# filtered_claims

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if the house of representatives fails to extend the tax cuts rhode island families will see their federal income taxes increase


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says trial lawyers have provided over percent of the funding for the texas democratic party for over a decade


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says state schools superintendent candidate don pridemore voted for the largest cuts to public education in our state history and for billion in tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy


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the increase in the current state budget was greater than the inflation rate and the rate of population growth in georgia


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the agriculture department estimates that roughly percent of the corn crop will be used to make ethanol more than the amount of corn used to feed livestock and poultry in the united states


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milwaukee county government employees pay much more for their health care than city of milwaukee or state of wisconsin employees


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the five economic indicators that the federal government tracks for the first time since august were positive this october


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november was a record year of turnout more people voted before election day using absentee ballots and voting early than ever before in our history


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the city of atlanta has one of the highest lesbian gay bisexual and transgender populations per capita ranking third among major american cities


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a man using bath salts reported that raccoons had set fire inside his home and stolen his cell phone


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says walmart employees represent the largest group of medicaid and food stamp recipients in many states costing the taxpayer per worker


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the poverty level in the dallas school district is one of the highest in the country higher than new york chicago los angeles houston detroit and newark


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democratic party candidates for the state assembly actually received more votes statewide than their republican counterparts in the election


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the broward republican executive committee had the liberal league of women voters guide removed from the broward supervisor of election website


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says he first unveiled his new legislative agenda in wisconsin not in california as critics complain


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says in january george bush probably had a percent or even higher approval rating after the first gulf war


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if you and i fail to defund obamacare now some new irs agents will be begin prying into our private medical records eyeing each and every one of our treatments and prescriptions for violations


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says legislation supported by gay rights activists would strip mother and father from future texas birth certificates


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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


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our race was the closest senate race in ohio in years when howard metzenbaum defeated robert taft in


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a foreclosure tax that would take effect in could mean a high tax bill for those facing foreclosure and millions of families who modified their mortgage or had a short sale through their lender


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says that in the election former gov tom kean had the largest winning margin for a gubernatorial candidate in jersey history


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in the past year alone ohio businesses have created more jobs than almost every other state in the country


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operating a health care exchange would be illegal in georgia and some states because of legislation passed in those states


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when you look at the number of crashes before the cameras were installed compared to after they re virtually the same


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for the first time in history the share of the national popular vote margin is smaller than the latino vote margin


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says the tax code is effectively subsidizing the marketing efforts of fast food and junk food companies by as much as billion over years


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says gov scott walker has led people to believe that if wisconsin doesn t implement a exchange obamacare doesn t happen here


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says because of hurricane sandy in atlantic city much of that boardwalk no longer exists just the pillars where the boardwalk used to be


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we ve outdrawn the super bowl for a little while now in the arenas and stadiums that we ve followed them in for the super bowl we ve gone in after the nfl and surpassed their ticket sales


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wisconsin is the only state that allows parents or guardians to purchase alcohol for their children regardless of whether that child is seven or years old at bars and restaurants


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a precinct in the allen murphy recount has registered voters in guatemalan community and the tally showed voted


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says that under the new healthcare law and workers will be required to buy insurance costing to a month starting in


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says new hampshire had the unemployment rate in the country during maggie hassan s time in the state senate


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barack obama is only the second democrat in the last years to win ohio twice with more than percent of the vote


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says that with president obama state and federal income tax rates for some taxpayers will rise to roughly percent


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every american now is in debt that s money i owe that s money my children owe before they even go to kindergarten that s their check to the federal government right now


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budget analysts say the looming tax hikes and spending cuts would take us into a recession and kill jobs


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when it comes to income taxes wisconsin is one of the best places in the country to be poor but top or worst for earners


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says mike dovilla supports a plan that could allow a foreign corporation to take over the ohio turnpike


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says that over the past years texas public school spending rose percent and spending more than tripled when adjusted for inflation


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says tennessee s higher education funding model is percent and we are already seeing this model changing the way our postsecondary institutions do business


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texas population is projected to double in the next years or so but our basic amount of water will remain about where it is now


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says that tennessee law requires that schools receive half of proceeds million per year from a increase in the shelby county sales tax


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says senate candidate tammy baldwin proposed a trillion tax increase a tax increase so extreme that even nancy pelosi voted against it


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says during george bush s administration we were losing millions of jobs per month while under barack obama we have three years of gaining hundreds of thousands of jobs per month


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says connie mack wrote a letter to the department of transportation in order to get million in stimulus for his congressional district


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obama environmental protection agency sent emails for hispanic heritage month with a photo of che guevara


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after patrick murphy s charges were dropped murphy s father gave the prosecutor a huge campaign donation


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tommy thompson made millions from corporations who outsource american jobs and now he trying to lavish huge tax breaks on them


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says connie mack was the only member of the florida delegation that voted against a bill to help nasa


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says charlie bass supports paul ryan plan that forces seniors to pay a year more for health care so millionaires can pay less in taxes


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there is no war on coal period there are more coal jobs and more coal produced in ohio than there were five years ago in spite of the talking points and the yard signs


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there are millions of women all across the country who rely on planned parenthood for not just contraceptive care they rely on it for mammograms


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says democrats first proposed prohibiting the government from negotiating prices for prescription drugs in medicare part d and he had nothing to do with that provision in the law


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says barack obama sold chrysler to italians who are going to build jeeps in china at the cost of american jobs


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the truth is david cicilline voted for tougher laws against child abusers domestic abusers and abusers of the elderly


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says connie mack initially said he would have voted yes for the paul ryan budget plan and then you said it was stupid and you would vote no and then your folks corrected you and you changed your position again yes


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says new jersey lost jobs between and because democrats increased taxes fees regulations and state spending


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new jersey is the only state in the union that spent less on higher education than it did at the beginning of the decade


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says that when congressman steve cohen took office in the unemployment rate was at percent the unemployment rate in shelby county has reached percent


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rhode island has taken its federal medicaid funding and shown it can run the program more than the federal government


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says when he was governor most of the democrats voted for his cuts but senate rival tammy baldwin voted against it


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says the central health district tax rate is the lowest among the largest counties in texas and it will continue to be the lowest if voters approve a proposed tax increase


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says senate opponent tommy thompson personally made over million from a federal contract granted to his healthcare company but left first responders without the care they were promised


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one industry in america has increased its employment base in the last four years by people the united states government


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lois frankel spent over in taxpayer money on a marble shower in a private bathroom with her own toilet


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there s congressmen and senators that have been convicted of felonies that still get their retirement even in jail they don t have to wait until they re


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says gov john kasich incorrectly claimed ohio s economy was in the nation when he took office we were sixth in the nation in terms of economic job growth


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says connie mack s penny plan would cut over billion out of medicare over trillion out of social security trillion out of defense


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says senate rival tammy baldwin supports a tax increase that president obama says would cost families per year


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says barack obama was silent on iran when the students took to the streets in tehran and the people there protested and the green revolution occurred


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pakistan has nuclear warheads and they re rushing to build a lot more they ll have more than great britain sometime in the relatively near future


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elizabeth townsend runs the elections office that omitted a school board race on a ballot and gave a school board candidate faulty advice


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says mitt romney was clear that he would not provide government assistance to the auto companies even if they went through bankruptcy


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says tammy baldwin introduced a bill that would require doctors and other health care workers to ask patients including young children whether they are gay lesbian bisexual or if they know their gender identity


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veterans unemployment is actually now lower than the general population it was higher when i came into office


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a few months ago when you were asked what the biggest geopolitical threat facing america you said russia


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says a university survey concluded his massachusetts administration had more women in senior leadership positions than any other state in america


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ann mclane kuster is for a government takeover of health care more radical than obamacare and she supports a billion cut to medicare for current retirees


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the poverty rate amongst women is the worst it s been in years and the extreme poverty rate is the worst it s ever been


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women who have miscarriages could be investigated by police under legislation supported by republican state senate candidate rick gudex


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says house democrats voted to use your tax dollars for abortions by voting against bill defunding planned parenthood


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says barack obama said when he was running for office four years ago that he would halve the annual deficit by the end of his first term that simply has not happened


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says an arts tax would provide funding for certified arts and music teachers for every elementary school serving portland residents


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says mitt romney and george allen would overturn roe wade and allow states to end safe legal abortion even in cases of rape incest or when a woman life is at risk


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says fewer than percent of texas college students graduate in four years and only percent graduate within six years


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says the university of texas can afford to build a medical school because it has a billion endowment and its football program had a million profit last year


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says he is the reason we do not pay a toll every time we pass over the bridge at mopac and william cannon


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says connie mack is protecting chevron oil from a dollar lawsuit over pollution of rivers and rainforests


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massachusetts scott brown shows someone can be bipartisan in congress because he votes about percent with his own party


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says barack obama has pension investments that include chinese firms and investments through a caymans trust


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says his administration put more border patrol agents on the border than at any time in history and the flow of undocumented workers across the border is actually lower than it been in years


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says mitt romney suggested that employers should be able to make the decision as to whether or not a woman gets contraception through her insurance coverage


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when mitt romney was governor of massachusetts he stood in front of a coal plant and pointed at it and said this plant kills


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the georgia department of economic development assisted with the creation of jobs an increase of percent from last fiscal year and billion in investments a percent increase


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under the obama administration we are drilling and producing more domestic energy supplies than we ever had before


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says the obama administration watered down sanctions against iran delayed them and tried to stop congress from putting the tough sanctions in place


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says as of the joint ways means committee i secured the key piece of funding for the light rail project bridge


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says economists harvey rosen and martin feldstein have said that paying for mitt romney s tax cuts would require large tax increases on families making between and


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if the agreement goes into effect the millions of mexican citizens who will become eligible for social security benefits may have a far stronger claim to benefits and protection against cuts than citizens


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president obama has worked to change medicare for the worse by creating an unelected unaccountable panel with the power to deny coverage of certain treatments


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signs letter saying consumer product safety commission is acting without consultation or input from the company to stop the sale of buckyballs


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david cicilline was the state representative who opposed tough mandatory sentences for those convicted of domestic violence and child abuse


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tennessee students now cover about percent of the cost of their education at public universities and some percent at community colleges


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under maggie hassan leadership we increased state spending in the middle of the great recession by percent leading up to and following it


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says joe biden went to china and said that he sympathized and would their policy of forced abortions and sterilizations


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the canadians they dropped their tax rates to percent the average tax rate on businesses in the industrialized world is percent


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the obama administration called bashar assad a reformer when he was turning his guns on his own people


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says obama was in new york city the same day as israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu but went on a tv show instead of meeting with him


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says the obama administration spent taxpayer dollars on electric cars in finland and windmills in china


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on ending the war in iraq gov romney said that was a tragic mistake we should have left troops there


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says his deficit plan made some adjustments to and we putting it forward before congress right now a trillion plan


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when congress voted to condemn iran for sentencing a christian pastor to death lois capps was the only member who voted no


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says travis county sheriff greg hamilton has accepted from interests and from local alcohol distributors


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says chris christie created this new category where you could get laid off and just be totally denied unemployment benefits forever


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a member of the redistricting commission proposed in issue could accept a bribe from somebody and couldn t be removed from this commission


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says romney wants to take away early childhood education slash funding and cut college aid to pay for a tax break for


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bill nelson leased land that he owned for six cows taking advantage of an agricultural tax loophole to dodge in taxes just last year


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says tammy baldwin supports a law in which government will take over your decisions on medicine on doctors and on hospitals


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high school students arrested on campus are twice as likely not to graduate and four times less likely to graduate if they ve appeared in court


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says bill nelson cast the deciding vote for obamacare cutting medicare spending by billion and letting an unelected board decide what gets covered here


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the federal tax code has loopholes that are giving incentives for companies that are shipping jobs overseas


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when joe kyrillos had an opportunity to vote for women in terms of their health care not once not twice but six times he voted against women s health care in our state


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says opponent gwen moore is wisconsin s most absent member of congress missing nearly percent of the house votes in the second quarter of


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says tennessee is providing millions of dollars to virtual school company for results at the bottom of the bottom


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says under robert menendez s watch the nation s unemployment rate and debt doubled and the federal budget deficit quadrupled


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if gov romney plan goes into effect the average senior would have to pay a year more in tax for their social security


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in one year president obama provided billion in breaks to the green energy world into solar and wind to solyndra and fisker and tesla and


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says senate opponent tammy baldwin supported a federal budget that spent trillions not billions trillions more money than the obama budget


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we up jobs over the last year and we actually according to the bureau of labor statistics down auto jobs in ohio


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because of obamacare over the last two years health care premiums have gone up it true but they gone up slower than any time in the last years


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right now the congressional budget office says up to million people will lose their insurance as obamacare goes into effect next year


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barack obama says he s going to reduce the debt and deficit by trillion doesn t say how he going to do it


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says eric cantor voted to assure congress would be paid if the government shut down and against guaranteeing troops would be paid


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says barack obama put in place a board that can tell people ultimately what treatments they going to receive


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says ohio issue will create a redistricting commission that will have a blank check to spend our money


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rhode island s voter identification law was pushed by a black democrat in the house a black democrat in the senate that a fact


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one of the first states in the union to pass a voter id bill was rhode island percent democratic legislature


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says president barack obama already passed all these obamacare taxes about a dozen of them hit taxpayers


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almost arrests in the city last year for offenses involved just suspects an indication that the same people are panhandling over and over


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the obama administration s green stimulus program funneled close to billion dollars to overseas firms creating thousands of jobs in china


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chinese tire imports threatened american jobs so president obama stood up to china and protected american workers mitt romney attacked obama decision


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says the public option considered in the health care law backed by senate candidate tammy baldwin was wildly unpopular


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says ronald reagan was behind in the polls in going into the debate with jimmy carter and then turned around days later and won states


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since the time of the civil war we made a distinction in this country between the availability and the ability to access for people who were in the military versus the rest of us to vote


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the doherty campaign unlike the cicilline campaign is funded mostly by individual donors not the big pacs that cicilline relies on


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says it will cost per square foot in hard construction costs to rebuild portland public high schools


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had the online change of address been in place in an estimated voters who cast provisional ballots could have changed their address online and voted a regular ballot


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deficit spending exploded during the obama administration to trillion over four years compared to trillion in eight years under president george bush


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we haven t passed a budget in more than three years and not a single appropriations bill has been brought to the floor this year


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over the last four years the deficit has gone up but percent of that is as a consequence of president george bush s policies and the recession


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says ted cruz has pledged to eliminate the department of education which would end federal aid to college students


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says obama is only president in history who has deliberately removed the words endowed by their creator when referring to the declaration of independence


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bill nelson voted to confirm sonia sotomayor who signed a supreme court opinion saying americans do not have an individual right to own firearms


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says that you can t destroy the guns purchased in a gun buyback program as the city of memphis wants to do


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says republican senate candidate tommy thompson supports massive tax cuts for corporations that outsource wisconsin jobs


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a poll conducted in egypt revealed that percent of egyptians oppose receiving foreign aid from the united states


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says one of the state s largest governments made charging this tax one of their top priorities just this year


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says scientists predict sometime in the future an event that will kill somewhere between and million people


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says obama adviser david plouffe took large piles of cash from a joint venture partner of a company owned by iran s revolutionary guard


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bill nelson voted for a ban on millions of commonly owned firearms which included many popular hunting and target rifles


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the truth is planned parenthood does not provide mammograms planned parenthood refers women to mammography providers serving as the middlewoman if you will


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says the governor is going around the state talking about how we should fund an income tax cut that benefits higher income earners and not lower income earners


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says that in the house of representatives we ve had bipartisan support for the repeal of obamacare for getting rid of cap and trade for building the keystone pipeline


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says the source of illegal immigration is people legally coming to the united states on a tourist visa or a student visa and then disappearing into the population and never being heard from again


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james langevin has received almost million from taxpayers and special interests to use at his own discretion to supposedly champion rhode island s needs


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says a constitutional amendment instructed a state board headed by jerry patterson to put million in investment earnings into a fund supporting public school operations


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president obama campaign surrogate maryland gov martin o malley acknowledged that we are not better off than we were four years ago


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eight million americans have dropped out of the work force since barack obama became president the real unemployment rate is percent


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says senate candidate tommy thompson admitted that washington changed him into an insider selling his influence to make millions from powerful special interests


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says when republicans took over the state legislature in new hampshire s tax rate for employers was in the nation and unemployment had more than doubled under democrats


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tim kaine doubled down in his support of devastating defense cuts saying the the deal was the right thing to do


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i am going to be on the ballot in all states there is no other candidate that s going to come close to achieving that


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says if we do nothing and continue to let obamacare siphon off that billion dollars off the top of it medicare goes away in less than years certain accounts of it and it just falls apart at the seams


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says romney and ryan both backed proposals that would outlaw abortions even in cases of rape or incest


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the president went on a spending binge that stuck every american man woman and child with a share of this trillion debt


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based on the august national jobs numbers for every person who got a job nearly four people stopped looking for a job


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the providence economic development partnership you cicilline chaired loaned in taxpayer funds to one of your campaign workers the worker never paid back the loan


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says he will protect your guaranteed benefits in medicare while mitt romney would take away medicare as guaranteed benefits


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an aide acted on his own and was not representing the thompson campaign when he sent an email criticizing the sexual orientation of senate candidate tammy baldwin


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defends his vote to push retirement age to by saying he is for a process that would not be fully implemented until around the turn of the century


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says republican sean duffy voted against paying our soldiers and against increasing combat pay while voting to protect his own pay


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says if current trends continue by one out of three texas workers will not have a high school diploma


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


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under obama home values in florida collapsed construction jobs were lost and the state had a high foreclosure rate


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after hearing the frustrations parents and teachers have with the fcat next year we begin improving our testing system


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tennessee appeals court judges were selected by a handful of party officials in nashville before the system of merit selection was put into effect


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with the auto rescue president barack obama saved more than million jobs all across america including more than in wisconsin


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the unemployment rate has remained above percent for consecutive months the longest stretch since the great depression


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in cuyahoga county percent of weekend voters in were african american while adult african americans comprise percent of the county population


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david cicilline was required to provide key information about city finances to an independent outside auditor the deadlines were clear yet he intentionally missed them by months until after the november election


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on relations prime minister benjamin netanyahu set the record straight he said our two countries have the same policy and security cooperation is unprecedented


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says rush limbaugh made it clear he d rather see the country fail than president barack obama succeed


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the president promised that if he spent money on a stimulus program that unemployment would go to percent or percent those were his words


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that what every child owes today because washington politicians have run up a huge spending tab and left our kids the bill


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says sierra club sued him to stop oil and gas activity on texas coast but we won and the turtles are fine


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the senate has not passed a budget in more than three years not a good budget not a bad budget no budget


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says that if texas california and new york all voted for democratic presidential nominees it would be mathematically impossible for republicans to elect a president


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voter identification laws make it complicated and expensive to get an id essentially instituting a poll tax


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says georgia will send more state money per child to state charter schools and that budget cuts are not applied to those charter schools


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after years of inaction we raised fuel standards so that by the middle of the next decade cars and trucks will go twice as far on a gallon of gas


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the obama administration is allowing state waivers from welfare work requirements only if they had a credible plan to increase employment by percent


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says republicans have declared that they re going to convert the medicare program into a voucher program


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says the republican party platform says pull back even more of the rules on campaign finance reform get rid of while the democratic party platform says we want to find a way to put more fair rules on campaign finance reform


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says under oregon law girls from years of age and up are given complete control over whether to be sterilized or not


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says president barack obama gives students the right to repay federal loans as a clear fixed low percentage of their income for up to years


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the health care compact bill would end medicare guaranteed benefit for tennessee medicare recipients and shift management of the federal health care plan to the state tenncare program


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we got percent unemployment in ohio but when you include the folks who have stopped looking for work it actually over percent


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


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ohio has created new manufacturing jobs since and that due in large part to the fact that the auto rescue has helped ohio


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under president barack obama s leadership since june the auto industry has added a quarter of a million jobs


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says paul ryan attacked the president for the same amount of medicare savings that ryan had in his own budget


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says that like todd akin all texas republicans in house cosponsored a bill that attempts to distinguish between forcible rape and other sexual assaults


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since our private economy has produced million jobs so what the jobs score republicans million democrats million


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republicans would give seniors a medicare voucher that limits what covered costing seniors as much as more a year


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says republicans mitt romney and paul ryan support massive cuts in social security for future generations


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says she was misquoted and didn t say that the israeli ambassador said what the republicans are doing is dangerous for israel


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seven presidents before barack obama republicans and democrats tried to expand health care to all americans


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under president bush in eight years we added trillion to the debt under president obama we added trillion to the debt in the years he been in office


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says mitt romney told university students in ohio that to start a business they should borrow money if you have to from your parents


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says mitt romney has put forward a plan that would cut taxes for millionaires while raising them for the middle class


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says mitt romney s tax plans would give an additional tax cut to millionaires and billionaires while raising taxes on the middle class


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we will spend billion in afghanistan this year fixing roads building bridges training police officers and more and cutting the same things in our own country


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the first state budget that came out of our republican leadership slashed funding to planned parenthood it resulted in the reduction of hours the elimination of days elimination of access to women in my city and all over my state


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the gop platform that seeks further limits on abortion and is silent on an exception for rape has been there for more than years


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federal law adopted under tommy thompson watch prohibits the government from negotiating for better prices on prescription drugs for senior citizens


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says gov chris christie has embarked on a tour to demand that new jersey s democratic legislature approve an immediate tax cut that would disproportionately benefit the wealthiest


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at bain capital we helped start an early childhood learning company called bright horizons that first lady michelle obama rightly praised


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there is an increasing amount of evidence from public polling that the highest number of americans ever identify themselves as


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says that when democrats controlled congress and the white house federal spending as a share of the gross domestic product leapt from percent in to percent in the largest such increase in any period since world war ii


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clackamas county commissioners approved a agreement to lower the county s contribution to trimet s light rail project to million from million


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says connie mack iv a bill to take a third of the social security trust fund give it in individual accounts to the senior citizens who then were to invest it in the stock market


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says president obama and his national labor relations board sued boeing over its decision to open a plant in south carolina


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says the national health care law puts federal bureaucrats between an american citizen and her doctor


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says that as providence s mayor david cicilline said the city had a school system not only did providence not have a school system but as measured was amongst the last school system in the entire country


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when president obama took office we were losing jobs a month now we had job growth i think for consecutive months


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in massachusetts under mitt romney unemployment went down household incomes went up and the state saw its credit rating upgraded


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a gallup report recently said that nearly percent of small business owners are hiring because of what they call regulatory uncertainty


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a report just came out that if we continue with president obama policies we looking at over percent unemployment next year in the fourth quarter


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president obama is attacking paul ryan on medicare even though it is his administration with the help of jim langevin who cut billion from medicare


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says taxes were raised times in the eight years before i became governor and those increases were part of a path that led to wealth and jobs and people leaving our state


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says they said it was impossible to balance a budget at the same time with an billion deficit and we did it


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the health care law imposes a federal mandate requiring americans to buy health insurance whether they can afford it or not


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household income in america has gone down for families an average of in the last four years while it went up under mitt romney when he was governor of massachusetts


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if you look at the number of illegal immigrants coming into the country it is net zero it been that way now for almost two years


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says a portfolio managed by the texas general land office earned percent last year while the state s emergency reserve account experienced a percent gain


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half the kids coming out of college this year ca find a job or a job that consistent with a college degree


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republicans included the akin amendment in the republican party platform which bans abortion even for rape victims


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says that 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


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says senate rival tommy thompson wants to give a new tax cut to millionaires like himself while raising taxes on the middle class


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says senate rival tammy baldwin wants a completely health care system that goes far beyond and is a medicare system for all


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we have only one person on the tva board to my knowledge who even has any corporate board experience


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for social security which is projected to remain solvent through whitehouse has cosponsored a bill that would extend the life of the program by an additional years


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his new running mate congressman ryan put forward a plan that would let governor romney pay less than percent in taxes each year


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the obama administration willfully leaked the existence of stuxnet a computer worm used against iran allowing our enemies to learn more of our secrets and of our operations


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the price of gasoline was at a gallon when president barack obama took office and has since nearly doubled because of his policies


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initial efforts to strip airport contractors of their special diversity status has no effect on the contracts or the city s diversity goals


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says obama puts unelected unaccountable bureaucrats in charge of medicare who are required to cut medicare that will lead to denied care for current seniors


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says senate hopeful tammy baldwin voted for a trillion stimulus bill that included a wasteful to replace light bulbs


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the obama administration leaked information deliberately or otherwise that led to the identification of the pakistani doctor that helped us in achieving our goals and killing bin laden


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says congressmen paul ryan and todd akin legislation to limit federal funding for abortion to victims of forcible rape


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clayton county public schools recently achieved a milestone that has eluded other metropolitan districts across the state by meeting federal guidelines for having a highly qualified staff


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peter petrarca voted on two pieces of legislation that helped auto body shops and at that point i think there is a conflict of interest


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says an appointed board created under obamacare will have the ability to come between you and your doctor in determining the best treatment options for you


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under the president plan he cuts medicare by billion takes that money out of the medicare trust fund and uses it to pay for obamacare


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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


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says jon corzine gave away percent raises over years and he stood on the front steps of the capitol at a union rally and said i will fight to get you a great contract


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from a standpoint of the county government neither school system has received an increase in funding over the past six years


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says gov scott walker raises the pay of inmates but we do raise the pay of staff in our correctional institutions


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says reps rush holt frank pallone and bill pascrell are willing to jeopardize seniors access to coverage by gutting billion from medicare to pay for a healthcare takeover


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paul ryan got his start in politics as a young staffer just out of college working for john kasich s budget committee


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while barack obama preaches we are our brother s keeper his brother and aunt live in real poverty in kenya


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says she does the jobs of state auditor secretary of state and lieutenant governor for less than the price of one of them in washington state


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nascar fans are twice as likely as non fans to serve in the military and percent of active servicemembers and veterans are nascar fans


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after one year tennessee s students made their biggest jump in achievement ever recorded in the state


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says about kids in this country leave their home state and go to another state to be educated out of that young people of them are from new jersey by far the largest amount


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says president obama said of the national debt if i do have this done in three years then there going to be a proposition


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says paul ryan budget relies on the same billion in savings from medicare that mitt romney and other republicans have been attacking democrats about


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brendan doherty wants to raise the eligibility age for social security benefits for anyone born after with no regard for the challenges it would cause for people working in physically demanding occupations


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says martin heinrich spent a trillion of our tax dollars on a stimulus for failed companies here and jobs overseas


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mitt romney is the first major party candidate for president of the united states in modern times not to release at least years of tax returns


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voter turnout for some groups in the presidential general election in georgia was far greater than it should have been demographically


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says mitt romney said at a january debate that under paul ryan s tax plan i d have paid no taxes in the last two years


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we do know that romney personally approved over million in fictional losses to the irs as part of the notorious of boss tax scandal one of the largest tax avoidance schemes in history


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says the federal government mandates transexuals sic and homosexuals grabbing children in their zones in the name of airport security


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the tax policy center found that romney would raise taxes on the average middle class family by to pay for trillion in tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires


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says ron saunders made the choice to stand with rick scott on expanding school vouchers restricting scholarships and giving tax breaks to the wealthy


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says tommy thompson favors obama health care mandate was publicly thanked by obama for health reform support and that thompson says we ca repeal


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says senate rival tommy thompson is a big corporate lobbyist and has been lobbying during the middle of the campaign


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says the central ohio human trafficking task force is the first task force of its kind in central ohio


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a united nations arms treaty would almost certainly force the to create an international gun registry setting the stage for gun confiscation


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gov romney himself with other republican governors supported policies that would have eliminated the time limits in the welfare reform law and allowed people to stay on welfare forever


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says mitt romney and bain capital are to blame in a woman s premature death when they closed the plant where her husband worked


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bill nelson s vote for the affordable care act cuts billion from medicare to pay for new government programs


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this ban will only apply to oregon commercial fishermen washington commercial fishermen would still be allowed to use gillnets on the columbia river


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one of the key things about leonard lance is that in when you look at the project vote smart website he was not for guns now he has gone too far to the right saying that you can carry concealed weapons in national parks


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thousands of politicians from across ohio along with their relatives employees and friends are still eligible to serve on the proposed redistricting commission


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in june we actually had more people go on social security disability than the jobs that were created


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president obama and nancy pelosi said obamacare would save money because they factored in years worth of tax revenue and only six and half years worth of expenses


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says mitt romney opposes requiring employers to cover contraception and would eliminate funding for planned parenthood


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under obama s plan for welfare you wouldn t have to work and wouldn t have to train for a job they just send you your welfare check


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says connie mack iv has been a promoter for hooters with a history of bar room brawling altercations and road rage


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president obama s lawsuit claims it is unconstitutional for ohio to allow servicemen and women extended early voting privileges during the state s early voting period


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says gov jeb bush vetoed the quiñones plan because it was taxation without representation on a large scale


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in her nearly decade and a half in congress tammy baldwin has sponsored bills only three have been enacted into law


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guns have murdered more americans here at home in recent years than have died on the battlefields of iraq and afghanistan


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says congressman jon runyan does not want to cut taxes for the middle class but only for millionaires


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an april study found that about percent of ads in this election cycle have been negative due to superpacs up from only percent through the same period in


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says the largest tax increase in american history is set to occur on january unless president obama and congress can come to an agreement


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mitt romney is proposing a tax plan that would give millionaires another tax break and raises taxes on middle class families by up to a year


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says senate opponent eric hovde supported billions in stimulus for rail and billions more to bail out banks


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the president s health care law raids medicare by more than billion and creates a medicare rationing board a group of unelected bureaucrats to slow the growth of medicare spending


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the judicial system is the most underfunded in this state able to only pay percent of its obligations meanwhile judges get some of the richest pensions of all public employees


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the congressional budget office has already doubled its estimate for the cost of obamacare so far from roughly billion to trillion


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foreign chinese prostitution money is allegedly behind the groups funding congressman scott desjarlais republican majority


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after the terrorist attacks grounded commercial air traffic there was a temperature drop while the airplanes were flying for the week afterwards


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president ronald reagan sent troops into conflict only in one circumstance which was in grenada we were in a peacekeeping setting in lebanon


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says millions of dollars in tax breaks were paid for by busting unions cutting badgercare and raising taxes on the poor and the middle class thanks to elizabeth coggs help


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the white house has three staff calligraphers making between and each and just one national security director she makes


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donna shalala left me with million doses of smallpox vaccine and i created enough to vaccinate every man woman and child against smallpox in america


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what i look at every month is how many more new jerseyans are back to work you have another last month that are back to work and over almost that are back to work now since i became governor


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a study showed that president barack obama s reforms will devastate wisconsin by pushing people off insurance driving up premiums increasing dependency and making people ineligible for medicaid


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says chris christie has refused to fund pensions by billions of dollars and got legislative approval to begin properly funding pensions in


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says minnesota has more fortune companies than oregon and one of the most obvious differences is they invested in their schools


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says politifact validated and independently documented its criminal history claims about adan ballesteros


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as we watch the news from colorado with horror and sympathy for the families we should remember that each day more than americans are killed by gunfire unnecessary tragedies


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mike dovilla s big ideas like expanding the ohio motion picture tax credit which helped bring films like the avengers to cleveland have helped make our state no in the midwest for job creation


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i ended up my time as governor with a general fund budget that was smaller than the one i started with


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president obama was saying success is the result of government not people when he said if you got a business you did build that somebody else made that happen


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twenty two years ago when he was running for governor bill nelson missed percent of his votes in the house


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the new state senate district was created in secret for van wanggaard it was drawn within half a block of his house


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we created as many jobs in the first six months of this year as we did in all of and was the best single year for job growth since the year


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there a loophole where you can sell guns without a background check percent of guns are sold that way at gun shows and over the internet


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says president barack obama doubled the national debt which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate in one year


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when josh mandel claims to have accepted three debates with sherrod brown he is lying he has accepted zero proposed debates


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gov bill haslam is making our economic development department sharia compliant by hiring a woman who specializes in sharia compliance that s what her job is


