# claims

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"In Massachusetts, Scott Brown pushed for a law to force women considering abortion -- force them -- to look at color photographs of developing fetuses."


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"At least 10 ISIS fighters have been caught coming across the Mexican border in Texas" and there are "dozens more that did not get caught by the Border Patrol."


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"Every year the average woman loses around $11,000 to the wage gap," which amounts to "a $500,000 vagina tax" over her working career.


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Milwaukee police and firefighters "are routinely getting 4 percent raises annually while everybody else is either getting zero or one percent raises."


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"The states that have raised the minimum wage (this year) have had faster job growth than the states that haven’t raised the minimum wage."


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Leticia Van de Putte "opposed putting National Guard troops on the border, would send millions to Central American governments instead and wrote the law giving in-state tuition to illegal immigrants."


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"According to a government supplier of emergency products, the Disaster Assistance Response Team was told to be prepared to be activated in the month of October for an outbreak of Ebola."


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"The Common Core was not put together by the Department of Education in Washington. It was put together by governors and by states."


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Saudi Arabia is "the only Muslim country out of 47 Muslim-majority countries" where women cannot get licenses to drive.


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More women were killed by their husbands or boyfriends since Sept. 11 than "all the Americans who were killed by 9/11 or in Afghanistan and Iraq."


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Says Rick Scott signed "laws requiring mandatory ultrasounds and restricting access to abortion even in cases of rape or incest."


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"When I took office, the deficit was nearly 10 percent of our economy. Today, it's approaching 3 percent."


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"In the last six years of Cianci’s administration violent crime was down in the United States. It was down in the region. It was down in Rhode Island. But it was up in Providence."


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"Hospitals have already begun layoffs, a direct result of Republican inaction" on Medicaid expansion.


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Under sequestration, the military was cut "down to the smallest Army since 1940, the smallest Navy since 1915."


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"The last time there was a sustained surge of confidence in government's competence was under Ronald Reagan."


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"Most people in New Hampshire want to raise the minimum wage. (State Rep. Marilinda) Garcia opposes it."


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Republican House candidate Marilinda Garcia "even opposes closing the loophole that allows dangerous criminals to get a gun without a background check."


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


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


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Dan Patrick said that if women "get paid less than a man for the same job, that that’s not a problem."


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Data on violent crime shows Wisconsin "has become less safe than it was when Scott Walker took office."


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Leticia Van de Putte "voted to give illegal immigrants in this country free health care--not emergency health care but total free health care."


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The state-hired company that evaluates state-mandated student exams "goes on Craigslist to get examiners to read our students’ essays."


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"We have 41,000 people right now on the waitlist for financial-based assistance for our tech colleges and universities," most of them for tech schools.


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"[When I was mayor] Providence was one of the five renaissance cities of America, according to USA Today in those days. Money magazine said it was the fifth best city to live in in America. In addition to that, All Cities Almanac said in 1994, I believe, that it was the safest city in America."


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"I recently had the opportunity to vote to give the president limited authority to begin strikes against terrorists in Iraq and Syria."


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The non-profit group Feeding America is lying when it claims "that one in five kids is fighting starvation daily" in the United States.


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"We have a goal of 10 percent of [City of Providence] contracts going to women and minority businesses. In reality, less than 1 percent of contracts go to women and minority businesses."


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A 2011 measure passed into law with Wendy Davis’ support "removes from the attorney general the ability to settle lawsuits just like" the school funding case.


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Says personhood legislation she sponsored would not have restricted access to reproductive services and was "simply a statement that I support life."


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"94 percent of those that are employed by the Department of Education at the federal level were deemed by the department as nonessential employees."


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Scott Walker was elected governor on a promise not to take campaign contributions "from the date of his inauguration until the signing of the state budget," but broke it by taking nearly $5.6 million.


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Says President Barack Obama has launched "twice as many strikes (on) countries that are predominantly Muslim" than President George W. Bush.


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"In 2001 and '02 . . . we had the pension system funded at (the) 100% level in that year, and we did for two years at that point."


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


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"Sen. Mark Begich cast the deciding vote in favor of President Obama’s authority to issue executive amnesty to illegal aliens."


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Says President Barack Obama attacked potential terrorist targets in Syria in the middle of the night "to minimize terrorist casualties."


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"Greg Abbott and his surrogates have referred to women who have been the victims of rape or incest as though somehow what they are confronting is a minor issue."


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Greg Abbott "has campaigned with a sexual predator who has bragged about having sex with underage girls."


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


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


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


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Was Martha Kanter "dispatched to Corvallis with $17 million in stimulus money" to save Craig Robinson’s job?


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Says President Barack Obama is "sending a much larger (force) " to deal with Ebola "than ISIS is getting."


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Georgia can substantially increase its funding for education by going after $2.5 billion in uncollected taxes.


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Says Rick Scott cut education by over a billion dollars, meaning thousands of teachers "lost their jobs" and "class sizes went up."


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Says Sen. Mark Begich is ineffective because he has only "passed one bill, the naming of a building."


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Americans now "support strikes (against ISIS) but the support for ground troops is not there. The support is very thin."


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"Last week's three most-viewed television programs were Sunday Night Football, Thursday Night Football and Monday Night Football."


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"To deprive" underprivileged children "of a meat-based protein during school lunch is most likely depriving them of their only source of protein for the day."


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"When I left office, there was a $7-million surplus in Providence," but in 2008, the city had a $110-million deficit.


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In 2012, "Wall Street" gave Scott Brown "more campaign contributions than any other candidate -- $5.3 million."


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"The U.S. State Department has ordered 160,000 Hazmat suits for Ebola, prompting concerns that the federal government is anticipating the rapid spread" of the virus.


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Says Tom Steyer is a "California billionaire who stands to profit by blocking Keystone" and "is spending big to help" Bruce Braley.


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Says Scott Walker's jobs agency gives financial incentives that lead "Wisconsin companies to look at shipping jobs elsewhere. ... A company got $4.6 million in taxpayer money and actually reduced its jobs by 300 people."


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Says Fox News gave Republican senators twice the air time as Democrats during a hearing about the Islamic State.


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The Obama administration is using as its "legal justification for these airstrikes (on the Islamic State), an authorization for military force that the president himself has called for repeal of."


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"There is no state in the U.S. where a 40-hour minimum wage work week is enough to afford a two-bedroom apartment."


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Since I took office, "Wisconsin ranks 11th in the nation in total business establishment growth compared to 47th in the years Mary Burke was Commerce secretary."


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"Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors."


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Greg Abbott did "nothing" to pursue reports of the sexual abuse of boys at a West Texas state-run school.


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"As chair of the Senate Education Committee, I led the charge to restore most of the education cuts from last session."


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Says NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell interviewed domestic abuse victim Janay Rice with Ray Rice present and for "every domestic violence agency, every law enforcement agency, that’s a no-no."


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"The president referred to the Syrian opposition just a few months ago as pharmacists and doctors, and so on."


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"Over 40 of our 100 (House of) Delegates seats go uncontested every year, and over 40 percent of our state senate seats go uncontested every year."


