela, even though those countries are our enemies.


I never said that Muslims would be subject to profiling under his policies.


Medicare insurance premiums will be rising to $120.20 per month in 2013 and $247.00 per month in 2014.


Sen. Obama worked on some of the deepest issues we had and was successful in a bipartisan way.


(The Opportunity Scholarship Act) would be funded directly from public school budgets. So it would absolutely take money out of the public school system to transfer to private and religious schools.


A 9-year-old girl was recently raped in Austin, Texas, by a guy previously caught four times and released.


Florida election officials requests to some residents to submit proof of citizenship is a backdoor poll tax.


Speaker Gingrich has said that we ought to get rid of our child labor laws.


He led the effort to build a new (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) engineering campus in Wauwatosa.


Maryellen OShaughnessy accepted campaign cash from indicted politician Jimmy Dimora.


In the three months before the act took effect, America lost 750,000 jobs a month. In the last three months, we've lost about 35,000 jobs a month.


We would be just like North Carolina with HB2-like (transgender bathroom) legislation. It actually passed our chamber and I vetoed it.


We have an increase in murder within our cities, the biggest in 45 years.


Driving with a dog in your lap is dangerous, in part, because it could fly forward in a crash. An 80-pound dog at only 30 mph packs a 2,400-pound punch.


Mitt Romney supports cap and trade.


The idea of one casino per tribe is a false one.


In 2012, the state put together a list of over 100,000 people that they thought were ineligible to vote. Came out there were less than 10.


No Bridge to Nowhere could occur.


Gov. Scott Walker didnt balance the budget so we now have a larger state deficit 14 months into (his) term than we did when he was elected.


Bin Laden had declared war against Pakistan.


Last year, 244 suspected terrorists walked into gun shops and attempted to purchase a firearm; 223 were able to get the firearm.


Austin school district teachers are the lowest paid of any urban Texas district and the lowest paid of any surrounding school district.


Rand Paul supports Obamas negotiations with Iran.


Because of voter fraud, Republican candidates need to do a point or two better to win statewide elections in Wisconsin.


Unemployment in Ohio is significantly higher than the unemployment rate in states which are not forced union states and its always been that way.


Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas said: Hey, all you wrinkly, white-aged has-beens: Its time for you to die and let the next generation have your spot on the planet.


Owen in MA vs. Owen in RI Advantage:Rhode Island.


Until the new Iran deal, China and Russia have never voted with us at the U.N. on any sanctions on Iran in the past.


There are 3 million jobs available in America that are not filled because too many of our people dont have the skills for those jobs.


Freddie Mac, electric co-ops and credit unions are all government sponsored enterprises.


Barack Obama began his presidency going on a worldwide apology tour.


Donald Trump is for a single-payer health care system.


The American people support defunding Obamacare and oppose shutting down the government.


American oil production is at its highest level since 2003.


Countries with a higher minimum wage than the United States $7.25 an hour include Denmark at $21, Australia at$15.81, Germany at$11and France at$12.35.


U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown is responsible for over $14 trillion in debt.


Rick Perry wrote a letter supporting Hillarycare.


Hillary Clinton refuses to testify before Congress about the 2012 attack in Benghazi.


Donald Trump believes that states should actually have the right to lower the minimum wage below $7.25.


CIA Director George Tenet told the Bush administration that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack was coming. So they did have advanced notice.


Hostages were released as soon as Ronald Reagan took office because Iran perceived that America was no longer under the command of someone weak.


A sitting sheriff cannot be charged except by a warrant issued by a Superior Court judge.


By the time Obama took office, The Bush administration had given the car companies $13 billion and the money was now gone.


His comment about extremists being a JV team wasnt specifically referring to Islamic State.


Obamacare will drive 2.5 million Americans out of the workforce.


Mitch McConnell voted two times against the Violence Against Women Act.


Last year, Beaverton School District had the highest number of homeless students ever recorded in Oregon.


Our state economic development agency under Walker, WEDC, actually isnt even using the funds that are appropriated to it.


We were the last flag flying in Benghazi.


Rick Perry had planned to retire from the legislature until his best friend, David Weeks, and I talked him into switching parties and running for the GOP nomination for agriculture commissioner.


Donald Trump and Ron Johnson oppose a womans right to choose and Johnson voted against the Violence Against Women Act.


[O]ver 200,000 ordinary citizens were given the opportunity to identify projects they preferred.


The Public Employee Retirement System is making more millionaires than the Oregon state lottery.


E-mail quotes Maureen Dowd column that Obama has received suspicious contributions from Saudi Arabia, Iran and China.


One man sacrificed for his country. One man opposed a flawed strategy in Iraq. One man had the courage to call for change. One man didn't play politics with the truth. One man stands up to the special interests.


Tom Barrett plans to spend $100 million on a trolley that goes barely two miles on the east side of Milwaukee.


Todd Staples recently tried to woo his supporters and right-wing base by suggesting the Agriculture Commission cut programs intended to feed the elderly and disabled, many of whom are veterans.


New Jersey has the most educated population of all the states in this country.


Bruce Starr voted to throw 6,000 Oregonians off unemployment.


The Milwaukee County bus system has among the highest fares in the nation.


Maggie Hassan is the only female governor in the country.


50% of Hispanic students count on Pell Grants to pay for college.


Rhode Island gives undocumented pregnant women health insurance, plus a cash card with $400 a month on it and $250 a month or $275 a month to spend on food.


More than one-quarter of Americas young adults are too fat to serve in the U.S. military


Rick Perry is the guy that tracked down Democratic legislators who fled Texas in 2003.


Half of all adults have a pre-existing condition that could affecttheir health care coverage.


Henry Kissinger "said that we should meet with Iran guess what without precondition."


Oregonians have an amazing no-cost way to fight abortion with free political donations


One. Thats the number of new drilling permits under the Obama administration since they came into office.


Michele Bachmann said English was good enough for Jesus when he wrote the Bible.


A fairly limited number of people, 25 million to 30 million, will be allowed to access a national health insurance exchange.


40 percent of U.S. gun sales are occurring outside of licensed gun dealers.


The most popular name is no longer John or Steven. Its Jose, Camilo and Maria.


The Senate version of the economic stimulus package includes "millions of dollars to World War II Filipino veterans in the Philippines."


Charlie Crist wants felons who commit a heinous crime such as intentional permanent disfigurement of a child, you walk out of jail, you immediately get to vote.


Rick Scott stripped women of access to public health care.


Ukraine voluntarily gave up its nuclear weapons because the United States of America said it would ensure (its) territorial integrity from Russia.


A DeKalb sewer project will create up to 4,000 direct jobs per year at peak production, many of which will be set aside exclusively for DeKalb residents.


Under President Barack Obamas jobs bill, you can sue if you are unemployed and dont get the job and think you werent hired because you are unemployed.


Patrick Murphy wrongly conveyed Rubios stance on abortion for women infected by Zika.


By the end of Governor Rick Perry's term, he will have drained Texas taxpayers ... of more than $360,000 to pay for the rental mansion he has been living in while the historic Governor's Mansion is repaired.


11 soccer players on the U.S. Mens National Team are immigrants.


There are twice as many gun shops as McDonalds in the United States.


The United States is the leading nation in the world with the highest amount of doubt about the conventional wisdom of climate change.


The expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts ... would be the biggest tax increase in the history of the country, about $4.6 trillion over 10 years.


There are close to 900,000 unemployed veterans in America right now.


Gov. Chris Christie owes the state money for amenities like extra Gorgonzola cheese for his staff on these trips.


AIG said they were giving $57 million (in retention payments) to people who were being terminated.


While I was mayor of the city of Providence we had the lowest crime rate in 30 years.


Every president since Eisenhower has taken executive action to address immigration issues.


Texas ranks last in the percentage of residents with high school diplomas.


State agencies have not identified one single instance where groundwater has been damaged due to hydraulic fracking.


He told gay organizers in Massachusetts he would be a stronger advocate for special rights than even Ted Kennedy.


Military commanders have said that if Donald Trump were elected, they would not follow his orders.


Half the Americans dont pay any income taxes.


Rep. Jim Renacci was trying to leave town for the holidays without extending your payroll tax cut.


As many as six federal department budget bills have been delayed because of opposition to amendments that would ban Confederate battle flag sales at federal building gift shops.


Said that his batting average with Congress is higher than every other president since Dwight D. Eisenhower except Lyndon Johnson.


Gov. Rick Scotts sale of the state planes was not proper.


Actor Dwayne The Rock Johnson wore a T-shirt stating: We Stand for the flag, we kneel for the fallen.


Hillary Clinton believes that all abortions should be legal, even on the due date of that unborn child.


State Sen. Sheila Harsdorf wants to eliminate Medicare as we know it.


The only candidate pocketing big money from people who want to destroy coal is Mitch McConnell.


Brazil built a $300 million stadium in the Amazon rainforest that is only going to be used for four World Cup games, and theres no team that can fill it afterwards.


Barack Obama has the longest track record of any candidate in this election in support of the 'Bridge To Nowhere.'


Hillary Clinton "actually differed with (John McCain) by arguing for exceptions for torture before changing positions."


Glen Sturtevant is against smaller class sizes.


This census is also the shortest and least intrusive count in modern history.


President Obamashealth care law is a government takeover of healthcare.


Non-defense discretionary spending has increased by over 80 percent in the last two years.


Texas unemployment rate has doubled on Rick Perrys watch.


New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says we can only have three bullets and the NRA wants firearms with nukes on them.


An Internet sweepstakes cafe is a legitimate business that has been vetted and found to be completely legal in the state.