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a proposed tax to fund transportation projects would spend to take a single vehicle off the road during the morning and afternoon commute


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i used my veto authority to veto million dollars in special interest spending so that our budget this year is still smaller than the fiscal year and budgets signed by my predecessor


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the obama administration has been outsourcing by sending money to solar and wind energy companies that end up making their products outside the united states


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says jeff brandes voted to allow citizens property insurance to dump policies onto unregulated private companies


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says no city comparable in size to austin or smaller was broken into as many congressional districts


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over the last six months president barack obama has golfed times and held fundraisers but his jobs council has never met


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unemployment among oregon high school graduates aged to increased more than percent from to while the average increased only percent


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says raising the state income tax rate on millionaires to offset property taxes for other residents is not a tax increase it a tax shift


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sherrod brown and his special interest allies in washington are plotting to spend over million to defeat josh mandel


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if you have ever visited nashville or washington you will see many names and initials carved into desks


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says president barack obama promised a pathway to citizenship to undocumented immigrants and did deliver jack squat on any of it


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says the money is in the budget to give a tax break to everyone including people making more than million


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says if labor force participation rate were the same as when barack obama became president unemployment would be percent


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the health care law adds around billion of taxes on the american people it does not discriminate between rich and poor


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bill tea party legislature tried to repeal kindergarten and compulsory education defund planned parenthood and eliminate insurance coverage for birth control


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foreign chinese prostitution money is allegedly behind the groups funding congressman sean duffy s republican majority


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new jersey today has fewer employees in state government than it had when christie whitman left office in january of and i think that s good and we did it without any layoffs we did it through attrition


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because of the health care act the people who have health care and like it in this county are not going to be able to keep what they have


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funding the federal health care law without a tax hike will require the state to cut nearly a quarter of its annual budget


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the state of ohio has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation right now and is leading the pack in terms of job creation


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we are not producing jobs we created jobs last month we do talk about the jobs that we lost the net of it all is that we lost jobs


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says she stood up to gov scott walker on tax cuts for wealthy corporations while her congressional opponent voted with walker


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sherrod brown s approval rating has plummeted to percent among ohio voters in a poll by a democratic pollster


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the united states can immediately tap a domestic energy resource of more than trillion barrels of oil six times more than saudi arabia


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says new jersey s tenure law has now been reformed to say that if teachers get two years of partially effective or ineffective ratings they lose tenure


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foreign chinese prostitution money is allegedly behind the groups funding congressman jim renacci s republican majority


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says recent studies indicate that nationally only percent of white citizens but percent of citizens lack photo ids


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says as a result of the national health care reform the congressional budget office says we save million over the first years over the next years we save trillion in savings in terms of health care


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cuts in local government and school funding in john kasich s budget caused many communities to seek school levies local tax increases layoffs


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every one of the supervisors of elections in florida refused to carry out the effort to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls


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says mitt romney has a corporation in bermuda but failed to disclose that on seven different financial disclosures


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sixteen thousand new internal revenue service agents will be empowered to enforce the new health care legislation


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


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if the did borrow trillion every year to fund government operations that money would be available for entrepreneurs and business people to put to work creating jobs and building and expanding their businesses


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says state paul sarlo said in february on njtv there will be no tax increases in this budget and voted the other night in the senate budget committee to raise income taxes million


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


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says the congressional budget office said if you re going to buy your own policy with these health care exchanges you ll be paying percent more about more for a family


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states still face a mandate to expand medicaid coverage under president obama health care reform law


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voter fraud provided a portion of the margin of victory of democrat john lehman over republican van wanggaard in a state senate recall election


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says clackamas county measure will hurt our county cripple economic growth and increase our taxes with excessive special elections


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the mack penny plan for the federal budget would balance our budget by and continues to gain support


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if you look at most of the polls this is a race on fourth of july between mitt romney and the president


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the wisconsin retirement system for public employees is a pension plan and it s the money of the workers that funds it


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says he passed eight measures including ones to prevent groping at airport security checks and to bar sanctuary cities in texas


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says dow chemical decided to build a plant in saudi arabia rather than oklahoma due to the impact of environmental regulations on the supply of natural gas


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statistics show that more people at this time telecommute than they ride carpools mass transit bicycle or walk


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


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before act the total cost of public sector employees employment was percent higher than that in the private sector after the act it s still percent higher


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the transportation tax is regressive and emory university is literally getting its own transit line at virtually no cost to itself


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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


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as massachusetts governor mitt romney used a veto to cut millions of dollars for firefighting equipment including firefighters coats pants helmets and boots


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environmentalists said we re only going to stop coal mining above well guess where all the coal in the state of tennessee is above feet


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oregon schools receive millions of dollars per year in federal school lunch assistance and yet they are required to spend that money almost anywhere but oregon


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says the federal health care law upheld by the supreme court has improved or saved the lives of more than texans otherwise prevented from obtaining health coverage due to conditions


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if you one of the more than million americans who already have health insurance you will keep your health insurance


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obamacare means that for up to million americans they will lose the insurance they currently have the insurance that they like and they want to keep


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austin is the biggest city in america with a tier one research university but without a medical school


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there is little if any evidence that the use of red light cameras in new jersey has reduced the number or severity of accidents at the intersections where they are used


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over the last few decades the income of the top percent grew by more than percent to an average of million a year


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says the constitution specifically states the congress shall write legislation for immigration policy so barack obama lacks the authority to defer the deportation of young illegal immigrants


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says because of texas lawmakers choices hundreds of thousands of women no longer have access to basic medical care cancer screenings and contraception


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the state unemployment rate is in the country a full point above the nationwide rate and higher than all of our neighboring states


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says yet in salem they have traditionally waited until the money is almost gone to pay for the most important things in our state s budget


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the dream act was written by members of both parties when it came up for a vote a year and a half ago republicans in congress blocked it the bill hadn t changed the only thing that had changed was politics


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says a instructor at the river school a washington school for the deaf has determined that during ceremonies michelle obama said all this for a damn flag


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says gov chris christie s proposed budget is the biggest spending budget in the history of the state of new jersey it is the largest in the nation at this point in time


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under current law if you go on a dating website and you say you and you actually you committed a misdemeanor


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now in the house of representatives we have different jobs bills that have passed and almost all of them have been bipartisan


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says a national study showed texans love texas more than residents of any other state love their state wisconsinites ranked second


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in percent of those who voted early on the last sunday before election day were while percent were hispanic


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percent of the people who voted on june just didn t feel comfortable with the recall of the governor weakening any idea that wisconsin is fully behind this walker agenda


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as virginia lost over jobs tim kaine put partisan ambitions first by serving as dnc chairman during the last year of his governorship


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since the beginning of the economic downturn in fy the state workforce has been reduced by percent as part of overall cost savings measures to balance the budget to reduce revenues


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rhode island has the worst maintained bridges in the united states of america and we have the second worst maintained roads behind alaska


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since president barack obama took office you have employees just at the department of transportation earning over


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assembly democrats wanted to raise the gas tax by billion we said no to that they re down on the ground they re sweating they re twitching it s ugly cause i keep saying no


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says cents of every dollar played represents over million dollars that is returned to oregonians every year to help support job creation schools state parks and watersheds


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the koch brothers alone gave twice as much money to scott walker as the total amount of money raised by tom barrett


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vagina because apparently saying that word in the michigan state house of representatives can get you a ban from speaking on the floor


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in nj economy ranked at the bottom with alabama mississippi wyoming under christie nj is falling behind


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says less than half of all states have legal protections on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity despite the fact that lgbt americans report employment discrimination and unemployment at much higher rates than the average


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when mitt romney was governor massachusetts had more debt per person than any other state in the country


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the americans for tax reform pledge relates to new taxes that were going to be initiated by legislative action


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before i was governor tuition was skyrocketing and we stopped that we capped and then we froze college tuition


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says joe kyrillos voted to raid the state pension funds by billion that is costing new jersey taxpayers still today to the tune of nearly billion dollars to repay that money


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the latest evidence of republican success is that since the beginning of the current legislative term state unemployment has gone down almost to adjusted


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says barack obama admits he s coming for our guns telling sarah brady we are working on gun control but under the


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says barack obama is trying to slash funding for the armed pilots program designed to prevent terror attacks


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when mitt romney was governor massachusetts lost manufacturing jobs a rate twice the national average and fell to in job creation fourth from the bottom


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says robert menendez is the king of raising money from wall street over a million dollars one of the leaders in the united states senate i haven t raised any wall street money at all


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says barack obama s regulatory adviser cass sunstein wants to ban hunting and says animals should be represented in court


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says lawyer appointed by eric holder to investigate government leaks helped and donated to obama campaign vetting vice presidential prospects


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overwhelming democrat and republican votes in for legislation in two special sessions on jobs demonstrated the bipartisan nature of the wisconsin legislature


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under florida s voting law a requirement to turn in voter registrations within hours makes it impossible to meet the deadline if you re working right to the end of the week


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marcy kaptur voted against a ban which would have prevented the aborting of a baby girl for the sole reason that she a girl


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says only percent of portland elementary schools have art instruction compared to percent nationally


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minnesota has passed and indiana has passed right to work laws making union membership and dues optional


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when i was attorney we wound up putting percent of the state legislature in jail during my seven years


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when i started in ohio it was terrible now we re getting bipartisan support for our bills and that s called leadership


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a new manufacturing plant is slated to create about jobs in central and northeast georgia and create about a billion infusion into the economy


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massachusetts is reporting a trend far below the national trend in the escalation of costs in this year


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says combined inflation and unemployment rates in october were the highest since ronald reagan succeeded jimmy carter


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we spend in tax loopholes annually trillion that more than we spend on our defense budget in a year on medicare or medicaid in a year


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when mitt romney was governor massachusetts lost manufacturing jobs a rate twice the national average


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in galveston texas they have allowed people to privatize part of their social security and people are building wealth


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it took us four years to balance the budget then i gave you four surplus budgets for the first time in more than years paid billion down on the national debt


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says as mayor of wilsonville i drove trimet out of town and replaced their bloated transit system with our own local bus line that offers better service and has saved our businesses millions of dollars


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says hawaii gov neil abercrombie made a visit to kinko s to forge president barack obama s birth certificate two days before obama unveiled it to the media


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


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says 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 politifact top five of lie en governors


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there is no record of congresswoman betty sutton ever holding a single town hall meeting open to the general public


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district includes about of the district i have represented since district includes about of the area i have represented since


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massachusetts under gov mitt romney initially ranked last among states in job growth but by the end of his governorship we were in the middle of the pack


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in the florida election at least 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


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when mitt romney was governor the fact is that the average income for a family in massachusetts went up by


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georgia public service commission member stan wise has received about percent of his campaign money from the utilities he is supposed to be regulating


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women have come through the recession worse off than men the numbers bear that out we went from a percent unemployment rate for women when he president barack obama was elected to an percent now


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president obama budget request for veterans is more than double the amount in constant dollars appropriated in when the veterans population was larger by a third


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forty years ago about half of congressional districts were genuinely competitive today only about percent of house races on cook political report are listed as or lean to one party


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the last three days of early voting happen to be the most populated days of voting that we have in early voting


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says gov scott walker made draconian cuts to public safety budgets that put police officers at greater risk of harm


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says city leadership is threatening to lay off police and emergency services personnel to balance the budget


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the federal government reviewed and verified his administration s numbers showing wisconsin added jobs in


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ted cruz helps run two national organizations that have been leading the push to give amnesty to illegal immigrants


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says tom barrett plans to spend million on a trolley that goes barely two miles on the east side of milwaukee


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says the affordable care act was a federal takeover of the student loan industry and profits on the loans go to help pay for the health care law


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says in the last six months of the bush administration the lost million jobs including jobs during january alone


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because of voter fraud republican candidates need to do a point or two better to win statewide elections in wisconsin


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more than voter registration groups ranging across the entire political spectrum have filed with the state and are registering voters right now


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says gov scott walker took away billion from schools and handed it off as over billion in tax breaks to the rich


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says that from through every statewide candidate drawing over percent of the vote in a republican texas primary won the resulting runoff


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when it comes to what little bit of job creation was happening in massachusetts when mitt romney was governor it was happening in the public sector at six times the rate that it was happening in the private sector


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to help balance the budget gov scott walker used a credit card approach that pushed over million in debt onto our children and our grandchildren costing state taxpayers more than million in interest


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thanks to our policies for the first time in state history we have put millions of dollars into our rainy day fund in consecutive years


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says there have been some job gains in the mcmansion state since christie took office but they have lagged gains both in the nation as a whole and in new york and connecticut the obvious points of comparison


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access for 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 gov rebecca kleefisch


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according to atf data percent of firearms recovered and traced in drug cartel crimes in mexico originated from the united states


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the region i represent both currently and in the future has more automotive plants than the entire state of california


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a government analysis shows under a proposed transportation tax metro atlanta will create or support an additional new jobs including jobs that are maintained year over year


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while act allowed milwaukee county to save some money it was millions short of what we needed to fill the hole left by the million cut in state aid


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says under president barack obama there s been the lowest discretionary spending we ve had in decades in the united states


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water transportation is the most fuel efficient least polluting safest and least expensive means of moving cargo


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in alabama and massachusetts passed legislation allowing who are legal residents to vote in state and local elections


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says one in four women and one in seven men have been victims of domestic violence in their lifetime


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lloyd doggett made millions off companies like bank of america while they took taxpayer bailout money


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prince william county has cut violent crime in half since instituting a crackdown on illegal immigration


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says gov scott walker is cooking the books by releasing numbers he just dreamed up that show wisconsin gained jobs in


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since scott walker took office as governor in january there has been an increase of jobs in wisconsin


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obama s flush with cash returning to wall street for even more money wall street sure supports president obama


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says under mitt romney medicare could end as we know it leaving julia with nothing but a voucher to buy insurance which means extra per year for a similar plan


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says he fought for the repeal of a septic tank inspection program after tallahassee pulled a fast one


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says mitt romney is wrong to claim that spending under obama has accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history because it actually risen slower than at any time in nearly years


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over the past five years the federal government has paid out million in retirement and disability benefits to deceased former federal employees


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millions could lose their health care coverage and be forced into a government pool under the new health care law


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says over percent of recent county bonds are for precinct one northeast travis county because he is quick to identify projects that help make the east side a desirable place to live


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when mitt romney was governor of massachusetts we didn t just slow the rate of growth of our government we actually cut it


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the recent process of awarding billion worth of airport vending contracts was the most open and transparent procurement process in the city s history


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says as we sit right now medicare if we do nothing will be gone in eight years if we do nothing to it


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on allowing shelby county schools merger commission to finish work before allowing any new merger legislation


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says democratic recall opponent mahlon mitchell sent a letter encouraging folks to boycott more than companies


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jimmy langevin is having a fundraiser to retire the debt from his campaign for secretary of state which was years ago


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president obama promised families making less than a year would not see taxes go up but obamacare raises different taxes


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barack obama and hillary clinton are negotiating with the united nations about doing a treaty that will ban the use of firearms


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says that president obama promised that with the stimulus plan unemployment would never go above percent he even said it would be percent by now


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after they bought gst steel mitt romney and his partners loaded it with debt closed the kansas city plant and walked away with a healthy profit leaving hundreds of employees out of work with their pensions in jeopardy


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says president barack obama s finance team is recommending a tax on all transactions at any financial institution


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george allen and his colleagues in the senate turned the biggest surplus in the history of the united states into the biggest deficit in the history of the united states


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the georgia regional transportation authority concluded that light rail in cobb county would more than double commute time and would therefore be unsuccessful in alleviating traffic congestion


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says marcy kaptur has attacked his military service and training in the air force showing disrespect for veterans


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says in regard to providing more tax cuts for the rich bill pascrell said republicans had great ideas i liked some of their ideas


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says the health care reform bill was paid for in part by taking money from students and the student loan system


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the salaries of wisconsin s public school teachers were slashed by gov scott walker through a recent administrative rule change


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says in march new jersey was one of only eight states in the nation to lose jobs and the state with the highest loss of jobs in the nation


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when these undocumented students graduate from college they still illegal aliens they can not get a job


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florida has golf courses i think million rounds played a year in florida we ve got percent of all travel golf in the country here million people come here just for golf


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says i am happy to decline pers so that the county can save over over a four year term that would have been paid on my behalf


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says jeff reardon cut elementary school music classes art instruction teaching positions basketball and volleyball programs and he voted to raise school lunch prices


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democrats plan to keep student loan interest rates low by raising taxes on small businesses very small businesses the kinds of small businesses that give jobs to graduates


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the expiration of the tax cuts would be the biggest tax increase in the history of the country about trillion over years


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just remember this the president health care bill put million people on health care rolls that were there before


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says when he was governor we expanded participation in virginia in early childhood programs by nearly percent


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if congress froze the current spending level and then cut it by percent annually we could balance the budget in five years


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new jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation and not by a little they are the highest property taxes in the nation more than double the national average


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we are coming up on our anniversary of electing a republican to the united states senate was the last time new jersey sent a republican to the united states senate


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says mitt romney has refused to say whether he would have vetoed or signed the lilly ledbetter fair pay act


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says he is the only candidate in the race for clackamas county chair who will refuse to join the public employees retirement system


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says mitt romney is proposing a tax cut that gives an average of to every millionaire in this country


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we should be seeing numbers in the jobs created per month creating jobs the total from april is way way way off from what should happen in a normal recovery


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says williamson county district attorney john bradley reduces percent of felonies to misdemeanors and hands them off to her


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says an unchecked democratic majority in trenton is responsible for years of diversions from the state s unemployment insurance trust fund


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says paul ryan s budget proposal would effectively double the interest paid out on existing and future student loans


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if you put the billion in revenue raised over years by the buffett rule into infrastructure you could create infrastructure jobs


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says i never billed a single hour of my time to the city of portland in the last years so no revolving door


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says the mayor s job is to make sure that if somebody is trying to build a set of water treatment plants to cure us from cryptosporidium we don t have we do say yes even if hill wants us to


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says i don t agree with hales that we should give a sweeping break to the developers to allow them to build that infill housing without paying for those very basics


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the failed economic policies of president barack obama the democrats and the federal reserve are making gas prices higher while america s economy is running on fumes


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says president barack obama added trillion to the national debt in his first term more than the trillion added by the previous presidents combined


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when housing and transportation costs are combined atlanta s cost of living typically perceived as relatively low ranks as worst out of metros nationally


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says the stimulus bill sent tax credits overseas such as tens of millions of dollars to build traffic lights in china


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says the stimulus bill sent tax credits overseas such as half a billion to an electric car company that created hundreds of jobs in finland


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since the ohio republican party has made more contacts with voters nearly million than any other gop state organization in the nation


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says in our gun laws we re allowing domestic abusers to sidestep this ban on getting a gun the loophole allows a convicted abuser to walk into a gun show and walk out with a gun no questions asked


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we have to recognize that our salaries for faculty are the lowest in new england with the exception of the university of maine


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says the stimulus bill sent tax credits overseas such as billion to a solar company that building a plant in mexico


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


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says amanda fritz publicly claimed to be endorsed by naral oregon both on her website and in the voter s guide


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after four years of a celebrity president of recent college grads are moving back in with their parents


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before the hope scholarship percent of the high school students who made or above on their sat left the state of georgia now percent of those stay in the state of georgia


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says the department of homeland security has ordered enough rounds of caliber ammunition to kill every man woman and child in the united states possibly to combat massive civil unrest or an invasion by a foreign power


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gas prices have gone up percent since obama became president the highest gas price increase since carter


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the wisconsin law repealed by republicans which allowed discriminated workers to sue in state court was kind of a gravy train for lawyers


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says i worked with our mayor and other commissioners to help save the school year when a budget crisis in salem threatened to cut four weeks of the school year including negotiating with teachers to work for free


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says mitt romney s top five donors are wall street firms while barack obama s top five are technology companies and universities


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under a new law doctors performing abortions could be charged if women don t return to them for care


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under republican economic policies the typical american family saw their incomes fall by about percent


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a proposed labor department rule for children working on farms would even ban youth from operating a screwdriver or a pressurized garden hose


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says my advocacy questioning contracting out in parks delayed and altered the renewal of the brooks contract and reduced the number of contracted employees in parks from over to fewer than


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the university of florida announced this past week that it was dropping its computer science department meanwhile the athletic budget for the current year is million an increase of more than million from last year


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the total unemployment rate for hispanic or latino workers has increased from to between january and march


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at the same time gas prices have increased the share of the oil market controlled by speculators has more than doubled over the past years


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under president barack obama s watch oil production on federal lands has decreased percent over the past year


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one out of two americans are living either in or near poverty that means million americans half of us


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we ve got four supreme court justices who signed their name to a declaration that americans have no fundamental right to


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if you earning under a year and you commute to new york every day you pay more to the port authority in tolls than you pay to the state of new jersey in income tax


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the buffett rule will bring in less than billion per year enough to pay one week s interest on the national debt


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says the congressional budget office has estimated every penny of the federal budget will go to interest on the debt and entitlement spending by


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ron oakley conservative leadership protected local taxpayers over government bureaucrats as the water management district s budget decreased by percent in the four years he served on the board


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says there is an upcoming vote to preserve benefits of texas homestead exemption for seniors and the disabled


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says that when adjusted for inflation and population growth state general revenue spending has decreased percent on his watch


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in the republicans embraced a health platform that proudly features an individual mandate as its main component


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says ellen rosenblum has said over and over again that this is a job where percent of the job is being the government s lawyer


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says ted cruz represents a chinese company found guilty of stealing blueprints from an american manufacturer


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gas prices have doubled because obama opposed exploring for energy in alaska he gave millions of tax dollars to solyndra which then went bankrupt and he blocked the keystone pipeline so we will all pay more at the pump


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every time the price of gasoline rises cent it a billion dollars out of our economy that goes to saudi arabia


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the arc tunnel project was originally estimated to be billion and new jersey alone was on the hook for all overruns


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large phone companies and their trade association have hired registered lobbyists to influence and pass sb deregulation legislation


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in labor negotiations with city employees milwaukee mayor tom barrett demanded concessions that went beyond those mandated by gov scott walker s collective bargaining law


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a proposed regional transportation tax will last a minimum of years and has been approved to last longer


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says president obama decision to not issue a permit for the keystone xl pipeline meant we were denied the ability immediately to reduce prices at the pump


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by the time i finish this speech two americans will be slain six women will be raped of us will be robbed and more will be beaten


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


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this rule could prevent children under from using such tools as a power screwdriver a milking machine or something as simple as a wheelbarrow on the family farm


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georgia is one of three states that effectively have no regulations whatsoever on lobbyists giving to legislators


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the percent tax rate called for under president barack obama s proposed buffett rule is lower than the prescribed tax rate for millionaires already not just for millionaires for people making over


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says the pentagon has never passed a financial audit in fact the pentagon is exempt from a federal law that requires all federal agencies to complete annual audits


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it the first time in the nation this many members have been drawn by a legislature into the same districts where it was a court order


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since president obama took office our federal spending has increased by nearly percent and our national debt has increased by almost percent


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says the treasurer s office has saved million in management costs for the oversight of public investments


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says new jersey devils managing partner jeff vanderbeek froze all those monies during the toughest years in and refused to give the charitable dollars that he was required to give by the contract


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sherrod brown s vote helped pass barack obama s health care law which slapped small businesses throughout ohio with a billion tax increase


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president obama refusal to grant permits for offshore drilling is one reason gasoline prices are soaring


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about to house democrats are members of the communist party it s called the congressional progressive caucus


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mayor tom barrett s policies drove unemployment up percent in milwaukee pushing it to one of america s worst cities for unemployment


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says the united states actually exports more gasoline diesel and other fuels than it imported in for the first time since i think


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says that mitt romney while he was in arizona said he believes the state s sb immigration law should be the model for national immigration laws


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says at the state level we spending more on tax expenditures than we are on public safety health care and education combined


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why was there no news coverage of this raid on the arizona border seizure was just five days ago right on the arizona border


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says wisconsin women facing pay discrimination ca do something about it under bill passed by republicans


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we gave every public employee in the state the freedom to choose whether or not they want to be in a union


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says in the governor s proposed budget the use of that what is called is a percent increase over the last corzine budget


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as the usage of synthetic marijuana has dramatically increased instances of violence bodily harm and even death have risen with it


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an effort to repeal legislation would be the first time in ohio history where a bill has been passed to stop a referendum


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says under the affordable care act new jersey s new medicaid enrollees won t qualify for the matching federal funds simply because we added them onto the rolls before


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under the house republican budget if these cuts were to be spread out evenly the year after next nearly million college students would see their financial aid cut by an average of more than each


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mitt romney s pledged to protect oil companies record profits and their billions in special tax breaks too


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says gubernatorial recall candidate tom barrett supported passage of gov scott walker s bill stripping collective bargaining of state employees


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we were the no job creator in america in february and we are now the no job creator in the last year


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before this law any group could go out anywhere register voters sit on the voter registration forms for unlimited amount of time


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in his very first budget milwaukee mayor tom barrett broke his pledge to keep a lid on property taxes and has continued increasing taxes and fees ever since


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to get out of the teachers union you pay percent of then you out of the union but you got to pay it every year also required by statute that s called a representation fee


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says jeff wentworth was the only republican to vote against the texas measure requiring women to have a sonogram before receiving an abortion


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sherrod brown opposed blocking a new epa emissions rule despite acknowledging that the epa regulations are burdensome and could harm economic growth in ohio


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this is the only state in the country that bypassed the general assembly to authorize tuition for undocumented immigrants


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says ronald reagan understood repeatedly that when the deficit started to get out of control that for him to make a deal he would have to propose both spending cuts and tax increases


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if the supreme court throws out the federal health care law it would be an unprecedented extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected congress


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richard hayne president and ceo of urban outfitters is a supporter of rick santorum and donated over to him


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says when new jersey adopted guaranteed coverage and cost provisions without a mandate individual health insurance market rates doubled or tripled and enrollment dropped from people to people


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in the past years our austin water rates have increased by percent and we now have the highest water cost of the top cities in texas


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i think it s seven or eight of the california system of universities don t even teach an american history course it s not even available to be taught


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the florida department of agriculture s website can be used to get a permit to carry a loaded hidden gun without ever leaving your house


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says streetcars carry more people than buses you attract more riders who do ride transit now and actually the operating costs are not any greater than the bus


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says ohio treasurer josh mandel first claimed bank fraud in june but did nothing for more than a year while raising money for his republican senate campaign


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having an entirely democrat congressional delegation in when the federal stimulus bill passed increases the per capita stimulus dollars that the state receives per person by


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says today unemployment has been running near percent or more for the last four years and the legislature hasn t done much to lower it


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and the jerseycomeback keeps rolling thanks to govchristie nj now has lowest corruption risk of any state


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says new estimates from the congressional budget office conclude the final for the health care law will exceed trillion more than double what was initially reported


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says for the duration of this recession not a single person in government middle management has lost a job or taken a pay cut


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a bill that could restrict free speech when the president is nearby was signed by president barack obama in secret


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says president obama and his allies in congress gave power to control medicare patients health care decisions to a commission of unelected bureaucrats in washington


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every time the weight of that vehicle is reduced by a hundred pounds your chances of dying are going to go up by about percent peel three hundred pounds off you re percent more likely to die in that car


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says congressman steve rothman voted against funding for president barack obama s auto bailout and would have let automakers go bankrupt


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right now we have sufficient reserves to take care of tennessee lottery scholarship students for a few years more


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says the wisconsin republican party tweeted happy international women day you ladies should get paid less and not be able to make health care decisions


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says mitt romney said we are going to have to live with high gas prices it a good thing because it will reduce consumption we do want to produce any more gasoline


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says congressman bill pascrell voted to remove the public option from the affordable health care act


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the jackson plan for reforming cleveland schools lacks any data or methods proven to raise student achievement


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says when rhode island lottery was proposed state residents were enticed to vote for it with the promise that the money would be used for education


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up to percent of small businesses will be forced to give up their current plans due to new obamacare regulations


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it was found unconstitutional to drug test elected officials because it prevents us as citizens from having that first amendment right


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new federal projections estimate that the health care overhaul will cost trillion over years well above the billion democrats originally claimed


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says that while president barack obama promised to work with your employer to lower your premiums by per family per year his health care law raises premiums in the individual market by per family


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says when he was governor wisconsin cut unemployment to percent and the state s unemployment rate was the lowest in the country for consecutive months


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the cbo says the cost of health care reform will rise to trillion increasing the price to far greater than the billion originally projected


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


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nearly percent of the women who receive health screenings through the women s health program do so at a planned parenthood health center


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says only seven percent of s stimulus bill went toward transportation projects yet they created over of the bill s total jobs


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according to the congressional budget office as many as million americans could lose their insurance thanks to obamacare


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says that in fiscal year nearly percent of women served in the texas women s health program received services from a provider other than a planned parenthood clinic


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metro atlantans spend over an hour every day or five hours a week commuting for a total of hours a year


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when we passed the stand your ground law we said it portends horrific events when people lives were put into these situations


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the restore act started as an effort to dedicate as much bp fine money as possible towards gulf coast restoration but now could steer money to places like the great lakes and west coast


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says we got a chance to pass what i think is oregon first human trafficking bill which has increased by percent the calls to the human trafficking hotline


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the administration has issued rules for abortions in obamacare and requires all persons enrolled in insurance plans that include elective abortion coverage to pay an abortion premium


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however it took million in oregon lottery funds for the port of newport to eventually land the new noaa marine operations


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says milwaukee county executive chris abele eliminated sheriff s office funding for providing security for presidential and presidential campaign visits


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ninety percent of the people who work in this country work for companies under people maybe even less than that


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this bill allows virginia to join about other states that have an ultrasound procedure before an abortion


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despite president barack obama promise to cut healthcare costs the average cost of a family policy is up


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make no mistake sherrod brown is one of the main politicians responsible for ohio jobs moving to china


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says the no cause of death in the for women under is being killed by their spouse or domestic partner


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because of the new health care law americans no longer will see their coverage dropped or capped when illness strikes


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by the time obama took office the bush administration had given the car companies billion and the money was now gone


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says percent of milwaukee shootings involve people with extensive criminal records shooting other people with extensive criminal records


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says the governor took away a billion dollars of rebates so in real dollars our property taxes have gone up percent


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an independent payment advisory board created by the health care reform law can ration care and deny certain medicare treatments


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we also have in a park that s not far from here an ability to build a reservoir that can hold a water supply for the city of atlanta


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says gov scott walker didn t balance the budget so we now have a larger state deficit months into his term than we did when he was elected


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while state employees were added to the state s payroll oregon s revenue forecasts dropped by more than billion


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in the average american lived for years and workers supported one retiree today the average life expectancy is and three workers support one retiree


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says david rivera allowed house republican leaders to strip key provisions from the stock act that would crack down on insider trading by members of congress


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says david rivera received a campaign contribution from congressman spencer bachus who is currently under house ethics investigation for insider trading


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this independent payment advisory board board can ration care and deny certain medicare treatments so washington can fund more wasteful spending


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the wisconsin state assembly chambers extend to the bathroom and the parlor and rules allow members to vote for each other if the member is in the chambers


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the total state payroll has gone down the total amount of the number of workers in the state has gone down i like the fact that the bulk of that is just by retirements


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obama secretary of energy steven chu has said publicly he wants us to pay european levels for gasoline and that would be or a gallon


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says gov scott walker cut aid to local schools despite campaigning on trying to restore state funding for education


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says her accomplishments include a fiscally responsible budget agreement that controls state spending


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president barack obama s policies have forced many parts of the country to experience rolling blackouts


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ohio is not meeting its obligation to update voter registrations when voters change their address with the bmv


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in the last two years super pacs raised more than million with roughly half of it coming from fewer than people and roughly percent from corporations


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says wisconsin assembly republicans voted to repeal a law that ensures that women can not get paid less than a man for doing the same job


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a clear majority of americans support removing the requirement for prescription contraceptive coverage