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Says Glenn Grothman pushed through state tax credits that when phased in, "someone that owns a factory that produces millions in income" will pay "less tax than their nephew would if he worked full time at Taco Bell for minimum wage."


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More people are apprehended after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border a week "than are born in Texas each week."


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Says President Obama "has never made a statement ... that he wanted a residual force left (in Iraq)."


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"The Republican Party has the worst reputation in American polling of any political party in history."


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"(Obama's) entire national security team, including his secretary of state, said we want to arm and train and equip (Syrian rebel forces), and he made the unilateral decision to turn them down."


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Saturday Night Live executive producer "Lorne Michaels could be put in jail under this amendment for making fun of any politician."


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"There were fewer civilian casualties in Cambodia than there have been from American drone attacks."


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"Over the next two years, this $1.8 billion deficit will cost individual Wisconsinites $300 each, or $1,200 for families of four."


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"Wisconsin does not have a deficit. Thanks to Republican reforms, the 2014 budget will begin with a $443 million surplus."


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"Fox admits they lie" and, under the First Amendment, "have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves."


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Says Mary Burke’s Madison school district "will be the only school district left in the state" to "ignore the (Act 10) law" in the 2015-16 school year.


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Says Democratic Senate candidate "Bruce Braley voted to cut $700 billion from Medicare to support Obamacare."


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The United States has "the most number of deductions available to corporations" for the corporate income tax.


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Virginia Democrats recently enforced voter ID rules that were "considerably more stringent than those contained in the state law they denounce."


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"Federal investigators found a company that (David Perdue) ran discriminated against women -- paid them less than men for the same work."


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"Eight out of the nine states with competitive Senate races, Hispanics make up less than 10 percent of the electorate."


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"McDonald’s hamburgers are only 15 percent ‘real beef.’ The other 85 percent is meat filler cleansed with ammonia, which causes stomach and intestinal cancer."


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Says Dan Sullivan approved a "light sentence" for a sex offender who got out of prison and is now charged with a gruesome murder and sexual assault.


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"Scott Walker gave Wisconsin job creation money to his cronies: corporate friends who contributed to his campaigns" and got $570 million in job-development incentives


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Thomas Jefferson said, "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."


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"Over 73% of all donations raised (from the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge) are going to fundraising, overhead, executive salaries, and external donations."


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Says Rick Scott has "teamed up with a felon convicted of running a Ponzi scheme to smear Charlie Crist."


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


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The prosecutor who brought the indictment of Texas Gov. Rick Perry "has ties to Obama. He has ties to the Democrats."


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The United States had "allies lined up" for air strikes in Syria and then Obama "pulled the rug out."


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Greg Abbott was "charged with overseeing the state cancer research fund. But he let his wealthiest donors take tens of millions of taxpayer dollars without proper oversight. They showered Abbott with gifts and free vacations."


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


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"The pension fund in the city of Providence is only 30 percent funded, about the same level as when he [Taveras] took office."


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After merging with Tim Hortons of Canada, Burger King is "not moving. … Our headquarters will remain in Miami" and "(we) will continue to pay all of our federal, state and local U.S. taxes."


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In 2012, there were nearly 12.2 million arrests and only 410 "uses of deadly force" by police in the United States.


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Al Sharpton went to Ferguson, Mo., and is "declaring as a matter of fact that ... Michael Brown didn't use any deadly force or posed no deadly threat to the officer."


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


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Under a proposed medical marijuana amendment in Florida, "you don't get refills -- you get it forever."


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Rick Scott took $200,000 from a family that leased land for drilling "and now he is trying to hide from it."


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Says Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad chartered a plane to remove 124 young illegal immigrants from his state and take them back to Honduras.


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


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


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Says President Barack Obama released a statement on the "death of brother Robin Williams before ... a statement on brother Michael Brown."


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Police in the United States are allowed to use tear gas even though it "has been classified as a chemical weapon and banned in international conflict since 1993."


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


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"The growth rate of women-owned businesses in Texas has nearly doubled that of the nation since President Obama has taken office."


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"Over 60 percent of the provisional ballots cast in [the 2012] election were disqualified because those folks were not duly registered as voters."


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Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein "gave hundreds of thousands of campaign cash to control Crist’s appointments of key state judges."


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"The United States is the only industrialized country that does not guarantee paid time off to care for a new child."


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


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The Obama administration originally "wanted 10,000 troops to remain in Iraq -- not combat troops, but military advisers, special operations forces, to watch the counterterrorism effort."


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"Nazi imagery [was used] by the Block for Governor campaign to describe supporters of Allan Fung for Governor."


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Says drug cartels are using social media to offer rebates so more children from Central America get smuggled to the United States.


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Because of President Barack Obama’s failure to "push job creation," the black unemployment rate in Ferguson, Mo., is three times higher than the white unemployment rate.


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


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Texas prosecutor Rosemary Lehmberg purchased "72 bottles of vodka in just one store alone, in just over a year."


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While "Arkansas seniors depend on Social Security and Medicare," Sen. Mark Pryor supports an overhaul so they "couldn’t get Social Security until they turn 68 or 69."


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When news broke that Ferguson 18-year-old Michael Brown was a suspect in a robbery, "MSNBC practically went off the air for a while to have behind-closed-doors meetings to figure out how to deal with this new revelation."


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Says Keene, N.H., requested a "military-grade armored personnel truck," citing their annual Pumpkin Festival as "a possible target" for terrorists.


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Jason Carter backed three of Nathan Deal’s budgets but accuses the governor of "underfunding education."


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Documents released by Edward Snowden reveal that American, British and Israeli intelligence agencies worked together to create the Islamic State.


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In Ferguson, Mo., "you've got three black officers and 50 white officers with a town that is 67 percent African-American."


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Says Ted Cruz "was just bribed by the Kochs to introduce a bill that would give them and their allies America’s national forests, parks, and other public lands and open them for mining, drilling, fracking and logging."


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The Milwaukee Police Department has seized nearly as many firearms this year as the much larger New York City Police Department.


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Says Rick Scott took $200,000 in campaign contributions from a company that "profited off pollution."


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


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"Far more children died last year drowning in their bathtubs than were killed accidentally by guns."


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Says the former president of the Czech Republic said the American people were a "confederacy of fools" for electing Barack Obama.


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The wife of the Ferguson, Mo., police chief said African-Americans in Ferguson "are feral and violent."


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Gov. Kitzhaber oversaw creation of the Oregon driver card law "behind closed doors without allowing any input from citizens who represent the public interest."


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Says he "voted for even stronger protections (in the Violence Against Women Act) than Obama's agenda will allow."


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"Kids coming from an affluent background" are "taking advantage of all these student loan programs and grants" while many middle-class families with no connection to college are picking up the tab.


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Says George Soros and Bill Gates are funding a bioweapons lab in Sierra Leone that caused the Ebola outbreak.


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Del. Ben Chafin "took money away" from Southwest Virginia schools while voting to build a "politician's palace."