For each $1 billion in infrastructure investment, 42,000 jobs are created.


Independent analysts found that Trumps tax plan, given to the wealthy and big corporations, would rack up $30 trillion in debt.


The word progressive...was created as a substitute forcommunist.


Bruce Braley threatened to sue a neighbor over chickens that came onto (his) property.


Right now we have sufficient reserves to take care of Tennessees lottery scholarship students for a few years more.


Russ Feingold voted against the law that protected our lakes and was the only Great Lakes senator to vote no.


Texas ranks 49th in per-pupil funding among the states.


Mike Coffman is with Trump.


A request for "an increase in troops sat on desks in this White House (during the presidency of George W. Bush), including the vice president's, for more than eight months, a resource request filled by President Obama in March."


Were trailing every other state in the Midwest in terms of job creation since January of 2011.


In Virginias Medicaid program, approximately 30 percent, or $2.7 billion a year, is lost to waste, fraud and inefficiencies.


The U.S. military is in 130 countries. We have 900 bases around the world.


1 percent of candidates that (the National Rifle Association) endorsed in 2012 won.


After initially agreeing with Republicans on an amount for Zika funding, Democrats derailed it.


Medicare is going broke. The trust fund goes bankrupt in 2026.


Doctors kill about 250,000 people a year in botched surgeries.


Congress, criminals, Scientologists and other groups are exempt from Obamacare.


Since the salary for state lawmakers was raised to $79,500, that purchasing power has now been reduced to $53,000.


Ronald Reagan talked about converting the United States to the metric system.


In some Texas communities, our unemployment rate is still at 10 and 20 percent.


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


Of Mitch McConnell,What can happen in 30 years? A senator can become a multi-millionaire in public office.


When Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts was 47th in job creation


There are only about 10 people in the United States Senate who have any real business experience.


We bailed out Johnson Controls when we saved the auto industry and now they want to avoid paying taxes.


Foster children are disproportionately victims of identity theft.


The states budget shortfall is not that much different than it was in 2003.


Roy Barnes is part of the team that has run up trillions of dollars in debt that Americans will spend years paying off, and theyve done it without creating one job.


Sen. Joe Biden, the ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee, recommended partitioning Iraq into three separate entities.


Morgan Griffith fought for a plan that would have taken money away from our schools and given it to Northern Virginia schools instead.


A Republican budget proposal would have Wisconsin have the weakest standards for who can be a teacher in the classroom in the country.


Hillary Clinton said all work-related emails were sent back to the State Department. The FBI director said, thats not true.


The annual gross domestic product of metro Atlanta is bigger than 28 states in the union.


The Confederate battle flag at the South Carolina statehouse must fly at a height of 30 feet. Any changes -- taken down, or even at half-staff, if that can be done -- must be passed by a supermajority of the General Assembly.


His new running mate, Congressman Ryan, put forward a plan that would let Governor Romney pay less than 1 percent in taxes each year.


Democrats raised taxes over 115 times in the past 10 years, making New Jersey increasingly unaffordable and chasing jobs to neighboring states.


Even our attorney general who is a strong Democrat, she has said that we need causation in our workers comp system. Thats the No. 1 thing pushing our manufacturing jobs out of Illinois.


David Perdue said hed raise taxes.


88 Texas constables have died in the line of duty.


I know that Hillary on occasion has said just last year said this (NAFTA) was a boon to the economy.


John doesn't have a record in the Senate. John's only passed four bills. They're all about post offices.


The states have always defined marriage.


Right now, we have more military spending than the next 10, 11, 12 countries combined.


New York has bureaucrats telling you whether you can even drink a Big Gulp.


We need a Senator who shows up to work. Sherrod Brown missed over 350 official votes.


President Obama has fired more cruise missiles than all other Peace Prize winners combined.


The Medicare drug program resulted in the program coming in 40 percent under budget. ... And the reason it was, is because the design was right.


After my first year as governor, I was one of the most unpopular governors, maybe the most unpopular governor in the country. ... It changed.


In most Muslim countries, We cant have a church. Were not able to build synagogues. Its forbidden.


Since President Barack Obama took office, you have 1,700 employees just at the Department of Transportation earning over $170,000.


Mitchell International Airport is the the third busiest airport in the world and the number one busiest in the country.


The state of New York is the worst in the nation in economic recovery.


Shes tried over 100 jury cases in Travis County courts.


Under the Baucus bill ... federal funds would subsidize coverage of elective abortions.


Over the last 15 months, weve added more than 2 million jobs in the private sector. Thats far in excess of what it was in the comparable period after the last recession.


Thirty U.S. cities have Triple A baseball teams and virtually everyone of them [is] playing in government owned ballparks.


As a legislator, (Marco Rubio) flipped on a key vote after making a quick $200,000 from selling the house to the mother of the bills lobbyist.


Sen. Sherrod Brown admitted that his $787 billion stimulus law failed and after specifically attacking Republicans for wanting to lower Americans taxes, (he) now claims that his stimulus bill didnt do enough to lower taxes.


Big Oil gave Scott Brown $454,260.


The reality is, we are holding some of the most dangerous terrorists in the world right now in our federal prisons, including the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 'shoe bomber,' the 'Unabomber,' and many others.


John McCain and George W. Bush want to spend "a trillion dollars in Iraq over the next 10 years."


Georgia had the worst job losses in state history under GOP watch.


Withheld union dues fund half of Dem (Democratic) campaigns in Florida.


In the last two years, super PACs raised more than $180 million -- with roughly half of it coming from fewer than 200 super-rich people and roughly 20 percent from corporations.


Mitch McConnell voted to raise Medicare costs for a current Kentucky senior by $6,000.


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


Its hard to get people in Portland to vote yes on ballot measures, especially when theres opposition.


You know, when this thing first hit, I signed a declaration of emergency for the six counties that were directly affected, impacted in the Panhandle, then I extended that not long thereafter down into Sarasota County.


There has been a 100 percentincrease in student debt under this Democratic White House.


The health care bill "dumps 15 to 18 million low-income Americans into a Medicaid program that none of us want to be a part of because 50 percent of doctors won't see new patients."


BP is setting up claims offices throughout the state.


Obamacare adds trillions to our deficits and to our national debt.


Rick Perrys Pay to Play politics led him to send $899 million to an offshore call center in Bermuda, driving down enrollment in childrens health insurance


Pat Toomey thinks corporations shouldnt pay any taxes.


I've always said it's (offshore drilling) up to the states and I still say that.


The military has spent $500 million enforcing the Dont Ask, Dont Tell policy regarding gays and lesbians in the military.


Women make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns.


Undocumented immigrants pay $12 billion of taxes every single year.


Maurice Ferre says Kendrick Meek has voted 98.6 percent of the time with the Democrat party.


Minnesota has passed and Indiana has passed right to work laws making union membership and dues optional


The National Science Foundation awarded $700,000 to fund a climate change musical.


Proponents of a bond package for the Austin school district say the district has the second-lowest bond tax rate among the Central Texas area school districts.


The newly proposed House Republican budget abolishes Medicare within 10 years.


14,000 Americans . . . lose their health insurance every single day.


Dan Branch once lobbied for the AFL-CIO.


Tennessee law requires that schools receive half of proceeds -- $31 million per year -- from a half-cent increase in the Shelby County sales tax.


The biggest contribution behind a decrease in U.S. unemployment was 1.2 million people leaving the workforce


Rick Scott has heavily invested in a company that is geared to helping illegal aliens transfer money to family and friends out of the country."


Our government has now 'spent, lent, or committed' $12.8 trillion in its attempt to blunt the recession.


Many local governments in Wisconsin already require employees to pay 20 percent, 30 percent or even 40 percent of their health insurance premiums.


As soon as Chris Christie was governor, he gave tax cuts to millionaires.


Were the Sunshine State, and were hardly doing any solar energy production.


During the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the Clintons brought the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to the White House for "spiritual counseling."


Our spending has caught up with us, and our debt soon will eclipse the entire size of our national economy.


Americans are working longer hours for low wages . . . and yet almost all new income and wealth is going to the top 1 percent.


Taxes and fees amount to about 20 percent of a typical $300 round-trip domestic ticket. Thats higher than taxes on products like alcohol, tobacco and firearms.


When he (Donald Trump) asked Florida to have casino gambling, we said no.


Libya Ambassador (Christopher) Stevens sent 600 requests for help in Benghazi.


Romney would add trillions to the deficit while Obama would cut the deficit by $4 trillion.


The stimulus bill "didnt create one new job."


Georgias high school graduation rate topped 80 percent in 2010.


In the year 2013, the Obama administration released 104,000 criminal illegal aliens. They released 196 murderers people with homicide convictions, who are here illegally.


Were spending $12,000 bucks a kid a year in the school system.


We have the fewest people employed in this country since 1979.


The proposed transportation bill could be the largest tax increase in Georgia history.


In Texas, the No. 1 name for new male babies many of whom will vote one day is Jose.


In Rhode Island, 28 percent of adults released from state prisons are re-incarcerated within a year.


The Washington D.C.-area never has a recession.


(Jeff) Atwaters bank was so weak that just a few months ago it was shut down by the FDIC.


Kelly Ayotte stands with the Washington gun lobby. They fund her campaigns.


Milwaukee County has a parks capital budget thats bigger than its been in the last 10 years.


As Bernie Sanders said, Hillary Clinton voted for virtually every trade agreement that has cost the workers of this country millions, millions of jobs.


Five studies show his tax plan can cut rates and still bring the same revenue without raising taxes on the middle class.


Amajority of the men and women on this stage have previously and publicly embraced amnesty. I am the only candidate on this stage who has never supportedamnesty.