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seven out of the states with the lowest unemployment rates have republican governors that approach that republicans are using is working


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says percent of wisconsin employers think the state is heading in the right direction and a majority say they will grow their companies in


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a hundred percent of all the jobs lost during the recession have been reclaimed in texas while the nation is at about percent


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says traffic fatalities have fallen dramatically even as population has risen you are more likely to stay alive biking walking and driving around portland than you were before he took over the portland bureau of transportation


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if we keep the minimum wage at the current level then families earning the minimum wage at a job will live in poverty in new jersey


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a socially conservative group sponsored a prayer vigil to stop people from buying girl scout cookies because it thinks the girl scouts are affiliated with planned parenthood


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after president barack obama s health care law takes full effect percent of americans will depend on some form of federal payment some form of government benefit to help provide for them


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a little less than percent of the people in this country depend on some form of federal payment some form of government benefit to help provide for them


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says wisconsin gov scott walker does make his calendar public he on our dime and we do know where he is


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tonight in ohio more people came out to vote for barack obama in an unopposed race than voted for mitt romney and rick santorum combined


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ronald reagan s philosophy of peace through strength is why the iranians released the hostages on the same day and at the same hour that reagan was sworn in


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if you look up the dictionary definition of happiness at the time of our founders happiness was not doing what you want to do but doing what you ought to do


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says the federal government tells health insurance companies how much money they allowed to keep of what they receive in revenues percent


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says pension contributions under gov chris christie would represent percent of the total contribution made between the years and that right in years total state contribution was only billion


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fifty percent of the graduating class of the year will have smoked marijuana or have done illegal drugs


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wisconsin is called the badger state because our ancestors came here with the hopes of living the american dream by mining


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says state comptroller matthew boxer pointed out that many towns are artificially lowering the real estate values that they report to trenton in order to get hundreds of millions of dollars of additional school aid this is the kind of fraud that needs to be addressed immediately


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e mployment in gwinnett is up more than percent over last year and unemployment is the lowest of the five core metro counties


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when marcy kaptur fought for the democrats prescription drug benefit for seniors dennis kucinich voted no


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says ted cruz slurred republican senators including john cornyn as graybeards and spineless jellyfish


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pasco county opened new schools over six years to keep pace with growth in student population and implement the class size amendment


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pasco county schools have graduation rates substantially higher than the state average and dropout rates below the state average


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while fighting a move to toughen penalties for workplace gender discrimination state glenn grothman said he didn t believe women belonged in the workplace but belonged at home cooking and cleaning and having babies


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in there were more than new tennessee jobs created and over billion in capital investment our plan is working


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in about percent of child abuse and neglect reports in oregon were made by those required to report by law


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president obama pushed through the stimulus based on the promise of keeping unemployment under percent


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says he did the very best in a recent poll in iowa matching up each of the major republican presidential candidates against president barack obama


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the has a record number of oil rigs operating right now more working oil and gas rigs than the rest of the world combined


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says local texas chambers of commerce were granted exemptions from paying property taxes on their headquarter properties


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we seen in this last year tremendous things happening including our unemployment rate come down percentage points


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we have inmates pushed into cells intended for two inmates and bunked in classrooms and areas supposed to be designated for inmate labor


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since president obama took full control of washington every day more people have been put on food stamps


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since president obama took full control of washington every single day more than of our jobs have been lost


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claims supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg said she prefers the south african constitution over the united states constitution


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president barack obama said unemployment was never gon na go over percent if we passed the stimulus plan


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says gov scott walker is openly backing a move to abolish the state retirement system and convert it to a k plan that will reduce pensions by at least a third for current and retired public employees


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our small staff of is still fewer than we had a decade ago yet our caseload like that of other courts has grown


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new jersey has the second highest rate of institutionalization of people with developmental disabilities in america only texas puts more of its citizens confines more of its citizens to institutions than new


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there are more atheists in the country right now than jews muslims hindus and buddhists combined and doubled


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one estimate says there may be three times as much oil in the united states as there is in saudi arabia


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without senate action texas will have more federal judicial vacancies this year than any other state


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says percent of small businesses over the last five years went under because they could pay their health care bills


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when i was born less than percent of the federal budget was entitlement spending it now percent of the budget


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says the tennessee wildlife resources agency brought coyotes into the state to try to keep the deer population down


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the governor is trying to take credit for recent actions taken by these companies the problem is that for all three companies the decision to move or stay in new jersey happened before chris christie became governor


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other states have considered or have sunset advisory commissions the federal government has the ability too


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after arizona banned smoking in all public places in admissions for acute myocardial infarction stroke asthma and angina decreased following the implementation of the ban


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says mitt romney supports a plan to slowly and gradually raise the retirement age of social security


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says the federal government could save by eliminating a study of the connection between cocaine and risky sex habits of the japanese quail


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they saying that percent of the traffic that goes over the sakonnet river bridge is from out of state


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if you look at states that are right to work they constantly do not have budget deficits and they have very good business climates


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says there are homes for sale on and around oswego lake right now for under that anyone is welcome to buy


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says in his years as a texas legislator we passed three pay increases for teachers and provided them with health insurance


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says unemployment would be at percent if people who have quit looking for work were included in federal labor force calculations


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florida unemployment has dropped more than percentage points down from percent to percent the drop in the nation


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says a referendum on women s right to vote went down in new jersey and it took the legislature to pass it


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many of the top officials at the port authority earn more money than the governors of the states that have jurisdiction over them


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newt gingrich a bill with nancy pelosi that would have given million a year to a program supporting china s brutal policy


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says milwaukee blacks have percent male unemployment percent truancy a percent graduation rate the worst reading scores and lead in infant mortality


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senator menendez said he would spend our money wisely but our annual national deficit climbed from billion a year to trillion on his watch


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a t his current rate president obama will have added more debt to the united state of america by the end of his first term than each of the previous presidents combined


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as dane county executive kathleen falk raised property taxes by millions of dollars every year and approved the second highest increase in the state in


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here something that people never talk about with coach schiano rutgers had the best graduation rate of any division i football program in america


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says a federal judge in san antonio issued a ruling that not only could the students not pray at their graduation if they used the word benediction the word invocation the word god asked the audience to stand or asked for a moment of silence he would put the superintendent in jail


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says as of november we were ranked in the nation in terms of job creation according to the bureau of labor statistics


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statistics bear out that any time a country a state makes more restrictive abortion laws fatalities go up and abortions actually increase


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this year s redistricting has been the most open interactive and transparent redistricting process in tennessee history


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percent of latinos support the dream act which allows undocumented youth to attend college but marco rubio opposes it


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this year president obama canceled the annual national day of prayer ceremony at the white house under the ruse of not wanting to offend anyone but on september from am until pm a national day of prayer for the muslim religion was held on capitol hill beside the white house


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a bill delaying the start of classes until labor day would permit school districts to shave full weeks off the school year


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three years ago a newly elected president obama told america that if congress approved his plan to borrow nearly a trillion dollars he would hold unemployment below percent


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


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says president barack obama has an environmental protection agency proposal that would raise the price of gasoline by cents a gallon


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private prisons do not chase escaped inmates past the perimeter like the public prisons do which means more escaped prisoners in our communities


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public education has been permanently cut by billion through changes in the standards of quality funding formula


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in the legislative session deq budget was cut percent a disproportionate cut compared to other natural resource agencies


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says new jersey is down nearly jobs from its peak and with gov chris christie new jersey has trailed the rest of america when it comes to unemployment for consecutive months


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ohio has one of the highest provisional ballot rates in the country and many of them go uncounted each election


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no candidate has run more negative ads in american history than barack obama did in especially in the general


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the georgia secretary of state office and the georgia state elections board investigate and penalize hundreds of people guilty of election fraud


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says gov scott walker made more than million in cuts to job training programs through wisconsin s technical colleges


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says gov chris christie s proposal to reduce state income taxes would be the second tax cut for the rich by the governor in two years


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in just a few decades social security medicare and medicaid other mandatory spending programs and paying interest due on the debt will eclipse our entire budget


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says mitt romney s campaign has already spent more on negative ads than john mccain did during his entire presidential run


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says she wiped out the state agriculture department s inspections of eggs at retail sites like grocery stores


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the national debt is equal to for every american or for every household it is now equivalent to the size of our entire economy


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we seen more choice bills introduced in the first half of this session than we seen in the last three general assemblies


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we got the quonset business park for free and we re getting zero dollars out of it into the state coffers other than the fact that it produces the jobs


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aids was transmitted to humans because one guy had sex with a monkey and then started having sex with men


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congressman scott desjarlais is spending his one year anniversary on vacation only working days in all of january


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says pennsylvania charges a top income tax rate of percent and delaware has no state income tax at all


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today for the first time in fifteen years master lock s unionized plant in milwaukee is running at full capacity


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a cashier earning per year pays the same virginia income tax rate as a hedge fund manager earning million per year


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the obama administration would impose on every catholic institution every jewish institution every protestant institution the obamacare standard of what you have to buy as insurance


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federal state and local governments have subsidized the production of the volt to the tune of estimates between and per vehicle sold


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sheldon whitehouse failure of leadership the adding of almost trillion in debt in his first full term is shameful


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says the new york giants train in new jersey they play in new jersey and most of their players live in new jersey


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chesterfield has eliminated more positions from its general government operations than the commonwealth has from the entire state government since fiscal


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studies show that if we opened one reserve in alaska now in five years gas prices could be at a gallon


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in i went out and authored a letter with other senators asking for major reform of freddie and fannie warning of a meltdown and a bubble in the housing market


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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


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we balanced the budget with the balanced budget act and ultimately had four consecutive balanced budgets


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we have cut crime across every single zone in the city of atlanta by between percent and percent depending on the zone


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romneycare sent costs spiraling out of control in massachusetts hiking premiums squeezing household budgets


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before this day is out more veterans will have taken their own lives that is the daily average it is intolerable and it has to stop


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newt gingrich voted in favor of establishing the department of education and yet he gets in a debate and says we should get rid of the department of education and send all the education issues back to the states


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in the last months businesses have created more than million jobs last year they created the most jobs since


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a typical married couple will contribute into medicare but will receive in medicare benefits over their lifetimes


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when i was fighting against cap and trade the speaker was sitting down with nancy pelosi on a sofa encouraging it


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n early one in three primary care doctors are forced to limit the number of medicare patients they see


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while romney was a director of the damon corporation the company was defrauding medicare of millions


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more than one in five of veterans aged to can t find a job to support their family or to ease the transition to civilian life


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says that according to a study under obama s health care initiative nearly percent of people in wisconsin with health insurance will have their costs go up by more than percent


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under this tax cut families do save enough for a week worth of groceries while millionaires save enough to go on an exotic vacation


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says texas school districts have requested emergency waivers to increase elementary school class sizes because of unprecedented fiscal challenges


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says mitt romney put planned parenthood on a state medical board but failed to put a group on the same board


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says an obama administration policy prohibits people who work with youth from promoting marriage as a way to avoid poverty


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the top most ceos in america received a combined million in while the average american worker s wage rose just percent


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mitt romney and brendan doherty certainly have a lot in common like on abortion in doherty case in a little over a week


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in campaigns in the past with mccain and president george bush and others they have tended to release tax records in april


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the military is at risk of losing its military superiority because our navy is smaller than it been since our air force is smaller and older than any time since


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says she got unions to agree to about million in reduction of salaries and health benefits while serving as dane county executive in wisconsin


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when mitt romney was the governor of massachusetts he performed and i m not sure this number is right but my mind says it s about gay marriages


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says we ve accomplished balancing two budgets without raising taxes we ve now created new jobs we ve made government smaller


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in debbie wasserman schultz missed congressional votes one of the worst records of any member of congress


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says over the last two years new jersey schools development authority employees have not started or completed one single school project and i m not talking about major school renovation i m talking about replacing boilers roofs


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freshman bob gibbs is spending his one year anniversary on vacation only working days in all of january


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in there were states in this country that prohibited prohibited an and a caucasian from being married


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in connecticut and new york students at achievement first schools consistently outperform city and statewide averages


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my opponent on day one of this campaign attacked me on medicare and medicare advantage and that claim was found to be false


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rob cornilles has disputed for two years a news story that said he said he would cut social security and medicare programs before trimming the defense budget


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mitt romney is worth at least a quarter billion dollars and the bulk of his wealth remains in blind trusts and overseas bank accounts


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new energy standards will take away our freedom of choice and selection in the light bulbs we have in our homes


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mitt romney s and bain capital s profits from kb toys which later went out of business were described by the boston herald as disgusting


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in the first congress which was packed with framers required all ship owners to provide medical insurance for seamen in congress also required seamen to buy hospital insurance for themselves in congress enacted a law mandating that all citizens obtain a firearm


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says newt gingrich a bill with nancy pelosi that would have given million a year to a program supporting china s brutal policy


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opinion polls show that the majority of americans and the majority of new jerseyans favor marriage equality for same sex couples


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mitt romney rick perry and newt gingrich all say they would cut foreign aid to israel and every other country to zero


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says that when republicans held congress and the presidency they doubled the size of the department of education


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since the passage of obama stimulus package over million additional jobs were lost and nearly million americans are out of work are stuck in work or have given up looking


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barack obama s recess appointment of richard cordray is precisely what obama claimed would be the wrong thing to do


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in the past year floridians not government created almost new private sector jobs we netted more than total jobs in the first months of the third most of any state in the nation


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when georgia tightened its voter identification laws the state sent a van and photographer to the homes of people who needed photo ids and made them for free


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says that after she declared her candidacy for congress the redistricting process was manipulated to allow incumbent politicians to guarantee their


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if you apply for a job the chances are in that you are going to be denied that job unfairly if everybody is forced to use


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you can hire lots of bureaucrats that s what the president s done he s added people to the government workforce


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we have had any legislation which took away one gun in the past years from anybody in this country not one


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ballistic tests have confirmed that the death of at least one border patrol agent was caused by weapons that were part of a federal arms trafficking operation


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the epa was asked about an environmental citation for the city landfill in nashua but didn t know why it was cited


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i delivered a flat tax for my state i took my state to no in job creation with all due respect to what rick perry has said about texas we did a little bit better


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says area near proposed northern wisconsin iron ore mine is hours away from where public hearing on mining was held


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bob menendez just voted to increase the government debt ceiling to trillion in his years in congress menendez has helped overspend america over trillion into debt


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renewable energy projects get us off foreign oil and away step by step from these foreign entanglements that we have to get into to defend our oil supply


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oregon s per capita income is percent below the national average and getting worse this is a state that s actually getting poorer


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president barack obama put in place historic fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks to lower costs at the pump and reduce dependence on foreign oil


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says wisconsin gov scott walker eliminated cancer screenings for uninsured women and offered no alternatives


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i think with the exception of the last year or maybe the last two years we were at percent when it came to contributing to the providence pension fund


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says he lived up to a promise when he closed corporate tax loopholes that were sending profits overseas


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says the national labor relations board told boeing that it couldn t build a factory in south carolina because south carolina is a state


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says kids who start in the ninth grade in the city of newark this past september percent of them will graduate in four years


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says a new national poll shows the majority of the american people believe we should have a gold standard for currency


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wisconsin s monthly job reports have a margin of error of percent and were way off in eight of first months of


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taxpayers earning million pay an effective tax rate that is about four times what taxpayers earning pay


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eighty percent of all communities depend solely on trucks to deliver and supply the products sold in stores or ordered online


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says betty sutton supports allowing welfare fund withdrawals from strip clubs casinos and liquor stores


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enacting the act would amount to expanding the rights of sex offenders terrorists child predators and abusers to carry concealed weapons across state lines


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the latest unemployment numbers have shown that nearly americans have simply given up hope when it comes to finding a job


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and as of today new jersey state government has less employees than when christie whitman left office in


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after filing a lawsuit in rhode island we reached an agreement with state agencies that resulted in more voters being registered in the first full month after our lawsuit than in the entire previous reporting period


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ever wonder why no one ever came forward from obama past saying they knew him attended school with him was his friend not one person has ever come forward from his past


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says america spends over percent of its gdp on health care costs when our closest competitor nations are spending about


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we have one of the highest percentages per capita of nonprofits in this state of any state in the union


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scott walker s cuts were so devastating that students are without chairs and a government survey found kids in a classroom


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says joe biden said jon corzine is the smartest guy that i know in terms of the economy and on finance i really mean this


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in a watershed decision the warren court asserted by itself that the supreme court was supreme over the president and the congress


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says president obama helped more than half a million veterans and military family members go to college through the bill


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a study says massachusetts has lost jobs because residents were required to obtain health insurance under an act signed into law by mitt romney


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following the catastrophic cascading collapse of major investment banks on wall street in nobody was prosecuted no hearings were held and no reforms were implemented


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says newt gingrich made an affirmative statement that he would not only support but he would campaign for republicans who were in support of the barbaric procedure known as abortion


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we re trillion now in debt with a president that s racked up as much debt as almost all of the other presidents combined


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nevada has been recently ranked no in unemployment foreclosures violent crime personal bankruptcy and divorce


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says king street patriots held a fundraiser featuring an author who believes that registering the poor to vote is


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if congress does not pass the renewal of the payroll tax cut before the end of the year nearly million working families will see their taxes go up by roughly


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president obama has increased the federal workforce individuals about percent since he s taken office while we ve lost million jobs


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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


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the american conservative union gives tim ryan a dismal percent rating for the billions he has contributed to our national debt


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the obama administration just issued instructions that terrorism training should not involve any reference to islam


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says with jon corzine it the first time i think in history where a former senator has been subpoenaed to testify before his former colleagues


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the study of the savannah river estuary clearly demonstrates the project can be constructed and environmental impacts will be mitigated


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richard cordray s nomination to head the consumer financial protection bureau marks the first time in senate history that a political party has blocked a nomination of someone because they did like the construction of the agency


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newt gingrich has suggested building a mirror system in space could improve the earth s habitability


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our federal government has lent billion to the oil company of brazil to allow them to explore for oil and gas


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more hispanics have been elected statewide in texas on the republican ticket than on the democratic ticket


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we got a personal tax system that so complicated it costs americans about billion a year to comply with the current tax code


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a database police use to look up wanted suspects excludes certain warrants issued by atlanta municipal court


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says the paperback edition of mitt romney book deleted line that massachusetts individual mandate should be the model for the country


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in newt gingrich first advocated for the individual mandate in health care and as recently as may of this year he was still advocating for it


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says our unemployment insurance trust fund is broke we over a billion dollars in debt to the federal government


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while ceos of some large charities have big salaries the heads of some veterans groups do the job for free


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i differed with my party on business legislation on consumer protection and on free trade agreements


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ohio s planned parenthood operations received millions of taxpayer dollars via federal grants in and


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when the country was founded congress had exactly the same attitude about the sanctity of christmas celebrations that a does today we open


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says recall organizers started their website last november and began work on their effort before he even took office


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says the congressional ethics investigation against him was conducted by a very partisan political committee in a way that related more to the politics of the democratic party than to ethics


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says wisconsin gov scott walker is making voting more difficult by closing department of motor vehicles offices where voters live


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sherrod brown has chosen to side with washington bureaucrats and fringe extremists in the attacks on our natural resources


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the only reason the unemployment rate is going down is because twice as many people dropped out of the employment pool as the number of jobs were created


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president barack obama has now spent three years proving that he kills jobs in energy he kills jobs in manufacturing


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most of if not all of the dekalb school construction projects always came in on or were under budget


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last year we spent more than billion on highways and lord knows we need that but that more than we spent on amtrak in its entire history


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says military expenditures for the united states are greater than the combined spending of the next largest nations


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says barack obama had huge majorities in congress during his first two years in office and did nothing with them to create jobs in america


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says the department of defense changed its definitions of and the taliban making it so almost anybody can be loosely associated with the groups


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says he followed state law and the precedent of other massachusetts governors when he erased electronic communications as he left office


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the amendment once came within one vote of passing congress but was defeated because of the no vote from a top senate republican and rick santorum says he stood up and called for him to resign his chairmanship


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it s legal to sign a recall petition against gov scott walker even if you have already signed another recall petition but only one signature counts


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chris christie has not paid one dollar of state money into our pension system and then states that the system is broke


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says signers of recall petitions against wisconsin gov scott walker are at risk because of newly discovered provisions in state law


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president obama recent plan to cut million of waste within his administration wo actually save money because he going to spend it elsewhere


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percent of rhode island tax returns that were filed for the year were from individuals who earned or less


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says the federal stimulus program was ineffective because the number of jobs has actually decreased by through july


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in pennsylvania president barack obama s policies have increased unemployment percent led to the loss of manufacturing jobs and left more people in poverty


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for the past eight years gov carcieri and carcieri would host the lighting of the state house christmas tree


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says newt gingrich has said that we should make the million illegal workers that are in this country legal


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the overwhelming number of school districts reported their staff stayed the same or grew after the state budget


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since obama took office a net of additional black americans obama s strongest supporters have lost their jobs


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in rhode island only percent of ozone pollution is from local or sources percent comes from outside of our borders particularly the midwest


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an independent payment advisory board created by in the health care reform law is like a medicare irs with the power to cut medicare in order to pay for new government programs


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currently it costs more than a penny for the mint to make a one cent coin and more than a nickel to make the five cent piece


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we have right now hezbollah which is working throughout latin america in venezuela in mexico throughout latin america which poses a very significant and imminent threat to the united states of america


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says mahmoud ahmadinejad said that if he has a nuclear weapon he will use it to wipe israel off the face of the earth he will use it against the united states of america


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a recall election for wisconsin governor would cost million million that may already be allocated to merit raises for teachers or health care for the poor or school books for your kids


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ohio house voted to change the process to create objective criteria to modify the constitution to take politics out of the efforts to draw legislative boundaries


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says apple ceo steve jobs told president obama that the company moved factories to china because it needed engineers


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president obama plans to impose a tax of at least percent on the medicare prescription drug benefit for beneficiaries


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house republicans are ramming through legislation to classify pizza as a for the purpose of school lunches


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percent of americans are millionaires percent of house are millionaires percent of senators are millionaires


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a softening of firearms training rules means that untrained individuals would be allowed to carry guns with a state permit


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when the national debt reaches trillion it means that ratio will reach percent of our debt and this is for every living american


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a dekalb sewer project will create up to direct jobs per year at peak production many of which will be set aside exclusively for dekalb residents


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says unemployment in ohio is significantly higher than the unemployment rate in states which are not forced union states and it s always been that way


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if they made no changes whatsoever the state employees pension plan still had enough money to go forward for approximately the next years


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says that sherrod brown is out there egging on a lot of these protesters who are spitting on policemen and going to the bathroom on policemen s cars at these protests on wall street and other places


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says percent of ninth graders in newark will graduate with a high school diploma in four years and we spend on their education in those four years more than is spent on any other set of students in the united states


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the job of correctional officer lowers your life expectancy metropolitan did a study in i believe it was and the life expectancy was


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after losing jobs a month before this administration the economy under barack obama has had straight months of growth has added million jobs in the private sector and added millions of jobs in manufacturing


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under energy efficiency legislation sponsored by jeanne shaheen federal bureaucrats could take over the local building code enforcement in your city if green mandates are not complied with quickly enough


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president barack obama gave half a billion in taxpayer money to help his friends at solyndra a business the white house knew was on the path to bankruptcy


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the governor won this state with percent we had some of the closest races in the house in history so you re not dealing with this like they want to make it


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under a wisconsin bill minor offenses such as violating pet leash laws seat belt laws parking infractions would now be arrestable offenses


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says the treasury department says percent of all business income reported on individual returns would be hit by the millionaires surtax that would harm small businessmen and women the very people we are counting on to create new jobs


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in wisconsin gov scott walker has created a jobs recovery new jobs were created this year with created in the struggling manufacturing sector


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no other public or private business in america except for the postal service must fund percent of employee retirement and retirement health costs in advance


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president barack obama nancy pelosi and harry reid support rick perry s decision to give tuition to illegal immigrants


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by we will be sending so much interest to china that we will be paying for the entire people liberation army


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the city of pembroke pines does have a vote in a plan to build a detention center in southwest ranches


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over half of the people who would be taxed under a millionaire surtax are in fact small businesspeople


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a bill supported by gov scott walker makes it so that drunk drivers who kill have an easier time of it


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governor christie also remains the only governor since world war ii among both democrats and republicans who failed to have his party win control of at least one legislative body over the course of his term


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ilana shafran mandel s stake in forest city enterprises constitutes significantly less than percent of the company s shares and any implication of a conflict of interest is legally incorrect


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the unemployment rate among the is well into the double digits in america it percent or percent for people who have college degrees


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under president barack obama more americans are in poverty than at any time since the census bureau began keeping records on it over years ago


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says mitt romney is committed to overturning roe wade and he supports such amendments that define a life as beginning at the moment of conception


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the united states sends billion half our trade deficit overseas for oil to unstable and unfriendly regimes


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a couple retiring today will pay about in lifetime medicare taxes and receive about in lifetime medicare benefits about bucks in benefits for every dollar in taxes


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


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says that under his tax plan no matter where you are in the stratosphere you going to be getting a tax cut


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the average homeowner spends more than each year on energy costs more than on either real estate taxes or homeowners insurance


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says over the last years every governor at the midterm of his first term or her first term has lost seats in the legislature with the exception of jim mcgreevey in


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rhode island treasurer gina raimondo raised the mortality rate from to and used a annuity chart to create the pension crisis


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a state bill would end a longstanding requirement that local governments repair highways and sidewalks and block injured citizens from suing over neglected maintenance


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says the city of portland alone has public relation representatives on payroll which cost taxpayers over million a year


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thirty million americans including a lot of people in florida are going to be able to get healthcare next year because of that law


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under a law proposed by wisconsin gov scott walker businesses that move into wisconsin do have to pay any taxes on their income for two years


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new jersey alone my home state is facing a billion dollar shortfall in its fiscal budget this means more cuts in state and local spending for education which means our kids are hurt


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they talk about this problem with binding arbitration it doesn t make a lot of sense to me to have somebody from los angeles fly into zanesville and impose a wage settlement on you and then they re on the plane back to los angeles


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says tanking rick perry s federal tax plan has huge tax cuts for rich people and big tax hikes for everyone else


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attacks on planned parenthood come at a time when the poverty rate among women is the highest in nearly two decades and in women under don t have access to health care


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says mitt romney s housing policy is don t try and stop the foreclosure process let it run its course and hit the bottom


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in the affordable care act democrats cut billion from medicare and put in place the independent payment advisory board unelected bureaucrats which will be making decisions about health care for our seniors and for all americans


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says the main central texas food bank is delivering percent more food to the poor than three years ago


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under barack obama watch we have expended billion to liberate the people of iraq and more importantly american lives


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wisconsin s permit rules demand more proof than other states that safety training requirements are met rendering all existing training certificates insufficient as part of the permit application


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says state senate president stephen sweeney gave us the nation highest income tax rates driving out jobs


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we are the poster child for compliance and whenever we discover possible infractions we resolve and report it to the ncaa no matter how minor the violations


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after i had resigned or announced my resignation i abolished i prohibited for people that had county or state contracts


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says rick perry wrote a newspaper item saying he was open to amnesty for illegal immigrants in the united states


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a recent department of labor study guessed wall street fees cost a worker percent of the value of your plan over the span of your career


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the departments of commerce education and energy and the epa saw their spending increase by between percent and percent between and


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former alaska governor sarah palin was right that president barack obama s health care bill created what would in effect be death panels


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medicare monthly premiums will go up to in and in due to provisions incorporated in the obamacare legislation purposely delayed so as not to the campaigns


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you are prohibited from walking into the capitol with a gun but you can go after the county commission or the school board


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says texas unemployment is dire in various ways such as a doubling in the jobless rate during rick perry governorship also the texas rate has increased faster than the national rate during barack obama presidency


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after every major conflict what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force largely by doing deep cuts


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says it was until he and a senate colleague were able to wrangle the actual streaming video from bp that scientists were able to calculate the oil spill flow


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the largest category of people coming into the technical schools in wisconsin are people with degrees


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since mayor kennedy o brien took office sayreville has issued building permits now o brien is holding secret meetings with big developers


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in when flint had sworn officers on their police force there were murders and rapes in this city in when flint had only police officers the murder rate climbed to and rapes climbed to


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congressional republicans have introduced dozens of bills on social issues and other topics but zero on job creation


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every month since there have been as many suicide attacks against the united states and its allies as there were in all the years leading up to


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says million people in this country ca find a job million ca see a doctor when they sick million people need government help to feed themselves and million families owe more than the value of their home


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says if you are shot in the city of newark you have over an percent chance that you been arrested before an average of times


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during sherrod brown s past decade as a politician more than one out of every four jobs that has left america left from ohio sherrod brown will own these horrendous ohio job numbers next year


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this is the first time in our state and one of the first times in the country where benefit reductions has happened to people who are retired


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says many people i ve talked to are angry that because of city hall inaction we may have to spend a needless million to cover and treat our pure drinking water


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the newly created state immigration enforcement review board can actually prosecute and get them violators into jail if we bring in the attorney general


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slot machines in and broward counties have generated percent of the promised million per year for schools


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even a percent tax on millionaires would only fund four months of government operations failing to seriously address budget deficits and debt


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says more than million texans are jobless the state has its highest unemployment rate in more than years and joblessness doubled on rick perry s watch


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new jersey poverty rate has increased since this governor took office and the number of new jerseyans without health insurance has risen


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obamacare is so unpopular that even the obama administration chose to reject part of obamacare last friday when they tried to throw out the class act which is the care function


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we saw the president of the united states engage american troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land this is historic


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a cornell university research study concludes that ethanol generates a percent energy loss meaning it takes more than a gallon of gasoline to produce a gallon of ethanol


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nearly wisconsinites have lost their job since governor walker and the republicans took over in january


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since the clean air act has reduced toxic and air pollution by percent while our economy has grown more than percent


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robert gordon cost us money exempting the newark sports arena from paying property taxes and sticking us with the bill


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says romney wrote in the first edition of his book that his health care plan should be expanded nationwide and then you took it out of your book


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between and the illegal immigrant population of texas increased by percent while california and florida had no increase


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if a president romney got a call from the president of the mormon church he has no choice but to obey it is obedience over family and country


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just a little over percent of your electric bill my electric bill percent of that is whether they be for building of nuclear plants or whatever they may be a planned nuclear plant repair will only increase that percentage


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the department of energy s billion ton study has shown that wind and solar energy combined could at best provide only percent of our total energy needs


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the florida casino proposed by malaysian gambling conglomerate genting would be nearly double the size of the largest casino in the world


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the milwaukee county sheriff s department plays only a limited role as a traditional law enforcement agency and in reported far fewer crimes to the fbi than the university of police did


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the proudest accomplishment of my tenure was leaving the state with a billion surplus which was the largest we d ever had and getting spending under control and a balanced budget


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says he s never asked for more than inflationary budget increases in his budgets as milwaukee county sheriff


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under governor almond the ri dmv had a program that allowed undocumented people to use their personal tax identification number to apply for and receive a ri driver s license


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says democrats raised taxes over times in the past years making new jersey increasingly unaffordable and chasing jobs to neighboring states


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according to wikipedia there are only five countries in the entire planet that are more unequal than the united states in the distribution of our wealth


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wisconsin bill grants drug companies and medical device manufacturers immunity from injuries and deaths caused by their products


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the tax foundation figures rhode island as the highest state for state and local tax burden per capita in the country we the worst in the country for the business tax index we the highest per capita in the country for all taxes


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current projections indicate that medicare will go bankrupt by while social security will bottom out by


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when george bush was governor of texas the percentage uninsured went down under his successor rick perry it gone up


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the poverty rate for families in which a husband and a wife work is percent but in families headed by one person it percent today


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


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our unemployment rate has been higher than percent for more than years far above what the obama administration promised with the


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says any attempt to try to compare the massachusetts health care law with the federal health care law is completely intellectually dishonest governor romney did not raise one tax in doing what he did


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bryce reeves chaired a group bankrolled by a new york billionaire who fired hundreds of virginia workers and sent their jobs to china