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Top U.S. intelligence officials have told "every member of Congress, including the president, we’re about to be attacked in a serious way because (of) the threat emanating from Syria and Iraq."


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Uncompensated care has "gone down by 30 percent just in the first few months" of Medicaid expansion in the states that adopted it.


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Says GOP primary opponents Glenn Grothman and Joe Leibham cast a "compromise vote that cost $788 million" in higher electricity costs.


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Says that, as a Supreme Court justice, Greg Abbott found that a company whose vacuum cleaners were sold door to door "had no responsibility" in the hiring of a salesman who raped a customer.


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"In 1978, a student who worked a minimum-wage summer job could afford to pay a year's full tuition at the 4-year public university of their choice."


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"So far, the war in Gaza has left more than 1,800 Palestinians dead -- the population equivalent to 100 9/11s."


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"What (the Obama administration is) going to come out with in the next several months is you're not even going to be able to burn coal very limitedly in the existing plants."


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Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. advised citizens to "point that barrel center mass and pull the trigger" because "911 is not our best option."


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


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"The leader of ISIS was imprisoned by American troops and ordered released to Iraq by Obama administration in 2009."


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In the "do-nothing Senate," there are 352 House bills "sitting on Harry Reid’s desk awaiting action," including 55 introduced by Democrats.


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President Barack Obama’s latest executive order "mandates the apprehension and detention of Americans who merely show signs of ‘respiratory illness.’ "


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San Antonio is "now the largest city in the United States ever to have an African American woman mayor."


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"There has never been an alderman who has defeated an incumbent mayor in the history of this great city."


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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau "passed a rule giving the agency unprecedented power to shut down businesses, no matter what the reason, at any time it wishes."


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Says U.S. Senate candidate Joni Ernst signed a pledge that "protects tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas."


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"Attorney General Eric Holder’s own Justice Department precleared the voting changes in the 2011 law" about early voting in Florida.


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"So many people were critical of Secretary (John) Kerry going to Paris and talking with Hamas," because Kerry was seen as "supporting Hamas to the exclusion of the Arab League."


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Says U.S. Senate candidate Cory Gardner "blocked immigration reform" and "voted to deport our DREAMers."


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"Mitt Romney did not run his campaign on the basis of arguing his experience in the business world was a reason to vote for him."


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The people who want President Barack Obama impeached "are all white, they're all older, and guess what, they're in the far right wing of the Republican Party."


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


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Says a $12.5 million incentive deal she approved for Abbott Laboratories contained "strong protections for taxpayers if job creation goals were not met."


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


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


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Says three Ukrainians recently captured on a West Texas ranch are among "individuals from countries that have strong terrorist ties being apprehended" near the state’s border with Mexico.


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Because of the current immigration crisis, Republicans want to "repeal" a 2008 law that President George W. Bush signed and "want to be on record as not wanting to protect children from ... sex trafficking."


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Mary Burke "wasted 12.5 million dollars on a vacant lot" in a move that "could cost taxpayers nearly $25 million."


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Says Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, "skipped an important VA reform hearing to attend three fundraisers."


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Twenty percent of single adults, ages 21 to 25 with no kids, "are not working or even in school trying to find a job."


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


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Milwaukee County taxpayers paid $370,000 to settle a lawsuit over a decision by Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. to use "untrained corrections officers" rather than deputies to patrol the lakefront.


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"By some estimates, as few as 2 percent of the 50,000 (Central American) children who have crossed the border illegally this year have been sent home."


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Brookhaven homeowners pay hundreds of dollars less in property taxes compared with owners of the same-value homes in unincorporated DeKalb County.


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


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"The increase in the garbage tax that [Mayor Allan Fung] imposed in Cranston for some people has been as much as $200."


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A tax plan promoted by North Carolina Senate candidate Thom Tillis will "overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy."


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


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Governing magazine has "estimated that in the states that don’t expand Medicaid, a minimum, they said of 40 percent of rural hospitals will close in those states..."


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U.S. Senate candidate Michelle Nunn "earned as much as $300,000 running a nonprofit that had laid off 90 workers."


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Between June 30 and July 10, CNN interviewed "17 Israeli public officials versus one" Palestinian official.


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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit compared the health care law to buying a pepperoni and ham pizza from Domino's or Pizza Hut.


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"There were 36 states where Republicans who were in charge refused to implement a state (health insurance) exchange."


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"Last year, I was involved with an effort to to help prosecutors get their first pay raise in more than 10 years."


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"If you look at what we’ve done over the last several years, the crime rate has actually gone down in [Providence] and . . . the number of shootings has been going down."


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When the New Hampshire Legislature raised the gasoline tax, gas prices in the state were "skyrocketing."


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"We've recovered (from the recession) faster and come farther than almost any other advanced country on Earth."


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


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Compared to President Obama, "President Reagan rushed home from Santa Barbara vacation, from the Reagan ranch when the Korean jetliner was shot out of the air by the Russians."


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"Literally, by the time a child is 18 years of age, they've killed over 100,000 people in video games and other online things."


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The number of jobs created and people lifted out of poverty during Bill Clinton’s presidency was "a hundred times" what it was under President Ronald Reagan.


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There are fewer wars, there are fewer people dying in wars "now than there have been in quite some time."


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Says former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said that "if the workers are more insecure, that's very healthy for the society" because "they'll serve the masters gladly and passively."


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"The so-called defense minister of the People's Republic of Donetsk ... actually posted a bragging social media posting of having shot down a military transport. And then when it became apparent it was civilian, they pulled it down from social media."


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Jeff Mann has an ethics complaint against him alleging he used county workers for campaign work, which is an indictable offense.


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


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Amid the "crisis at our southern border," there are "reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as … Ebola virus."


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Says Rick Scott’s per-pupil education spending is "about $200 less" than what it was under Charlie Crist during the recession.


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"More than 50 percent of immigrants from (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) use at least one major welfare program once they get here."


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Says the Obama administration never responded to his 2012 letter flagging the uptick in unaccompanied children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.


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"Black voter turnout in 2012 exceeded the rate of white voter turnout, even in the states with the strictest voter ID laws."


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Former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney are "unable to visit Europe due to outstanding warrants."


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Republicans "went out of the way to praise (Eric) Holder's nomination. ... Not a single Republican senator opposed Eric Holder's nomination."


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Says attorney general candidate Jon Richards "went so far to say he would only enforce the laws with which he personally agreed."


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"Teenage births cost Texas taxpayers $1.1 billion in health care, foster care and lost tax revenue in 2010 alone."


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"We spend $18 billion a year on making sure that the federal government has immigrant enforcement agents. That's more than DEA and the ATF and the FBI and all the other enforcement (agencies) combined."


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The Obama administration "manipulated deportation data to make it appear that the Border Patrol was deporting more illegal immigrants than the Bush administration."


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


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Fox News is "banned in Canada" because it violates a law that "prevents ‘news’ channels from lying to their viewers."


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Says "nothing" in Obama’s $3.7 billion request to address the child immigrant situation "actually secures the border."