The Democrats plan to raise your tax rates to 70 or 80 percent.


In Rhode Island, Nearly 9 percent of covered employees go out on short term disability every year, with an average outage from work of almost 12 weeks each.


Marco Rubios economic proposals will add $3.5 trillion to the federal deficit.


There are places in America that are among the most dangerous in the world. You go to places like Oakland. Or Ferguson. The crime numbers are worse. Seriously.


I unsealed my records at Marquette University.


Under Scott Walkers tax plan, the average Wisconsin taxpayer got just $11 a month. But corporations got $610 million in tax cuts. Millionaires got at least $1,400 per year.


People (are) paying more in taxes than they will for food, housing and clothing combined.


Tom Cottons vote in Congress to change Medicare will increase out-of-pocket expenses for every senior in Arkansas.


$500 billion of the extension of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy goes to 120,000 families.


The federal government is making the decision, whether we like it or not, to send 425 refugees to our state from Syria.


Germany is crime-riddled right now because of migration to Europe.


93 percent of the time John Boccieri voted with Nancy Pelosi.


So what sort of services does Romney's health care plan provide? Per the state Web site: $50 co-pay for abortions.


Joseph Stalin said if you want to bring America down you, have to undermine three things: our spiritual life, our patriotism and our morality.


Oil companies can obtain an acre of public land for less than the price of a Big Mac.


New Castle Countys unemployment rate has not almost doubled in the last two years.


Bill Clinton cut the military drastically.


The Texas Education Agency follows up to make sure undocumented immigrants paying in-state tuition at Texas colleges are applying for permanent residency.


Ninety-eight percent of the American people will not see their taxes go up due to the House health care bill.


Its commercial vehicles, 18 wheelers and above that cause 90 plus percent of the damages on our highways and bridges.


We know that President Obama stole over $500 billion out of Medicare to switch it over to Obamacare.


The United States actually exports more gasoline, diesel and other fuels than it imported in 2011 for the first time since, I think, 1949.


The presidents come out with rules that say, No new coal-fired power plants.


Sen. Ted Cruz used to be in favor of birthright citizenship but is now against it.


Texas legislators in 2011 increased state spending on education.


In Romneys first budget (in Massachusetts), he cut $248.7 million from K-12 education.


In the past two years, Democrats have spent more money than this country has spent in the last 200 years combined.


Hillary Clinton said she was under attack (in Bosnia) but the attack turned out to be young girls handing her flowers.


John McCain would "reduce oversight of health insurance."


Pennsylvania charges a top income tax rate of 3 percent and Delaware has no state income tax at all.


Wendy Davis is fighting to bring ... Bloomberg-style gun control to Texas.


He reformed welfare before others tried.


Charlie Crist voted against minimum wage when he was in the Senate.


Were the highest taxed nation in the world.


Ted Cruzs father was with Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.


Iowa Senate candidate Joni Ernst promises to shut down the Department of Education and abolish the EPA.


We know from the social science that children do best with a mom and a dad.


The United States is about to have the smallest Army since before WWII, the smallest Navy since WWI and the smallest Air Force ever.


The Democratic Party is the oldest continuous political party in the world.


Many state and federal agencies have such navigators involved in helping folks maneuver through the often complex processes associated with filing benefits claims, for example -- even buying health insurance.


University of Texas undergraduate student debt is less than $21,000 probably one of the lowest debts across the nation.


The Employee Free Choice Act mandates the elimination of the secret ballot.


Ninety percent of Americans want our background check system strengthened and expanded to cover more gun sales.


Assault rifles already are banned.


Howard Zinn, an anti-American Marxist, wrote the most popular textbook thats taught in our high schools in America.


Tourism accounts for 439,000 jobs in the state of Ohio, and visitors spend $36 billion annually.


Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 startedthe birther controversy.


Iran President Hassan Rouhani has more Cabinet members with Ph.D.s from American universities than members of Barack Obamas Cabinet.


If it is enacted, the Senate immigration bill is going to make the Border Patrol bigger than the FBI -- you could put one agent every 250 feet.


The White House has "refused" international help in dealing with the oil spill.


Department of Veterans Affairs doctors are prohibited from recommending medical marijuana.


When the Constitution was written, (only) 20 to 25 percent of the people in the country could vote.


Under President George W. Bush, the U.S. spent $1.3 trillion on tax cuts for the wealthy and trillions each on a war and on Medicare drug benefits.


The federal government is spending $765,828 to subsidize pancakes for yuppies in Washington.


In one Colorado hospital, 50 percent of newborns tested had marijuana in their system.


Senators who have accepted millions in campaign contributions from the financial industry voted against allowing bankruptcy judges to modify home mortgages.


Unfortunately we have documented instances where people defecated in the (Statehouse) building.


Macys sent a letter to Rick Perry urging him to veto equal pay bill.


After Hurricane Sandy, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg refused to allow the National Guard into the city to restore civil order because Guardsmen carry guns!


National studies are already showing the negative effects that the health care law is having on businesses and our economy. Businesses across the country are raising their prices (or) cutting jobs as a result of the added cost.


I can tell you with certainty (capandtrade)would have a devastating impact on our economy.


Last election, the Koch brothers spent three times what the top 10 unions spent combined.


Donald Trump has the second-highest disapproval ratings of anyone running for president.


Manufacturing wages today in America on a per-hour basis are actually a bit lower than average wages in the economy as a whole.


Tom Ganley supports a 23 percent national sales tax that would raise taxes on the middle class while giving a huge tax break to millionaires like himself.


One man opposed a flawed strategy in Iraq. One man had the courage to call for change. One man didn't play politics with the truth.


Mark Pryor voted to give Social Security benefits to illegal immigrants.


Under a proposed bill, a $100,000 homes flood insurance premium would be maybe $200 or $300 annually.


The EPA has tried to define a puddle or a drainage ditch on your farm to be navigable waters and thus subject to massive environmental regulations.


Under the DREAM Act, after two years of higher education or military service you are eligible for citizenship. Once a citizen, this paves the way to bring the rest of (your) extended family to the United States.


The Human Rights Campaign is more powerful than the NRA.


Russ Feingold formed his own political group to pay himself and his staff millions.


Through competition as governor, I got agreements to build a nearly $40-billion natural gas pipeline.


People have a constitutional right to have semiautomatic rifles.


All the really great programs in American history, Social Security, was done without Republicans. Medicare was done without Republican support until the last vote where they realized they had to get on board.


Since Rick Perry became governor, poverty rates in Texas increased from 15.1% to 17.5% which is higher than the national average.


The Providence Economic Development Partnership . . .which you [Cicilline] chaired, loaned $103,000 in taxpayer funds to one of your campaign workers. The worker never paid back the loan.


The salaries of Wisconsins best-educated public school teachers were slashed by Gov. Scott Walker through a recent administrative rule change.


Passage of a referendum on an aquarium for Clearwater means NO future funding for our neighborhoods.


Every year tobacco kills more Americans than did World War II more than AIDS, cocaine, heroin, alcohol, vehicular accidents, homicide and suicide combined.


(Obama) did accept donations from lobbyists and PACs and he spent money in this campaign from that, through his political action committee.


Texas ranks 44th nationally in education funding per pupil.


This March, for the first time in human history, the monthly average carbon dioxide in our atmosphere exceeded 400 parts per million. The range had been 170-300 parts per million for hundreds of thousands of years.


When Sarah Palin was in government, Barack Obama was a community organizer.


Of the 25 wealthiest nations, were the only one that doesnt provide basic health coverage.


The federal government has not engaged in (border security) at all.


The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation is a proven job creator.


In Rick Perry's Texas, the governor threatens to leave, to secede from the greatest country in the world.


The Benghazi victims were left helpless to die as Hillary Clinton soundly slept in her bed.


Some neighborhood schools are closing.


Streetcars carry more people than buses you attract more riders who dont ride transit now, and actually the operating costs are not any greater than the bus.


Art Robinson says Social Security should be ended through attrition.


Voter fraud provided a portion of the margin of victory of Democrat John Lehman over Republican Sen. Van Wanggaard in a state Senate recall election.


Jeb Bush has released 10 percent of his emails.


Theres $30 billion in expansion funds that weve paid its our money and Nathan Deal wants Washington to keep it.


Romneys Medicare plan was estimated to cost the average senior about $6,000 a year.


By spring 2014, parents of 60,000 students in New York state had refused to let them take the Common Core Tests.


Marco Rubio would take away a womans right to choose for victims of rape or incest.


(President Barack Obama) said unemployment was never gonna go over 8 percent if we passed the stimulus plan.


Weve just now given over $100 billion to Iran, the equivalent in U.S. terms is $5 trillion.


Health insurance is more expensive in Massachusetts than anywhere else in the country.


DeKalb County has graduated five police academies and three fire academies to help reach its ambitious hiring goals in both departments.


Enrolling a student in a subsidized lunch program triggers an at risk designation, resulting in an extra $6,000 to $7,000 of state school aid per student.


Youve got almost twice as many cops in New York City as you do on our entire border. Thats nuts.


Health care reform will not affect veterans' benefits.


Since President Barack Obama took office, 2 million more Americans are out of work.


The highest economic growth decade was the 1960s. Income tax rates were 90 percent.


President Obama told people to skip coming here (Las Vegas) for conventions and meetings.


A cashier earning $20,000 per year pays the same (Virginia) income tax rate as a hedge fund manager earning $20 million per year.


Republicans are now taking credit for provisions of the health care bill that they had tried to derail.