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says senate candidate adam hasner cited his efforts to weaken and school choice legislation as unequivocal proof that he s a moderate


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massachusetts has less than percent of our kids that are uninsured you gov perry have a million kids uninsured in texas


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these political appointees on the ipab will make all the major health care decisions for over million americans


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i created a flat tax in the state of utah it took that state to the position in terms of job creation


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in the early all levels of government were consuming about percent of the economy a number that has risen to percent today with that trendline we cease at some point to be a free economy


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says el paso was named america s safest large city a year after san antonio houston and dallas had the nation s highest crime rates


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more than million americans are unemployed more than million live without health insurance perhaps million live in poverty


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says that in i saved ratepayers around million by persuading the council to pursue a less expensive compliance mechanism if the city is required to treat bull run drinking water


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says rick perry supported a guest worker program to help people who would otherwise be illegal aliens


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not a single banker a ceo from wall street anyone from corporate america nobody there was not one arrest of any of these people who brought down the economy in


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says that politicians who approved collective bargaining restrictions for public employees exploited a loophole exempting themselves from senate bill


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gains in atlanta public schools scores on a national standardized test lend credence to dramatic score increases on state tests


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today you have six financial institutions the largest six that have assets that are the equivalent of percent of the gdp of the united states of america


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we have a trillion to trillion infrastructure deficit we ve got work that needs to get done we ve got people that want to go to work


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the typical white male worker in this country is making in real terms what he was making in and the average worker is making what they were making in


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says barack obama is a hypocrite for criticizing president george bush s drone attack program then using it aggressively as president


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says that to drive the length of the newly drawn district you d find yourself on the road as long as it would take to drive from columbus to niagara falls


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a family of four can make up to a year and still get a subsidy for health insurance under the new federal health care law


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says new jersey unemployment is significantly lower than it was when i got here and we created new private sector jobs in the last months after having lost in the year before i got here


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when he took office in president barack obama had the biggest democratic majorities in congress since lyndon johnson


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last year korea sold nearly half a million cars in our country the united states you know how much we sell to them six thousand what kind of deal is that


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chris christie has not been effective at creating jobs or have a record of governing for effectiveness new jersey has one of the higher unemployment rates in the country at percent


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when it comes to being effective at creating jobs chris christie has not had a record of governing for effectiveness last year new jersey created no net new jobs


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says tommy thompson pushed such strict laws that abortion providers faced potential life imprisonment and women were forced to cross state lines in order to receive attention for issues


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we re keeping and creating jobs in our state from american greetings to wendy s to diebold we ve gone to their doorsteps to keep jobs right here in ohio


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wisconsin new state budget includes a percent increase for road construction and yet we ve got local towns tearing up paved roads and replacing them with gravel


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federal law says that you ca give tuition to an illegal alien unless you first offer it to any other student regardless of their state of residence


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members of the public are being charged to hear gov scott walker and a dozen members of his administration talk about jobs and the economy at lambeau field


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because of jim whelan the are the only decade since the when the population of atlantic city actually went up


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the postal service s financial losses result from a law that drains billion a year from post office revenue while the postal service is forced to overpay billions more into federal accounts


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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


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says only four texas legislators voted against a law giving tuition rates to certain illegal immigrants


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the federal government is spending a year per family or group of four and could balance its budget by dropping that to


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the fed created trillion out of nothing gave it to banks and some of them foreign banks so that they could stabilize their operations


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if we had been on and a bureaucrat was trying to tell me when i could get that cat scan that would have delayed my treatment


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a construction worker who s making or grand a year shouldn t be paying higher tax rates than the guy who s making million a year and that s how it s working right now


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at nearly million people the population of florida is larger than all the earlier primary and caucus states combined


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stimulus money funded a government board that made recommendations that would cost jobs and billion in sales


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we have asked public employees to pay percent of the costs of their guaranteed pension and percent of the cost of their health care the leadership of those public employees unions do want to pay anything


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despite opposition from national club for growth club for growth wisconsin has endorsed him for senate


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says as a share of the us economy the government s support for research and development r d has fallen by nearly since the


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says rick perry is spending more money than the state takes in covering his deficits with record borrowing


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the water quality in the ocean is perfect it s been tested up and down every ocean shore in new jersey


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says that romney touted the massachusetts health plan for the nation in his hardcover book but then deleted it for the paperback edition


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says he got lobbied by a woman with cancer about vaccinating texas girls against a virus that can cause cervical cancer


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says credit rating agencies realize that our instability stems in large part from oregon s kicker system


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says the united states has the highest incarceration rate in the world with million inmates and the majority of americans are imprisoned because they sold small amounts of drugs


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says mitt romney wrote that if social security was done in the private sector it would be called criminal


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says new jersey s billion horse racing industry employs individuals and ensures the preservation of acres of horse farmland


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in the first year that pell grants were fully funded a full pell grant paid percent of the cost of attendance at a typical public college today a full pell grant covers just percent of those costs


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in the month of july alone eu exports to south korea increased by over percent a lot of that is our market share those are our farmers and our service providers who are suffering


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since the top wealthiest families have seen their incomes go up percent and their tax rates go down percent


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the state ethics commission took absolutely the same percent of cuts as most other state agencies they were somewhere in the percent range same as the governor s office


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says that in the recent year homeowners across ohio have signed mineral rights agreements and i understand that over a billion dollars worth of leases have been signed to date


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more jobs were created in the second year of the obama administration than in the eight years of the bush administration


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percent of the funds collected in each county will be redistributed elsewhere not spent in the county in which it is collected


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says we do about investigations a year into housing discrimination and in recent years have put about of damages into the pockets of individuals who have been treated unfairly


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poverty among americans and over is statistically unchanged in recent years because of social security


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says that even if you have no children under obamacare you would still have to carry insurance that covers pediatric maternity and newborn care even though you do not need it


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one wisconsin school district is so worried about losing state funding that it has stopped giving milk to elementary school kids during snack time


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an amazing jobs were lost in the first months of the smoking ban s implementation in ohio s hospitality industry alone


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says new jersey is losing football fields of open space to development every day and the more we develop upstream the more flooding we have downstream


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says an amendment specifying when military members may use deadly force does nothing to change existing rules of engagement for american service members


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says that three of these five republicans ben westlund rob patridge max williams lane shetterly lynn lundquist later became democrats


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ten years ago the austin water utility used a total of million gallons every summer since then our peak day of water use has been lower


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says cnn wolf blitzer was wrong to say that the wealthiest americans they pay the most in taxes already percent of americans do even pay any federal income tax


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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


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under president barack obama s jobs bill states would no longer have to lay off teachers firefighters and police officers


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hurricane irene was the storm to hit north america in terms of power outages and the first hurricane to make landfall in new jersey since


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under president barack obama s jobs bill you can sue if you are unemployed and do get the job and think you were hired because you are unemployed


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the majority last quarter of sherrod brown campaign contributions came from outside of the state of ohio


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in the new york district there is a large number of people who went to the polls tonight who did support the president to begin with and do support democrats and it nothing more than that


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says rick perry and the texas legislature managed to slash the budget of the volunteer fire departments in our state by percent in the last legislative session reducing their abilities to fight recent wildfires


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gov kasich and the legislature have foregone the popular option of closing tax loopholes that amount to billion annually in this state


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today when people retire in galveston county texas they retire making at least percent more than they would ever get out of social security


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one international flight a day in a jet one flight daily generates million a year and approximately jobs


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when you look at what we have done over the last decade we created million jobs in the state of texas at the same time the rest of america lost million


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over the past years the number of people living in lower manhattan has nearly doubled in fact lower manhattan has added more people over the last years than atlanta dallas and philadelphia combined


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the wisconsin department of corrections is considering implementing mandatory physical fitness testing for security staff


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says every time the legislature the kicker most recently the corporate kicker in salem spent every penny and failed to stabilize the state revenues


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the academic achievements of our are mentioned in the same breath and spirit as notre dame and stanford


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the deal to raise the nation s debt ceiling will directly link a debt ceiling increase to spending cuts for the first time ever


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since rick perry became governor texas has gone from in the country to in the population that graduates from high school


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utah was the no job creator in this country during my years of service as governor with a percent increase in jobs


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sherrod brown has stood side by side with president barack obama presiding over the most rapid increase in the debt over the last years and hurtling toward the worst jobs record in the modern era


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says the department of homeland security must report to about congressional committees and subcommittees


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this year the blackstone valley mayoral academy became the first public school in rhode island history to have percent of its students proficient in reading on state assessments


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the massachusetts health care plan dealt with percent of our population far less than the percent of american people affected by president barack obama s health care law


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says jon huntsman supports changes in medicare that would deny guaranteed benefits to new hampshire residents


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a bipartisan payroll tax cut championed by the white house has meant that the average family has an extra in their pocket this year


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paul ryan sean duffy and reid ribble are shutting down town hall meetings or making their constituents pay to attend them


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say ohio marcia fudge marcy kaptur and dennis kucinich are socialists who are openly serving in the congress


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point pleasant beach does not own its beaches they are privately owned and operated by businesses such as jenkinson s


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a new college tuition reciprocity agreement with minnesota makes college education more affordable for wisconsin residents


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mayor fung wants to punish our children education by removing million dollars from current funding to pay for his private charter school your taxes would increase by between and percent per year


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says that when president obama visited el paso he pronounced that the border with mexico and the united states was safer than it ever was in history


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says oregon state employees received a pay raise in just two years after they agreed not to take a raise in exchange for a retirement benefit


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hank johnson john lewis and other members of the congressional progressive caucus are socialists who are openly serving in the congress


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the voter suppression bill invalidates a vote where a voter properly marks the ballot in support of a particular candidate but also writes in the name of that same candidate


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the ratio of corporate profits to wages is now higher than at any time since just before the great depression


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in marco rubio state of florida alone social security lifts more than count it a million people out of poverty


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a national study of charter schools shows that maybe percent do better than the community public schools percent or so do worse and the rest are not having any significant difference


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the united states is the no country in the world for energy resources we are the king daddy dogs when it comes to energy


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says there s not much evidence to suggest that people have contributed to global warming or can do very much to change anything


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people for the ethical treatment of animals estimates animals will be spared annually as the result of former president bill clinton adopting a vegan diet


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the health insurance plan that members of congress have is no different than any other federal employee in the united states government


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in afghanistan it is very very rare that someone who is killed in action is not killed by an improvised explosive device or ied


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says the national debt and president barack obama refusal to control spending led to our nation credit rating being downgraded for the first time in history


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every percent increase in the number of ohioans with bachelor s degrees means economic activity growing the next year and for each year thereafter by billion dollars


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gov rick scott is trying to get a waiver under the federal health care law that would deny consumers in florida the right to the million in rebates they have from their own hmos


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democrats in the legislature in voted for various pork projects including a million scoreboard for the milwaukee bucks


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the estimated savings of this debt ceiling deal only pay for half of the cost of extending all of the tax cuts for another decade


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unions spent million in wisconsin unsuccessfully trying to flip the state senate to democratic control


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rick perry has advocated abandoning social security scuttling medicaid and ending the federal income tax


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as we near the anniversary of the terrorist attacks we should not forget that some of the hijackers used new jersey driver s licenses to board those aircraft


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the central falls fire department is one of the lowest if not the lowest paid fire departments in the state and entire region


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before medicare only percent of americans and older had health care coverage and nearly percent lived below the poverty line today thanks to medicare nearly all seniors have coverage and percent fewer struggle in poverty


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we rank below ethiopia i told in terms of our exports per capita well below any of the other developed countries we trade with and well below china and south korea


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says enrolling a student in a subsidized lunch program triggers an at risk designation resulting in an extra to of state school aid per student


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when social security first started there was workers for every retiree today there are three workers for every retiree and soon there will be only two for every retiree


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says that before rick perry became governor only percent of our total labor force was a minimum wage job today that number has more than doubled to percent


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when lenders foreclose on homes they typically suffer losses that exceed percent of the value of the home


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says under our current sentencing laws about percent of all convicted felons in oregon do not go to prison


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recent international reports show the united states near the bottom among industrialized nations for academic achievement


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last year actually this year in may we saw new jersey transit fares rise anywhere from percent to percent


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scientists are questioning the original idea that global warming is what is causing the climate to change it is more and more being put into question


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the law s hundreds of new rules will force small banks and credit unions to burn up an estimated labor hours just for compliance


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says that wall street hedge fund managers pay a lower tax rate than does a sheet metal worker in parma or a school teacher in cleveland


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since i introduced my budget first budget in march of we created new jobs for the people of this state


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outside of recall elections there never been a public official removed from office in wisconsin for anything but malfeasance in office


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there are million internet users and million bloggers who are driving discussions in china so you ve got a lot of people voicing frustration and discontent


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says rick perry on gay marriage by first saying it was a state s rights issue and then saying he was in favor of a federal constitutional amendment banning gay marriage


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democrats failed to flip the wisconsin state senate because recall elections were in the deepest red districts in the state


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the pay about percent in taxes while the middle class fall into the percent and percent income tax brackets and then are hit with heavy payroll taxes to boot


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says a senate resolution would restore in monthly general assistance payments and prevent people from committing crime


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percent of central falls retired police officers and firefighters are out on disability pensions in most municipalities about percent of retirees collect disability pensions


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says he worked with the democratic legislature to balance spending with revenues so that at the end of my term the rainy day fund was established at more than billion


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says the government wants to require farm tractor drivers to hold commercial driver s licenses even if they re just crossing a single public road


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states have lower unemployment than texas which is tied with mississippi for more jobs than anywhere in the united states


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says the state s pension and health benefits reform includes the destruction of public sector collective bargaining rights


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says of the portland households in the composting pilot percent of participants reported being satisfied with the overall system


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the weight of the evidence on global warming is that most of it maybe all of it is because of natural causes it s fair to say the science is in dispute


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says a poll found him the only republican candidate who could beat barack obama in texas and by eight points


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certainly we going to be the most restrictive state in the land in terms of who can get medical marijuana how it will be prescribed and how it will be achieved in terms of moving it into the marketplace


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when standard poor dropped our credit rating what they said is we do have an ability to repay our debt i was proved right in my position that the debt ceiling should not have been raised


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says that under president john kennedy government took up percent of the economy and today it consumes percent


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president obama and democrats spending addiction has driven our national debt to historic proportions maxed out our national credit card and has now led to the democrat downgrade of our country aaa credit rating


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says democratic state jim holperin voted against a property tax freeze in and then voted for a billion property tax hike


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says gop recall challenger kim simac was delinquent paying her property taxes eight of the last nine years


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there are cities and counties in georgia that don t have websites and where elected officials don t have email addresses


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one in every five families in the state of new jersey has a loved one with a mental illness a serious mental illness and today we don t care


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says that voter identification laws keep poor people from voting minorities from voting the elderly from voting students from voting


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george lemieux voted against the majority of republicans and joined with democrats to create a force for responsible fiscal action that looks strikingly similar to the committee now being set up in washington to justify massive tax hikes


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the northwest corridor highway project in cobb and cherokee counties is expected to create over jobs statewide


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we re only spending percent of our gdp on our infrastructure while china and india are spending percent of their gdp reinvesting back into their country


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you might be surprised to know that billion gallons flows into lake erie every day you might be surprised to know that only billion gallons flow out leaving us a net surplus of approximately billion gallons a day


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the deal to raise the federal debt limit created the largest debt ceiling increase in america s history


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almost united states service members are still missing and unaccounted for dating back to world war ii


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says texas has the debt per capita of any state in the nation and we are the lowest of any of the big states


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says state alberta darling is allowing mercury to harm our children because she voted against an electronics recycling bill


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says state sandy pasch did nothing to stop people from scamming the wisconsin shares subsidy program and voted against funding for fraud investigators


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says state sandy pasch her recall opponent voted to allow public school employees to use taxpayer dollars to pick up the tab


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the government twice the size it was years ago it percent bigger than it was when barack obama became president


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as a percentage of our gross domestic product the defense budget remains just percent this figure is low by all historical standards


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says republican john mccain won more votes for president in cuyahoga county in the general election than he did in seven states


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says luther olsen his recall opponent supported the sale of power plants not to the highest bidder but to the biggest donors with no oversight


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says robert cowles her recall opponent supported the sale of power plants not to the highest bidder but to the biggest donors with no oversight


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tax increases under michigan gov jennifer granholm led to state unemployment going from percent to percent


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i cut more as a percentage out of government than any state in the country this past decade and where is michigan in terms of its economic growth cutting did not result in economic growth


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the debt ceiling deal will result in the lowest level of annual domestic spending since dwight eisenhower was president


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the state board of administration transparency issue got a great airing the last legislative session


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for the second quarter in a row my campaign has raised more money than any other challenger in the nation and brought our fundraising total to over


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a waushara county school closed because of state budget cuts supported by republican wisconsin state luther olsen


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under last year s health care reform a bunch of bureaucrats decide whether you get care such as continuing on dialysis or cancer chemotherapy


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in contrast to president barack obama who is not acting presidential president ronald reagan would never go into the oval office without his jacket on that how much he revered the presidency


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the federal government is spending percent of our entire economy versus years ago we spent only percent


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the ri board of elections has heard official testimony from providence residents who claim to have witnessed known illegal aliens voting in local elections


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this is the first time in the history that we had the raising of a debt limit also with spending cuts


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when i served as city commissioner we made great strides successfully fought for and won adding women and people of color to the fire bureau


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says that when he was governor of utah he worked with the state legislature to create a flat tax that cut income taxes by percent


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recently we have seen our government debt grow by trillion during the first months of the obama administration the equivalent of about billion per day


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of the last debt ceiling increases have been for less than a year so this notion that is somehow the exception it actually the rule


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says tim pawlenty said in the era of small government is over the government has to be more proactive and more aggressive


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the wo default because default means that you do pay your creditors and it takes about percent of the money that coming in right now to pay interest to bondholders


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active duty males in the military are twice as likely to develop prostate cancer than their civilian counterparts


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says unemployment in trenton is twice as much as what we see in every other area of the state and as a result we have seen an increase in crime


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when the republicans were in charge they actually expanded government health care with the prescription drug program


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the nonpartisan cbo congressional budget office has said that the no policy decision that brought us to the need to prevent the nation from defaulting on our debt for the first time in history were the bush tax cuts in and


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this past legislative session we passed out of the legislature a resolution requiring congress to pass a amendment to the constitution


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the atlanta streetcar is expected to create jobs during construction totaling more than jobs over the next years


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says the state budget doubled property tax credits for seniors and middle class new jerseyans and had no tax increases for any new jersey family for the second year in a row


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says members of the military have sent him more campaign contributions than they ve sent president barack obama and more than twice what they ve sent other republican presidential candidates


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says ronald reagan repeatedly talked about how irresponsible it would be to allow the full faith and credit of the united states to be impaired in any kind of way


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says in the legislature mary nolan has been a democrat showing a track record in harmony with the american civil liberties union


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says wisconsin senate recall candidate jessica king voted to increase her pay with taxpayer dollars by percent


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there s pretty much no question that the curfew ordinances aren t effective in either reducing crime or preventing harm to young people


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federal law requires that hospitals treat people whether or not they can pay so someone who doesn t have health insurance they can go to the hospital and get free care


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the firefighter and police officer pension system is not headed for bankruptcy far from it that s because new jersey first responders fire fighters and police officers have never missed making payments to the retirement system


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florida democrats put my social security number and my wife employment identification number in a mail piece


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republican redistricting plans cut democrat nancy nusbaum out of her state senate district by a half a block


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during his first year president obama said he was going to visit kim and ahmadinejad and assad and chavez the worst actors in the world


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every time we cut the capital gains tax the economy has grown whenever we raise the capital gains tax it been damaged


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says that unlike the senate even the libyan government in the middle of a civil war passed a budget on june


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fracturing or horizontally fracturing the shale to open up larger pockets of natural gas has been used for over years and as of over wells have been fracked in ohio


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sherrod brown was just voted two years in a row the most liberal senator in the united states of america and is more liberal than bernie sanders


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the million structural surplus in the wisconsin budget is not real because it is based on the assumption that congress will reinstate the estate tax


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some criminals have learned how to spy on americans hacking into our home computers and looking out through the video camera attached to the screen


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says 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


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the clear majority of republican voters think that any deficit reduction package should have a balanced approach and should include some revenues


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eighty percent of the american people support an approach to federal budget problems that includes revenues and includes cuts


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says the borrows cents of every dollar washington spends today and about half of that comes from countries like china


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percent of teachers and principals are not implicated in the atlanta public schools cheating scandal report at all


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under ryan plan those and younger would receive the same kind of healthcare options now enjoyed by members of congress


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says a quote at the top of the redesigned website for the department of justice comes from a socialist who wanted to impose global common law


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


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florida s proposed health care freedom act will allow floridians to opt out of obama s govt takeover of healthcare


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says new gop wisconsin assembly members voted to take funding away from their public schools in their districts to give it to private milwaukee voucher schools


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the georgia general assembly took away the atlanta board of education s oversight of the superintendent


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as we seen that federal support for states diminish you seen the biggest job losses in the public sector teachers police officers firefighters losing their jobs


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i sponsored and was the of the only legislation that ever passed that had provisions in it back in when i served in the legislature


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a recent study revealed that across the nation taxes would have to be increased by an average of a year just to support the currently unsustainable public employee pension systems in florida that dollar figure translates to a year


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for people in the top percent for income your effective tax burden is in the low the lowest it s been in decades and decades and decades lower than somebody who might make substantially less money


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because of democratic tax hikes new jersey ended a decade with fewer private sector jobs for the first time in recorded history


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there are actually half a million fewer government employees now than there were when president barack obama took office


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former atlanta public schools superintendent beverly hall left the school district significantly better than she found it


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in our proposal we would have expanded school aid across the board governor christie slashed school aid in this budget preferring instead to extend a tax break for millionaires over funding in the classroom


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says many unions falsely told their wisconsin members his bill sought percent to percent of their incomes for health insurance premiums


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by the end of his first term president obama will have added as much debt as all the prior presidents combined


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mitt romney is the first massachusetts politician to run for president and not win the new hampshire primary in a generation


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says the average government worker wo be impacted in the first two years under the reform of state health benefits


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dubious stimulus projects in rhode island include to provide digital television to the state s inmate population


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newt gingrich s presidential campaign has exactly the same challenges as ronald reagan s successful bid


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let s say republicans take away half of our delegates they re worth more than iowa s new hampshire s and almost south carolina s combined


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says that when president bill clinton raised the top tax rates to levels now proposed by obama the country experienced significant job growth


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says car insurance rates have decreased since about a decade ago because of solutions that attracted more auto insurers to new jersey


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housing prices dropped for the months prior to barack obama taking office and they have stabilized they been about flat since the president came in


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says gov scott walker s budget includes tax breaks for corporations and the rich that will cost the state of wisconsin taxpayers billion over the next decade


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under gov rick perry s leadership texas has created more jobs over the last decade than the rest of the states combined


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says that under city council member randi shade austin had the highest city debt per person in texas


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from to family incomes for rich and poor americans grew about the same rate but since incomes for rich families have grown much faster


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john barrow and sanford bishop and their fellow democrats went on a spending spree and now their credit card is maxed out


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says house opponent michael williams does not live in and has never voted in the congressional district he s seeking to represent


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says that president obama said nobody made these guys go to war now they whine about bearing the costs of their choice


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you see a whole bunch of korean cars here in the united states and you do see any american cars in korea


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one of the reasons that budweiser stayed in new jersey is the money they got from rggi to put solar on their roof to save on their energy costs


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says that in jon huntsman said that the recovery act was large enough and as governor he asked for billion in federal stimulus funds now he saying that he never supported it


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gov chris christie owes the state money for amenities like extra gorgonzola cheese for his staff on these trips


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if you look at our tax mix the share of corporate revenues as a percentage of our overall revenue mix has declined by about half over the last years


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in may we generated more jobs than all the rest of the country combined jobs in may for the state for the entire country


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the federal register which houses all washington regulations is pages in length and weighs in at more than pounds


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ethanol reduced gas prices by cents per gallon in and if ethanol disappeared gas prices could rise by as much as percent


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says president barack obama s overturning of the mexico city policy means federal tax dollars can be used to fund abortion all over the world


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georgia s illegal immigration crackdown laws should be called the brown codes because of their similarity to the black codes governing blacks after the civil war


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creeping defense commitments in the middle east and globally now consume over half the discretionary budget annually


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only seven of federal food assistance programs have been associated with positive health and nutrition outcomes while the remaining have not been effective


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says he can t release his internal affairs record because there are attorney general guidelines in place protecting it


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what i have done and this is unprecedented is i said to each agency at regulations that are already on the books and if they do make sense let get rid of them


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if you a wealthy ceo or a hedge fund manager in america right now your taxes are lower than they been since the


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says president barack obama said that if he doesn t turn the economy around after three years in office he ll be a president


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the top percent of income earners pay percent of all state income taxes and those at the bottom pay little or nothing


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there is no million pot of money for redistricting issues including defending redistricting lawsuits your tax dollars are not being spent on anything like that


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jim renacci s plan to end medicare also puts nursing home care for seniors in the district in immediate jeopardy


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since there have been some attacks on rail targets four thousand people have died thousands of injuries


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under barack obama the last two years the number of federal limousines for bureaucrats has increased percent


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if you threw a barbecue yesterday for the memorial weekend it was percent more expensive than last year because barack obama policies have led to groceries going up percent


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in the first to hours of the operation in libya you saw million go downrange because a tomahawk cruise missile is a little over million each


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hispanic unemployment has been ticking down from an high of percent because of the policies we ve implemented


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virginia spends on abstinence programs while losing million in federal funds due to gov bob mcdonnell s political agenda


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a substantial number of probationers participating in a pilot project to ease the farm labor shortage are able to finish the work


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the state s tax burden has according to census figures released today cost our state another residents in


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the wic program is an incredibly cost effective program serving nearly million americans each year and costing less than per person in my district more than percent of residents suffer from food insecurity and depend on wic to make ends meet


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says rick perry of texas was the governor who relied most on stimulus funds to close his state s budget deficit in


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in the republican presidential debate in new hampshire none of the candidates mentioned the middle class or education


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says president barack obama promised he would cut the deficit in half but instead will at least double it


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vern buchanan his old business was caught illegally funneling over in campaign donations to buchanan to influence his election


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every dollar spent by the social security administration on its program for the poor is waste or fraud they can t validate that the people should have gotten it totaling about billion a year


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multnomah county s food action plan clearly plans to disrupt the free market system in terms of food choices making it harder and more expensive for many residents to eat their food of choice


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after not having any foreign trade offices overseas for the past decade new jersey opened offices in shanghai and london in the past six months and has seen an percent increase in exports


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two thirds of the people in wisconsin strongly disagree with this idea of permanently taking away people s rights to collective bargaining


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as the democrats finally maxed out their government spending credit card monday kurt schrader continued to stand with his party leaders in failing to offer any viable solution


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most of the state budget is for state government doing things percent of the state budget is transferred to local communities for delivery of service


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says a map of proposed house districts for texas gerrymanders more than nine million latinos in texas to make sure that we have no more electoral opportunity than we did in


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the aclu did call for an investigation of the newark police department they called for an immediate federal monitor


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almost percent of canadians came to visit florida last year canadians buy percent of our homes in the state


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says former mayor carlos alvarez and current mayoral candidate carlos gimenez both drove fancy european cars at taxpayer expense


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janice hahn hired gang members with taxpayer money to be specialists she even helped them get out of jail so they could rape and kill again


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state alberta darling voted to add more than billion in additional spending while cutting programs such as education and health care


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says tax revenue was lower than expected in may and that basically a clear indication the governor counselors are probably right that we are still not out of the woods yet


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says ocean spray is moving its bordentown processing facility to pennsylvania largely because of costs associated with the regional greenhouse gas initiative


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says an alternative to social security that operates in galveston county texas has meant that participants will retire with a whole lot more money than under social security


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we are number one in the world when it comes to energy resources the russians are second saudi arabia is number three


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democratic tax hikes led billion of wealth to leave new jersey between and and mainly relocate to florida north carolina virginia and pennsylvania


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the senate has failed to pass a budget for days senate democrats have neglected one of their most basic responsibilities


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gov chris christie caused a percent increase in property taxes in marking the highest increase since


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anywhere in the world when someone uses a mobile phone the internet or gps they are enjoying the benefits of the american miracle


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the medicare drug program resulted in the program coming in percent under budget and the reason it was is because the design was right


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says president barack obama has put up a stop sign against oil drilling against any kind of exploration offshore or in alaska


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protesters attacked the group s headquarters with graffiti on the sidewalk and stenciled images smeared on the building and statue


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says the state s new collective bargaining law effectively eliminates police unions ability to negotiate


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for a young man or woman who is entering the ninth grade in newark this year they have a percent graduation rate


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barack obama refused to raise the debt ceiling because he said president bush had failed in leadership


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an amendment inserted by lawmakers into the state budget exempts scientific researchers from all state animal cruelty laws


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if today economy was rebounding at the rate of the reagan recovery it would have created the equivalent of million new jobs and raised federal revenue by billion a year


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there was a recent report out that the premiums for medicare and the payroll withholdings are only paying about half the program so it is not financially solvent


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earlier this year the head of the congressional budget office testified before congress that implementation of obamacare would cost jobs


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rick perry has never lost an election and remains the only person to have won the texas governorship three times in landslide elections


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an iron ore mine in northern wisconsin could operate for years and generate billion of dollars in economic activity


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because gov chris christie vetoed a job creation package new jersey ranks in the nation in job creation


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says opponent kathie tovo believes that austin invests too much in the cops firefighters and paramedics that protect our families and neighborhoods


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commercial buses in the united states have a stellar safety record a safety record that exceeds that of any other commercial mode or surface transportation mode


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obamacare cuts billion in future medicare funding in order to fund the new constitutionally questionable government mandate even going so far as to scuttle medicare most popular and successful part medicare advantage


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when i became president and ceo of godfather s pizza it was supposed to go bankrupt we turned it around with business principles


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says panasonic stayed in new jersey because of the business retention and relocation assistance grant brrag program


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says six of the state s family planning centers had to close because of gov chris christie s budget cuts


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by advocating new requirements for voters to show id cards at the polls republicans want to literally drag us all the way back to jim crow laws


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kasich s budget increases state spending from billion to billion this is the second largest spending increase in ohio history


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the budget for the consumer financial protection bureau is only about percent of the amount banks generate just from late fees and overdraft fees


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says the federal government threatened to impose a zone in texas if state legislators bar airport security officials from performing


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accuses president barack obama of making contradictory claims about efforts to kill osama bin laden in and


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says the ohio consumers council office employs lawyers and that the funding them is wasteful duplication


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over the last months we added more than million jobs in the private sector that far in excess of what it was in the comparable period after the last recession


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we had a bill in florida where we now are prohibiting doctors to talk particularly pediatricians to talk to their patients about gun safety in the home


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michigan and massachusetts raised their bottle deposit and could no longer afford the program because the redemptions were so high there was no profit in there


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we in the democratic party had no input into the locations of these hearings nor did we have input into the process


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says this month s special session will cost the state a day just for legislators daily living expenses


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says wisconsin state senate president michael elllis broke senate rules during debate on a photo id bill for voters


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democratic cicilline boswell carnahan and critz demanded that congress vote to increase the nation s debt limit without making any spending cuts


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we going to be looking at billion a day that we going to be pouring into foreign countries in order to import that fuel that we going to need to take the place of what we could have gotten out of the gulf


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we are looking at barrels of oil per day less next year and barrels per day less being able to be developed from the gulf the year after because of the moratorium on new drilling enacted by the obama administration


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we have seized more currency more drugs more outbound arms in the past year than any year in our country s history


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gerry connolly and his fellow democrats went on a spending spree and now their credit card is maxed out


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we went from a trillion surplus that george bush inherited to over trillion debt when george bush left office


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wisconsin s technical college graduates have a higher employment rate and starting salaries than college graduates nationwide