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"Although the governor doubled the beach fees . . . all the money, as we found out, is all going to an out-of-state company. The state isn't even getting the money for that."


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Children are crossing the border because President Barack Obama said "if you come, you’re going to be able to stay, because we’re not going to enforce the law."


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"This president has offered fewer executive actions than almost any other president preceding his presidency in recent history."


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On the last night of the General Assembly, "by 11 o'clock 95 to 98 percent of the business was done. So we really didn't have that late-night session. We were just holding on one bill."


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The 2011 Rebuild America Jobs Act "would have cost the average American family $1,000 a year while making no significant impact to fix our infrastructure and roads."


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"Without the financial resources provided by hunters to protect habitat and stop poachers, there would be no infrastructure for wildlife management."


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"There are more than 46 million Americans living in poverty today -- the largest number in 54 years."


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When undocumented children are picked up at the border and "told to appear later in court ... 90 percent do not then show up."


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"If you're a Mexican, you get sent back. ... But if you're from a noncontiguous country like the Central American countries" then you can stay in the United States.


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"If you look at the states where soccer is most popular, they're overwhelmingly blue states, and the states where soccer is least popular are red states."


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"As Jim Doyle’s Commerce secretary, Mary Burke spent $12.5 million dollars to buy a vacant lot for a company that said it had no plans to create jobs in Wisconsin" and had laid off 800 workers.


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"In the last three years alone, 13 times, the Supreme Court, unanimously, 9-0, including all of the president's liberal picks, have struck down the president's executive orders."


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"We in this state saw more job creation in the last three years since I've been governor than you saw in the whole eight years of Doyle’s time as governor."


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Cranston's 2014-2015 "budget funds 100 percent of the local police and fire pension and other retiree benefit costs."


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The Obama administration estimates the number of children at the border is "going to increase to 150,000 to 200,000 next year."


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Says Hillary Clinton's health care plan from the 1990s "had a broader provision in favor of corporate right to back out" of providing contraceptive coverage than the one created by the Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision.


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Says Rick Scott "cut education to pay for even more tax breaks for big, powerful, well-connected corporations."


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President Obama has left the U.S. with the lowest number of active-duty troops since before World War II, putting the nation at risk.


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Says children are coming into the U.S. in "staggering numbers" because  President Barack Obama "has been promising amnesty."


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A statewide poll showing 76 percent support and other surveys are a "strong indicator" of  broad public support in Milwaukee County for a $10.10 minimum wage


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The Wisconsin unemployment rate was higher than the U.S. rate during only three months when Mary Burke was state commerce secretary.


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"A salesclerk at Hobby Lobby who needs contraception … is not going to get that service through her employer’s health care plan because her employer doesn’t think she should be using contraception."


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Dan Patrick was the only state senator "who voted against the Veteran Entrepreneurship Program, a program that assists veterans in successfully starting up their own businesses."


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


claim:
"Since the governor took office, Oregon’s unemployment rate has dropped to its lowest point in three years."


claim:
"He’s been in office nearly four years now, but 40% of Wisconsinites don't know who (U.S. Sen.) Ron Johnson is."


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"Congressman (Tom) Cotton is the only Arkansan in Congress -- Democrat or Republican -- to vote against disaster relief five times."


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U.S. Senate candidate Jack Kingston "requested more earmarks than any other GA Congressman and all GA GOP members combined."


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Says Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke has "deputies collecting overtime while sitting passively in chairs watching courthouse security personnel work."


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U.S. Senate candidate David Perdue’s company took $3 million from the federal stimulus program that President Barack Obama created.


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The "9-0 decision last week was the 13th time the Supreme Court voted 9-0 that the president had exceeded his constitutional authority."


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Says 95 percent of people caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border said in a survey "we are coming because we’ve been promised amnesty."


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Republican candidate for governor Ken Block was "fined and had to admit that (he) funneled money illegally to the Moderate Party."


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Republican candidate for governor Allan Fung "donated to Democrats like Congressman David Cicilline, disgraced (House) speaker Gordon Fox and even Mr. Obamacare, Harry Reid."


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When asked by a reporter whether he’s at the center of a "criminal scheme" to violate campaign laws, Gov. Scott Walker nodded yes.


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"The government -- not the armed forces -- is stockpiling hundreds of millions of rounds of ammunition for domestic use."


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


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After Massachusetts passed a mandatory health insurance law "their mortality rate went down...it saved lives."


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"Part of the increase in the cost (of higher education) has been because state support has dropped. We now spend, under Governor Walker, more on corrections than we do on higher education."


claim:
"When Jim Doyle was governor and Mary Burke was commerce secretary," Wisconsin saw "billions in middle-class tax hikes on nursing home beds, gas, phones and garbage."


claim:
"NASA scientists fudged the numbers to make 1998 the hottest year to overstate the extent of global warming."


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Says Barack Obama is the "first president to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office."


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The wages of about 60,562 state and local government employees would be affected if the minimum wage is increased to $10.10 in Georgia, for a combined cost to taxpayers of more than $164 million annually.


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Says Central Texas river water sent to downstream rice farmers in 2011 equaled about three years’ worth of Austin’s water use.


claim:
"There’s $30 billion in expansion funds that we’ve paid – it’s our money and Nathan Deal wants Washington to keep it."


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Says Barack Obama said that "ordinary men and women are too small-minded to govern their own affairs" and that individuals should "surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign."


claim:
"Gov. Rick Scott signed into law a bill that gives Florida's public officials an easy way to avoid disclosing their personal finances."


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The proposed Gogebic iron ore mine is "just up the hill" from the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore caves along Lake Superior.


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The IRS "also investigated liberal groups, groups that had progressive in their name. ... The IRS was basically looking at everybody."


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Says of flood of non-Mexicans being apprehended at the border: "These are people that are coming from states like Syria that have substantial connections back to terrorist regimes and terrorist operations."


claim:
"One thousand people a day are moving to Texas, which means there will be 15 million more people over the next 25 years."


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Wisconsin was the "first state to ban public and private sector employment discrimination based on sexual orientation."


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The Senate proposal to restore emergency unemployment benefits for five months was "fully paid for."


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Says the secret John Doe criminal investigation of his campaign has been "resolved" and two judges have said it is "over."


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Says Dan Patrick has "called immigration into Texas an invasion" and "said immigrants coming into Texas bring ‘third-world diseases.’"


claim:
"Even when all other state agencies took cuts, Gov. [Nathan] Deal increased education spending every year."


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The decision to cancel the trademark of the Washington Redskins "is not the Patent and Trademark Office. This is Barack Obama."


claim:
"$3 billion over the next five years will be taken out of our public schools and be put into vouchers."


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All 28 members of NATO have "pledged to spend at least 2 percent of their economy on defense. But only three countries do -- Britain, Greece and us."


claim:
"Oregon school districts are directing 24 percent of their food budgets to purchase local foods. That’s the highest percentage in the country."


claim:
President Barack Obama "is the first president to keep a dog-trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense."