If we do nothing and continue to let Obamacare siphon off that $700 billion dollars off the top of it, Medicare goes away in less than 10 years -- certain accounts of it -- and it just falls apart at the seams.


We have the best schools in the United States.


John Boehner said the jobs of teachers and nurses and police officers and firefighters are government jobs that werent worth saving.


Were already bombing seven countries.


Income tax rates under Eisenhower were as high as 90 percent.


It doesn't make sense "historically" to drop out because the 1968 race was still competitive when "Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California."


When was the last time you saw a Chevrolet in Japan? It doesnt exist, folks.


He brought 1,200 jobs to Texas by moving his factories here from China.


U.S. military uniforms are manufactured in China.


As governor, Tim Kaine oversaw a huge increase in illegal immigration, a tremendous increase.


Congressman Kasich wants to use our tax dollars to give secret bonuses to his corporate friends.


If you care about the environment, weve got record funding.


Portland, Ore., has never gotten over 12 to 15 percent ridership of its public transit system in the past 12 years.


Of the 10,000 Rhode Island children in charter school lotteries for the fall, more than 70 percent are poor .... In addition, a majority of them are students of color.


2008 was the deadliest year of the war (in Afghanistan) for American forces.


Among Syrian refugees, there arent that many women, there arent that many children.


Adam Hasner gives the wealthy tax breaks worth $250,000 a year but hikes middle class taxes $2,000.


Twenty percent of our electricity currently comes from nuclear power plants. I think there are 104 in the United States, two of them around the coast in California.


With Obamacare, were fixing to get hit with the biggest entitlement program the American taxpayers have ever seen.


Chris Christie vetoed Planned Parenthood funding five times over the course of his governorship.


One out of four of our young people say they are victims of this (dating) violence.


New school testing standards will consume approximately twenty days of testing for elementary, middle and high school students.


Florida has a law like (Indianas Religious Freedom Restoration Act).


Houston is home to more doctors, more nurses, more researchers than any other place in the world.


We have the lowest percentage of Americans working today of any year since 1977.


Democrats in the Legislature in 2009 voted for various pork projects including a $5 million scoreboard for the Milwaukee Bucks.


A new report shows the devastating tax hikes (in the health care law) will have on middle-class Kentuckians.


PolitiFact listed Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin as the Governor who told the most lies and our own untruthful Governor Chris Christie made it into Politifacts top five of Lie - en Governors.


We have over 300,000,000 weapons, firearms in this country. Thats almost as big as the population.


Crimea became part of Ukraine only in 1954. Crimea was historically part of Russia, and (Nikita) Khrushchev gave it to Ukraine in a gesture that mystified some people.


This is the year Florida becomes a majority minority state.


Dan Patrick changed his name from Danny Goeb to hide from his debts.


61 percent of non-tea party Republicans actually agree...there is solid evidence the earth is warming, ...[but] 70 percent of tea partiers, contrarily, say there is no solid evidence the earth is warming.


Texas has more full-time state employees per capita than California and Illinois.


Weve lost 26 million jobs since (Obamas) been president.


Gov. Nathan Deal has taken at least $15,600 from the (Koch brothers), their businesses, and their employees.


We spend more per student than almost any other major country in the world.


2014 midterm election spending by the left and the right are both equal.


I can tell you that the enhanced interrogation techniques that have since been banned by this administration specifically waterboarding work.


During the Civil War, more than 300,000 Ohioans served in the Union Army -- more per capita than any other state.


The U.S. Senate has passed a budget over the last three years called the Budget Control Act.


Illegal immigration wasnt a subject that was on anybodys mind until I brought it up at my announcement.


The Nordic countries are some of the few countries that meet development aid goals.


In 45 out of 50 states, on average men are seeing their premiums double, going up 99 percent. Women up 62 percent.


Mercedes-Benz USA moving its headquarters to Atlanta will create at least 800 jobs.


Even members of the NRA, when they were polled recently, were under the impression that everyone has a criminal background check.


Among the money spent on health care in the United States, "46 cents on every dollar spent is through Medicare and Medicaid."


From 1960, the year I was born, until the time I became Governor in 2003, the average two-year increase in Minnesota state spending was 21 percent. we brought that down dramatically, to about 1.7 percent per year.


An election clerk in Green Bay refused to allow early voting on the UW-Green Bay campus because she was afraid it would help Democrats, showing outrageous partisan bias.


$16 trillion (the national debt) in $1 bills would cover the entire state of Ohio nearly 1.5 times.


Recent solar energy policies in Georgia have resulted in rate hikes and did not result in solar becoming any more economically viable.


2012 was the first year in American history that more minorities are being born than people in the majority.


Forty percent of the country is going to be in states that are tolerant of gay marriage or at least civil unions.


A cap-and-trade bill would destroy over 50,000 jobs in Virginia.


In 2012, 1 in 4 Wisconsin schools had a subpar score on the Department of Public Instructions recent report cards and are failing the children they serve.


She is the only candidate who has stood by our community and immigration reform from the beginning.


At the beginning of World War II, we had a relatively small army, smaller than Portugals.


Republicans went out of the way to praise (Eric) Holders nomination. ... Not a single Republican senator opposed Eric Holders nomination.


The Constitution simply does not authorize the federal government to own any of this land (in the Western states).


She introduced a ban on "dirty dancing."


We currently have one guy who is in charge of painting the entire Milwaukee County parks system.


Ohioans can expect to pay up to 41 percent more for their insurance premiums when Obamacare takes effect next year.


We need to pass a carbon tax to stop climate change. Break up the Wall Street banks. And stop the government spying on innocent Americans. Cory Booker doesnt support any of these ideas.


We know that Saudi Arabia started al-Qaida.


If you want to vote in Texas, you can use a concealed-weapon permit as a valid form of identification, but a valid student ID isnt good enough.


China owns about 29 percent of (the U.S.) debt.


Nobody in higher education believes Gov. Rick Perrys proposal to serve up $10,000 college degrees is possible.


Texas now has the second-highest high school graduation rate in the country. And it has the highest graduation rate for African Americans and Hispanics.


The studies have shown us that [drug testing for welfare recipients] will be saving us money


Jon Corzine gave away 14 percent raises over 4 years and he stood on the front steps of the Capitol at a public-sector union rally and said, I will fight to get you a great contract.


In 1992, Barack Obama directed "Project Vote - an arm of ACORN that also encouraged voter registration."


The average unemployed American has been out of work for almost 40 weeks.


The EPA was asked about an environmental citation for the city landfill in Nashua, N.H. but didnt know why it was cited.


Rob Portman voted for the bipartisan bill to affirm climate change is real, humans significantly contribute to it and it needs to be addressed.


US: Change in Income, 2009-13. Top 1%: +31.4%. Bottom 99%: +0.4%.


After the 9/11 terrorist attacks grounded commercial air traffic, there was a temperature drop while the airplanes werent flying, for the week afterwards.


Mental health provisions related to mass shootings got over 90 votes in the Senate.


Scott Walkers listening sessions are invite-only and excluding the press.


The Social Security trust fund is sound. Without anything being done, it would function well into 2038; and even after that time with no changes, we could pay 80 percent of the benefits that people have earned.


And the revenue generated by drilling off Virginias coast? $40 million over 10 years.


Oregon and the federal government now have more than one million acres of burnt land and millions of trees are being left to rot.


The day President Obama took office, gasoline was $1.79 a gallon.


He did not vote for Nancy Pelosi for speaker of the House.


The crime rate in some Atlanta neighborhoods has dropped by 35 to 51 percent.


The director of the FBI said that we cannot properly vet people coming from the Middle East.


Marco Rubio opposes extending unemployment benefits.


His barehanded catch posted on YouTube is real.


Orrin Hatch co-sponsored a 1993 health care bill that had an individual mandate.


Florida Democrats just voted to impose Sharia law on women.


Texas has the 15th largest economy in the world.


The costs for families (in the individual market) for the same type of coverage that they're currently receiving would go down 14 percent to 20 percent.


George Allencast the deciding votefor the 2003Bushtax cuts.


We are only inches away from ceasing to be a free market economy.


The border security plan of Sens. McCain and Kyl called for 3,000 additional troops to keep us safe. President Obama says hell send 524.


Only 20 colleges and universities have athletic departments with revenue exceeding expenses.


The payday loan industry does not exist in a state like Minnesota.


John McCain has seven houses.


Barack Obama "extended health care for wounded troops who'd been neglected."


Nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from our country, are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens.


The woman named Wisconsins 2010 outstanding teacher of the year was laid off by the Milwaukee Public Schools that year under seniority and tenure rules that were eliminated by his Act 10 changes.


The 2011 Legislature did not cut Texas public school funding.


Congresswoman Kathy Castor voted to spend $2.6 million to teach prostitutes in China to drink responsibly.


Half of all CEOs say that the shutdown and the threat of shutdown set back their plans to hire over the next six months.


Milwaukee has the highest incarceration rate among African-American men in the country.


To abide by Environmental Protection Agency rules when mining or drilling you have to take caution not to disturb bodies of water barely bigger than a puddle.


Under President Barack Obamas watch, oil production on federal lands has decreased 14 percent over the past year.


The form students fill out to get college financial aid is "longer than the form to get U.S. citizenship."


John Raese said he wants 1,000 laser systems put in the sky, and we need it right now.


Proposed fees for Rhode Island beaches will still be less than some of the town beaches.


In Afghanistan "the (military) leadership has proposed a new medal, an award for 'Courageous Restraint' ... for 'NOT FIRING BACK.' "


Ninety-six percent of the last session, (U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar) voted with Nancy Pelosi.