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the city s percent set aside for affordable housing in urban renewal areas is calculated citywide not district by district


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medicare only has about percent of it paid for by either premiums or payroll taxes and the rest is deficit spending or debt spending


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look at the debt that has been accumulated in the last two years it more debt under this president than all those other presidents combined


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house republicans required the use of styrofoam cups in house cafeterias that are part of koch industries


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the medicare proposal by paul ryan would allow insurance companies to deny you coverage and drop you for conditions


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betty sutton and her fellow democrats went on a spending spree and now their credit card is maxed out


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in the late the was nearly the nation in the world and a quarter century later we nearly the highest


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it is estimated that arizona has lost more than million in hospitality industry revenues since passage of the arizona immigration laws


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if you look at the benefits and wages of recorded federal employees they far outstrip the market rates of the private sector


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most of your serial killers most of your people who commit domestic violence they start off by abusing animals


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there a percent to percent overhead in medicare the insurance companies have a percent to percent overhead


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says the obama administration has fulfilled all of texas requests for fire management assisting grants


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we are in the bottom in dollars in the classroom and the top in dollars in the bureaucracy and red tape


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says the obama administration approved a major disaster declaration for oklahoma in when nine of the state s counties burned for about three days while texas wildfires have been burning for longer without such a declaration


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without ethanol gas prices would be at least higher with gas at four bucks that means you re saving bucks on a gallon fill up


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says state budget deal between texas house and senate leaders funds nursing homes our public schools and universities and provides financial aid for college students


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says changes to make it more difficult to participate in ohio elections include reducing early voting from days to six


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less than two years ago we made a commitment to repay the in full and today we made good on that promise


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says that several times in the last years austin city council candidates have won seats after trailing by more than votes in the election prompting the runoff


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the health reform legislation which washington passed last year has made it more difficult to hire because it s increased costs for employers


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for more than years after world war ii there was a steady reduction in debt as a percentage of gross domestic product


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in the constitution there s a little section in there that talks about life liberty and the pursuit of happiness


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for decades before i was elected governors tried and failed to get minnesota out of the top states in the country i actually did it


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says gov rick perry has been begging for the federal government to send the coast guard to patrol two lakes on the border


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the has million people on food stamps that s million more than when the current occupant of the white house took over


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to give a sense of how families are struggling a record four out of every school kids in ohio now qualifies for subsidized lunch


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if you take the population growth here in virginia we are net zero on job creation since bob mcdonnell became governor


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we bring in enough tax revenue to service our debt pay for medicare and medicaid and social security and then still have about billion or billion left over


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the democrats have already voted to ban our conventional light bulbs in favor of dangerous fluorescent light bulbs


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department of education officials investigating virginia tech shootings have not once gotten into the car and driven down to blacksburg to talk to the police chief or the university president or to anyone else


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says state lawmakers have voted to spend virtually all of the rainy day fund four times since the fund s creation


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promotes a chart saying that barack obama has increased the debt by percent compared to george bush who increased it by percent


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wisconsin is one of the few states in the country that do not currently require a photographic identification to vote


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says people who signed recall petitions against wisconsin state jim holperin received harassing phone calls from telemarketers claiming to represent the democratic party and insinuating foul play by petition circulators


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says there are more federal dollars in gov john kasich budget plan than in the previous state budget


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the new beverage tax will increase the cost of sodas juice drinks sports drinks iced teas and flavored water up to


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in the first year of the obama administration more jobs were created in the private sector than in the eight years of the bush administration


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you ca give a child an aspirin in school without permission you ca do any kind of medication but we can secretly take the child off and have an abortion


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the ohio democratic party has raised million since the november election a very small percentage of that has come from organized labor


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president barack obama deserves to be called the most successful food stamp president in american history because million americans are on food stamps


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says the texas board of nursing has a backlog of complaints against nurses many of them sexual assaults malfeasance


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increasing the bottle deposit to cents on a case of water bottles could literally double the price of that product in the store


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about of medicaid beneficiaries are children but they account for of the program s cost while are elderly and they account for of the cost


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virginia ranked near the bottom of the nation years ago in per capita income but is in the top today it had a very low rate of higher education attainment but is now above the national average


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the bush tax cuts created about million jobs over the first years that they were in existence we lost about million of those jobs during this recession


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the obama administration increased the deportation of illegal immigrants convicted of crimes by percent


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when the governor announced his jobs budget folks from the department of taxation were let go the next day


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the only people in this town that have voted to cut medicare spending are the people who voted in favor of obamacare that s a fact


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the six largest cities in ohio all have higher rates of violence and crime than every major city along the border


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says president barack obama s debt commission recommended converting medicare to a system where medicare participants are given a voucher to purchase insurance in the private market


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two million federal workers negotiate zippo zero there is no collective bargaining for federal employees


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wrote that in nancy pelosi said she didn t think capturing osama bin laden makes us any safer but in called his killing historic


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there is a situation in this country where you nearing percent of people who do even pay income taxes


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gov scott walker has yet to create a job he gives away millions to his friends and he raises taxes on working people


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says milwaukee county spent over in salaries in for employees to participate in union activities such as collective bargaining


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i well aware that medical marijuana is a recognized medical viable treatment for this sort of pancreas pain condition


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the study that states that more than percent of the traffic on the sellwood bridge is clackamas county has been thoroughly debunked by the oregonian


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on the night of the iowa caucuses obama promised the nation that he would do health care reform focused on cost containment he opposed an individual mandate and he said he was going to do it with republicans


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nearly high schools roughly percent of all secondary schools in the united states produce about half of the nation s dropouts


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says one of austin city council member randi shade s biggest contributors is the lobbyist for the formula racetrack planned outside austin


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house republican plan would increase costs for oregon seniors by with health care vouchers instead of medicare


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a bank surveillance camera capturing a criminal s face and other identifiable traits would certainly discourage robbery attempts and serve as a deterrent to robbers


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the federal debt is more than trillion almost equal to the size of our entire economy and every child born today inherits a share of the national debt before they take their first breath


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says he has exposed plans by wisconsin gov scott walker to push legislation that would allow the state to declare financial martial law and take over municipal governments


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paul ryan budget proposal cuts nothing from medicare social security or defense in the next two to three years and in three years he does not cut one dime from the debt


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in a lawsuit between private citizens a florida judge announced the decision was going to be based on islamic law


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says although the unemployment rate seems to be improving it does not reflect real job creation it s caused by a shrinking of the actual labor force


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drilling for oil on the outer continental shelf and in parts of alaska will immediately reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil


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says the internal revenue service estimated it must hire agents at a cost of billion to the taxpayer to enforce the federal health care overhaul


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at texas a m university only out of faculty members brought in enough money to pay for their salaries and overhead over the past five years


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says that had been in place in florida when terrorists lived here we might have saved the lives of americans


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china now owns trillion of our debt our trade deficit last year with them was a quarter of a trillion dollars


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a vast majority of the production in the united states comes from small independent oil and gas companies


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percent of the people who cast a provisional ballot in florida in the last presidential election their vote did not count


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says in canada the number of ct scan machines per people is like of what we have here in this country that why people have to wait


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says that while his plan would narrow the time for early voting it still will be one of the most aggressive early voting time frames in america


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says it probably costs more than to run for a seat on the pedernales electric cooperative board of directors


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republicans offered wisconsin bar patrons free shots of alcohol to sign recall petitions against democrats


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paul ryan s medicare plan lines the pockets of the private insurance companies increases costs for seniors and does not reduce the deficit


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says florida is one of a few or perhaps the only state that has a statewide review of local land use and zoning decisions


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there are legitimate and widespread anomalies and widespread questions about the conduct of the wisconsin supreme court election most visibly in waukesha county but also in counties around the state


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says stories about his birth certificate drowned out media coverage of the republican and white house budget plans the week of april


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after the military alliance ejected saddam hussein s forces from kuwait in the kuwaitis never paid us


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says paul ryan voted for two wars that were unpaid for voted for the bush tax cuts that were unpaid for voted for the prescription drug bill that cost as much as my health care bill but was paid for


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the georgia lottery has only once in the past years paid out the agreed upon percent of proceeds to the account which funds the hope scholarship


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as far as standing committees we have fewer standing committees so we ve saved the state about a dollars through the reduction of the standing committees


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in early voting in county there is a trickle of two or three people a day at a very high cost to keep those public libraries and polls open


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in senate bill there is this new method of evaluating teachers you re also going to be rated on what the parents think of you and they can send questionnaires and surveys home to parents


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large majorities of the public oppose major changes to medicare and favor higher taxes on the wealthy


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says protesters at the wisconsin state capitol on the night the state senate passed collective bargaining changes damaged the windshield of his car


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foreign companies in the united states have a significantly higher unionization rate than other companies overall


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gov rick perry helped balance his budget with about billion worth of federal help which he happily took and then started blaming the members of congress who had offered that help


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we are the most generous in new england and new england is known for its generosity toward its welfare recipients


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right now we are spending at an high close to percent of our gdp is being spent on the federal government but our revenues are at an almost low of about percent of gdp


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if we had the same staffing ratio of officers to residents as seattle we have more officers in our department


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under a proposal by paul ryan people on medicare will only have from the federal government to spend on their health care


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an internet sweepstakes cafe is a legitimate business that has been vetted and found to be completely legal in the state


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the facts show that approximately persons on death row have had all of their appellate review completed and await only the governor signature on a death warrant to end the case


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general electric has really created any jobs in this country does pay any taxes and they making historic profits


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america wealthiest percent pay percent of total income taxes wealthiest percent pay percent of total income taxes


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according to david cay johnston the average american pays about percent of their income to federal taxes the richest americans pay about percent of their income to federal taxes


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appalachian power wants another percent rate increase the compensation package for ceo mike morris rose percent to million in


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in this bill that i ve just signed we don t cut anybody s salary we don t take away their pension and we don t destroy their health care


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dennis richardson wants to make drastic cuts to services we depend on schools home care for seniors even public safety all so richardson can keep more than million in unspent funds for his political priorities


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says president franklin delano roosevelt sent his advisers to study socialism with soviet dictator josef stalin so the president could replicate it in the united states


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the republican budget plan says that years from now if you re a who s eligible for medicare you should have to pay nearly more than you would today


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hackers broke into virginia database and obtained more than million patient records and a total of nearly million prescriptions


claim:
what we have done with the patriot act we given the government enormous powers we given the government the right to reach deeply into people private lives into their business affairs without a court order


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if you go strictly by the numbers crime is down across the board last year we had a percent decrease in the most serious crimes


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human error such as skipping a community in the wisconsin supreme court race is common in the process


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tim kaine proposed over billion in tax increases from the time he entered the governor s mansion until the time he left


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people are going to be kicked out of nursing homes or denied nursing home entrance if the texas house version of the state budget passes into law


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george allen voted to add trillion to the federal debt voted to raise the debt ceiling four times and voted for the no child left behind act while he was a senator


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the republicans have demanded deep cuts in education they demanded cuts in cancer research and other research to find cures and treatments to diseases


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to pay for government growth leaders of both parties borrowed billion a day leaving us with today trillion debt


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when we lower tax rates we generate more in revenues that happened in with the reagan plan happened in following the bush plan


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in the last decade the average income of the bottom percent of all working americans actually declined the top percent saw their income rise by an average of more than a quarter of a million dollars each


claim:
a space shuttle the national museum of the united states air force near dayton would be within a day drive of percent of the population


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a republican proposal changes medicare for those under age so that they will participate in the same kind of health plan that members of congress do


claim:
politicians and their corporate lobbyists are trying to take away my right to spend my paycheck how i want


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the benefits that were offered to me as a congressman don t even compare to the benefits that you get as a state employee i just experienced that myself they re not nearly as good


claim:
for every one esd superintendent position we can pay for three speech pathologists or three special needs instructors or three classroom teachers


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we have a guy who is going to be speaker of the house in four years and his name has been on the ballot one time


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over the past decade the big five oil companies bp chevron conocophillips exxonmobil and shell made a total profit of nearly trillion


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many states without collective bargaining such as arizona nevada and north carolina have far larger budget deficits than many that do including ohio


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when i took office last year we faced historic budget deficits of billion here in virginia and we closed those deficits by cutting spending


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fifty percent of our students who enter higher education need to take remedial courses because they are not prepared for work


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in florida it s not illegal for an immediate family member of state officials to prosper from legislation supported by a spouse


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a report in navy times said that percent of army navy and marines have thought about attempting suicide


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said planned parenthood s early objective was to help kill black babies before they came into the world


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we re paying residential facilities hundreds of thousands of dollars if not more to house children in state custody


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says president obama grandmother in kenya said he was born in kenya and she was there and witnessed the birth


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virginia was named best managed state best state for business and best state to raise a child while i was governor


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across the united states percent of voting age african americans do not have the photo id that this bill would require


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


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says house republicans rejected a straightforward measure that would prevent members of congress and the president from being paid during a government shutdown


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three courts have found the new health care law constitutional and two have found it unconstitutional


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franklin roosevelt was the last president to come to the congress to ask for permission to engage into war


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since in dollars funding of the florida state university system from general revenue has dropped by about


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some of the colleges including a m have already guaranteed that they will not increase their tuition


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a majority of the american people opposed the health care law when it was signed and still oppose it today


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says a photo id voting law in georgia did dissuade black voters from participating in voting it has it does and apparently if you do cause and effect in that state it been helpful


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when you compare our state pension system to other systems throughout the country our benefits are not they are not rich they are actually average or below average


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ninety percent of texans say they do not want the nursing homes to close it polls higher than anything else


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says chris abele opponent in milwaukee county executive race failed to finish separate colleges dropping out all times


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says wisconsin supreme court candidate joanne kloppenburg put an farmer in jail for refusing to plant native vegetation on his farm


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discretionary spending has increased over percent in two years if you don t include the stimulus if you put in the stimulus it s over percent


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from the year i was born until the time i became governor in the average increase in minnesota state spending was percent we brought that down dramatically to about percent per year


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says the southwest florida water management district has million in reserves enough money in savings to run without levying taxes for more than two years


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politifact wisconsin concluded that the charge that justice prosser prejudges matters that come before the court is true


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says supreme court candidate joanne kloppenburg s record as a state justice department lawyer consists only of the prosecution of cases regarding regulation of docks


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says that during the first months of the obama administration the detained people from nations designated as state sponsors of terrorism on the southwestern border


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there has never been a death caused by a commercial nuclear reactor in the united states even when three mile island failed in the


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originally democrats promised that if you liked your health care plan you could keep it one year later we know that you need a waiver to keep your plan


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a third of all the young people in america are not in america today because of abortion because one in three pregnancies end in abortion


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before this federal health care law was enacted florida parents were able to purchase inexpensive coverage for their children the law s protections have now eliminated that choice in florida


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says the patient protection and affordable care act adopted last year contains a series of slush funds set up to stay on the books automatically with little or no oversight


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public sentiment in favor of collective bargaining and in favor of the unions has actually gone up as these governors i think have overreached and gone too far and tried to destroy the labor movement


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ultimately after an exhaustive investigation the national transportation safety board concluded that a minneapolis bridge collapsed in because of an original design flaw dating back to the


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says new epa water regulations would force the state to make drainage canals every bit as clean as pristine florida river systems


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since corey stewart became chairman in november unemployment is up and average home price sales are down


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georgia public sector employees do not have a say in the conditions of their employment do not have bargaining rights or a say in their working conditions


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the budget proposal could cut funding for programs that help keep local neighborhoods safe slash more than million in funds for ohio


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one that the number of new drilling permits under the obama administration since they came into office


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as a prosecutor wisconsin supreme court justice david prosser did not investigate or file charges in a case involving pedophile priest then participated in


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the hour of sleep you lose during the change to daylight saving time might initially pose some health risks


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oregon is the only state out of the states in the usa that continues to pay of the medical benefits for its employees and their families


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says none of the government programs targeted for elimination or severe cutback in house republican spending plans appeared on the gao list of government programs at high risk of waste fraud and abuse


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says a lubbock terror suspect s alleged plan to use baby dolls to conceal chemical explosives is similar to a plot to blow up jumbo jets over the pacific ocean


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says wisconsin supreme court justice david prosser has prejudged matters that are likely to come before the court


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woonsocket needs a power plant because residents are paying through the nose for electricity that s fueled by foreign oil at prices that are skyrocketing


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oregon concealed gun applications include home phone numbers home address social security numbers what kinds of guns you have in the house whether you were dishonorably discharged from the military what controlled substances you are taking and were you ever accused of accused mind you of stalking


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a government accountability office report says planned parenthood federation of america can not find some billion given to it by the federal government from through


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the hope scholarship has helped turn our university system into one of the best in the southeast with two institutions ranked in the top of public universities in the country


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says legislation pending in the house would effectively limit or eliminate for people who work overtime


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about percent of adults in rhode island and approximately percent of youth ages are considered obese


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the entire state of florida led the nation last year with the most prison inmates committing tax fraud


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wisconsin was embroiled in a constitutional crisis brought on by the democratic senators fleeing the state for illinois to block gov scott walker bill


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due to a flaw in the outer continental shelf deep water royalty relief act numerous oil companies are now drilling in the gulf of mexico in federal lands and paying no royalties to the federal government


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on the president unilaterally authorizing a military attack that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation


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says allen west helped thwart a terrorist plot by shooting a gun in the direction of an iraqi detainee then reported the incident to his superior and said it was wrong


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ohio director of job creation mark kvamme just clawed back about from companies that made promises and they did keep them


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since over incidents have been documented of suction entrapment in swimming pools and spas including deaths of children


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not even expensive bottled water like perrier and evian are of good enough quality to pump out of mines in southwest virginia according to the epa regulation


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there is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts you should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer


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


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the coalition of arab states against libya s moammar gadhafi is the biggest coalition against a fellow arab leader since the persian gulf war in


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eleven years ago the city of detroit lifted the residency requirement for police officers and today percent of officers live outside of the city if we want the tax base of milwaukee to resemble the tax base of detroit this is the way to go


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studies have shown that in the absence of federal reproductive health funds we are going to see the level of abortion in georgia increase by about percent


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the congressional budget office has this economic model where they measure the economy going forward and they are now telling us that the entire economy crashes in the year because their computer simulation ca conceive of any way in which the economy can continue


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according to estimates an agreement with panama could result in almost florida jobs in the first year and about jobs after five years


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says a rather extraordinary amount of employees were added by texas school districts over the last decade


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senate democrats who left the state for weeks to delay a vote on union bargaining power exercised a wisconsin filibuster provided by the state s constitution


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if you look at the jobs lost in the private sector as opposed to the job gains in the public sector it out of whack the government growing and the private economy shrinking


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the state of wisconsin pays plumbers engineers and other attorneys much much more than it pays attorneys to represent poor people


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the texas constitution still contains jim crow provisions about the poll tax and restrictions on women having the right to vote


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says it has offered million in savings through and million in savings over the next years in contract negotiations with the city of milwaukee


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say easing restrictions on selling alcohol on sundays will result in more traffic crashes and fatalities


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we have over million people who live in texas and less than percent of them have concealed handgun licenses


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a proposed revenue smart cap gives floridians a voice requiring a percent vote by citizens in order to impose a new tax fee license fine charge or assessment


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twenty percent of our electricity currently comes from nuclear power plants i think there are in the united states two of them around the coast in california


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says that 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


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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


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there are corporations in this nation some of the biggest corporations in this nation who do not pay taxes


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for the first time in more than a decade imports accounted for less than half of the oil we consumed


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in fighting collective bargaining changes democrats are trying to protect a system that pays unionized government workers percent more than workers


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georgia still has one of the richest programs in terms of scholarships for students to go to college


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says that president obama said in that his proposed greenhouse gas regulations will bankrupt anyone who wants to build a new power plant


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seven of the school districts with the lowest graduation rate for boys in the country are in florida


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on the night of the wisconsin state senate vote on the budget package a mob showed up and busted down the door and took over the capitol


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a new ruling by the epa would force dairy farmers to comply with the spill prevention control and countermeasure program when dealing with spilt milk the same regulations oil and natural gas producers must follow


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tampa mayoral opponent bob buckhorn supported forcing police officers to keep their guns locked in the trunks of their cruisers


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our average private sector employee pays percent for their health care our average city worker in ohio pays percent


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says it s a statistical reality that most single moms are very poor ca get a job and if it were for government assistance their kids would be starving to death


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says women who need a sonogram in the eighth to week of pregnancy have to get a transvaginal sonogram


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says sherrod brown admitted that his billion stimulus law failed and after specifically attacking republicans for wanting to lower americans taxes he now claims that his stimulus bill do enough to lower taxes


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since all virginia lottery profits have been used for public education in the commonwealth for kindergarten through grade


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wisconsin gov scott walker s budget okays disposing of unclaimed pound dogs to university research facilities


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a bill before the georgia general assembly would make presidential candidates meet citizenship requirements that are not in the constitution


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says florida gov rick scott s cuts to education are the same as his proposed corporate income tax rate reduction


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bing energy said it decided to move to florida because of gov rick scott s plan to eliminate the corporate tax


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on my first day in office i ordered a review of every regulation in the pipeline and every contract exceeding million


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hitler did want unions stalin did want unions mubarak did want independent unions these autocrats in history do want independent unions


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says nobody in higher education believes gov rick perry s proposal to serve up college degrees is possible


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under the clear letter of the law justice clarence thomas must recuse himself from the case challenging the constitutionality of the health care law


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says justice elena kagan recused herself in many cases where she had little role as solicitor general simply because of the appearance of a conflict of interest


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in slashing billion from social security jim renacci may end up forcing the entire agency to shut down for a month causing seniors to not get their benefits on time halting claims processing and forcing new retirees and disabled workers into a backlog


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last year it was discovered that rhode island public employees ranked in average pay while the private sector ranked


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texas would have to increase current state spending by percent just to reach the national average for spending per resident


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says sheldon whitehouse said on senate floor everybody in rhode island who disagrees with me about obamacare is an aryan is a white supremacist


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a telephone company will no longer have to provide landline service to customers if there is an alternative provider including wireless


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a telecom bill could keep the state corporation commission from getting information from electric utilities


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under gov scott walker s proposals money is being taken away from workers and the tax breaks given to major


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as part of efforts to rein in protesters republicans in wisconsin have bolted windows inside the capitol shut


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says neither president barack obama nor mexico president felipe calderon have been on the border to see what happening to the citizens of mexico and for that matter the citizens of texas


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dekalb county has cut more money from its general fund budget than any local government in the atlanta metro region


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we seen local union after local union rush to their school boards their city councils their technical school boards and rush through contracts in the past two weeks that had no contributions to the pension and no contribution to health care


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says paul ryan s budget roadmap does balance the budget until the and adds an unthinkable trillion to the national debt between now and then


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gov bob mcdonnell in did not even create enough jobs to keep pace with population growth in virginia


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says many local governments in wisconsin already require employees to pay percent percent or even percent of their health insurance premiums


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says the state share of texas public education spending increased percent over the past decade reaching billion in


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there are nearly registered sex offenders across the country and at any one time about are unaccounted for


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says that in a hearing gabrielle giffords suggested to david petraeus that the army put more emphasis on less environmentally damaging methods like stabbing or clubbing enemy forces in order to minimize the carbon output


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the american people have endured consecutive months of or higher unemployment and million jobs have been lost since the stimulus bill was signed


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some of our state educational administrators joined the feds in seeking to mandate arabic classes for texas children


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an illegal immigrant who gains admission at a public college takes class space away from students who are legal residents


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the law has not established whether rhode island public employees have property rights to their pensions


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under former president george bush s administration while the population in that period grew by percent the number of jobs in the nation grew by percent


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claims wisconsin senate majority leader scott fitzgerald said it is necessary to eliminate unions in order to balance future budgets


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if public employees don t pay more for benefits starting april the equivalent is state employee layoffs by june and to state and local government employee layoffs in the next two years


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wisconsin gov scott walker s estimate of a billion state budget deficit is manufactured and a bogus figure


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one half of federal spending goes to social security medicare and medicaid while the other half goes to other programs funded with money borrowed from a foreign land


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if you printed a bill for the entirety of the trillion national debt the resulting pile of money would weigh more than aircraft carriers


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the things i said during the prank call by a blogger posing as gop contributor david koch are the things i ve said publicly all along about the wisconsin budget debate


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every wisconsin legislator that votes for this bill will have to give up the same amount of pay as other state employees


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fact the special assistant in johnkasich office makes over three times more than an average oh firefighter


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the five states that outlaw collective bargaining for teachers all rank below in the nation in test scores while wisconsin ranks


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in wisconsin teachers make in salary and benefits compared to for all other workers in the united states


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the president promised to close the space gap but he now seems intent on repeating the events that created the space gap in the first place putting in place a new rocket design and then trying to underfund the effort


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a federal system that verifies employees are authorized to work in the is inaccurate anywhere from percent all the way up to in excess of percent of the time


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i campaigned on the proposals in the budget repair bill for wisconsin all throughout the election anybody who says they are shocked on this has been asleep for the past two years


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the president s proposed budget will help reduce the deficit by billion over the next decade to the lowest level since dwight eisenhower was president


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says wisconsin gov scott walker in his budget repair bill is showing that no stone goes unturned as he asks everyone to tighten their belts


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when it comes to urgency on passing a budget repair bill there s no rush on this thing because the fiscal year doesn t end until june


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since sherrod brown and the democrats rammed the economic stimulus bill through ohio unemployment rate has risen to percent above the national average


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sunday liquor sales could generate million to million a year in additional sales tax revenue for georgia


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if wisconsin governor cuts perquisites as much as he plans to do it would still leave workers better off than their private sector counterparts


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the firefighters the policemen and others who supported wisconsin gov scott walker in his election bid do have to worry about their collective bargaining rights


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at protests in wisconsin against proposed collective bargaining changes phony sick notes were passed out to excuse striking union members


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percent of the jobs created in the state of ohio are created in small business they are not created by huge corporations and those who are very wealthy


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says some in congress are trying to create a separate government for those with a drop of native hawaiian blood


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lyme disease is one of the fastest growing infectious diseases in the united states and rhode island has the incidence of this disease in the country


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in austin i ve got or more schools on a list to be closed one of which i presented a federal award to for excellence and several hundred school personnel on the list for possible terminations


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wisconsin gov scott walker s move to limit collective bargaining rights has led to riots at the capitol it like cairo has moved to madison these days


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despite what you may have heard about wisconsin s finances wisconsin is on track to have a budget surplus this year


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one of the biggest causes of our soaring debt and economic insecurity ends up being pentagon spending the budget for the pentagon consumes more than half of our discretionary spending


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under changes being debated state employees in wisconsin who earn a year might have percent of their income just disappear overnight


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for thousands of public employees wisconsin gov scott walker s bill would take away any say they have in the workplace and eliminate their union


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for the last decade funding in the health and human services budget has grown at twice the rate as other parts of the budget and i think that context is important


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americans in the last years have more than doubled the amount of money we are spending per child on education and the results have gotten worse not better


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says there are ohio turnpike workers getting paid a year to collect tolls that machines might collect


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the white house budget plan will bring domestic discretionary spending to its lowest share of our economy since dwight eisenhower was president


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it is projected that million people will use the train annually keep in mind that amtrak acela train in washington boston philadelphia new york and baltimore only had million riders in


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says wisconsin gov scott walker has threatened to call out the national guard if workers protest against changes to bargaining laws


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across the board violent crime in jurisdictions that recognize the right to carry is lower than in areas that prevent it


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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


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over the last two years since president obama has taken office the federal government has added new federal jobs


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under the white house s budget proposal we will not be adding more to the national debt by the middle of the decade


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the alternative to higher state worker pension and health care payments is to look at layoffs of state employees or close to children who would be bumped off programs


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the united states is the only developed country in the world that has not cut its corporate tax rate


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there is nothing in the current state public records law that prohibits sensitive or confidential business information from being just that confidential


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four state assembly democrats scored a death blow to northeast wisconsin s economy by killing hundreds of jobs at a potential bass pro shops near green bay


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oregon families pay an extra a year on higher insurance premiums to cover those who do not have insurance


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if you shut down amtrak northeast corridor it estimated you have to add seven new lanes to to accommodate the increased traffic


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overall we currently have million almost a billion dollars in active development projects right here in the city of richmond


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i m the only candidate for milwaukee county executive that has voted against increasing government pensions


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when the milwaukee county mental health facility is full cops sit out there in their squad cars with a mentally ill patient and sometimes spend an entire shift out there doing that


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foreign trade zones allow land to be inhabited by chinese communists communists straight from china they are to set up little towns and live here


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in mexico they do have birth certificates they don t have registration cards for voters they have one national id


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for gm to pay back everything it owes it would have to sell its shares at a share where the highest value of a general motors share ever was whatever the dollars were


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tells president barack obama that he also asked former president george bush about how he felt about americans hating him


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twelve judges have thrown out legal challenges to the health care law because they rejected the notion that the health care law was unconstitutional


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before this law was passed americans were told they could keep their current health care plans after it became law the administration issued regulations stating nearly half of americans would lose their current plan


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most state employees could pay twice as much toward their health care premiums and it would still be half the national average


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the military has spent million enforcing the don t ask don t tell policy regarding gays and lesbians in the military


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the city building code violations on my properties only involve exterior issues within the households it s fine


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united states students are achieving at number out of developing countries when it comes to science and math


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says the texas forest service planted trees in the worth area before the super bowl for unknown reasons at an unknown cost


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americans spend billion hours a year complying with tax law it costs us billion to comply with our tax laws annually


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says getting to successfully return to society is important so we are not always faced constantly with recidivism which is a big problem in the penitentiary today in the to percent range


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many of the conspirators came from the muslim brotherhood including osama bin laden ayman zawahiri and khalid sheikh mohammed


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all the money the department of citrus has is paid for by the citrus growers you do save dollars by eliminating the department of citrus


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federal reserve policies have led to a percent rise in corn prices percent rise in wheat prices and percent spike in sugar prices over the last year


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from to the top percent saw their income go up by roughly percent while the median wage in the country over the same years went up percent


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despite claims that you can the health care plan you like the obama administration has predicted that as many as out of americans with health coverage could lose their current health plan


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the new start treaty was passed despite significant concerns among some people in the state and defense departments


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wisconsin employers have repeatedly said in surveys that our litigation climate is one of the most important factors affecting their expansion decisions


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says that over the last decade the state population grew three times faster than the texas state tax system


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says there are a half a trillion dollars in cuts to medicare that are going to go in place as a result of health care reform


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says gun ownership information could be recorded and collected by the federal government and insurance companies as part of the federal health care law


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regulations on developers have thwarted construction on land in milwaukee s downtown park east corridor


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in september the department of business and consumer services enacted a sudden workers compensation premium assessment by rule with little notice to the public


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mitchell international airport is the the third busiest airport in the world and the number one busiest in the country


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secure communities has a proven track record of enhancing public safety by focusing on violent offenders and those that pose a threat to our communities and our national security


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last year out of the in population growth we had in the state of texas about of the came to texas from the other states


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says president barack obama revealed in his state of the union address that he now is against earmarks


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tailpipe emissions rules if fully implemented with all the regulations that go with it they will keep the temperature from rising nearly five of a degree fahrenheit by


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the american people say do touch social security do touch medicare do cut defense that percent of the federal budget


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since taking office president obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly percent for domestic government agencies an percent increase when you include the failed stimulus


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of the top five cities for staged automobile accidents three are in florida we rank no in the country in staged auto accidents


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the interior department is in charge of salmon while they in fresh water but the commerce department handles them when they in saltwater


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says a canadian provincial prime minister came to ohio for his medical treatment because of the delay in canadian health care which would have endangered his life


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the number of inmates since on death row dying of natural causes has now surpassed the number of inmates executed


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poll results from the past years show that state of the union speeches do not move presidential approval numbers


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says the defense department billion in american money loaded it on pallets and put it on a transport plane to iraq where they passed out bills and no one has any receipts


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george allen voted for budgets that increased the national debt by for every second he served in the senate


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despite the administration telling us health care reform was going to reduce health care costs they now acknowledge it going to dramatically increase health care costs