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Barack Obama is the "first president to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect."


claim:
"There are 278 Republicans in Congress. (With Eric Cantor's defeat), they are now all Christian and all white except for one black senator, who was appointed."


claim:
"The typical Wisconsin worker makes $5,000 less each year than our neighbors in Minnesota" under Gov. Scott Walker’s policies.


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


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Says a picture he posted on Facebook of a man posing in front of five decapitated human heads is "one of the subhuman mongrels our president set free."


claim:
"Only after news broke that our veterans are dying because of inadequate health care did Harry Reid and Senate Democrats take action."


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Says Eric Cantor "was the co-author of the House GOP principles on immigration reform. Both the 'New York Times' and the 'Washington Post' said that that captured the essence of what was in the Senate immigration bill."


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Under Gov. Scott Walker, "employer confidence now stands at 95 percent," compared to "only 10 percent" at the end of the "Gov. Jim Doyle-Mary Burke administration."


claim:
"It was Dan Sullivan who wrote a bill to cut Alaskans out of those decisions" about where they can hunt and fish.


claim:
"Already in Wisconsin we have seen fewer people pursuing education as a career" due to the Act 10 collective bargaining law.


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Under Wisconsin law, "anyone who knows anything about a John Doe" secret criminal investigation "can't talk about it."


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FIFA "pressured Brazil into passing a so-called Budweiser bill, allowing beer sales in soccer stadiums."


claim:
"In Iran in 1979, the extremists hijacked the broad-based popular revolution against the Shah and established a brutal theocracy."


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


claim:
"In the city of Milwaukee, we’ve still got a mayor and a police chief who are furloughing police officers at a time when we have violence all across the city."


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"By the time I left" the State Department, "economic growth was up and opium production was down" in Afghanistan, while "infant mortality declined" and school enrollment rose by more than sevenfold.


claim:
In February, John McCain "suggested" the Bergdahl-Taliban swap that he now calls "outrageous and dangerous."


claim:
Judging by a recent vote, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz "thinks it's okay for medical marijuana patients to go to federal prison."


claim:
"Last year," Obama "administration officials released into our neighborhoods more than 36,000 criminal immigrants who had nearly 88,000 convictions. The crimes included hundreds of convictions for murder, rape and kidnapping and thousands of drug-related crimes."


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


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The Chamber of Commerce says new carbon regulations will kill "244,000 jobs a year" and cost average families "$1,200 a year."


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The Obama administration "went to court to keep one of these five in jail at Guantanamo just three years ago because he was such a huge risk."


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U.S. Reps. Eric Cantor and Luis Gutierrez were "touring the country last year … joined at the hip, working together in a bipartisan fashion indeed for the goal of immigration reform."


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Says when armed civilians stop mass shootings with guns, an average of 2.5 people die; otherwise, an average of 18 people die.


claim:
"The Pentagon made up" the since-debunked heroics of POW Jessica Lynch as she tried to avoid capture in Iraq.


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Due to actions by President Barack Obama, "the Burger King national headquarters announced this month that they will be pulling their franchises from our military bases."


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Says Michele Bachmann said on Fox News, "This country could use a president like Benjamin Franklin again."


claim:
"This generation, on average, is starting their careers, if they’ve been to a four-year college, with just under $30,000 in debt."


claim:
"The numbers make it clear that Georgia voters are increasingly taking advantage of early voting opportunities."


claim:
"We’ve seen a remarkable reduction in the number of Americans being executed -- it’s down nearly two-thirds over the past generation."


claim:
The five Taliban detainees being released from Guantanamo in exchange for captured Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl "are the hardest of the hard-core. These are the highest high-risk people."


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New carbon regulations will increase electric bills by "$17 billion every year" and "potentially put an average of 224,000 more people out of work every year."


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Says Hillary Clinton "defended Syria’s President Assad as a possible reformer at the start of that country’s civil war."


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In Texas, "a faceless hospital panel can deny life-sustaining care, giving you only 10 days to find another facility for your mother, dad, or young child, even if the patient is conscious."


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Says Barack Obama is the only American president who has not visited the D-Day Monument in Normandy on D-Day.


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Says Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., only needs about 40,000 to 50,000 votes to win election to Congress compared with the 120,000 votes King needs, because Waters has a higher immigrant population.


claim:
Peter Kilmartin voted for the 38 Studios loan guarantee and his State House job was to "twist [legislator’s] arms to vote for deals like this."


claim:
"Nathan Deal cut the HOPE scholarship program so that literally 100,000 Georgians will not be able to go to college or get technical training that they so badly needed to raise -- you know, give them a chance at a good job."


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Says opponent Mary Burke told reporters she would have "required workers to give up bargained-for healthcare and retirement benefits like Gov. Walker."


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From 2000 to 2008, we averaged "about five mass shootings a year. We're now averaging 15. So that's a three-fold increase."


claim:
"As unbelievable as it sounds, your tax dollars are funding the federal government's Zombie Apocalypse Plan. I kid you not."


claim:
The Wisconsin school voucher program "has no research that shows that it’s going to improve student learning."


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Says Democratic candidate for state school superintendent Alisha Thomas Morgan voted to slash funding for the preschool programs for disabled and special needs students.


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Since 2000, Texas has reduced "harmful pollutants in the air like nitrogen oxide by 62.5 percent, and ozone by 23 percent--a reduction that is 12 percent greater than the national average."


claim:
The Obama administration spent "$205,075 in ‘stimulus’ funds to relocate a shrub that sells for $16."


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Milwaukee has seen "an uptick in violence" since 2010, and "the only period of calm we get is when winter sets in."


claim:
"Jeff Merkley was the deciding vote on Obamacare, which in Oregon has been an unmitigated disaster."


claim:
In 2007, Ed Gillespie "was paid $300,000 to be the frontman for a coalition that made the individual mandate the centerpiece of its health reform plan."


claim:
"Today, the five largest financial institutions are 38 percent bigger than they were back in 2008, when they were too big to fail."


claim:
A proposed amendment "allows a teenager to get a recommendation for medical marijuana without the consent of a parent."


claim:
"It's been nearly three weeks since the president has commented" on questions about possible hidden wait lists at veterans hospitals.


claim:
A company hired to do Common Core testing in Florida will "attract every one of your children to become as homosexual as they possibly can."


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David Beckham’s soccer stadium would get a "special tax deal that lets them off the hook for $2 million in taxes every year for 30 years."


claim:
"Canadian middle class incomes are now higher than in the United States. They are working fewer hours for more pay, … living longer on average, and facing less income inequality."


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


claim:
In the Georgia-Russia conflict, "we flew a brigade of Georgian soldiers" from Iran to Georgia and "sent U.S. ships into the Black Sea and provided various kinds of supplies."


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


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Before the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, "the State Department not only failed to honor repeated requests for additional security, but instead actually reduced security in Libya."


claim:
"Estimates for adopting Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion show it will cost Virginia taxpayers $902 million through 2022."


claim:
The media "widely overlooked" comments made by former President Bill Clinton that Hillary Clinton had a terrible concussion that took six months to recover from.