Sheriffs Call For Obamas Lynching While Leader Meets With GOP Senators


As a state senator in Illinois, Obama made sure women got equal pay for equal work.


When I was born, defense spending was 60 percent of the budget. Its now 17 percent.


By the time you drink your coffee, an elephant is killed for its ivory tusks.


We spent twice as much per capita for health care in this country as the next closest nation.


The climate hasnt warmed in quite a few years. That is proven scientifically.


The war on drugs led to a 500 percent increase in incarceration in our country, disproportionately affecting poor and disproportionately affecting minorities.


We have had some significant accomplishments on a bipartisan basis.


Health insurance and medical costs are going down because of Obamacare.


Under Randi Shade, Austin has had the highest cost of living of any large Texas city.


The Democrats have over 20 field agents to our zero."


Marco Rubio knows full well I voted for his amendment to increase military spending to $697 billion.


When I was Mayor of South Pasadena, we actually reduced the property taxes we collected.


Bill Nelson was the deciding vote on the health care law.


A scheduled speech by President Barack Obama will be the first time an American president has spoken directly to the nation's school children about persisting and succeeding in school.


Ted Strickland destroyed Ohio jobs when he busted the budget.


Since 2000, nearly 12 million Americans have slipped out of the middle class and into poverty.


Scott Bruun supports cutting the Department of Commerce and eliminating NOAA.


Quite frankly, it was during the Bush years of spending, multiplied now by the Obama years that we have this mess.


I belong to the AFL-CIO.


Homeopathy, acupuncture and aromatherapy have been given elevated legitimacy under the Affordable Care Act.


Our state has no major rivers to produce big hydropower.


At the 50 Milwaukee schools serving at least 80% African-American and at least 80% low income students, the reading proficiency is 8%.


Every time [the people from Newport Tent] work in a city or town they have a whole different set of permits that they have to get in order to pitch a tent.


There will be no public funding for abortion in this legislation.


Statistics show 2 to 3 Texas women per week have major complications and 10 women per week seek help at an ER after an abortion.


No one in Rhode Island -- not just children, no one in Rhode Island -- should eat more than one serving of freshwater fish caught in our state each month.


Economic inequality in Multnomah County has a face -- and a name. It has 90,000 faces and names -- the number of county residents who are still unemployed, or underemployed, in the wake of the 2008 Wall Street crash.


55 percent of the people who cast a provisional ballot (in Florida) in the last presidential election -- their vote did not count.


New Hampshires second congressional district includes two counties where almost 5 percent if not more of residents are enrolled in the states expanded Medicaid program.


Donald Trump hasnt broken his promise to release his tax returns.


Under current U.S. immigration policy, literally one person with a green card can, in the extreme, bring in more than 270 of his relatives.


A man opted out of Obamacare after the marketplace launched on Oct. 1, 2013, and was informed he owed a $4,000 fine.


President Obama decided not to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York.


Some of these members of the House of Representatives get hundreds of thousands of dollars in farm subsidies but want to cut food stamps.


Guantanamo has never been a key component of ISIS or al-Qaida propaganda.


United States students are achieving at number 25 out of 29 developing countries when it comes to science and math.


New Jersey Devils managing partner Jeff Vanderbeek took us into arbitration.


Donald Trump has bankrupt four separate businesses.


The health care law rations care, like systems in Canada and Great Britain.


More than 70,000 job openings are listed on a state jobs website.


After the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax rate cuts ... there was more money coming into the treasury.


Mequon and Milwaukee have the highest disparity of income in the country.


The states unemployment rate is fifth-highest in the country, a full point above the nationwide rate and higher than all of our...neighboring states.


Barack Obama is "the only candidate who doesn't take a dime from oil company PACs or lobbyists."


While she was mayor, Lois Frankel took a police helicopter ride to go to a dinner party.


As a result of Roe vs. Wade, Americas maternal mortality rate dropped dramatically.


We have over 300 state agencies. Forty-five of those agencies are related to health care.


She will work to raise the federal minimum wage back to the highest level its ever been $12 an hour in todays dollars.


Twenty-seven out-of-state pharmaceutical companies have raised more campaign dollars (against a drug price control measure) than all other state ballot measures have raised to date, combined.


The race will tighten, just because that's what happens at the end of campaigns. They always have.


You cant bring an iPad or a piece of paper and a pencil in the (Wisconsin Assembly) gallery to take notes of whats going on, but you can bring a gun up there.


Rick Perry of Texas was the governor who relied most on stimulus funds to close his states budget deficit in 2010.


Texas state Reps. Dan Branch and Jim Pitts, lieutenants to House Speaker Joe Straus, are helping Democrat Ellen Cohen against her Republican challenger, doing events with her in her district.


In Wisconsin, 98 percent of all small businesses will qualify for income-tax relief under my plan, freeing them to expand and create jobs.


Giant companies like Toyota will not locate in a state that has not passed a right-to-work law


Live cats have holes drilled into their skulls, posts put into their heads and coils put into their eyes, and some have had their ears cut off or are intentionally deafened or starved at UW-Madison labs that do research to improve hearing in humans.


Thurbert Baker kept a teen in jail "who didn't even commit a felony."


The governors budget proposal reduces the state austerity cut to education to under $500 million for 2016.


President Obamas proposal calls for serious cuts in our own long-term carbon emissions, but China and India will still be allowed to increase their emissions.


I was one of about a dozen (senators) who voted against the Bridge to Nowhere.


The University of Wisconsin System budget is the biggest it has ever been.


In the governors proposed budget the use of that, what is called one-shots, is a 500 percent increase over the last Corzine budget.


A grant for $5,000 [from the Governors Workforce Board] went to teach an employee at a company that makes ornamental business card holders how to use Facebook and Twitter.


Of Donald Trump, He even said, on his very first day in office, he would require every school in America to let people carry guns into our classrooms.


Neither President Barack Obama nor Mexico President Felipe Calderon have been on the border to see whats happening to the citizens of Mexico, and for that matter the citizens of Texas.


Job losses are so certain under this new cap-and-tax plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting dried-up energy sector, to the tune of $4.2 billion over eight years. So much for creating jobs.


Republican U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy voted against paying our soldiers and against increasing combat pay while voting to protect his own pay.


160,000 kids stay home every day because they are afraid to go to school because of bullying.


Every time weve increased the minimum wage, weve seen a growth in jobs.


It isnt me cutting the budget. Its the Congressdecision on sequestration. So it isnt secretary of defense or the president doing this.


California is home to the largest death row populationin the Western Hemisphere.


More than 1.5 million people moved into Georgia between the past two Census counts, and a majority consider themselves, African-American, Latino or Asian-American.


Ron Klein repeatedly voted in favor of amnesty for illegal immigrants.


Hillary Clinton believed NAFTA was a 'boon' to our economy.


The labor participation rate is at an all-time low.


Thirty-five states have accepted high-speed intercity rail money.


Preventive care does not save the government money.


Said he opposed every budget Republican and Democrat.


In this city, there hasnt been a stadium thats lasted more than 27 years.


Gov. Scott Walker has been rated Americas most factually-challenged politician.


HillaryClintons immigration platform would create totally open borders.


If you're a small business and don't "adopt the health care plan that Senator Obama mandates, he's going to fine you."


Today, the United States has, sadly, one of the lowest voter turnouts of any major country on earth.


Mitt Romney flip-flopped on supporting the presidents Recovery Act.


Area near proposed northern Wisconsin iron ore mine is 15 hours away from where public hearing on mining was held.


Congress includes 36 people accused of spousal abuse, 84 arrested for drunk driving in the past year, 71 with terrible creditand more.


House Republicans required the use of Styrofoam cups in House cafeterias that are part of Koch Industries.


Kip Kinkel and Clackamas Town Center shootings both where citizen with gun stopped the crime


Ohio law gives tax breaks to rich people who own private jets.


GM used taxpayer dollars to prop up operations in China.


When Honduran children came into this country, Secretary Clinton said send them back.


Crime statistics show blacks kill 81 percent of white homicide victims.


The extra point is almost automatic. (The NFL) had five missed extra points this year out of 1,200 some odd attempts.


In the Wisconsin health insurance exchange, the Society of Actuaries points out that therell be, according to them, an 82 percent increase in individual premiums over the next couple years under Obamacare.


While Americans pray for Paris, the government has acted on mandatory national vaccinations.


Americans are 20 times as likely to die from gun violence as citizens of other civilized countries.


Barack Obama supported keeping troops in Iraq, but now he wants a "precipitous withdrawal" regardless of "conditions on the ground" or "consequences of a defeat for the United States," an RNC radio ad.


A DWI costs $17,000.


Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has made it clear by his repeated actions that he will pursue a policy that promotes the interest of Islamist (sic) and their radical ideology as long as he is governor.


Time magazine called him "one of America's best governors."


The Madison-Milwaukee (high-speed) train line is dead.


The one person (Donald Trump)has suggested that would make a good justice is his sister, who is a court of appeals judge appointed by Bill Clinton. She is a hardcore pro-abortion liberal judge.


While the government grew, we lost more than 2 million jobs.


An average of seven children in America are killed by guns every day.


When people enter the service, theres not a mental health evaluation.


More Hispanics have fallen into poverty under Obama.


Donald Trump saidas recently as a few weeks ago in Phoenix that every undocumented person would be subject to deportation.


The Dodd-Frank financial-reform laws hundreds of new rules will force small banks and credit unions to burn up an estimated 2,260,631 labor hours just for compliance.


By registration fewer than 20 percent of Florida voters are Independents.


Seniors and the disabled will have to stand in front of Obamas death panel so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their level of productivity in society, whether they are worthy of health care.