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says a portland school gives muslim students their own school provided prayer room prayer rugs and lets them out of class five times a day to pray to allah


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a test last month at the max station at avenue and east burnside saw crime down percent compared with december


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the governor has made a commitment to billions of dollars in debt and new spending without any explanation of how he plans to pay that money back


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says that data from the center on budget and policy priorities suggest that the texas budget gap is worse than new york s about as bad as california s but not quite up to new jersey levels


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gov scott walker hired convicted assembly speaker scott jensen to oversee a raid on the state employee retirement system to help balance the state budget


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ben franklin once quipped that only two things in life were certain death and taxes i think even he did envision that the tax man would visit on the day of your death


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we had a debate on whether obamacare was the way to go to fix up health care and the american voters said no emphatically


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under federal law jared loughner would not have been able to buy a gun had he been identified as mentally ill


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if the stamp farm wind turbine is built the health risk of impact created by shadows of blades of turbines poses real and significant health risks particularly seizures


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in wisconsin percent of all small businesses will qualify for relief under my plan freeing them to expand and create jobs


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under current immigration policy literally one person with a green card can in the extreme bring in more than of his relatives


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says that before health care reform one of every three health care dollars spent more than billion a year did go for health care


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says ohio attorney general mike dewine is hypocritical for challenging the constitutionality of the new health care law


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the incoming republican freshman class well it s no ordinary group nearly half of its roughly members have never served in elective office before


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recent studies have confirmed that any academic benefits of government funded preschool disappear by the fourth grade


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on average americans spend less than percent of their disposable income on food compare that to folks in mexico who spend percent china percent and russia percent


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virginia ranked in job creation in under gov tim kaine and moved up to third for while mcdonnell has been in office


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the white house branded the memorial service for the tucson shootings with a together we thrive logo and slogan


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when we look at the number of murders in the united states in we had people murdered when we look around the world we see large countries the germany japan had or less killed in a year


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we had an amendment in the health care law that said the federal government is going to take over education


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saturday shootings reflect a disturbing trend mass shootings have become commonplace since the virginia tech massacre in there have been dozens of incidents where three or more people have been fatally wounded hundreds have died


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following the session texas house speaker joe straus was acknowledged and thanked for his tireless efforts by planned parenthood the nation s premier abortion provider


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says the person who florida allen west first hired as chief of staff told people attending a tea party rally that will use bullets if ballots do work


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in my years in the house i have watched my district go from a solidly democratic district to a heavily solid republican district


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


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portland spent nearly million in federal stimulus money to install bike path signs where they already existed


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new provisions of the health care law bar the use of flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts to pay for aspirin and other health needs


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the richest percent of america will get a bigger tax cut through this bill than the family income of the average family here in central texas


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says the corridor train would have taken an hour and minutes longer to carry passengers across ohio than it would have taken on a new york central train in


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you ll find blacks in almost every regiment throughout the south who fought right alongside white southerners during the civil war


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says the state medicaid waiver proposal has languished in a file cabinet at the centers for medicare and medicaid services for more than two years


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the democratic majority led the congress to spend more money in two years than the first congresses before them combined


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we can save billion in simply not giving out money to medicare recipients that do exist for procedures that did happen


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we are one of only two states to have eight consecutive months of declining unemployment states had increased unemployment last month ours went down


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says there is a plan formulated by chair lynn peterson and the cities in clackamas county to further increase this fee in three years and split it up on projects between the county and cities


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in matagorda brazoria and galveston counties all opted out of the social security program for their employees today their program is very very and there is no question about whether it s going to be funded in years to come


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the deal adds more than billion to the deficit over two years more than the cost of tarp and more than the cost of the recovery act and about the same as health care reform


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all but one of the states already have some form of a balanced budget amendment in their state constitutions


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portland public schools invites school bureaucrats administrators teachers other staff students affluent parents of students and other adults including on the other extreme the adult homeless illegal aliens fanatical muslim terrorists or drug addicted street people to enjoy cheap breakfasts in school facilities amidst school children


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house speaker dean cannon says that freshmen lawmakers account for of the house and that of the chamber have two years or less experience


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says that all those who do not answer directly to the president they said repealing do ask do tell is a terrible idea


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joe biden the ranking member of the foreign relations committee recommended partitioning iraq into three separate entities


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unemployment and the housing and auto industry crises can be fixed by giving a million dollars to every worker over age to retire


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we have dozens of districts that go for to miles splitting counties splintering cities and connecting areas that have very little in common


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says the university of wisconsin football program is spending almost all of its bowl championship series payout on a rose bowl junket for politically connected officials


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says that on average democratic congressional districts received percent more stimulus funds than republican districts


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the milwaukee business community did not speak about the facts and in support of train manufacturer talgo as the rail link was being killed


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once people become citizens under the dream act and turn they can sponsor their illegal immigrant parents for legalization


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tsa started off with screeners and the agency has mushroomed to employees with administrative people making over per year on average


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since january the private sector has lost nearly million jobs while local state and federal governments added


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says that in his first months as president the united states doubled its million a year commitment to fighting global aids


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when social security was passed there were all kinds of lawsuits just as there have been in the legal battle over the new health care law


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says lee leffingwell has been mayor of austin texas for about as long as sarah palin was governor of alaska


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toledo is fourth in the nation behind much bigger cities miami las vegas portland in number of human trafficking arrests and rescues


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a percent increase in domestic production would increase the world supply by less than percent and do almost nothing to our dependence on foreign oil this would also have virtually no effect on the price of gas at the pump


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says joe straus was of a bill that would have allowed planned parenthood to control public school sex education


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says jim renacci ran against the washington establishment in the election but is now hypocritically embracing it with big money special interest fundraisers


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says federal health care overhaul will cost texas state government upwards of billion over the next years


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the tax cuts failed to increase employment and participation fell in and has never returned to the record level set in


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last year exxonmobil made billion in profit guess what they paid zero in taxes they got a million refund from the irs


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in the top percent of all income earners in the united states made percent of all income which is more than the entire bottom percent


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eliminating the state tax on health savings accounts will make it easier for small business owners to provide health insurance to their employees


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an overwhelming majority of americans support passage of the dream act which would provide a path to citizenship for undocumented youth willing to work for a college degree or serve in our armed forces


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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 do pay child support and we are locking them up in the state pen


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in the case of a catastrophic event the offices of the centers for disease control and prevention will


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when it comes to the state deficit wisconsin is proportionally in as much trouble as the state of california


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when president franklin roosevelt started social security it only affected widows and orphans and when medicare began it was a small program


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the had the opportunity with israel coming and talking to us about improving our security screening procedures and we turned them down


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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


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there are polls showing right now that the american people for the most part think it a bad idea to provide tax cuts to the wealthy


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it s illegal for a state to say we re simply going to cut off union contract negotiations there s a legal requirement that you are involved in good faith bargaining


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understand this is unemployment insurance it s not welfare as a lot of my republican colleagues like to suggest it is you pay into it when you re working you get help when you re not


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in florida illegal immigration costs taxpayers nearly billion a year this amounts to for every household in florida


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the senior senator from arizona john mccain said he could support repealing ask do tell because of the economy


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the pentagon survey about the do ask do tell policy found that percent of service members agree that they could serve in a unit in combat without compromising mission readiness


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we are giving almost billion of taxpayer money to the junk food and fast food industries every year to make the childhood obesity epidemic worse


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in jim doyle and the democrats rushed through a budget repair bill with billions in tax increases and held no public hearings


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says more than billion in state revenue that is supposed to be dedicated to basic needs and functions is being diverted to make the books look balanced


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last year beaverton school district had the highest number of homeless students ever recorded in oregon


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there s talk in congress now about basically confiscating your private k or ira plan and rolling it into social security to strengthen social security


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says the cbo estimates that fully extending the bush tax cuts would add million jobs in and million jobs in


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says he got twice as much money from the sale of county grounds land than milwaukee county executive scott walker was willing to accept


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this town wilmington ohio hasn t taken any money from the government they don t want any money from the government


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hillsborough public transportation commission has a rule that says cabbies have to wear socks i mean please come on


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pls refer to tax changes appropriately they obama tax hikes they slam every american savings investments job opportunity


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a ban on earmarks greatly weakens the authority congress has over spending to the benefit of the executive branch


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the republican plan for tax cuts is to give each millionaire the top percent of income in this country a year in tax cuts


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said the washington post argued that a failure to pass the start treaty this year would be no calamity and that the associated press said the administration concedes the security risk is not immediate


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more people hunt and fish in texas in a given year than attend the games of the dallas cowboys the dallas mavericks the houston texans and the houston rockets combined


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says the house rules committee is the only panel other than the intelligence and ethics committees not able to telecast proceedings in its main hearing room


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seven more people will die each and every day until the legislature ratifies these pain clinic rules that are being approved by the board of medicine and the department of health


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demand for transportation choice is on the rise with percent more ohioans riding passenger trains over the past year


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regulations are an endemic weakness in government so old that thomas jefferson listed this problem among his charges against the king of england in the declaration of independence


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over the course of one term it costs taxpayers more than million simply to operate the governor s mansion


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says you can buy four light bulbs for at walmart while a single compact fluorescent lamp cfl costs a pop


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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


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the house rule barring members from wearing hats while in session dates back to the and can be waived by the speaker


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the florida supreme court has no express authority in the florida constitution to remove questions from the ballot proposed by the legislature


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the radiation coming from the new tsa body scanners is equivalent to about three minutes worth of air travel by anybody say at feet


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it s gotten to a point where the average federal worker makes twice as much as the average private sector worker


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in his first meeting with university of wisconsin system officials republican governor elect scott walker told them to prepare for cuts


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small businesses that have in gross sales for the business they the ones that are looking at massive tax increases


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congressman ryan has secured a grand total of to date for the mahoning valley and has an additional pending in spending bills


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nobody has played clips over and over of president obama saying they bring a knife to the fight we bring a gun


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the bill before congress prevents you from selling your home without the permission of the epa administrator


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a recent report from the president deficit commission was completely empty on controlling health care costs


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this is the first time a party has picked up multiple seats during a regular election since the mid making this the largest majority of any party in more than years


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sewer backups into basements caused the vast majority of the damage to homes and buildings in milwaukee s july floods but federal flood insurance doesn t cover them


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we haven t had control of the house for the last two years and it s been malfunctioning we had sessions scheduled and held


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federal spending is the highest it been as a share of our economy in years and revenue is the lowest it been as a share of our economy in years


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we now consume at the federal level percent of the gross domestic product historically we were at percent so we taken percent away from the private sector


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john kasich says he won despite visits by a president somewhere between million and million spent against him paid volunteers in here calling me every name in the book former presidents first ladies and


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says scott walker s choice as transition team leader killed the release of a damaging report on walker s record in the days leading up to the election


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experts say the property tax is the most harmful to economic growth and the sales tax is least harmful


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my debt to gdp was the lowest or one of the lowest of modern presidents my taxes to gdp was the lowest and my spending to gdp was too


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the republican who was just elected governor of the great state of florida paid his campaign staffers not with money but with american express gift cards


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it is a commitment voters take very seriously the only incumbent in ohio to break his pledge and vote for ted strickland income tax hike was defeated soundly on tuesday


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republican plan to extend bush tax cuts would double deficit projections going forward for the next couple of decades


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as mayor barrett led efforts to redevelop the menomonee valley which now supports nearly jobs in wisconsin


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says he arrested more criminals including thousands of child predators and sex offenders than any previous texas attorney general


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electric utility firstenergy annual revenues are greater than the gdp of haiti kyrgyzstan iceland or african nations


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one of the interesting things about the recovery act was most of the projects came in under budget faster than expected because there just not a lot of work there


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in milwaukee public schools will provide cents in employee benefits for every dollar it spends on wages


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it s hard to get people in portland to vote yes on ballot measures especially when there s opposition


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anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the irs knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues


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the interest on the debt now is going to approach in the next couple of years what we spend in the national defense budget


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about in public school teachers in wisconsin would have been laid off without federal stimulus funds


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the budget submitted by obama will add more to the debt than the outstanding debt of the previous presidents combined


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when obama took office the economy of the united states was actually shrinking for the first time in about years


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says washington state has consistently ranked in the top five in the forbes list of best states to do business ahead of texas


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the president of the united states will be taking a trip over to india that is expected to cost the taxpayers million a day


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congressman nye voted against a bill which would have defunded the billion the irs needed to implement health care legislation


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congresswoman kathy castor voted to spend million to teach prostitutes in china to drink responsibly


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says that under gov rick perry texas department of public safety troopers have had standing orders not to inquire into the immigration status of people unless they under arrest


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


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john kasich was the architect who balanced the budget cut spending created a surplus igniting record job creation


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liberal special interests are spending millions on and to change the way florida draws its congressional and legislative districts


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the republican leader of the senate said his main goal after this election is simply to win the next one


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says four democratic state senators voted to raise taxes on wisconsin workers by another a month so freeloaders can get free health care


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of the states that have a lieutenant governor many are currently discussing the need for such an obsolete office


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dan gelber on the record against scholarships to help our needy children attend jewish private schools


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lizbeth benacquisto supporters would make abortion illegal in all cases including rape incest even to save a woman life


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the recovery act saved jobs among law enforcement officials firefighters in the state of florida plus another educators


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blames mike mcintyre and nancy pelosi for the second straight year of no increases for social security beneficiaries


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we have empowered state insurance commissioners to review the rate hikes that are taking place in states and in some states like north carolina they have already used it and rolled back premium increases by percent


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before we even passed health care millions kids got health insurance that did have it before through the children health insurance program


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stabilizing the recent financial crisis will cost less than percent of gdp which is less than the percent to fix the savings and loan crisis of the


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bill heller raises taxes property taxes small business taxes he even wants to tax the internet heller said no to balancing the federal budget that puts more debt on our kids


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company may close all because government essentially says if they do hire a lifeguard to watch their workers they ca stay open


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morgan griffith fought for a plan that would have taken money away from our schools and given it to northern virginia schools instead


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says republican candidates in key wisconsin assembly races side with those who want to privatize social security and risk our retirements on wall street


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says state senate candidate monk elmer voted to exceed the school district property tax spending caps


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tells david cicilline percent of the carbon emissions which you so want to get rid of are caused by nature


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as ceo of wwe linda mcmahon was caught tipping off a ringside physician about a federal investigation into illegally distributing steroids to wrestlers


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many of the companies bankrolling the ad campaign against amendment are recipients of a congressional bailout in the form of humongous tax refunds earlier this year


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in the past two years democrats have spent more money than this country has spent in the last years combined


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as a state representative david cicilline argued against megan law and voted against mandatory registration of sex offenders


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rick perry is taking money away from hurricane victims and diverting it to remodel the governor mansion


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unfortunately everyone needs to cut back in these tough economic times that why i voted to cut my own pay along with the pay of our state employees


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says scott bruun supports allowing corporations to secretly funnel millions of dollars to front groups to finance attack ads


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roy barnes voted against a bill in the state senate that would have made it easier to convict child abusers


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the lawyer who brought the case against nationsbank said publicly that alex sink had nothing to do with the case had nothing to do with the situation and did know about the problems


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when president then candidate obama was asked to disclose some of his donors because there was suspicion of their being the foreign source of money into his campaign they refused to do it


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in congress tom barrett voted to allow abortions through the ninth month just moments before the baby is born


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says scott walker wants to make abortion illegal even in cases of rape incest or to protect the life of the mother


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more jobs were created in the first eight months of than in the eight years of the bush administration


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says politifact says amendment will force counties and cities across florida to raise taxes and fees


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matt patten kicked off his dirty campaign with thousands in dirty cash from guess who frank russo and jimmy dimora


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charlie crist attacks me for positions he held like six months ago when he was running in the republican primary


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i am very proud as governor of florida that we signed the first divestment act as it relates to iran divesting any investments in companies that would invest in iran


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says marco rubio said that people who essentially do agree with him ought to leave the country like keith olbermann


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there currently are student stations sitting empty across florida in every district and at every grade level


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says gov jim doyle and the dnr have not put hunters first and mismanaged the deer herd as a result the deer population has dwindled


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says leah vukmir supports allowing people to carry concealed weapons into day care centers churches health care clinics and playgrounds


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jerry brown gave california state employees collective bargaining powers and now state employees can retire at with much of their salary for life


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there are members of the senate of them including russ feingold are lawyers there are zero manufacturers and one accountant


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since when he entered politics jon husted has been on the ballot six times for three different political offices


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you worked hard for your money and you paid your taxes when you earned it now indiana republican congressional candidate todd young wants to tax it again when you spend it


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scientists have shown us that the greater possibilities the real science movement has been with adult stem cell research it has not been with embryonic


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says texas voters are being asked to act this november on a proposed constitutional amendment affecting property taxes


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says marco rubio sold a home to a chiropractor who had been lobbying him on automobile insurance legislation and once he sold the home for cash the speaker position on the issue changed


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says republican reid ribble says stimulus bill failed to jumpstart the economy but his roofing company made almost off stimulus funded projects


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under the new health care law the first person a patient has to go to is a bureaucrat that is called a panel


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mark kirk lied about going to war opposed middle class tax cuts and said unemployment s not that big an issue


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said jim marshall sent nearly billion overseas to build wind turbines and create jobs mostly in china


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says kurt schrader cast the deciding vote that failed to extend tax cuts for oregon s families and small businesses


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says christopher little has a history of working against environmental protection by defending the worst types of corporate polluters


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i also offered a plan that can help fix social security that supported by robert reich secretary of labor previously in a previous administration


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under gov lee fisher ohio is in the country in terms of getting money actually into worker retraining


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pam bondi told a group of lobbyists she ll side with corporate special interests as attorney general


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says texas has so few inspectors in the field the hebs of this state the brookshires of this state they calibrating their own gas pumps the texas department of agriculture just sends them the stickers and they calibrate them


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if you want to see the jobs that i saved and created in this storm he helped create go anywhere in ohio


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says gas pumps in different parts of texas are missing state inspection stickers their inspections are out of date and that cheating consumers


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says tom ganley has been sued over times for fraud discrimination and more and a judge called tom ganley business practices deceptive and unconscionable


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says state patrick rose votes percent with liberals backed the state largest tax increase proposed nearly billion in government spending and supported health care system for texas


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loranne ausley a financial train wreck for taxpayers pushing gas taxes property taxes taxes on seniors


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boyce gave a lobbyist s wife a sensitive job in the treasurer s office a job boyce admitted he only made available at their mosque


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says rick perry told students he could attend a gubernatorial forum due to scheduling conflicts then on forum day tweeted that he just been running with his dog


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says david wu has presided over months in which oregon unemployment rate has been above the national average


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one man new castle county executive chris coons thought property taxes should be hiked almost percent


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jeff atwater busy helping his friends and wasting our tax dollars million for a government building so lavish it dubbed the mahal for a golf musuem and million to build a private prison to help a big contributor


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says illinois gubernatorial candidate bill brady first priority after winning the primary was to sponsor a bill that would sheltered dogs and cats in gas chambers


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never once did they house republicans actually cut spending or reduce the state budget even when they cut taxes in they increased spending they never paid for their tax cuts


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taking the fifth amendment in a deposition about the hospital chain he founded means a truthful answer to the questions that rick scott was asked would incriminate him


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says rick scott gave a deposition in which he invoked the fifth amendment times about his dealings as head of hospital chain


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shows in a television ad that police took evidence from solantic rick scott new health care company after allegations emerged that the company was engaging in fraud


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according to independent analysis unfair trade deals have resulted in the loss of over jobs in wisconsin but ron johnson favors those deals


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said state insurance commissioner candidate ralph hudgens fights hard to strip women of coverage such as mammograms


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says republican opponent jason isaac is peddling a plan meaning texans would pay the highest sales taxes in america up to percent


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harry reid voted to use taxpayer dollars to pay for viagra for convicted child molesters and sex offenders


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the years that i was speaker the florida house consistently offered leaner budgets than the governor offered


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barbara boxer voted against immigration reform to permit hispanic immigrants people to come here legally to work


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says campaign contributions to her rival for a state house seat was money intended for schoolchildren


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daniel webster is an advocate for a group that teaches that mothers should not work outside the home


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webster sponsored a bill to create a form of marriage that would trap women in abusive relationships


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newspapers say florida made bad investments lost hundreds of millions of dollars billions in pension funds lost who was in charge of florida investments alex sink


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tom ganley supports a percent national sales tax that would raise taxes on the middle class while giving a huge tax break to millionaires like himself


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says roy blunt secretly inserts language to benefit tobacco giant philip morris into a national security bill while blunt girlfriend and son are lobbyists for the cigarette company and just days earlier philip morris executives wrote checks to blunt totaling


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a majority of wisconsinites opposed the government takeover of health care but russ feingold voted for it anyway


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more lives have been lost because of the war with the drug cartels in juarez alone just a few blocks from the united states of america than have been lost in the war in afghanistan


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said that his batting average with congress is higher than every other president since dwight eisenhower except lyndon johnson


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barbara boxer voted to cut spending on medicare benefits by billion cuts so costly to hospitals and nursing homes that they could stop taking medicare altogether


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the chilean privatization scheme that sharron angle supports has resulted in hidden fees fewer benefits and millions of people with no coverage


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rick scott prison plan would cut florida prison budget in half close prisons and release tens of thousands of prisoners early murderers rapists sex offenders armed robbers drug dealers


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says wisconsin attorney general van hollen knew about the ken kratz sexting case for nearly a year and did nothing about it


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perry pushed for a law that lets insurance companies raise homeowners rates without having to justify the increase


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says kurt schrader voted to cut billion from medicare threatening thousands of oregon seniors and their access to their current coverage


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says scott bruun still believes in the same old direction that george bush had before which is to privatize social security


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the republican candidate john loughlin has talked about privatizing social security so we know where he stands on the issue


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as milwaukee county executive scott walker eliminated the waiting list for care for older adults through the family care program


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rick perry thinks injecting and girls with a controversial drug the hpv vaccine without a parent consent is a good idea


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johnny isakson has never proposed nor voted in favor of a substantial cut in federal spending and has voted for many substantial increases in federal spending


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the republican election platform was actually written with the help of a former lobbyist for aig and a former lobbyist for


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when tallahassee politicians and bureaucrats tried to run our schools i stood up to them to protect local control


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an organized crime syndicate was extorting money from his tom ganley s business threatening his family but he fought back and won the fbi highest civilian award


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twice as much federal money is going back to hawaii virginia and alaska than is coming home to oregon


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paul hodes voted for the stimulus bill million to study ants in africa million for office upgrades for politicians


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when each faced a pension funding crisis tom barrett made tough choices and smart cuts while scott walker passed million in pension debt to the next generation


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says joe sestak voted to gut medicare reducing benefits for seniors and jeopardizing access to care for millions


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the gop pledge to america includes a percent cut for education eight million kids would have their college aid slashed under this budget


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on lee fisher s watch almost nine out of jobs that ohio lost were lost to other states not to other countries


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says zack space voted for budgets and debt energy taxes and the stimulus and we still lost more than million jobs


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politician reid ribble wants to phase out social security forcing wisconsin seniors to fend for themselves


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a defense bill includes language that would require military hospitals to provide abortions on demand


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a million stimulus allocation to wisconsin has led to the creation of tens of thousands of jobs in every corner of this state


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austin politicians want to cram more kids into classrooms so they do have to make the tough decisions to balance the budget


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the downsizing of pinellas county government resulted in about people being laid off in a percent unemployment market i can tell you that every one of them was hired from the time that latvala went into office in


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one of the other inaccuracies is that we have raised taxes multiple times and run up the budget absolutely not true one tax increase since i ve been in office it was a quarter mill tax in the unincorporated area only


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if you look at the application for a security clearance i have a clearance that even the president of the united states can not obtain because of my background


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says john boehner admits are not going to be any different than we ve been by returning to the same failed economic policies that wrecked our economy


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says more than million oregonians have received important medical services because of his health plan


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under gov kitzhaber unemployment rose percent state spending went up percent and personal incomes declined compared to the rest of the country


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says julie parrish wants to add a sales tax to everything we need to buy including food clothing medicine and school supplies


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more people were killed in the united states last year by tainted food than troops killed in iraq and afghanistan since the wars began


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the total number of dollars that passes through the department of development is like million and like million of it has nothing to do with development which is breathtaking when you think about it


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the bush administration had been giving auto companies billions of dollars and just asking nothing in return


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our tax rates are lower now than they were under ronald reagan they much lower than they were under dwight eisenhower


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under tom barrett s leadership violent crime in milwaukee has decreased by over to its lowest levels in more than years


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i have given of my unused travel expenses over the years to supplement the school system general budget


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speaker pelosi has been busy sticking the taxpayer with her bar tab for alcohol on the military jets that she flying


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julie lassa willingly took a hefty pay raise at a time when people throughout her district and the state were losing their jobs


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ganley said that if elected he wants to cut the dickens out of social security medicare and veterans benefits


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says the austin chapter of the league of women voters has no republicans among elected officers or on its debate committee


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after hurricane katrina dallas and san antonio took in to refugees each but bill white brought in and put them up in his empty apartment buildings and let the federal government pay their rents for over two years they did not return to new orleans most of them are on welfare


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rhode island gives undocumented pregnant women health insurance plus a cash card with a month on it and a month or a month to spend on food


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do you know that we have pipes carrying natural gas in this country that are made of wood i not joking


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harry reid has voted to give illegals social security benefits even for the time they were here illegally


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she created the waste fraud and mismanagement hotline that has saved wisconsin taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars


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allen west called social security a ponzi scheme and said this country got to get on sound footing by destroying it


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says opponent bill flores helped run a company that laid off over workers and paid off executives with millions


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over years extending tax cuts for the wealthy would add less to the deficit than obama added with the stimulus in one year


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florida ranks last in the ratio of employees to residents and florida is dead last in the nation in state employee payroll expenditures per resident


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dewine took million from big banks supported legislation that helped bernie madoff make millions and protected predatory lenders while families lost their homes


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says texas pete sessions said the gop goal is to go back to the same exact policies that were in place before this president took office policies that crashed the economy


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clayton county has employed people over the past seven months through the neighborhood stabilization program


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john boehner has called for repealing the rest of the stimulus which would raise taxes on million middle class people


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john boehner wants to reopen a tax loophole that actually rewarded corporations for shipping jobs and profits overseas


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i don t understand what republicans are doing against this it was their idea john mccain introduced cap and trade legislation three times


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federal stimulus money went to a georgia tech project that will apparently involve the professor jamming with musicians to also create satisfying works of art


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jeff weems legal record is one of defending bp enron and just about every big oil company against the working man


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scott walker supported the same transportation bill he s attacking me for he said at the time it would save the taxpayers money


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due to the war in iraq americans are dead severely wounded and more than are suffering from serious health problems related to post traumatic stress syndrome


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there have been more terrorist attacks on soil by muslims in obama first months in office than in the six years under bush after he invaded iraq


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it factually correct to say that jennifer brunner inherited at least lawsuits when she came into the office that were a result of ken blackwell s mismanagement of the election


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i can put people to work electricians plumbers sheet metal workers by retrofitting all of the state buildings for energy independence or efficiency


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when the mayor of providence brother wrote over grand in bad checks to the city joe fernandez did have the guts to prosecute him he let him off the hook


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when these same republicans including boehner were in charge the number of earmarks and pet projects went up not down


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for every dollar a county gets in taxes from new development it costs us to percent more to provide services


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on rob portman watch as bush trade czar our deficit with china exploded and as bush budget chief portman oversaw a spending spree that doubled the deficit


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our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert either buried or just lying out there that have been beheaded


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john boehner said the jobs of teachers and nurses and police officers and firefighters are jobs that were worth saving


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by releasing only basic tax information former congressman nathan deal is hiding more than he disclosed about his business dealing with the state


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the president party always gets shellacked in midterms it only twice and that the president party actually gained in both the house and the senate


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likens obama predicament to saying when reagan just started out unemployment was at exactly the same point he was two years into his term the unemployment was well over percent and it did come out of it


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georgia senators voted for legislation that would gut clean air protections and increase oil dependence


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says the federal agency in charge of medicare and medicaid will disburse billion in benefits this year making it larger than all but of the world economies


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i asked of state condoleezza rice how many people had died and she did not know the answer to that question


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both the state and federal governments make more per gallon in gas taxes than the oil companies make themselves for doing all the work


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when pepper s tax was finally voted down pepper laid off cops and closed jails and let criminals run free in the streets


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to percent of my campaign funds go to donations to various organizations throughout the city of providence


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


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the great lakes compact has a loophole and the loophole is that while you can not remove the water in a big transport you can remove it in containers of gallons or less


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congress and president obama have accumulated more debt since he took office than the total amount of debt accumulated during the first years of the united states existence


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mcdonald in england only sells organic milk and eggs which provides more nutritious offerings than in the


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when career politician daniel webster became speaker of the house he wasted of our money on a spiral staircase for his office


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under the new health care law if a landscaper wants to buy a new lawnmower or a restaurant needs a new they have to report that to the feds


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we spend more money on health care per capita in the united states than any other country in the world of the developed countries in the world we spend times more than the average of the country that spends the second most per capita switzerland we spend percent more


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michael thurmond authored major legislation that has provided more than million in tax relief to georgia s senior citizens and working families


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the irs filed an lien against allen west for back taxes three liens were placed on his home for unpaid bills and a judge ordered west to pay over for past due credit card bills


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the obama health and human services department is planning to compile a federal health record on all citizens by including each individual s body mass index


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the dewine campaign is receiving money from so many more people cordray money is coming almost exclusively from the party labor unions and special counsel that he has given business to


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the sales tax increase if approved will cost taxpayers up to million per year in perpetuity to finance a rail system for the city of tampa


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rob portman is the one who actually sucked the jobs out of the mahoning valley and sent them to china


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kendrick meek claims he the only candidate who said sonia sotomayor will make an excellent supreme court justice


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since february the private sector has lost millions of jobs while the federal government has grown by hundreds of thousands of workers


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joe sestak even wants to bring back the death tax letting the irs take half of your savings when you die


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taxpayer money will provide ipod touch devices to high school students in utah blackberry smart phones to smokers who kick the habit and funding for a study of exotic ants in east africa


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roy barnes is part of the team that has run up trillions of dollars in debt that americans will spend years paying off and they done it without creating one job


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over percent of the babies that are born at lbj hospital right here in houston are born of women who are not here legally


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over percent of our trade deficit today is with countries that are not trade agreement partners that are not level playing fields for the united states


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warren buffett called credit default swaps financial weapons of mass destruction and greene was the first individual to use them


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some republican leaders in congress are pushing to make privatizing social security a key part of their legislative agenda if they win a majority in congress this fall


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we have over illegal immigrants in the state they costing us billions of dollars and they taking legal residents jobs


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since the president became the president we have lost million jobs in the private sector but you know who done ok and who not complaining today the public sector we gained public sector jobs


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it is wrong for the average federal worker today to make more than while the average worker makes less than


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the united states is number number in college graduation rates and we leading the world in high school dropout rates


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in more than of the elderly population lived in poverty today that poverty rate stands officially at


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unemployment for those with college educations is now percent unemployment for those with more than a college education below percent


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the unemployment rate for folks who never gone to college is almost double what it is for those who have


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this year newt gingrich has raised as much money as mitt romney tim pawlenty sarah palin and mike huckabee combined


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kathryn starkey aided and abetted the continued taxation on residents properties over percent of the time by seconding motions and voting to keep the millage rate the same


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


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the united states accounted for percent of worldwide military spending during the cold war but now accounts for percent


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we are amassing most of our military strength in a country where fewer than members of al qaeda remain


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cap and trade legislation that zack space supported would cost the average household approximately per year in increased energy rates


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says 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


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we know that tax cuts are remarkably when you compare them with different kinds of government spending


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the border security plan of sens mccain and kyl called for additional troops to keep us safe president obama says he send


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exporters are using a federal loophole to deceptively sell products made from cat and dog fur to consumers