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


claim:
"U.S. teenagers have now fallen behind their counterparts in Ireland, Poland and even Vietnam in math and science."


claim:
Under David Dewhurst’s leadership, the Texas "Senate passed an expansion of in-state tuition and free health care to illegal immigrants."


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"No Republicans voted for" recent hikes in the income tax, payroll tax, capital gains tax, dividend tax and estate tax. "These taxes were all passed under … Obamacare."


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Says Hillary Clinton spent 30 days in the hospital in 2012 and appeared "wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury."


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David Beckham’s proposed soccer stadium at Miami’s Port "threatens the 207,000 jobs and $27 billion economic impact tied to the cargo and cruise industries."


claim:
A majority of Americans "since Harry Truman days" support single-payer health insurance, or "full Medicare for all."


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Congress' decision to "spend less around the world" on embassy security contributed to "tragedies" like Benghazi.


claim:
Americans "bought into climate change" in 2004-06, but then most "began wandering away from this issue."


claim:
"During the George W. Bush period, there were 13 attacks on various embassies and consulates around the world. Sixty people died."


claim:
There is no "incontrovertible proof that speed, in and of itself, is the contributing factor to increasing (vehicular) fatalities."


claim:
The CBO says that if you raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, "half a million people would lose their jobs."


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


claim:
Wendy Davis "was just doing a fund-raiser in Chicago with the international socialists organization."


claim:
Wendy Davis raised money for a U.S. House Democrat who is a member of a Democratic socialists group.


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


claim:
"When Deborah took office, the (Sellwood Bridge) project had languished for years, with only $11 million in funds. With her leadership the remaining funding was secured that got the project moving forward."


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If you work 40 hours a week at the proposed minimum wage of $10.10 an hour, "you get out of poverty."


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A 2013 state law would allow the operator of an iron ore mine in northern Wisconsin to "fill in pristine streams and ponds with mine waste."


claim:
"A small majority of Americans don’t think they like the Affordable Care Act, but a large majority of Americans don’t want to do away with the protections that are in the Affordable Care Act."


claim:
In some states, African-Americans are three times more likely to be sentenced to death than whites for the same crime.


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Idaho Republican Rep. Mike Simpson is a "liberal" who voted with Nancy Pelosi to "fund sex study programs of San Francisco prostitutes" and "to regulate the sale of firearms."


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Says the Club for Growth tries to defeat Republicans, and that its president called Nancy Pelosi "the person I respect the most in Washington."


claim:
Says Rick Scott’s record on jobs includes Florida "ranked 2nd in the nation in long-term unemployment."


claim:
"Every single one of the 41 Republican senators who just blocked a raise in the minimum wage will receive a $2,800 cost-of-living adjustment on January 1, 2015."


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


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After the attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, "the ambassador's body was dragged through the street."


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Says Virginia House Republicans are sacrificing $5 million a day in U.S. funds by refusing to expand Medicaid.


claim:
In discussing the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, "Ms. Rice did say 'a terrorist attack.' It’s not that she put the whole thing on the video."


claim:
President Barack Obama’s budget threatens national security by proposing "an Army of fewer personnel than we had before Pearl Harbor."


claim:
"Wendy Davis has already taken more $ from teacher unions than the past 3 Democrat gubernatorial candidates combined."


claim:
The Cathedral of Christ the King is one of the Archdiocese of Atlanta’s largest and fastest-growing parishes.


claim:
Says Attorney General Eric Holder recently revealed "this idea to have government have gun owners wear special bracelets that would identify you as a gun owner."


claim:
"A lot of the problems with forest fires ... is because of bad policy (not to clear out the forests) that was put in place by environmentalists."


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Says "Scott Brown’s carrying some big oil baggage" because he "collected over $400,000 in campaign contributions."


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Jules Bailey "was instrumental in creating the Business Energy Tax Credit that let companies like Wal-Mart profit by $11 million while costing the Oregon general fund $33 million."


claim:
Welcome to Wisconsin road signs have "always been made in Wisconsin," but Scott Walker "is outsourcing them" to an out-of-state company and "paying more money for them."


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The Rhode Island Parole Board "never received an objection from the attorney general" to the parole of  convicted murder Alfred Brissette.


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40 percent of illegal immigrants "had a visa and then became illegal," mostly because "they changed jobs."


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Up "to 45 percent" of illegal immigrants "are not people that physically crossed the southern border or northern border. They are visa overstayers."


claim:
Dave Brat "worked on Democrat Gov. Tim Kaine’s Council of Economic Advisors while Kaine tried to raise our taxes by over $1 billion."


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


claim:
"A white family is likely to have about six times as much wealth than a black or Hispanic family coming out of the recession."


claim:
"In 2013 we had the largest, the best, private sector job growth we’ve had in this state since the 1990s."


claim:
Ed Gillespie’s 2006 book "promoted an individual health care mandate, and recommends that it be enforced by the IRS through the income tax code."


claim:
Says a pro-Democratic ad is "false" for saying that he allowed two disgraced staffers in 2012 to "resign."


claim:
Because the EPA closed a lead smelter in Missouri, "all lead for bullets will have to come from overseas!"


claim:
Atlanta is the No. 1 trading point for sexual slavery in America. Between 100 and 200 girls are sold into slavery in Atlanta every month.


claim:
The Bundy Ranch deal is all about Nevada Sen. Harry Reid "using federal violence to take people’s land in his state so he can package it to re-sell it to the Chinese."


claim:
"Oklahoma’s Republican Gov. Mary Fallin signed a new law which makes you pay a special fee. It will essentially fine people for the crime of using solar power."


claim:
"More than 1,000 American soldiers have lost their lives in Afghanistan in the last 27 months. This is more than the combined total of the nine years before."


claim:
Says Al Franken "voted to exempt himself and Congress from enrolling in (the Affordable Care Act marketplaces)."


claim:
Capital Metro originally said MetroRail's yearly operating costs would be "about $2.5 million. Last year ... it cost $13 million to operate."


claim:
Liberals have figured out a Facebook algorithm and "all the people getting banned from Facebook are somehow conservatives."


claim:
"When you get a commercial pilot’s license, you learn to communicate in English no matter where you are in the world."


claim:
"One thing that is much more unpopular than the Affordable Care Act is repealing the Affordable Care Act."


claim:
"ObamaCare enrollment lie: Obama counts an enrollee as a web user putting a plan in ‘their online shopping carts.’"


claim:
"In Rhode Island today, 25 percent of our households either don't have a bank account at all, or they have a bank account and they're still relying on high-cost financial services like payday loans, pawn shop check cashing and so on."


claim:
"Typical minimum wage earners in America are teenagers living with their parents in middle class families."


claim:
"Pregnant women who stand for five to six hours at a time increase their risk of pre-term pregnancy by 80 percent."


claim:
"In the last couple of days, notices were sent (by officials in Ukraine) to Jews in one city indicating that they had to identify themselves as Jews."


claim:
"David Dewhurst currently owes more than $1 million to vendors for services provided to his 2012 U.S. Senate campaign."


claim:
"The U.S. spends more money on its military than the 16 biggest military budgets in the world" combined.


claim:
Every one of "more than 30 federal judges who have considered the issue of gay and lesbian rights since last June… ruled that marriage is a constitutional right and you cannot deprive individual citizens of that right based on their sexual orientation."


claim:
A recent Gallup poll found that 72 percent of Americans and 56 percent of Democrats "say the biggest threat to our nation's security is big government."


claim:
"The big Wall Street banks, the big corporations" give "many times more" political donations to Democrats than Republicans.


claim:
"A lot of the move to free the slaves ... did not come from the federal government. It came from a growing movement among the people, particularly people of faith."