I think [a little] less than half of the people in our prisons are in there for less than a year. ... We have people who are check kiters and dont pay child support and we are locking them up in the state pen.


President Bill Clinton did not sign NAFTA.


Hartsfield-Jacksons new international terminal is opening within budget.


Obesity kills 34 children per hour.


Rick Scott increased tuition at our state colleges and universities by double digits.


Here in Wisconsin, weve put in previous budgets more money into mental health services than any governor has in the last 25 years.


The amount of interest paid on the federal debt exceeds total tax revenue.


Donna Campbell is pushing a 35 percent sales tax extending to medicine, groceries and real estate.


There are many health insurance plans that will cover Viagra but won't cover birth-control medication.


Rob Portman won the fewest votes of all Ohio U. S. Senate victors since 2000.


There is already a mosque four blocks away.


Nine hundred people have been fired since I became secretary (of Veterans Affairs). Weve got 60 people that we fired who have manipulated wait times.


Did you know that the #KeystoneXL project is expected to create 20,000 American jobs, including more than 800 in Oregon?


If you printed a $1 bill for the entirety of the $14.1 trillion national debt, the resulting pile of money would weigh more than 136 aircraft carriers.


Sarah Palin and Craig Huey would ban a womans right to choose in every case


U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson voted with the Democrats in Congress nearly 95 percent of the time.


President Ronald Reagan had a month of job creation of 1 million.


Its possible that non-citizen voters were responsible for Obamas 2008 victory in North Carolina.


The Katy Freeway, or Interstate 10 west of Houston, is the widest freeway in the world, with up to 26 lanes, including frontage road lanes.


If current trends continue, by 2040, one out of three Texas workers will not have a high school diploma.


A telecom bill could keep the State Corporation Commission from getting rate-of-return information from electric utilities.


I have never said that I don't wear flag pins or refuse to wear flag pins.


Parents and teachers are already worrying about what they call the Trump Effect. They report that bullying and harassment are on the rise in our schools, especially targeting students of color, Muslimsand immigrants.


This kind of snowstorm happens every 10 or 15 years.


Hillary Clinton wants to go to a single-payer plan for health care


Appalachian Power Company is making record profits.


Repealing the health care law would save $95 billion in 2016.


As governor, in the face of partisan attacks, (Charlie Crist) had the courage to save jobs and lead his state into economic recovery.


Eleven states complete their [legislative] sessions within three calendar months, and another five only meet biennially.


The group that supported the presidents health care bill the most? Latinos.


The people in Massachusetts like (the state health care plan) by about a 3-1 margin.


25 percent of U.S. Muslims agreed that violence against Americans here in the United States is justified as a part of the global jihad.


Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, missed 79 percent of veterans affairs committee hearings.


Today, there are more Hoosiers going to work than ever before in the 200-year history of the great state of Indiana.


The stimulus bill sent tax credits overseas, such as $1.2 billion to a solar company thats building a plant in Mexico.


Each vegan spares more than 100 animals every year.


Florida has the second-lowest (campaign) contribution limit in the entire country.


President Barack Obama has announced that he would not sign ANY spending bills this year unless sequestration spending cuts are eliminated.


Fast and Furious began under the Bush administration.


91 percent of Latinos support the DREAM Act, which allows undocumented youth to attend college, but Marco Rubio opposes it.


We have drawn down to presurge levels. Basra, Mosul and now Sadr City are quiet and it's long and it's tough and there will be setbacks.


We are the only major country on Earth that doesnt guarantee health care to all people as a right.


A bill to advance the Keystone XL Pipeline is an earmark under House rules.


Scott Walker has given a $10,000 tax deduction to millionaires who send their kids to exclusive private schools.


One out of every five law enforcement officers thats killed is killed with an assault weapon.


Marco Rubio wrote and passed bipartisan legislation allowing the VA to fire negligent workers.


The United Nations has conducted 172 successful peacekeeping missions and negotiations.


Recent polls show Americans agree with Republicans that the federal debt ceiling should not be raised and the debt and deficit should be dealt with mostly by cutting spending.


The House Zika bill limits access to birth control services needed to help curb the spread of the virus in Puerto Rico.


Defensive medicine costs Georgia up to $14 billion a year.


The Congressional Budget Office said if youre going to buy your own policy with these (health care) exchanges youll be paying 10 percent more ... about $2,100 more for a family.


Ive never supported legislation that invades peoples choices about contraception.


More than 125 jobs have been created at the Milwaukee Job Corps Center.


Offshore wind power is significantly less expensive than solar energy.


For the new state budget, "Floridians have sent us $3 billion less of their funding."


Recovery.gov listed congressional districts that "do not exist."


A gay man who survived #orlando hate crime can STILL show up to work in FL tomorrow and have his boss fire him simply because he is gay.


Women care most about jobs and the economy


In our community college system (state) cuts have reduced funding per student by $1,908.


The recidivism rate is nearly 29 percent and has been climbing steadily since detainees began being released from Guantanamo.


Obama has proposed 442 tax hikes since taking office.


Federal Reserve policies have led to a 69 percent rise in corn prices, 44 percent rise in wheat prices and 15 percent spike in sugar prices over the last year.


Ken Cuccinelli supported a law that could allow people to carry missile launchers into airports.


Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele once proposed a plan to end county funding to homeless shelters.


Weve got a 1,000 National Guard troop request thats been in front of this president for over a year and no response.


Obamas Environmental Protection Agency sent emails for Hispanic Heritage Month with a photo of Che Guevara.


If youre a wealthy CEO or a hedge fund manager in America right now, your taxes are lower than theyve been since the 1950s.


67 percent of marriages now wind up in divorce.


He and his running mate are the only candidates that do believe in free trade.


Abortion is the second-most conducted surgical procedure in this country.


It turns out that Texas has an $18 billion budget shortfall and cant afford its new science textbooks.


When Atlanta Police Chief George Turner was interim head of the department, overall crime fell 14 percent and violent crime dropped 22.7 percent.


Ron Johnson voted to turn Medicare into a voucher program.


Ted Cruz is a supporter of legalizing people that are in this country illegally and proposed giving them work permits.


McCain was a "Hanoi Hilton songbird" who collaborated with the enemy.


In the last decade, the average income of the bottom 90 percent of all working Americans actually declined. The top 1 percent saw their income rise by an average of more than a quarter of a million dollars each.


The oceans have become 30 percent more acidic.


As Co-Chair of the Joint Ways Means Committee, I secured the key piece of funding for the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail project bridge.


Austin mayoral candidate Mike Martinez takes corporate money.


Two million new jobs have been created, in California since 2011.


When President Bill Clinton raised the top tax rates to levels now proposed by Obama, the country experienced significant job growth.


There is no clinical evidence that vaccinating healthcare workers protects patients.


It used to be the policy of the Republican Party to get rid of the Department of Education. We finally get in charge and a chance to do something, so we double the size of the Department of Education.


Why do we have automatic citizenship upon birth? Were the only country in the world that has it.


Congressional Republicans have introduced dozens of bills on social issues and other topics, but zero on job creation.


Brock Turners early release will be a regular occurrence if Prop. 57 passes.


Since 1965, the United States has spent untold trillions yet the poverty rate hasnt budged.


In Virginia there has been a billion dollars in surplus over the last three years. The legislature has spent less than 1 percent of that on roads.


As a result of Obamacare, California seniors face benefit cuts of over $1,700.


85 percent of IDEA charter-school students come from low-income families and about 99 percent of its graduates go to college.


Our economy still has three people looking for every job (opening).


Under energy efficiency legislation sponsored by U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, federal bureaucrats could take over the local building code enforcement in your city if so-called green mandates are not complied with quickly enough.


Sherrod Brown supported President Obamas $453 billion tax increase.


Ohio today has the fewest number of state employees since the Reagan administration.


The U.S. has now spent more on reconstructing Afghanistan than was spent on the Marshall Plan and the reconstruction of Europe.


Thanks in part to our all-of-the-above strategy for American energy, the United States generates more natural gas than anybody.


Hesso bipartisan that 12 of my bills were signed into law by Democratic President Bill Clinton.


Discretionary spending went up 84 percent in the last two years


Hillary Clinton is the one that labeled African-American youth as superpredators.


I dont know who (Jonathan Gruber) is.


Maggie Hassan was out of state on 30 days over the last three months.


Rick Scotts proposal for election reform only mandates 48 hours of early voting.


Democrats very much are in the pocket of the NRA.


The top 1/10th of 1 percent today in America owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent.


From 2003 to 2006, Sesame Street made more than $211 million from toy and consumer product sales.


Florida retirees and families lost tens of thousands of dollars in deposits on failed Trump condo projects, but he pocketed their money and walked away.


Did you know that if you accepted the Districts proposal today you would have NO pay increase for 4 years? Seven years of frozen wages = Disrespect.


Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to raise capital gains taxes, which apply to home sales.


Many of the great scholars say that anchor babies are not covered by the 14th Amendment.


The national economic recovery has led to higher than expected tax revenues and projected budget surpluses in nearly every state in the nation, including Wisconsin.


Marijuana is less toxic than alcohol.


Michael Bennet votes for President Obamas agenda 98 percent of the time. Hardly independent, hardly bipartisan.


There are more African American men in prison, jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850.


Recently we have seen our government debt grow by $3.4 trillion during the first 29 months of the Obama administration -- the equivalent of about $4 billion per day.


Barack Obama has the worst record of any president when it comes to putting America deeper in debt.


Theres only three countries in the entire world wheretheres no paid vacation by law, we happen to be one of them.