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despite the spending billion on iraq electrical system baghdad still only gets five hours of electricity a day


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if we ban the practice of earmarks we could save the american taxpayer anywhere between billion to billion dollars a year in spending


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last year we borrowed trillion or cents of every dollar we spent over half of this debt is held by foreign investors


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u nlike every other major transit system in the nation marta has never received any significant dedicated funding from the state of georgia


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says the united states is the only nation that affords citizenship to anyone born here whether you are here legally or illegally


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there are currently delays of up to six months in the processing of dna evidence at the state run crime lab


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allowing all bush income tax cuts to expire on will amount to the largest tax increase in the history of america


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over the time that president obama has been in office we have lost million free enterprise system jobs and yet federal government jobs have been added


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repealing the sales tax on boats in rhode island has spawned companies jobs and close to billion a year in sales activity


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canada sets aside percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs we set aside percent


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harry reid says he does more for nevada he done more for unemployment we were at percent now we at percent he done more for the foreclosure rate we have the highest foreclosure rate in the nation he done more for bankruptcy we have the highest bankruptcy rate in the nation


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because of violence spreading from mexico you ve got bullets hitting the city hall in el paso you ve got bombs exploding in el paso


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the congressional budget office estimates that for every we spend on unemployment benefits is put into our economy


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in the small business entrepreneurship council ranked ohio in the nation and in the midwest for overall business climate


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eight of the nine justices in the supreme court decision on campaign finance said that not only is it constitutional for congress to require disclosure of the special interest money but they recommend we do it


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kendrick meek was named one of the two most corrupt democrats in congress by citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington


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this is the first time since the depression that unemployment has stayed above percent for two consecutive years


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the bush administration pulled the troops out of afghanistan pulled the resources away because they wanted to invade iraq instead


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in cobb county every meeting opened with a prayer the aclu objected sued sam olens took on the aclu and won


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bill mccollum also voted for numerous amendments to weaken the legislation even voting to make trains less accessible to those in wheelchairs


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during the recession the consumer in his native perversity has begun to save the savings rate is now percent


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as president george bush s trade representative portman failed to address china s currency manipulation which was inflated to as much as percent in


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says president barack obama initially said the national mandate is a tax but his administration now says it is a tax


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we have my opponent sam olens to thank for the arizona immigration ruling since he was on the team that got clinton elected


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there nothing in the voting instructions that we been getting in the last several elections that lets you know about the limitations of the master lever


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when atlanta police chief george turner was interim head of the department overall crime fell percent and violent crime dropped percent


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cicilline continues to accept hundreds of thousands of dollars in lobbyist corporate pac and insider money to fund his campaign


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only a few months ago the fbi arrested three broward county commissioners for accepting millions of dollars in trade for illegal favors


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justice antonin scalia agreed for the supreme court to hear a case about whether barack obama is eligible to be president


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tim pawlenty has cut education funding in minnesota classrooms are overcrowded districts have gone to school weeks


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i do think the argument can be credibly made that the united states of america is undertaxed compared to our competitors


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the president budget would take spending to its lowest level as a percentage of the economy since jfk


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over the last years incomes for the top percent have grown meanwhile the bottom half of the country they seen their wages stagnate


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kendrick meek was in florida in taking tobacco cash and then opposed a tax on cigars that would have helped pay for children health care


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the latino unemployment rate is higher than the white rate and the black rate is higher than the latino rate


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says bill white program to bring dropouts back to school was so successful that almost every city in our state has replicated it


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in new mexico democratic gubernatorial candidate diane denish spent federal stimulus funds on campaign christmas cards


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says his office has already recovered over billion from wall street for the workers retirees and investors who were harmed


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sometime in the next decade there will be more latinos in the state of texas than there are anglos that will happen sometime in the next five to eight to ten years


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karen handel would have felt like it was ok to go in and abort sarah palin son trig who has down syndrome


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we caught the texas commission on environmental quality lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the barnett shale


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attorney general eric holder is involved in the dismissal of the criminal charges against the new black panther party for voter intimidation


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i think it is unacceptable for the chinese today to be larger in wind power and in solar panels and photovoltaic manufacturing than all of europe put together forget the united states


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the department of health and human services is providing million to the state of pennsylvania to set up a new insurance pool program that would cover any abortion legal in the state


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the lieutenant governor has the power to be an economic ambassador and negotiate on economic development


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we have more kids take the sat than any other state in the nation i mean a high percentage of our kids take the sat


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house republicans who complained they did have enough time to consider a constitutional ban against oil drilling shoved through a proposal in just a few days to open state waters to oil drilling


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opponent holly benson said that just because you poor does mean you unhealthy it just means you have a lot more time to go running


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rick scott company is partners with playboy in a social networking website that has community pages specifically geared towards gay dating


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russ feingold voted against the law that protected our lakes and was the only great lakes senator to vote no


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rick perry accepted more stimulus funds than any other governor except the governors of california and new york


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there have been published polls in this election cycle and harry reid been trailing in every single one


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bill mccollum diverted a state plane to his home times a state auditor called it likely a misuse of state resources


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as a congressman hayworth was an avid earmarker who supported such pork as to renovate a maine blueberry farm and million for a vermont snowmobile trail


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the obama administration will give pennsylvania million to pay for health insurance plans that cover any legal abortion


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forty cents of every dollar being spent by the federal government is being borrowed from my children


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we had percent of the global market for advanced batteries when he obama started we now have percent headed to percent by


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dan gelber employment by bp law firm could disqualify him from representing florida against bp as attorney general


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since february our economy has lost roughly million private sector jobs while the federal government has grown by more than jobs


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we went from losing million jobs in the last six months of the bush administration adding almost private sector jobs in the first six months of the year


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under president george bush the had months of uninterrupted job creation and revenues were at an high in


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republicans extended unemployment insurance under president bush when he asked to extend unemployment insurance


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says that president obama said if congress passed the economic stimulus bill we would have unemployment at percent and no higher and it went higher


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attorney general mccollum cannon senate haridopolos and i stood up to governor crist and worked to remove jim greer as chairman because of his mismanagement of the party


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to say a family has to buy a product from a private company is clearly beyond the delegated powers of the constitution


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forty percent of the undocumented workers in this country entered the legally and overstayed their visa


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john oxendine is under a state ethics investigation because he illegally funneled more than to his campaign from shady insurance political action committees in alabama


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the state legislature attempted to outlaw stem cell research passes bills about microchips in the brain and talks about seceding from the union


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subsidies for oil and gas companies make up percent of all federal subsidies just cutting the oil and gas subsidies out would save the government billion every year


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says ken legler voted against installing fire sprinklers and emergency power generators in nursing homes


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at his father bank alexi made tens of millions in risky loans to convicted mobsters then the bank collapsed


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he kirk did violate pentagon rules twice actually for improperly mingling politics with his military service


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as a senator barack obama supported an amendment that basically gutted the legal temporary worker program


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as washington debates cracking down on the big wall street banks i ve passed legislation that does so


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in rick perry texas the governor threatens to leave to secede from the greatest country in the world


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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


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president barack obama has deported more people in his first year in office than george bush in his last year in office


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said he is the only democratic candidate for state attorney general who has represented the entire state of georgia


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says state jim keffer a gop lieutenant to house speaker joe straus did mail pieces for democrat mark strama to help him defeat a republican


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texas state 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


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john mccain began his career in washington as a lobbyist when he was appointed in as the navy liaison to the united states senate


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says republican lieutenants to house speaker joe straus aired radio ads supporting democrat ic state mark homer helping the democrat to a narrow win


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powerful houston democrats sylvia garcia democrat county commissioner in harris county and elyse lanie r wife of the former liberal democrat mayor bob lanier sponsored a democrat fundraiser for speaker joe straus with numerous democrat officials and union officials


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says his gop challenger doug macginnitie hadn t voted in a republican primary for almost years until


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west has raised million from those that would leave our beaches in ruins end social security and medicare and give corporations free reign


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he stood up to barack obama by passing legislation that prevents you from being forced to join government health plans or buy health insurance against your will


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in florida alone more than billion a year is spent on health care and criminal justice for illegal immigrants


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during the year kagan barred military recruiters from harvard law school office of career services military recruiting actually went up


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if rhode island applied a sales tax on all items exempt from sales tax the state would receive an additional


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says houston s congressional district has been gentrified and is home to more anglos than african americans


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in her first appellate argument kagan told the court that the speech and press guarantees in the first amendment would allow the federal government to ban the publication of pamphlets discussing political issues before an election


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we have that program where immigrants come here and they have to bring a million dollars in order to get a green card if they re going to create jobs


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the first time he ever voted as a democrat was here in florida in he only voted four times in his life and he asking floridians to come out and vote for him


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it was president obama inaction that caused over three weeks to go by before he even approved the governor plan to protect our marsh


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the aba own criteria for a judicial nominee call for among other things at least years experience in the practice of law and they mean actual practice of law


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canada does spills into their water to practice in the event that this would happen that is not allowed in the united states


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my opponent here has accepted money from freddie mac fannie mae and hosted subprime mortgage seminars


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when george bush took office president clinton a democrat and the democratic congress at the time had left an annual budget that was in surplus


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every day oil continues to pour into the gulf of mexico even with disaster on our coast richard burr voted to let big oil off the hook


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if every small business in our state on average was able to create one new job we would cut our unemployment rate in half


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jim langevin did want a border fence to block illegal immigration because he is afraid that someone will get hurt trying to go around the fence


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in the last years there have been elections for state senator and state representative only three incumbents have been defeated


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the spends billion on research and development for energy while spending billion on oil from foreign countries many of whom are our enemies


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with his decision on whether to fire stanley mcchrystal president obama has to fix yet another problem he inherited from the bush administration


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health reform eliminates deductibles and other costs for preventative care and provides for free annual wellness checkups starting next year


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jeff greene is the king of the undercover credit default swap that brought about the destruction of our economy that we have right now


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we only have percent of the oil reserves in the world and we consume percent of the world oil on a daily basis


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for six years i served our community as a conservative state legislator in every one of those years i helped balance the state budget


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in the case of general motors the bush administration wrote a check without asking for any conditions of change


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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


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we have a director of homeland security who can not use and will not use the term attack but instead substitutes disaster


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the republican party lost million registered voters since the democratic party lost million registered while voter registration in the libertarian party rose percent


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the addition of a percent sales tax would cost a typical household in hillsborough county approximately a month


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on the pace that we on with job creation in the last four months we will have created more jobs in this year than in the entire bush presidency


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oil companies showered regulators at the minerals management service with gifts and favors and were essentially allowed to conduct their own safety inspections and write their own regulations


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percent of the bills that pass the senate have no debate no vote no amendments no reading of the bill no online disclosure


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if you read the arizona immigration law what it says is if you are stopped for violating the law and they have a suspicion that you illegal they can ask you if you legal


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right now every single one of the oil companies here today and dozens of others are drilling for free in the gulf of mexico on leases that will cost american taxpayers more than billion in lost royalties


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while exxon mobil has pages on its media response strategy its plan for resource protection is only five pages long and its plan for oil removal is just nine pages long


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alex sink was the first official who said that bp should pay million for an ad campaign to promote florida tourism


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since the texas clean air program achieved a percent reduction in ozone and a percent decrease in nox emissions


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of hospitals in rick scott s health care company a top executive said they even turned away a poor man and left him to die outside their door


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after hayworth was voted out of congress he became a registered lobbyist who was paid thousands by a florida corporation to lobby the very committee he used to serve on


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the obama administration has been constrained by the oil pollution act of which basically gives the responsible party the lead role in trying to not only fix the problem but contain the problem


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a major part of the climate change bill sponsored by sens john kerry and joe lieberman was essentially written by bp


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the final pitch of don larsen perfect game in the world series was a foot and half probably high and outside


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starting in you will be required to pay taxes on the value of whatever health insurance you are given by the company


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presidents hoover truman and eisenhower collectively ordered the deportation of at least million illegal aliens


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says an estimate that texas will face an billion budget gap is a number that somebody just reached up in the air and grabbed


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once the government signs a treaty on conventional arms all citizens will be subject to those gun laws created by foreign governments


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every major study that has been done by a legitimate group shows that there are hundreds of thousands of jobs to be created if you pass our legislation and if you wind up pricing carbon


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my opponent in november of sent a missive to the white house to president and said how you need to sell to the american people


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rick perry attempted to unnecessary power plants which degrade air quality and would cost billions fortunately a court stopped him


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under the new health care law the elderly will be denied care when they have passed the age limit for treatment


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if voters agree in november to approve a sales tax increase that will give hillsborough county the highest sales tax of all florida counties


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says epa regulation of greenhouse gases will endanger texas dairy facilities swine operations corn farms and beef cattle operations


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barbara boxer worried about the weather instead of terrorism as the biggest threat to national security


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this year we have added an average of jobs per month a majority in the private sector a stark contrast to the bush administration record of losing an average of nearly jobs per month in its last three months


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charlie crist bizarrely vetoed million for a teaching hospital at the university of florida despite having previously argued the budget request had merit


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a houston school district analysis found that the state board of education more than quadrupled the number of historical figures students must learn about


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after the oil spill congressman adam putnam doubled down saying all energy sources including oil drilling in the gulf should be considered just days after the oil spill started


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the democratic congress has already taken significant steps to create jobs and the economy resulting in the lowest tax rates in over years and the creation of over new jobs so far this year


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obamacare will use your tax dollars to provide free viagra to convicted rapists and registered sex offenders


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the interior department has only days to review an exploration plan submitted by an oil company that leaves no time for the appropriate environmental review the result is they are continually waived


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the federal government only ordered bp to pay to do one of those six segments of sand barriers for louisiana


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the president has added close to troops in the last year since he came into office not just the you hear but the others that were added before that


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mexican government officials hand out brochures showing individuals how they can avoid our border patrol how they can get into our country


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says his opponent dorman grace brags on his facebook page about receiving illegal campaign contributions


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last year bill mccollum spent more than million dollars to produce and air tv ads where you were featured in almost every frame


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the republican party fought very hard in the to get the civil rights bill passed as well as the voting rights bill


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says that in three legislative sessions his proposals opening to all texas never got heard or voted out of committee


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halliburton gave dick cheney a million payout when he left the company to join the presidential ticket


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jeff greene only moved from california to florida in the last two years in fact he would not legally be allowed to run for any other statewide office because he has not lived here long enough to meet the residency requirement


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the primary election results show democrats are strong in kentucky because the democratic candidates both got more votes than rand paul did


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in the history department at the university of texas out of registered voters only one is a republican


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in three days last week gov rick perry flew to five cities at taxpayers expense holding press conferences delivering in checks


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the fact that rick scott is running for governor as a would be funny if it was so outrageous this is a man who barely escaped imprisonment


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in afghanistan the military leadership has proposed a new medal an award for restraint for firing back


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sue lowden gave harry reid campaigns a thousand dollars in five different elections helping his senate dreams come true


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rick scott was forced to resign as the head of a company that pled guilty to massive amounts of systematic fraud including felonies leading to a historic billion fine


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california republican gubernatorial hopeful meg whitman contributed to and campaigned for democratic barbara boxer


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says lamar smith supported the billion wall street bailout in but now he is standing in the way of reforms that would assure these bailouts would never happen again


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elena kagan has published five scholarly review articles mostly on administrative law and the first amendment these articles were mostly on technical and procedural issues


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says state expected increase in federal political clout is almost entirely due to the growth of the african american and hispanic populations in texas in virtually every region of the state


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elena kagan violated the law of the united states at various points with her opposition to military recruiters


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bill white used connections from his job in the clinton administration to form a company that did business in the middle east and defaulted on a million loan


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says that when he first ran for office in the late there were still folks who did have phone service soon i helped ensure that everyone in north florida could access a dial tone


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in the last years we only had barrels of oil spilled in the gulf not counting hurricanes this well is spewing that amount every day and a half


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on sandra day i think one reason she was a good judge is she had no judicial experience before she joined the supreme court


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the president can authorize the killing of a citizen who fights for a foreign terrorist organization


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mccollum admitted he did think that the subprime mortgage crisis was a big deal telling reporters he thought that the subprime collapse had been exaggerated by the media and investors and that not the end of the world


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says the epa outsourced the scientific basis for its greenhouse gas regulation to a international organization that can not be considered objective or trustworthy


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on military recruiters at harvard elena kagan took a position and the supreme court ruled unanimously that she was wrong


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says federal law enforcement officers cut off questioning of the christmas day underwear bomber by giving him a miranda warning after minutes of questioning


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says gov rick perry failed to involve border sheriffs in developing plans to prevent violence in their communities


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the percent of students who enter high school and eventually earn a diploma or equivalent or who remain in pursuit of a diploma or equivalent is percent


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we can prevent terror suspects from boarding an airplane but the fbi does have the power to block them from buying dynamite or an


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royalties for oil and other energy sources are the revenue source to the federal government after the irs


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if you will go look up the definition of of god we used it in legal terms for a long time in this state


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up until two weeks ago john mccain was a leading proponent of amnesty now with me challenging him suddenly he has changed


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this administration and this congress have been systematically cutting funding to border security since the democrats took control


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says in texas cut billion out of the entire budget yet we put billion more into public education we put million more into health and human services


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incoming house speaker dean cannon and incoming senate president mike haridopolos have said they plan to champion efforts next legislative session to allow oil rigs off florida coast


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under the arizona immigration law police are required to check immigration status if someone lawn is overgrown or if a dog is barking too loudly


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late changes to the arizona immigration law lay to rest questions over the possibility of racial profiling


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numbers on illegal immigrants are down in terms of apprehensions which indicates fewer illegal crossings but also up in terms of actual enforcement actions


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we re making more than ever off oil and gas right now but it s no secret that oil production in texas peaked in the


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a letter from bp to the minerals management service actually recommends improvements and specific recommendations around safety regulations should they choose to change them


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


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klein did not hold a single town hall meeting on health care where the general public was invited to ask questions or present their views


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says texas general land office has earned the school children of texas on wind leases that have produced a watt of energy


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members of congress have not reduced their salaries since the great depression meaning they gone eight decades without a pay cut


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says a bureau of labor statistics report attributed a sharp increase in fatalities to increasing numbers of employees and drivers could not read or understand warning signs in english


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the more than raised by the alan grayson campaign last quarter was among all members of the house of representatives


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we got a national guard troop request that been in front of this president for over a year and no response


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the new arizona immigration law says that any police officer can stop anyone who appears to them to be reasonably suspicious of being an undocumented person


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under the new arizona immigration law police ca stop someone to check their immigration status unless they think they see something illegal


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gov lawton chiles said if i were to become become speaker of the house it would be his worst nightmare


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fifteen years ago the assets of the six largest banks in this country totaled percent of gdp the assets of the six largest banks in the united states today total percent of gdp


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we researched to find out if anybody on fox news had ever said you going to jail if you do buy health insurance nobody ever said it


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the banking committee voted a bill out of committee in minutes with no amendments with the understanding that before the bill came to the floor we would reach this bipartisan agreement


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by the end of governor rick perry term he will have drained texas taxpayers of more than to pay for the rental mansion he has been living in while the historic governor mansion is repaired


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obama did not open new lands to offshore drilling all of these areas were already open for drilling once congress and president bush lifted the moratorium in instead president obama yesterday announced what areas he would close to offshore drilling


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no member of the american public has ever been killed by commercial nuclear power a record unmatched by other fuels


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if the program is terminated russia and china will be the only nations with the capability to launch humans into space


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in percent of households were getting about percent of their income from the federal government another percent were receiving almost percent


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dubai is the only country with huge amounts of imported workers that actually passed legislation to give these immigrant workers a better deal in the middle east


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the passage of the teacher tenure bill in the legislature was like the health care bill in congress because one party jammed it through


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the bill reported out of committee sets up a billion slush fund that while intended for resolving failing firms is available for virtually any purpose that the treasury secretary sees fit


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when you look at the nearly men and women who have served us on the texas supreme court more than half of them had zero prior judicial experience


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americans now spend days out of the year working for government before we even start working for ourselves


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crist sent his top policy staffer to the house committee to testify in support of the proposal then vetoed the bill


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when the united states first created the federal income tax frankly nobody below a million dollars a year paid anything


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florida statutes require attorney general bill mccollum to consult with members of florida congressional delegation before filing a lawsuit against the health care reform law


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every citizen is entitled to the freedom of speech but no one should have the right to use government funds or institutions to portray acts that are morally reprehensible to the vast majority of americans


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giving money to politicians has paid off for paul workman workman gave thousands to politicians and got millions in government construction projects


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early census returns are showing that conservatives have been measurably less likely than liberals to return their census forms


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the most private question on this year s form asks for an individual s race and that question has been asked by every census since the census conducted under george washington


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the path to obamacare becoming law all started with charlie crist supporting president obama billion stimulus


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on financial reform there is a million dollars being spent per congressman in lobbying expenses on this issue the industry has four lobbyists per member of the house and senate working on this


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an audit of the last census found that over people living in texas were not counted and our state lost an estimated billion in federal funds as a result


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the number of uninsured people in massachusetts is about the same as it was when the mandates were passed in


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more people are driving under the influence of drugs than are driving under the influence of alcohol a recent roadside survey showed that percent of the people tested tested positive for illicit or licit drugs that significantly higher than alcohol


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with this reform every insured american gets valuable consumer protections and every uninsured american can become insured


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the florida house is holding the final public hearing of a controversial education bill in the middle of spring break when they hope teachers are not watching or listening


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both democrats and republicans are advocating for the use of student test scores to measure teacher effectiveness


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a lot of the ideas in terms of the health insurance exchange just being able to pool and improve the purchasing power of individuals in the insurance market that originated from the heritage foundation


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cuba wants to let the chinese drill in some of the very parts of the gulf that american producers are currently forbidden to touch as close as miles off the florida coast


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this week liberal bill white faced an ethics complaint about more than he failed to report to the state ethics commission


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on the day that the republican state leader resigned in disgrace a truck rolled up to republican headquarters


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the average student will be spending to more during the life of their loan because of this surcharge


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an attack on a healthy homosexual man would be more protected under the law than an attack on an child


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the new england journal of medicine released a survey the week that president obama signed obamacare stating that over percent of american physicians would leave the profession if the government took over health care


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marco rubio controlled funds that out of the that were raised only went to candidates to try to improve their chances to be elected to office


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according to the nonpartisan congressional budget office the irs would need to hire over people to audit the american people and impose the new taxes and mandates of the health care bill


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the average cost for health insurance in florida went from about a month for an individual to about a month


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since that famous day in february where the governor campaigned with barack obama on behalf of the stimulus program floridians have lost their jobs


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just this week we received the news that for the first time social security is now paying out more in benefits than it taking in that was something that was supposed to happen in


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the american people will be appalled to learn the health care bill exempts congressional leadership and committee staff


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joe i keep hearing you every morning talking about the biggest tax increase in history but you do mention it also the biggest tax cut in history


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last week the texas state board of education sboe led by rick perry appointee voted to remove thomas jefferson from social studies textbook standards that right thomas jefferson was deleted from a list of historical figures who inspired political change


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hospitals doctors mris surgeries and so forth are more extensively used and far more expensive in this country than they are in many other countries


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the democratic health care bill will collect higher taxes for years and provide health care for only six years


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americans who get their insurance through the workplace cost savings could be as much as less per employee than if we do nothing


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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


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kay bailey hutchison was elected state treasurer succeeding ann richards democrats then abolished the position hutchison later became a senator


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a national poll found that among people who oppose the democratic health care reform bill almost percent opposed it not because it goes too far but because they don t think it goes far enough they will not be unhappy when we pass health care reform


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the congressional budget office analysis of the health insurance reform legislation says the bill cuts the deficit by trillion in the second years


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the massachusetts supreme court defined marriage as simply quote the establishment of intimacy i guess that would mean if you really had affection for your horse i guess you could marry your horse


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as florida cfo i shut down krakow scam and refunded more than million to josephine and other victims of this con man


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there is no precedent for what the democrats are doing with this deception we have never written a reconciliation bill to amend a law that does not exist


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because of a local version of amendment the taxpayers of pete beach have had to pay hundreds of thousands in legal bills


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under the ruling of the supreme court any lobbyist could go into any legislator and say if you do vote our way on this bill we going to run a campaign against you in your district


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pete beach local version of amendment resulted in seemingly endless lawsuits that decimated the city legal budget and forced the city to raise the property tax rate


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a government panel that did include cancer specialists says women should receive mammograms until age if government takes over health care recommendations like these could become the law for all kinds of diseases


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house speaker nancy pelosi said this week that the democrats have to pass their terrible health care bill so that the american people can actually find out what in it


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several times obama has apologized for what he deems to be american arrogance dismissiveness and derision for dictating solutions for acting unilaterally


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kay bailey hutchison concession speech came with less than percent of the precincts having been counted


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bill white supports the obamacare socialized medicine plan as well as cap and trade legislation that would kill thousands of texas jobs


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bill white spent his city billions of dollars into debt and saw crime rates soar while he backed gun control


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says the texas state board of education is considering eliminating references to christmas and the constitution in textbooks


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crist stays in a night luxury hotel suites where he racks up in charges and does pay for a dime of it himself


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we are the only industrialized nation that relies heavily on a medical insurance industry to provide basic health care


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individuals and small businesses will be hit by increases in health insurance premiums as high as percent


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obama has proposed a pay increase for active duty military in this is the lowest since a lower pay increase than welfare recipients


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in the senate version of the health reform bill every enrollee in the office of personnel management enrolled plan every enrollee has to pay a minimum of per month towards reproductive rights which includes abortion


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when we started this health care debate a year ago percent of the american people had health insurance and percent of the percent were happy with it


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if we just froze spending at levels by we would balance the budget and by we would cut the national debt in half


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the senate version of the health care reform bill allows taxpayer money to pay directly for abortion in federal community health centers funded in the bill


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todd staples recently tried to woo his supporters and base by suggesting the agriculture commission cut programs intended to feed the elderly and disabled many of whom are veterans


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florida new fingerprint identification system is improving our rate of solving cold cases by percent


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president obama bill wo bring down the costs of health care for average americans or really for very few americans if any


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washington can not hide from the fact that congress hiked the national debt ceiling to trillion they can not hide from the fact that the budget that they re going forward with has more than a trillion in debt in it over the next five years


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cover florida is available to any floridian offering basic coverage for about a month instead of the typical a month


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the lifespan of the average american is less than that of people in nations that spend far less on health care to put it bluntly we spend more and die sooner


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the democrats health care bills would end the denial of coverage to those who have a condition while the republican bill would not


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he obama has done several things well most of those things are places where he changed his view from where he had during the campaign so for instance he left our troops in iraq and they being more successful there he boosted our effort in afghanistan which is the right course to take he did not close guantanamo thank heavens


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in former federal reserve chairman alan greenspan justified increasing spending and cutting taxes saying that we did really need to pay down the debt


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alan grayson compared a former vice president to a vampire and compared america health care system to the holocaust


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charlie crist was the only prominent republican in the country to campaign with barack obama before the stimulus passed on behalf of the stimulus


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the health care bill dumps to million americans into a medicaid program that none of us want to be a part of because percent of doctors wo see new patients


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gov rick perry spent over a million dollars on lobbyists asking for more federal money and lives in a luxury house that costs taxpayers a month


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i glad for the wording of it an ethics report on congressional trips because clearly the wording exonerates me


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says he never donates to democrats while paul workman contributes to democrat kirk watson and other democrats running against republicans


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the costs for families in the individual market for the same type of coverage that they currently receiving would go down percent to percent


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the cbo found that the house republican health care plan would lower premiums by up to about percent and for purchasers in the individual market those cost savings could even be higher


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i vetoed more than billion in spending lawmakers and i cut taxes for small businesses now texas is no in job creation the nation s five best housing markets are right here in texas we balanced five state budgets and we cut state spending


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congresswoman bachmann actually said we should be off our social security and medicare she wants to privatize social security and replace medicare with some kind of voucher system


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bill mccollum cost the rest of us billions as a member of congress including a national debt that skyrocketed to trillion


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bill mccollum voted four times to raise his own pay by a total of and earns a congressional pension worth more than a year


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as bank president alex sink eliminated thousands of florida jobs while taking over million in salary and bonuses


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one of the most recent polls said percent of the american people have said either do do anything or start over on health care reform


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we were promised the stimulus would provide jobs for americans but of the billion they spent on alternative energy went to purchase wind turbines built in china


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in this judicial race special interest groups have demanded money from me in exchange for endorsement and support


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the stimulus includes million to build a bridge in thedford nebraska to help residents avoid a wait at a local train crossing not one job will be created


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in the stimulus million dollars went to a bigger better airport for the town of ouzinkie alaska population


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so far the recovery act is responsible for the jobs of about million americans who would otherwise be unemployed and the recovery act is on track to save or create another million jobs in


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in the three months before the act took effect america lost jobs a month in the last three months we lost about jobs a month


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during the recent global warming summit in copenhagen nancy pelosi and others stayed at a hotel on a trip costing nearly per person


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says state steve ogden was the driving force behind business income tax hurting small business crafted the robin hood school finance scheme making property taxes skyrocket wrote a budget that will result in a billion deficit and voted against gun freedoms


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there have been three people tried and convicted by the last administration in military courts two are walking the street right now


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among the money spent on health care in the united states cents on every dollar spent is through medicare and medicaid


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president barack obama initial response when we heard about the christmas underwear bomber was to say that this was the act of an isolated extremist


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says the texas education agency follows up to make sure undocumented immigrants paying tuition at texas colleges are applying for permanent residency


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when we go to vote they ask for driver license and verify that you are a voter and a citizen in the state of texas


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despite touting the economic stimulus as a great triumph the very same report however notes that unemployment will average percent for the rest of the year


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franklin roosevelt never allocated more than percent of gdp to federal spending while the percentage for barack obama is not projected to drop below percent


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the house passed a rule that said if you wanted to have an investment an entitlement you had to pay for it


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says kay bailey hutchison took private flights all funded by taxpayers though commercial flights were readily available at a fraction of the cost


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vice president joe biden meeting with the transparency and accountability board was closed to the public


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one state even spent a million bucks to put up signs that advertise that they were spending on the federal stimulus projects


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the governor s not taking his own fiscal advice in the first fiscal quarter of this year we ve seen a percent increase in spending spending out of the executive branch in the state of texas


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the law is very clear monies recouped from the tarp shall be paid into the general fund of the treasury for the reduction of the public debt


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some republicans who voted against the stimulus have been all too happy to claim credit for recovery act projects and the jobs those projects have produced they come to the ribbon cuttings


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for the hour after the debate medina was the no search on google and for the remainder of that night no


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we also cutting a forest service economic development program that strayed so far from any mission that it funded a music festival


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we passed without frankly the help of the republican caucus we passed tax cuts last year mostly aimed at the middle class and small businesses


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the state of texas does not even use the system to determine if someone is legally in our country when they apply for a job


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what were the old annual deficits under republicans have now become the monthly deficits under democrats


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obama came into office with a trillion deficit before i had passed any law we came in with trillion worth of debt over the next decade


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president multiple times from your administration there have come statements that republicans have no ideas and no solutions on health care


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i have had the challenge during this administration to suspend no less than public officials in about months


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under rick perry s watch as governor over six million texans have no health care coverage including one million children homeowners suffer from the highest insurance rates in the country and college tuition has skyrocketed percent


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the president 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


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president obama proposed freeze will only reduce the trillion in government spending proposed between and by little more than of percent


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inequality in texas is steadily getting worse with very few rich people a great many poor people and fewer and fewer in the middle


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president obama pledged to go through the budget by line but on his watch spending has spiraled out of control increasing by percent in the last year alone


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the amount of debt is on pace to double in five years and triple in the federal debt is now over per household


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here in virginia we have the opportunity to become the first state on the east coast to explore for and produce oil and natural gas offshore


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last week the supreme court reversed a century of law that i believe will open the floodgates for special interests including foreign corporations to spend without limit in our elections


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at the beginning of the last decade america had a budget surplus of over billion by the time i took office we had a deficit of over trillion and projected deficits of trillion over the next decade