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


claim:
"Georgia has the nation's fifth largest Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Supplemental Nutrition program, serving more than 270,000 mothers, babies and children every day."


claim:
"From 1972 until 2011, the number of EPA employees increased by 107 percent while the number of total federal personnel decreased by 15 percent."


claim:
During Lyndon B. Johnson’s first 20 years in Congress, "he opposed every civil rights measure that came up for a vote."


claim:
Says Gov. Scott Walker’s repeal of a 2009 law has left Wisconsin as "one of five states without an equal pay law protecting women from gender discrimination in their paycheck."


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


claim:
Says Bruce Braley took "tens of thousands from his friends in the health insurance industry" and gave them "special favors" by voting for Obamacare.


claim:
"Women in Oregon are paid 79 cents for every dollar paid to men. If the wage gap was eliminated, a working woman in Oregon would have enough money for 2,877 gallons of gas, 72 more weeks of food for her family or nearly 12 more months of rent."


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


claim:
The health care law reduces "the number of uninsured in America by 3 percent for how much money? $2 trillion."


claim:
A North Carolina study proves that "probably over a million people voted twice in (the 2012) election."


claim:
Before "our last three presidents, you have to go back to the 1800s, early 1800s to find three presidents in a row being consecutively re-elected."


claim:
When Republicans last controlled the presidency and Congress, "the number of people on food stamps (and) the number of people in low-income housing went through the roof."


claim:
"Young women today in metropolitan areas" who are childless and single are out-earning childless, single young males.


claim:
"Of all the jobs President Obama claims to have created since he started, only 38.5 percent are women. So 61.5 percent have gone to men."


claim:
"Before Congress, (Tom) Cotton got paid handsomely working for insurance companies and corporate interests."


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


claim:
Says U.S. Reps. Phil Gingrey and Jack Kingston have "even changed votes to what I voted, multiple times."


claim:
"Drone technology now allows an individual to be recorded in their homes by drones as small as birds and immediately uploaded to the internet."


claim:
Says the Koch brothers "funded the fight to let flood insurance premiums soar ... Now they’re spending millions to buy a Senate seat for Bill Cassidy so he can fight for them."


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


claim:
Says he was the only statewide elected official to speak in favor of a federal guest worker plan at the 2012 Republican Party of Texas convention.


claim:
"More than 3 million young adults ... have gained insurance under (the Affordable Care Act) by staying on their family’s plan."


claim:
A poll taken "a few months ago" found "70 percent approval or higher" for the Act 10 collective bargaining law.


claim:
"By a two-to-one margin, Rhode Islanders want to ban assault weapons and we have a very small percentage of gun owners in this state, less than 13 percent."


claim:
"We’ve dedicated more money from (Washington County’s) transportation budget to bike and ped projects under my watch than at any time in the history of Washington County."


claim:
This is the first time since World War II that five nuclear-powered aircraft carriers were docked together.


claim:
"EPA officials have commended (Koch Industries) for our ‘commitment to a cleaner environment’ and called us ‘a model for other companies.’ "


claim:
"If you want out of the individual mandate... all you have to do now is tick off the box that says 'hardship' and you're out."


claim:
Says the goal of the Affordable Care Act was to get 30 million people insured, but it only got 7 million.


claim:
"Rick Scott wants to take us back to the days of insurance companies denying coverage for pre-existing conditions."


claim:
"Less than 1 percent of 1 percent of the American population has given an amount over $200" to a federal political campaign.


claim:
David Alameel "is giving thousands of dollars to support the Republican Party candidates" including John Cornyn and Greg Abbott.


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


claim:
Under Mary Burke’s leadership, Commerce Department business-incentive programs had "major shortcomings" and "40 percent of jobs...didn’t materialize."


claim:
The Koch brothers are "the richest people in the world. Individually, they're only fifth. Put them together they're the richest in the world."


claim:
Wisconsin is "one of the bluest" states, but under Scott Walker its unemployment rate "is around 3.5%."


claim:
The Austin Independent School District’s graduation rate reached an all-time high of 82.5 percent in 2012.


claim:
A Koch brothers group is "going to college campuses, giving away free booze to try to bribe young folks out of getting health insurance."


claim:
Says President Barack Obama's acceptance of an "Islamic order and gold medal" was "unconstitutional."


claim:
Premeditation, in murder cases like the Oscar Pistorius case, "can be formed in the twinkling of an eye."


claim:
If the legislature refuses to expand Medicaid, "27 states are going to get our money – Virginia taxpayer money – into their states to provide health care for their citizens, paid for by us."


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


claim:
"No one" claims the report vindicating New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in the bridge scandal is "conclusive."


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


claim:
"A child born in America today will inherit $1.5 million in debt the moment they're placed in their mother's arms."


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


claim:
The percentage of black children born without a father in the home has risen from 7 percent in 1964 to 73 percent today, due to changes from President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society.


claim:
On HealthCare.Gov, Texan Mark Sullivan "found a good" health insurance "plan that includes dental, for less than $80 a month."


claim:
For educational testing, Florida "has chosen a company that has a significant history of promoting identification of the GLBT lifestyle for children as young as seven years old."


claim:
The United States stopped plans to build a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe "as a gift to Russia."


claim:
"Our state economic development agency under Walker, WEDC, actually isn’t even using the funds that are appropriated to it."


claim:
After hiring a campaign manager in 2006, "I got this $100 and something fee ... for hazardous materials."


claim:
In Virginia’s Medicaid program, "approximately 30 percent, or $2.7 billion a year, is lost to waste, fraud and inefficiencies."


claim:
Says Stefani Carter "repeatedly used her campaign contributors’ donations to rent margarita machines for our state house office."


claim:
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate approved a bill "denying veterans the right to recover their medical costs for cancers they developed while serving their country."


claim:
President Barack Obama spent "$5 billion paying Ukrainians to riot and dismantle their democratically elected government."


claim:
After Russia went to war with Georgia in 2008, the U.S. sent a "very strong message" to Vladimir Putin by sending "warships to the Black Sea" and airlifting "combat troops that Georgia had in Afghanistan" back to Georgia.


claim:
Russian annexation of Crimea "removes a million residents of the Ukraine that have provided the margin of victory for (Viktor) Yanukovych, the pro-Moscow prime minister in his last election."


claim:
Says President Barack Obama was responsible for "the assassination of at least four American citizens" in drone strikes.


claim:
Says Abraham Lincoln tried to buy slaves' freedom in border states, but the states "all rejected it."


claim:
"We’re at the point of reaching 2 million deportations ... this is a historic level, more than any other president of the United States."


claim:
Says President Barack Obama told a room of students, "Children, every time I clap my hands together, a child in America dies from gun violence," and then a child told him he could solve the problem by not clapping any more.


claim:
Says Mary Burke's "2007-'09 state budget had a tax hike of $1.8 billion -- costing every man, woman and child in the state an extra $310."


claim:
In the U.S., "African-Americans continue to be arrested at nearly three and one half times the rate of whites" on marijuana charges.