Up to half of all Americans have a pre-existing condition.


When Trump wanted to turn a taxpayer-owned building into an $800 anight hotel, (Congressman Jeff Denham, R-CA) helped broker the deal and bragged about it.


The health care marketplaces have no privacy protections.


Harambe received 15,000 votes in the presidential election.


Wrote that in 2006, Nancy Pelosi said she didnt think capturing Osama bin Laden makes us any safer, but in 2011 called his killing historic.


The federal government has made investments in science and technology inventing the products that led to the creation of Google.


Lincoln Chafee voted with President George W. Bush and the conservative leadership 76% of the time.


There are actually half a million fewer government employees now than there were when (President Barack) Obama took office.


Florida has 1,200 golf courses. I think 58 million rounds played a year in Florida. Weve got 44 percent of all travel golf in the country here. 5 million people come here just for golf.


For 21 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, we simply do not have data to say anything about trends in poverty.


Legal prescription drugs statistically kill 100,000 people a year, (but) there are no documented deaths due to marijuana.


The average taxpayer will see the equivalent of a 2 percent pay raise as a result of low fuel prices.


Issue 2 makes it illegal for us to negotiate for enough firefighters to do the job.


This bill allows Virginia to join about 23 other states that have an ultrasound procedure before an abortion.


The platform of the Republican Party says deport everybody and to hell with it.


Donald Trump said the U.S. should encourage Japan to get nuclear weapons.


Romney said "'No' to in-state tuition" for illegal immigrants.


, Statistics indicate that one in eight children, and one in 18 adults in Oregon suffers from mental illness.


I vetoed more than $3 billion in spending. Lawmakers and I cut taxes for 40,000 small businesses. Now Texas is No. 1 in job creation. The nations five best housing markets are right here in Texas. We balanced five state budgets and we cut state spending.


In 2011, our state-run lottery funded New Jersey classrooms by over $930 million.


President Obama is using executive actions to impose gun control on the nation, targeting the top-selling rifle in the country ... with a ban on one of the most-used assault rifle bullets.


There is no good data showing secondhand smoke kills people.


There are a larger number of shark attacks in Florida than there are cases of voter fraud.


Our debt to GDP ratios, our deficit to GDP ratios are quickly approaching the countries we have been reading about for the last year and a half. We are not far behind Ireland, Greece, Portugal and Spain and all these countries we have been reading about.


Since 2009, after-tax incomes are up nearly 14 percent.


Its been since 1888 that a Senate of a different party than the president in the White House confirmed a Supreme Court nominee.


Fifty percent of Americans will go hungry at some time in their lives.


Obama opposes offshore drilling and a gas tax holiday.


Secretary Clinton changes her position on (gun issues) every election year, it seems, having one position in 2000 and then campaigning against President Obama and saying we dont need federal standards.


The U.S. Supreme Court struck down Wisconsins photo ID election law


Knopp says he upheld a campaign promise not to join the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS).


Obama Makes Huge Move to BAN Social Security Recipients From Owning Guns


Theres a loophole where you can sell guns without a background check 40 percent of guns are sold that way at gun shows and over the Internet.


Bill White is refusing to debate.


Speakers at the Democratic National Convention made zero mentions of the global terrorist threat posed by ISIS.


Federal spending is all discretionary, other than interest on the national debt. Social Security is discretionary. We have the discretion to change the law. Same is true with Medicare and Medicaid.


Hillary Clinton has promised to raise taxes by $1 trillion dollars.


The money is in the budget to give a tax break to everyone, including people making more than $1 million.


Obama has maintained a friendship with a now convicted felon.


Ron Saunders made the choice to stand with Rick Scott on expanding school vouchers, restricting scholarships and giving tax breaks to the wealthy.


Deficit spending exploded during the Obama administration to $5.3 trillion over four years, compared to $2 trillion in eight years under President George W. Bush.


Idaho was the only Republican-led state in the nation that chose to partner with President Obama by creating a state-based marketplace under the Affordable Care Act.


Of those 850,000 (new Texas) jobs, most were public-sector jobs and minimum-wage jobs.


President Obamas health care law says when you sell your house now you have to pay a 3.8 percent tax.


Said Planned Parenthoods early objective was to help kill black babies before they came into the world.


Florida U.S. Reps. Corrine Brown, Alcee Hastings and Frederica Wilson are Socialists.


Who will raising the minimum wage actually help? More than half work full-time. The average worker is 35 years old.


Tom Perriello voted to give tax breaks to foreign companies creating jobs in China.


Americans will spend more on taxes in 2014 than they will on food, clothing and housing combined.


The No. 2 cause of death in the U.S. (for) women under 50 is being killed by their spouse or domestic partner.


The amount of debt is on pace to double in five years and triple in 10. The federal debt is now over $100,000 per household.


President Barack Obama spent nearly a trillion dollars on make-work government jobs.


Rhode Island didnt ratify the 13th Amendment to the Constitution to pay federal income taxes. So Rhode Island doesnt even have to pay federal income taxes.


U.S. House candidate Carlos Curbelo supported raising flood insurance rates.


I didnt support Sonia Sotomayor.


GEORGIA ROADWAY FATALITIES THIS YEAR: 59 PLEASE DRIVE SAFELY


Dan Gelber: On the record against scholarships to help our needy children attend Jewish private schools.


I asked the unions to pay into their own health care insurance ... and they said I was being unreasonable. I requested that they contribute toward their own pensions ... and they screamed it was unfair.


During the Reagan era, "the richest Americans had their top income tax rate cut in half."


I had to lay off 48 people last year, which has exacerbated the lack of law enforcement officers in the county that respond quickly to crime calls.


Most of the people who have signed up through the Obamacare exchanges already had insurance.


The first installment of health care reform ... will raise the deficit by $250 billion.


The Alternative Minimum Tax...was created by Congress in 1969 to affect 155 wealthy Americans. Because it was never indexed for inflation, those original 155 taxpayers has increased to affect about 3.5-million in 2006.


We supported the first new nuclear power plant in three decades.


The median income of a middle class family went down $2,100 from 2001 to 2007.


President Barack Obama has an Environmental Protection Agency proposal that would raise the price of gasoline by 25 cents a gallon.


Women still earn about 77 cents for every dollar a man earns for working the same job.


When Mitt Romney was governor, the fact is that the average income for a family in Massachusetts went up by $5,500.


The Austin chapter of the League of Women Voters has no Republicans among elected officers or on its debate committee.


The U.S. Postal Service has taken no taxpayer aid since 1971, funds operations entirely from the sale of stamps and related products and makes an operational profit year after year.


Benzene has never been proven to be harmful.


The mega-rich pay about 15 percent in taxes, while the middle class fall into the 15 percent and 25 percent income tax brackets, and then are hit with heavy payroll taxes to boot.


Donald Trump Protester Speaks Out: I Was Paid $3,500 To Protest Trumps Rally.


The folks in Washington are already forcing you to buy government health care.


Explosive growth in Medicare is the reason federal deficit spending is predicted to top $1 trillion again after falling to $600 billion annually.


John McCain's tax plan will give no reduction "for 100-million American families."


In 2008, candidate Barack Obama attacked John McCain for proposing cuts to Medicare.


Congress is a very special group of people. More than 80 percent of them never left the United States.


Toledo is fourth in the nation behind much bigger cities Miami, Las Vegas, Portland in number of human trafficking arrests and rescues.


Under President Barack Obama, the debt increased by 23 percent, which was less than under any president going back to Ronald Reagan.


The Romney-Ryan plan for Medicare does not affect benefits for anyone 55 or older.


Marijuana use among Colorado high school students has not increased since legalization.


We have a federal government that thinks they have the authority to regulate our toilet seats.


Rick Perry and the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature managed to slash the budget of the volunteer fire departments in our state by 75 percent in the last legislative session, reducing their abilities to fight recent wildfires.


Nancy Pelosi wants a Windfall Tax on Retirement Income.


Stimulus tax cuts "began showing up in paychecks of 4.8 million Indiana households about three months ago."


Charlie Crist rode on a jet that belongs to a serial polluter with a history of environmental violations fined nearly $2 million for polluting water.


Only 50 percent of students from Milwaukee public high schools go on to a two-or four-year college.


Granite State shipbuilders . . . built the first ship that sailed into battle under a new American flag.


Republican-approved changes to make it more difficult to participate in Ohio elections include reducing in-person early voting from 35 days to six.


Sen. Obama's chair in New Hampshire is a lobbyist. He lobbies for the drug companies.


Republicans bragged about how every bill was going to be paid for, right from the beginning and that the first vote, the repeal of health care reform, violated that rule.


Judithanne McLauchlan was part of a group that supports imposing a state income tax on Floridians.


Since 2001, higher education in the state has been cut or allowed to erode ... by 35 or 40 percent.


Georgia has had the nations busiest Court of Appeals for a decade or more.


Ralph Hall has never voted to raise the debt ceiling.


Senate immigration legislation is the Obama-Reid plan to give illegal immigrants amnesty.


This year, Eric Cantor has received more money from oil companies than any other member of Congress.


Donald Trump said the government is going to pay for everybody to have health care.


Gov. Scott Walker has dropped Wisconsin to 45th in the nation in job growth prospects while campaigning for president out of state.


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The fact is that red light cameras change driver behavior and cut down on the most dangerous types of accidents.


A company with 20 employees could go out of business because of health care law requirements to buy insurance.


Donald Trump promised the mass deportation of Latino families.


The U.S. has 47 million people on food stamps. Thats 14 million more than when the current occupant of the White House took over.


The U.S. government spends less on energy innovation "than the pet food industry invests in its own products."