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because of the steps we took there are about million americans working right now who would otherwise be unemployed


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as long as i have served this is the first time every single solitary decision has required senators


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members of congress passed a pay raise for themselves of over two years even as they voted not to raise social security benefits for and


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


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the house health care bill provides for free abortion services and probably forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession


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there are high administrative costs when you donate to haiti relief through the white house web site


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the washington times pointed out that we had succeeded where previous administrations had failed on spending cuts


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health care reform everything about it is going to raise costs raise taxes and lower the quality of health care


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the obama administration raised discretionary spending by percent from president george bush last budget and will run up more debt by october than bush did in eight years


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when president bush took office in he inherited a billion budget surplus with a projected surplus of trillion when he ended his term he left a trillion deficit and a projected shortfall of trillion


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we definitely lost way more jobs in texas this year than we gained we lost jobs in texas alone this year


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no democratic campaign for governor has ever had these kinds of resources this early on in an election cycle


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says rick perry pay to play politics led him to send million to an offshore call center in bermuda driving down enrollment in children health insurance


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hutchison abandoned republicans and stood with democrats to ensure health care legislation would pass quickly


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during his tenure as mayor he saw houston s crime rates drop to the lowest levels in more than years


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a recent obama executive order could lead to a number of investigations by interpol in the united states potentially aimed at american officials


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a number of the national publications have put this race in a tossup race between democrats and republicans they do know who going to win this race


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says a careless attitude and poor oversight by the texas department of agriculture led to deaths and illnesses traced to a texas peanut plant


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why is january an important date in american history this day in is the only day in our history when we have not been in debt


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president obama has broken his pledge to the american people to be transparent throughout health care reform negotiations


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when charlie crist was elected governor florida ranked in education last year we went from to and this year the top in america


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we created or saved up to million jobs according to the cbo the congressional budget office through the recovery act


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the climatic research unit show that the science behind climate change has been pretty well debunked


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president obama proposal calls for serious cuts in our own carbon emissions but china and india will still be allowed to increase their emissions


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a recent drop in the unemployment rate is questionable because it was calculated over two days of the thanksgiving week


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the industrial meltdown is responsible for most of the progress in reducing carbon emissions that europe is able to claim


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to use money from the tarp fund in the manner that is being discussed by the white house and congressional democrats would be a violation of the law


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i predicting the saints will go not only undefeated but all the way through the super bowl something that never been done before


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when obama was interviewed by american reporters in asia not one of them asked me about asia not one of them asked me about the economy


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in the past year more than percent of americans have changed their mind about the war in afghanistan they conclude we should be there


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in the last few months alone we have apprehended extremists within our borders who were sent here from the border region of afghanistan and pakistan to commit new acts of terror


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under the democratic health plan families will be forced to spend an additional a year to keep their current health care


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if you want to talk firsts for bush this was the first time in american history that a president took us into a war and cut taxes


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the congressional budget office supposedly estimates that in just a few years the average cost to every family of four from cap and trade will be per year


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a microchip would be implanted in the majority of people who opt to become covered by the public health care option


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although democrats represent only of florida districts their districts received percent of the stimulus funds


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under the bill homes would have to be retrofitted to meet energy and water efficiency standards before they could be sold


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


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a small business receiving a federal tax credit to provide health care for its employees would be barred under the stupak amendment from allowing their employees to use the health care that they offer them for abortion


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in the house health care bill something like percent of the people would be eligible even to get the public option


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the stupak amendment does just say you ca use your federal insurance subsidy to pay for an abortion it says if you getting a federal subsidy of any kind you not allowed to buy an insurance plan that covers abortion even with your own money


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under the house health care bill the government will have to penalize citizens if we choose not to buy a plan that will cost a minimum of about per family per year


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the health care bills will be mandated spending you ca cut it regardless of the budget circumstances


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i signed the largest single tax cut in the history of florida a billion tax cut over five years directed at property tax cuts


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president obama campaigned on a promise to put reproductive health care at the center of his reform plan


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an amendment to the house health reform bill puts new restrictions on women access to abortion coverage in the private health insurance market even when they would pay premiums with their own money


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the house health care bill pays for about six years of program with a decade of revenue with the heaviest costs concentrated in the second five years


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as a result of the house republican bill the nonpartisan congressional budget office now confirms that families will see their health care premiums reduced by up to percent


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the republicans alternative health care plan will still let insurers raise premiums four times faster than wages


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the gop health care plan would allow health insurance companies to continue engaging in unfair and discriminatory practices like denying coverage to people because of a medical condition


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health care reform establishes a new board of federal bureaucrats the benefits advisory committee to dictate the health plans that all individuals must purchase


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research shows the employer mandate in the house health reform bill would place millions substantial risk of unemployment with minority workers losing their jobs at twice the rate of their white counterparts


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that percent increase in the third quarter gdp came from two things government spending on cash for clunkers they just moved auto sales into the third quarter and the home buyer thing


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page of the house health care bill says specifically that people ca purchase private health insurance after a date certain


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three presidents in the last century harding kennedy and reagan all cut taxes during recessions and produced rapid and dramatic economic recoveries while two herbert hoover and barack obama did the opposite


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joe lieberman home state has a public option which covers about of its citizens that was introduced by its republican governor


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when it comes to aid the united states is still about half as what european countries give as a percentage


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the democrats health care bill gives a new health choices commissioner the right to look at an individual tax return to determine what medical benefits or subsidies that person qualifies for


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a new federal program provides subsidized obama phones with free minutes of cell phone service every month


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forcing americans off of their current health coverage and onto a plan is the answer but that exactly what the democrats plan would do


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when white house communications director anita dunn said that mao was one of her favorite philosophers only fox news picked that up


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barack obama wrote a thesis at columbia university in which he criticized plutocratic thugs and said the constitution gave americans the shackles of hypocrisy


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a fairly limited number of people million to million will be allowed to access a national health insurance exchange


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a request for an increase in troops sat on desks in this white house during the presidency of george bush including the vice president for more than eight months a resource request filled by president obama in march


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the obama administration notified poland and the czech republic about cancellation of major facilities at the last minute in midnight phone calls


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usually it about a month to get health coverage florida program has reduced that on average to about a month


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a massive federal computer network will make your medical records available to millions of people with a complete lack of privacy and confidentiality while doctors and hospitals who do take part face stiff penalties


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if president obama signs the copenhagen climate change treaty he will sign your freedom your democracy and your prosperity away forever and neither you nor any subsequent government you may elect would have any power whatsoever to take it back again


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the senate finance committee approved a reform proposal that has both democratic and republican support


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seniors with coverage under medicare advantage will give up more than their share because of health care reform


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the baucus health care bill would drastically restrict the use of flexible spending accounts fsas in order to help pay for health care reform


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an iowa policy provides for a state round up of iowa citizens who might be exposed to the swine flu virus


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a report by the health insurance industry ignores some of the key policies that are part of the senate finance committee bill


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under the hate crimes bill any pastor preacher priest rabbi or imam who gives a sermon out of their moral traditions about sexual practices could be found guilty of a federal crime


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the baucus health care bill would require taxes on medical devices such as machines female condoms hiv tests and surgical needles


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not only is there no scientific evidence that is a pollutant higher concentrations actually help ecosystems support more plant and animal life


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there no evidence anywhere that offshore drilling has hurt tourism in any area where it has been allowed


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the truth is any oil that would be drilled could be sent to any other country in the world reducing our use of foreign oil not by one single drop


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all the talk about socialism during the campaign made young people more interested in it by election day


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medicare officials have treated humana and aarp inconsistently on how they can communicate with seniors


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white house political director patrick gaspard once served as the man for bertha lewis who heads up acorn


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aarp is the largest reseller of insurance in the country and has a vested interest in seeing that the market for reselling supplemental insurance expands


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health care mandate will require imprisonment and fines for americans who can t afford to purchase insurance or pay hefty government penalties


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for the first time in history the democratic congress will not allow an increase in the social security cola cost of living adjustment


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house republicans pledged to introduce a bill to reform america s health care system but the of no has failed to produce legislation


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in a video impressionable youngsters at a public school in new jersey have been instructed to sing the praises of hussein obama


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our own national security agency says that iran nuclear ambitions are advancing and at the same time we are slashing our own nuclear arsenal


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recent census data shows that the average american family spends over a year for health care coverage


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the baucus bill contains provisions that would send massive federal subsidies directly to both private insurance plans and cooperatives that pay for elective abortion


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in some states it is still legal to deny a woman coverage because she been the victim of domestic violence


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for families under the baucus plan percent of what they make could be deducted directly from their paychecks the tax


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the house of representatives has never passed a resolution of disapproval to condemn a member behavior


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the obama administration was successful in rushing a massive spending bill through congress in just two days after which it sat on the president desk for three days while he was away on vacation


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as a candidate president obama declared that everyone deserves access to reproductive health care that includes abortion and vowed that this would be at the heart of his health care reform plan if elected president


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a new bill was written into the new health care reform initiative ensuring that congress will be percent exempt


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nothing in any of the democrat bills would require individuals to verify their citizenship or identity prior to receiving benefits


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health reform will give every american the same opportunity to buy health insurance the way members of congress do


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it s a plan that incorporates ideas from many of the people in this room tonight democrats and republicans


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the claim that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens is a lie plain and simple


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if you already have health insurance through your job or medicare or medicaid or the va nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have


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switzerland and the netherlands cover all their citizens using private insurers and they do so for much less cost


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the obama administration own white house council of economic advisers has estimated million americans will lose their jobs if the health care bill passes


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van jones signed a petition indicating he thinks the bush administration blew up the world trade center and covered it up


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the government is going to have the right to get into your bank account with the health care bill and make transfers without you knowing it


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we waterboard incidentally hundreds of our own military personnel they waterboard themselves in training to toughen themselves up


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a scheduled speech by president barack obama will be the first time an american president has spoken directly to the nation school children about persisting and succeeding in school


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it took obama six months to pick out a family dog but he cramming health care reform down the country throat in a fraction of that time


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over the past few months we learned that we just ca count on the media to debunk lies about health insurance reform


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


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since world war ii only gerald ford and bill clinton have had worse ratings after seven months than president obama


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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


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under the plan for the first five years your employer not only has to keep the coverage but you ca migrate to the public plan


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it costing every american who is insured to pick up the cost of uncompensated care that goes on at the emergency room


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medicare has at least billion worth of fraud a year that a full percent of every dollar that spent on medicare goes to fraud


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any plan forces more employers to drop employee coverage due to rising costs and pay an additional payroll tax for each worker


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the department of veterans affairs has a manual out there telling our veterans stuff like you really of value to your community you know encouraging them to commit suicide


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the health bill plan for comparative effectiveness research would be used by the government to ration care


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if we went back to the obesity rates that existed back in the the medicare system over several years could save as much as a trillion dollars


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if you over years old in america today you have no choice but to be in medicare even if you want out of medicare you have to forfeit your social security to get out of it


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if you do count illegal aliens people who qualify for other insurance and people who make more than a year it leaves about million people who are uninsured


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pregnant women trying to buy health insurance on their own are barred from maternity coverage because they have a condition


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ezekiel emanuel one of president obama key health care advisers says medical care should be reserved for the nondisabled so watch out if you disabled


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in every committee when the health care bill was considered democrats voted against an amendment that would require members of congress and their staff to take the public option as their health care plan


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seniors and the disabled will have to stand in front of obama panel so his bureaucrats can decide based on a subjective judgment of their of productivity in society whether they are worthy of health care


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page of the health care bill will establish clinics your children will be indoctrinated and your grandchildren may be aborted


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during the fight over social security there were noisy demonstrations but they were outside the events and opponents were not disruptive crowds booed lines they didn t like but that was about it


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the health care reform plan would set limits similar to the socialized system in britain where people are allowed to die if their treatment would cost more than


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a loophole still exists which allows members of congress and executive branch appointees to exploit knowledge of the financial industry in order to turn personal profit


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stimulus tax cuts began showing up in paychecks of million indiana households about three months ago


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under president george bush the spent trillion on tax cuts for the wealthy and trillions each on a war and on medicare drug benefits


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a former clinton administration official and other economists agree that if you keep extending these temporary unemployment benefits you just going to extend joblessness even more


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the john mccain twitter account has more than million followers the official white house twitter account has only about


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if you log into the government cash for clunkers web site from your home computer the government can seize all of your personal and private information and track your computer activity


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president barack obama suggested on national tv that the democratic health care bill will have government decide that a healthy woman in need of a pacemaker should take a pain pill instead


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the congressional budget office most recently came out and analyzed the current health care plan and said that it was not only but also that over years it would create a billion surplus


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all private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a healthcare exchange


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in the health care bill the choices commissioner will decide health benefits for you you will have no choice none


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john holdren director of the white house office of science and technology policy has proposed forcing abortions and putting sterilants in the drinking water to control population


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white house spokesman robert gibbs lied when he said president obama birth certificate is posted on the internet


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doctors nurses hospitals even the pharmaceutical industry and aarp say that health reform makes sense to do


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the health care reform bill would make it mandatory absolutely require that every five years people in medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner


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there were more job losses per month in the last three months under president bush than in the past three months under president obama


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the government is going to tell americans they need to replace functioning stoves in their homes with stoves and use taxpayer dollars to do so


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the obama administration has spent millions of taxpayer dollars for roadside signs to tout the economic stimulus


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job losses are so certain under this new plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting energy sector to the tune of billion over eight years so much for creating jobs


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the obama administration offered million to hamas a recognized terrorist organization to rebuild gaza


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under the new and little known justice initiative the obama administration has ordered fbi agents to read miranda rights to terrorist detainees captured on the battlefield


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obama sotomayor threw out the new haven firefighters lawsuit in a sneaky unsigned opinion the judicial equivalent of to the hand


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on the day the house voted on the climate change bill there was not even a copy of the bill in the well of the house which is standard it was even written


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in north carolina they used stimulus money to hire one new state worker his job apply for more stimulus funds from the taxpayers by the way of the federal government


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in wisconsin the stimulus paid for a bridge to a bar called rusty backwater saloon they got great burgers but no new jobs


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mitch mcconnell opposed legislation to create and protect kentucky jobs help for the unemployed health care for kentucky children and fair pay for women


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if the united states moves ahead by itself on after or years we going to reduce by less than percent


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the free flow of information act of would guarantee barack obama will never be held accountable for producing forged birth documents


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during a town hall meeting on health care abc did even allow ads that opposed the president health care plan to be aired


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every year tobacco kills more americans than did world war ii more than aids cocaine heroin alcohol vehicular accidents homicide and suicide combined


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acorn will be a paid partner with the census bureau and they will be in charge of going and collecting data from the american public


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medicare and medicaid are the single biggest drivers of the federal deficit and the federal debt by a huge margin


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says the congressional budget office estimates a program would cost the average family the equivalent of a postage stamp a day


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yes this would be the same congressman pete hoekstra who last year tweeted the whereabouts of a mission to iraq


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even high estimates for an early draft of the health care plan are less than the trillion cost of the bush tax cuts


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under the cash for clunkers program all we got to do is go to a local junkyard all you got to do is tow it to your house and you going to get


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says president obama was wrong about muslims historical contributions to mankind such as algebra actually that was the ancient babylonians the compass that was the chinese pens the chinese again and medical discoveries


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a new poll shows percent support the president plan to reform health care that means letting you choose between keeping the private insurance you have and a public health insurance plan


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under a public health care option million americans will lose what they now get from private companies and be forced onto the rolls as businesses decide it is more for them to drop coverage


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palin said stimulus money for weatherization required universal energy building codes for alaska kind of a building code that is going to work up there in alaska


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contends that president obama literally said if his proposals were to pass that utility rates his words now would skyrocket


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in the first round of repayments from financial institutions that received tarp money the government has actually turned a profit


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inside the stimulus package is legislation that will stop churches from using public schools for meeting on sundays as well as boy scouts and student bible study groups


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says vice president joe biden admits that the american people are being scammed with the economic stimulus package


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says he did call george tiller a baby killer as liberal groups charge but was merely reporting what some prolifers branded him


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if you actually took the number of muslims sic americans we be one of the largest muslim countries in the world


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there are billions of barrels of oil beneath our oceans and in alaska and there is ample oil shale in the rocky mountain west but democrats say all this american energy is off limits


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the department of justice under the obama administration disagrees with the decision judge sotomayor made in the ricci destefano case


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the nuclear test conducted in our nation this time is the earth nuclear test the five permanent members of the security council have conducted percent of the total nuclear tests


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sotomayor ruled against the white firefighter ricci and other white firefighters just on the basis that she thought women and minorities should be given a preference because of their skin color and because of the history of discrimination in the past the law was totally disregarded


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sotomayor thinks that one s sex race and ethnicity ought to affect the decisions one renders from the bench


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walking in the door sonia sotomayor would bring more experience on the bench and more varied experience on the bench than anyone currently serving on the united states supreme court had when they were appointed


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cheney is disagreeing with president bush policy president bush stated repeatedly to international audiences and to the country that he wanted to close guantanamo


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president obama own director of national intelligence admiral blair put it this way information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the organization that was attacking this country


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acorn could get up to billion more tax dollars despite being under investigation for voter registration fraud in a dozen states


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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 world trade center bombing the bomber the and many others


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a public option for health care would end private insurance because the private insurance people will not be able to compete with a government option


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the democrats propose a health care plan that will deprive roughly million americans of their current health care coverage


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democrats have failed to answer the most basic question of how they want to pay for the more than trillion of health care spending


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the pentagon under the obama administration has just acknowledged seizing and burning the privately owned bibles of american soldiers serving in afghanistan


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democrats in congress had control since january of they have passed a law making waterboarding illegal they have gone into any of these things and changed law


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


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we were not i repeat were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used


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the economic stimulus bill created a council that modeled after the national board that controls britain s health system


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obama first call as president to any head of state was to mahmoud abbas leader of fatah party in the palestinian territory


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arlen specter party switch could end up giving republicans the ability to filibuster judicial nominees at the judiciary committee level so that the nominees never get out of committee


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cass sunstein president obama nominee for regulatory czar wants to give legal standing to animals so they can sue you for eating meat


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barack obama nominee for czar has advocated a doctrine for the internet that would require links to opposing opinions


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washing your hands and covering your mouth when you cough makes a huge difference in reducing transmission of the flu


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in iraq civilian deaths incidents of bombings remain very low relative to what was going on last year


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it is the department of homeland security view that returning military veterans and gun owners are likely to commit terrorist acts


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gov sarah palin got precisely zero support for her call for alaska democratic senator mark begich to resign because ted stevens corruption conviction was overturned


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congress shoveled billion into the troubled assets relief program billion of which has been spent without purchasing any toxic assets


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there are no similar clips of newt gingrich talking about how ineffective president bush was in trying to control north korea


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claims that former tom daschle said seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them


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secretary geithner has left the option on the table of abandoning the dollar for a multinational currency


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the administration raises revenue for nationalized health care through a series of new taxes including a light switch tax that would cost every american household a year


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obama budget plan would take national debt up to about percent of gross national product historically it been about percent


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as a percentage of gross domestic product we are reducing nondefense discretionary spending to its lowest level since the lower than it was under reagan lower than it was under clinton lower than it was under bush or both bushes


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under obama budget plan families making over are going to lose their mortgage deduction their charitable deductions


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tens of billions of dollars from bailouts flowed straight through aig into the coffers of foreign corporations and foreign banks


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senator chris dodd chairman of the senate banking committee placed an amendment in the stimulus bill that allowed for banks bailed out with taxpayer money including aig to hand out huge bonuses


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we had bipartisan legislation that got through the senate that would have prevented bonuses like aig and then somehow mysteriously disappeared


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in japan executives of failing companies say i sorry and then either do one of two things resign or go commit suicide


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last week the blue chip economic indicators came out that surveys lots of private forecasters almost all of them are predicting a turnaround in the third quarter and positive growth in the fourth quarter


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a family donates to charity they get cents off their income tax bill gates donates to charity he takes cents off his income tax


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under the obama plan all the health care in this country is eventually going to be run by the government


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in just one month the democrats have spent more than president bush spent in seven years on the war in iraq the war in afghanistan and hurricane katrina combined


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the president plan even after the end of its withdrawal timeline is reached will leave in place up to troops


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the stimulus bill includes billion for rail projects such as a levitation line from las vegas to disneyland


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says former clinton budget director alice rivlin said the stimulus bill wo actually stimulate the economy


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louisiana is turning down million that would require us to change our unemployment law that would have actually raised taxes on louisiana businesses


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the congressional budget office has found that the stimulus bill will lead to a real to percent reduction in gross domestic product by


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when the salmonella source was finally identified fda officials had to wait for industry approval before they could go live with the peanut recall


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if we got solar energy from an area of the southwestern desert miles on a side that would be enough in and of itself to provide percent of all the electricity needs for the united states of america in a full year


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there is a provision in the economic stimulus plan that means that students can not meet together in their dorms if that dorm has been repaired with this federal money and have a prayer group or a bible study


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the obama administration wants to have soldiers and officers pledge a loyalty oath directly to the office of the president and no longer to the constitution


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you and i know that in the history of mankind and womankind government federal state local or otherwise has never created one job


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the congressional budget office estimates that only percent of this stimulus package will be spent in and only percent in


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on attacks by republicans that various programs in the economic stimulus plan are not stimulative if you add all that stuff up it accounts for less than percent of the overall package


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the stimulus bill contains million for the removal of small to fish passage barriers and million to rehabilitate trails for atvs


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the senate version of the economic stimulus package includes millions of dollars to world war ii filipino veterans in the philippines


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to give the proposed economic stimulus plan some perspective if you started the day jesus christ was born and spent million every day since then you still wouldn t have spent trillion


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the economic stimulus legislation could open billions of taxpayer dollars to groups like the association of community organizations for reform now acorn


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there is no disagreement that we need action by our government a recovery plan that will help to the economy


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the house democrats has been stuffed with an astonishing million to fund prevention programs of sexually transmitted diseases


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democrats compare the infrastructure programs in the stimulus to the eisenhower interstate program but he proposed a billion highway system and they going to put billion into roads and bridges


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for every dollar in the stimulus package that is spent to help small businesses is being spent to help upkeep the grass on the lawns of washington


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our economy could fall trillion short of its full capacity which translates into more than in lost income for a family of four


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democrats have said that even one hearing on the stimulus bill would be one too many and that we have a single day to approve these five complex propositions that will affect the lives of millions


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says a congressional budget office report on spending by house democrats in the economic stimulus concluded it is just not stimulus it wo help the economy grow


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geithner failure to pay taxes while working for the imf is a mistake that is commonly made for people who are working internationally or for international institutions


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geithner still did correct the same type of error for some years even after the internal revenue service flagged him for the failure to pay the taxes in other years


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the biggest job of the surgeon general is to translate health care and health care needs into plain english


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if obama economic plan creates new government jobs that about the size of the post office work force


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obama changed the rules in washington gone are the free gifts from lobbyists gone are the fancy airplane rides for nothing


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the mccain campaign is roughly in the position where vice president gore was running against president bush one week before the election of


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for my energy plan my economic plan and the other proposals you hear tonight i offered spending cuts above and beyond their cost


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fidel castro has made his preferences known in the campaign and had some very unkind things to say about me


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barack obama said people making less than would benefit from his plan then said if you a family making less than you benefit


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mccain is selectively editing joe biden words biden actually said about barack obama gon na find out this guy got steel in his spine


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one percent of the american people make over percent of all the income in america that wasn t the way before george bush became president


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if parents do have health insurance that senator obama wants them to have for their children they will be fined


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if barack obama would apply for a job with the fbi or with the secret service he would be disqualified because of his past associations with william ayers


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congressman john lewis an american hero made allegations that sarah palin and i were somehow associated with the worst chapter in american history and senator obama you did repudiate those remarks


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if you a small business and do adopt the health care plan that senator obama mandates he going to fine you


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under john mccain health care plan people get a tax credit to buy a health care policy and that a loss for you


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the truth was revealed there in that report that showed there was no unlawful or unethical activity on my part


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on the economic crisis the biggest problem in this whole process was the deregulation of the financial system


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i wrote to secretary paulson i wrote to federal reserve chairman bernanke in march and told them this is something we have to deal with and nobody did anything about it


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the democrats in the senate and some members of congress defended what fannie and freddie were doing they resisted any change


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barack obama voted against born alive legislation in illinois that was virtually identical to the federal law


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two years ago i wrote to secretary paulson i wrote to federal reserve chairman bernanke and told them subprime lending is something we have to deal with


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senator mccain has been talking tough about earmarks and that good but earmarks account for about of our budget


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obama held one of the first meetings of his political career in bill ayers home and they worked together on various projects in chicago


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mccain intervened on behalf of charles keating with federal regulators that allowed keating to continue his fraud at an incredible cost to taxpayers


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john mccain voted against funding the troops because of a timeline in it to draw down american troops


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we building a nearly natural gas pipeline which is north america largest and most expensive infrastructure project ever


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john mccain said he would even sit down with the government of spain a nato ally that has troops in afghanistan with us now


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mccain said the other day that he would not meet potentially with the prime minister of spain because he was sure whether they were aligned with us


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he has asked for of earmark spending nearly a million dollars for every day that he s been in the united states senate


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president eisenhower on the night before the normandy invasion wrote a letter of resignation to the united states army for the failure of the landings at normandy


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i introduced a bill that would ve helped stop the bonus packages that ceos grab on their way out mccain opposed that idea


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obama says mccain went to bermuda and pledged to protect tax breaks for american corporations that hide their profits offshore


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barack obama has the longest track record of any candidate in this election in support of the to nowhere


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but if my opponent had his way the millions of floridians who rely on it would had their social security tied up in the stock market this week


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barack obama got more campaign contributions from fannie mae and freddie mac than any other member of congress except for the democratic chairmen of the committee that oversees them


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in january i outlined a plan to help revive our faltering economy which formed the basis for a bipartisan stimulus package that passed the congress


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i said two years ago that the fannie and freddie thing was a very serious problem and we had to work on it


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holding up a blackberry mccain campaign adviser says you re looking at the miracle john mccain helped create


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mccain voted to cut education funding against accountability standards he even proposed abolishing the department of education


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mccain economic adviser phil gramm is the architect of some of the deregulation in washington that helped cause the mess on wall street


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when george bush said we should investigate why the government response to hurricane katrina was so incompetent john mccain stood with him


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education week says obama made a significant mark on education is on accountability and a defender of the existing public school monopoly


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while sarah was mayor of wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected city librarian because the librarian refused to consider removing from the library some books that sarah wanted removed


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mccain was already turning his sights to iraq just days after and he became a leading supporter of an invasion and occupation of iraq


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the fact is that although we have had a president who is opposed to abortion over the last eight years abortions have not gone down


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it georgia was one of the earliest christian nations the king of in the third century converted to christianity


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john mccain top foreign policy adviser lobbied for the republic of georgia and mccain has mirrored the position advocated by the government


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mccain is raising campaign cash with one of jack abramoff closest business partners conservative activist ralph reed


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first he obama opposed the surge then he confidently predicted that it would fail then he tried to prevent funding for the troops who carried out the surge


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mccain opposed a requirement that the government buy motorcycles and he said all provisions were quote


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john mccain offers billions in tax breaks for oil and drug companies but almost nothing for families like yours


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fully inflating tires is a step that every expert says would absolutely reduce our oil consumption by to percent


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john mccain refuses to support a new bipartisan energy bill because it would take away tax breaks from oil companies like exxon mobil


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we could save all the oil that they talking about getting off drilling if everybody was just inflating their tires and getting regular


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i have repeatedly said that many of the predatory loans that were made in the mortgage system did target and latino communities


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obama said his proposed emergency energy rebate will be enough to offset the increased cost of gas for a working family over the next months


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wild bill hickok had his first duel in the town square here and the family legend is that he is a distant cousin of mine


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he made time to go to the gym but canceled a visit with wounded troops seems the pentagon would allow him to bring cameras


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mccain economic plan gives nearly in tax breaks to the oil companies but does provide any tax relief to more than families


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obama voted against critical resources no to individual body armor no to helicopters no to ammunition no to aircraft


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we now have a president in france which shows if you live long enough anything can happen in this world


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we heard talk about curbing our use of fossil fuels in nearly every state of the union address since the oil embargo of


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i have a perfect voting record from organizations like the veterans of foreign wars the american legion and all the other veterans service organizations


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obama voted for and even sponsored amendments that were intended to kill the immigration overhaul legislation


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mccain used to buck his party on immigration by fighting for comprehensive reform but when he was running for his party nomination he said that he would even support his own legislation if it came up for a vote


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the government spends less on energy innovation than the pet food industry invests in its own products


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forces in iraq and afghanistan include a few thousand that are still green card holders who are not even citizens of this country


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barack obama has reversed on his commitment to begin withdrawing american troops from iraq immediately


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if you have an investment for your child education or own a mutual fund or a stock in a retirement plan obama is going to raise your taxes


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our national guard as we saw in the midwest flooding ca function as effectively as it could i was talking to national guard representatives fifteen of their helicopters in this region were overseas during the flooding


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quotes maureen dowd column that obama has received suspicious contributions from saudi arabia iran and china


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throughout his time in elected office barack obama has taken multiple positions on banning handguns and the handgun ban


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the iranians continue in the view of every objective observer continue to pursue the acquisition of nuclear weapons


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says obama opposes lower gas taxes nuclear power new offshore drilling and does have new solutions to the energy crisis


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mccain tells of a fellow vietnam pow who was beaten for fashioning an american flag that became an inspirational symbol to fellow pows


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the legislation that senator mccain supports would provide the authority for the federal government to surveille american citizens in their own country without any suspicion whatsoever that they engaging in discussions with terrorists or about criminal activity


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the most recent associated press poll has at percent without any national coverage against mccain and obama


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he wo even support his colleague motion to censure the bush administration for systemic repeated illegal wiretaps


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when he was asked a few years ago whether he could see himself lifting the cap on the payroll tax mccain said i could but today he attacking me for holding the very same position


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these steps a tax cut national health care plan foreclosure prevention fund social security fix and more are all paid for


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more than half of all black children live in households a number that has doubled doubled since we were children


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i joined the gang of seven republicans seven democrats so that we would blow up the united states senate obama had the opportunity to join that group he chose not to


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we must deal with the here and now and assure affordable fuel for america by increasing domestic production


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george bush and a republican congress have presided over a percent increase in the size of domestic government spending in the last seven years


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obama wants a windfall profits tax on oil to go along with the new taxes he also plans for coal and natural gas


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john mccain opposed bankruptcy protections for families who were only in bankruptcy because of medical expenses they could pay


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john mccain says he never supported the privatization of social security even though video shows he did


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i supported every investigation into hurricane katrina and ways of finding out how what caused the tragedy i met with people on the ground i met with the governor


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from obama book i found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother race


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the navy has sailed ships around the world for years with nuclear power plants on them and we never had an accident


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when the united states invaded iraq saddam hussein wanted to acquire weapons of mass destruction and he said so himself after his capture


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ronald reagan met with gorbachev kennedy met with khruschev and nixon met with mao and these were folks who have done horrendous damage not only to their own countries but to other countries


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we have drawn down to presurge levels basra mosul and now sadr city are quiet and it long and it tough and there will be setbacks


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obama wife wrote a paper in college that said america was a nation founded on crime and hatred and that whites in america are ineradicably racist


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i had an uncle who was part of the first american troops to go into auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps


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it does make sense historically to drop out because the race was still competitive when bobby kennedy was assassinated in june in california


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when mccain was questioned about hiring lobbyists to his campaign staff his top lobbyist actually had the nerve to say american people wo care about this


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ten years ago john mccain offered a bill that said he would ban a candidate from paying registered lobbyists


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john mccain one of the richest people in a senate filled with millionaires says the solution to the housing crisis is for people to get a second job and skip their vacations


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privatizing social security was a bad idea when george bush proposed it it a bad idea today mccain campaign went even further suggesting to cut adjustments or to raise the retirement age