A study shows that children who live with a biological parent and the parents boyfriend or girlfriend have a 20 times greater chance of being sexually abused.


When Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts ... (had) more debt per person than any other state in the country.


Hillary Clintons top 10 donors are mainly banks, corporations and media, while Bernie Sanders top 10 donors are labor unions.


Whales live as long at SeaWorld as they do in the wild.


Floridas pension plan faces the same long-term funding problems as Social Security.


Opponent Glenn Hegar expressed pride in legislated cuts to public school funding.


There was even a time when (Donald Trump) didnt get an Emmy for his TV program three years in a row and he started tweeting that the Emmys were rigged.


Seniors enrolled in Medicare Advantage are going to see an average premium increase between $50 and $90 per month.


Almost 1 million children ... have no health insurance in this state.


John Loughlin voted to let people accused of domestic violence keep their guns.


Almost half a million people are still eligible (for DACA), particularly in the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community.


The American people dont want us to raise taxes.


Productivity has risen 18 percent ...yet wages have stayed flat... There are 5-million more people in poverty here in our country than there were in 2000.


Over the past five years, the American automobile industry has created about 500,000 new jobs.


When it comes to classified information at the State Department, Hillary Clintons the decider.


Everyone on Californias roads is properly licensed, tested and insured.


You must list all your guns on your 2010 tax return.


The vast, overwhelming majority of [crimes that occur with a firearm] are committed by people who dont legally possess that firearm in the first place.


Apple products are currently 90 percent conflict-free, and Intel is 100 percent conflict-free.


Ohios Planned Parenthood operations received millions of taxpayer dollars via federal grants in 2010 and 2011.


McCain sought the political support of minister John Hagee, "who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church 'the Antichrist' and a 'false cult.'"


Under Scott Walkers policies, the typical Wisconsin family has actually seen their real income drop by nearly $3,000 in the last four years.


Were $15 trillion now in debt, with a president thats racked up as much debt as almost all of the other presidents combined.


Per-student K-12 state funding for Portland Public Schools has dipped from $6,036 in the 2007-2008 school year to $5,644 in the 2010-2011 school year


Every taxpayer owes about $130,000 to pay off the national debt.


In 2011, (Debbie) Wasserman Schultz missed 62 congressional votes one of the worst records of any member of Congress.


The poverty rate for families in which a husband and a wife work is 5 percent, but in families headed by one person its 30 percent today.


As a senator, Hillary Clinton actually paid female staffers a lot less than men.


Republicans extended unemployment insurance under President Bush when he asked to extend unemployment insurance.


Income disparities in the United States are the worst since the 1920s.


Hispanic students in Florida perform the best of any Hispanic population in the United States.


Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside 6 percent.


We had a press conference here that interestingly no one in the mainstream media covered.


Were losing thousands of (veterans) waiting on line because they cant get speedy health care from the Veterans Administration.


This president went before the United Nations and castigated Israel for building settlements. He said nothing about thousands of rockets being rained in on Israel from the Gaza Strip.


The law, right now, permits companies that close down American factories and offices and move those jobs overseas to take a tax deduction for the costs associated with moving the jobs to China or India or wherever.


A new federal program provides subsidized "Obama phones" with 70 free minutes of cell phone service every month.


More than 10 years of free trade has brought a $2 billion per day trade deficit.


Theres a mosque inside of the Pentagon.


Mitt Romneys response to the crisis in the auto industry was, Let Detroit go bankrupt.


Eric Cantor took $5 million from Sheldon Adelson, a Las Vegas casino owner.


In 2000, Fox News broke the story of George W. Bushs drunk driving arrest. Who broke it? Fox News.


Twenty four states have voter ID or comparable restrictions; before Barack Obama was elected, it was two.


The states Medicaid waiver proposal has languished in a file cabinet at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for more than two years.


It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.


Congress has spent 66 of the first 100 days of this term in recess.


Financial conflict-of-interest laws dont apply to the president, right? So, the president doesnt have to have a blind trust.


A study ranked Florida No. 1 in government corruption under Gov. Rick Scott.


Ive gotten to see the commercials that they did on you. And Ive gotten to see some of the most vicious commercials Ive ever seen of Michelle Obama talking about you, Hillary.


Access for 12,000 women to use Planned Parenthood -- not for the right to choose, but for basic health care -- was taken away by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch.


Texas school districts are the fifth largest employers in the world.


Seth Magaziner plans to spend billions more of your money.


Every 28 hours an unarmed black person is shot by a cop.


We admit more than 100,000 lifetime migrants from the Middle East each year.


The transportation package passed by the General Assembly would impose the largest tax increase in Virginias history.


The Democratic health care bill in the House would create 53 new government bureaucracies.


I helped write the Affordable Care Act.


Tennessee is providing millions of dollars to virtual school company for results at the bottom of the bottom.


One international flight a day in a wide-bodied jet ... one flight daily generates $150 million a year and approximately 2,300 jobs.


$15-an-hourproposal in Cleveland is the most aggressive minimum wage increase in the country.


The health care law is the largest tax [increase] in the history of our country


Under President Barack Obamas jobs bill, states would no longer have to lay off teachers, firefighters and police officers.


Sarah Palin "has had 12 years of elected office experience."


Barack Obama promised he would cut the deficit in half but didnt.


There is no evidence to support the claim that Guantanamo is used as a recruiting tool for terrorists.


Weve seen a remarkable reduction in the number of Americans being executed -- its down nearly two-thirds over the past generation.


Were spending $1 trillion a year on our foreign policy.


While 38 percent of (firearms) dealers that were inspected in 2011 were noncompliant with federal law, only 0.05 percent of inspected dealers had their licenses revoked.


It takes as much energy to make a solar panel as it likely generates in its entire life.


Mitt Romneys comments indicated he would not have pursued Osama bin Laden.


Rick Perry recently said he wanted another (Texas) business tax.


Gov. Scott Walker raises the pay of inmates, but we dont raise the pay of staff in our correctional institutions.


The Recovery Act saved 60,000 jobs among law enforcement officials, firefighters in the state of Florida, plus another 20,000 educators.


Israel in the last three weeks haskilled more Palestinian children, more than 200, than the total number of Israeli soldiers killed in military operations since 2006.


Virginia spends less per student today than we did in 2008.


Since John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, more Americans have died by gunfire within our own country than American servicemen and women who were killed in all our wars.


We have $60 billion in 2010 in Medicare fraud.


Gov. Chris Christies decision to close the Elizabeth MVC saved no money.


One out of every two kids who are graduating college right now cant find a job.


With his decision on whether to fire Gen. Stanley McChrystal, President Obama has to fix yet another problem he inherited from the Bush administration.


Weve had 27 (Ebola) outbreaks around the globe and theyve never spread outside of the confines of the countries that were initially affected.


Minnesota has more Fortune 500 companies than Oregon and one of the most obvious differences is theyve invested in their schools.


I used tax cuts to help create over 80,000 jobs in New Mexico.


In Wisconsin, the stimulus paid for a bridge to a bar called Rusty's Backwater Saloon. They've got great burgers, but no new jobs.


Ron Johnson opposes entirely a federal minimum wage, except perhaps for guest workers.


Repeated requests for additional security in Benghazi were routinely denied by Hillary Clintons State Department.


Very few men outlive their own fertility.


More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock.


Passage of Clinton budget bill in 1993 "led to an enormous flowering of the economy in America."


Every other major country has family paid leave.


Republicans supported legislation on early voting and in-person voting in 2005.


Three thousand felons voted in Rhode Island in 2008.


A rape kit can be used to clean out women, basically like dilation and curettage.


Oregon ranks 43rd in education.


Obamacare is one big fat VA system.


Then, the Republican leader theatrically introduced new bills with stopgap budget language, declaring that we could stay until midnight and pass this compromise. Except under our constitution, a bill has to be read on 3 different days, so thats not possible.


In the 2000 Florida election, at least 1,100 eligible voters were wrongly dropped from voting rolls in an attempt to purge a list of felons. Many of those who were dropped showed up to vote and were told they could not.


I got a letter from 20 people who said they wanted their money back, 14 never gave me a penny.


Barack Obama ended up getting re-elected by the largest gender gap in the history of American elections.


While President Obama says all options are on the table for preventing a nuclear Iran, Hagel says military action is not a viable, feasible, responsible option.


The Charleston, S.C., shootershould have never been given a gun, but the universal background check was not fast enough.


Richard Nixon released tax returns when he was under audit.


A group estimates that the annual cost to Oregon taxpayers for government services to illegal aliens, after any income tax revenue from them, is $1 billion.


President Barack Obama initially said the national health-care mandate isnt a tax, but his administration now says it is a tax.


Michigan U.S. Senate candidateTerri Lynn Land said guaranteeing equal pay for women who do the same job as men is not a good idea.


Ted Cruz represents a Chinese company found guilty of stealing blueprints from an American manufacturer.


Part of his ride was to warn the British that were already there that, Hey, youre not going to succeed.


Between 1982 and 2007 the cost of a college education increased 439 percent.


The Iran deal trusts the Iranians to inspect themselves.


China is in the South China Sea and (building)a military fortress the likes of which perhaps the world has not seen.


Rep. Michele Bachmann said President Barack Obama might be to blame for the Fort Hood shootings.


In general, it appears Wisconsins right to work bill would likely apply to the Green Bay Packers players and their union.


The John McCain Twitter account has more than 1.1 million followers. The official White House Twitter account has only about 830,000.


The presidents health care proposals will cause most Americans to have their premiums increased, not decreased, and hundreds of millions of people lose their current insurance coverage.