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


claim:
Says his Patient OPTION Act is the only Republican plan "that completely repeals Obamacare and it takes the federal bureaucrat out of decisions for you."


claim:
Says Cathy Jordan was "arrested" and dragged out of her home by "a SWAT team of hooligans" for using medical marijuana.


claim:
Using a surcharge on the cigarette tax to help pay for a new downtown sports arena "is not feasible under state law."


claim:
President Barack Obama shut down NASA space flights and turned the agency "into a Muslim outreach department."


claim:
"If you rent a U-Haul to move your company, it costs twice as much to go from San Francisco to Austin than the other way around, because you can’t find enough trucks to flee the Golden State."


claim:
"Once our Blueprint for Prosperity is signed into law, we will have delivered $2 billion" in tax relief.


claim:
"As attorney general, I have prosecuted judges, district attorneys and other public officials across Texas who violated that (public) trust, who have been corrupted."


claim:
Every child in Colorado who has been given medical marijuana for treatment for seizures has had diminished seizure activity.


claim:
Says President Barack Obama "is the first president we've ever had who thinks he can choose which laws to enforce and which laws to ignore."


claim:
Says five Democratic state senators were for her bicycle tailgating bill "before they were against it."


claim:
With his proposal to cut income and property taxes, Scott Walker is "increasing the state deficit at a time when borrowing is already at record levels."


claim:
"The president won the youth vote 3 to 1, but his numbers have dropped 20, 30 percent among the youth."


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About half the people who would qualify for Medicaid expansion in Florida "can buy a health care plan for $30 a month" on the federal health care exchange.


claim:
When it comes to transportation funds, Georgians spend more in taxes and on red tape than they get back from the federal government.


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


claim:
Says Vladimir Putin once said, "The breakup of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century."


claim:
"It isn't me cutting the budget. It's the Congress' decision on sequestration. So it isn't secretary of defense or the president doing this."


claim:
The new Ukrainian government "introduced a law abolishing the use of languages other than Ukrainian in official circumstances."


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


claim:
"American Hustle shows the FBI making real-life bribes to Washington politicians. I know, because as your U.S. senator, I turned them down."


claim:
Says she made an "accurate prediction" that if Barack Obama were elected it would encourage Russia to invade Ukraine.


claim:
"For every week that (state lawmakers are) able to cut off our timeline, it saves (Georgia taxpayers) approximately $100,000."


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


claim:
"Georgia’s civil forfeiture laws are among the worst in the country and the very worst in the South."


claim:
"In 1968, a full-time worker earning minimum wage, could actually support a family of three above the poverty line. Today, that same worker would earn less than the poverty line for a family of two."


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


claim:
Even though Chicago has "the most stringent gun laws on the books," it still "has the highest murder rate" in the country.


claim:
Seventy-five percent of the young adults in this country are not mentally or physically fit to serve.


claim:
Says "by 4th grade, 86 percent of African-American boys and 82 percent (of) Hispanic boys are reading below proficiency levels."


claim:
Says Tom Cotton’s vote in Congress to change Medicare "will increase out-of-pocket expenses for every senior in Arkansas."


claim:
"Federal government reneging" on Medicaid payments to Wisconsin caused about $240 million in extra costs in the 2013-’15 state budget.


claim:
A Georgia religious freedom bill would help Catholic institutions that, under Obamacare, could be forced to provide abortion-inducing drugs.


claim:
Gun "marketplaces" on Facebook mean "ANYONE can broker a deal on a gun online, meet the seller in a parking lot somewhere, and walk away with a weapon."


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Says Debo Adegbile "was nominated to serve as a judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals" and "was abruptly withdrawn by the administration."


claim:
"Our economy (in Louisiana) has grown 50 percent faster than the national GDP, even since the national recession."


claim:
"I've been a cop in Lake County, Michigan, since 1982 thereabout. I conduct federal raids with the DEA and ATF and U.S. Marshals and the FBI and Texas Rangers."


claim:
Barry Smitherman "doesn’t have enough legal experience to apply for most of the jobs at the attorney general’s office."


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


claim:
More than 80 percent of Georgians don’t support legislation to ease gun restrictions in houses of worship, in bars and on campuses.


claim:
"We’ve got close to 7 million Americans who have access to health care for the first time because of Medicaid expansion."


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Says Alaska Sen. Mark Begich "is on record supporting a carbon tax, even pushing Harry Reid to make it a priority."


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Under current policies, "we're going to reduce the overall debt of the United States by $3 trillion over the next 10 years."


claim:
"A majority of drunk driving deaths and injuries are caused by drunk driving offenders with no prior convictions."


claim:
"There are 4.7 percent of Virginians who are minimum wage earners who are over 25 years of age working full-time and trying to raise a family."


claim:
"Chained CPI would save $1 trillion in the second decade off the federal budget debt," a report shows.


claim:
Rhode Island is "almost dead last" among Northeastern states in the length of time first-degree murderers must spend in prison before they’re eligible for parole.


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


claim:
Says Alaska Sen. Mark Begich supported President Barack Obama’s economic policies "97 percent of the time."


claim:
The medical marijuana ballot initiative "doesn’t require a physician writing a prescription" and can be for conditions like "having a back that needs to be scratched."


claim:
"More than 40,000 troops are still stationed in Afghanistan with no clear objective. Even in the best case, by the end of the year at least 10,000 American soldiers will still be on the ground."


claim:
"Since 2009, Georgia's public schools have lost nearly 9,000 classroom teachers while the number of students has gone up."


claim:
A Congressional Budget Office report says President Barack Obama’s executive order to raise the minimum wage for new federal contract workers "will cost the economy 500,000 jobs."


claim:
"When the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport needed to stop its earthquake spike a few years ago, they temporarily shut down the wells that were injecting fracking fluid into the ground ... (and) those earthquakes stopped."


claim:
Chris Christie "helped funnel $6 million in federal Hurricane Sandy money to a senior center in Belleville, N.J., a place that suffered no damage."


claim:
"In Oregon, women earn an average of 79 cents for every dollar that men earn for doing the same job. That’s just wrong."


claim:
As state Commerce secretary, Mary Burke drafted, sponsored and promoted "budgets that raised taxes by billions, created high structural deficits and raided funds to finance huge spending hikes."


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


claim:
As a result of climate change, ice fishermen in Wisconsin "are already noticing fewer days they can be out on our ice covered lakes."


claim:
Says "(President) Reagan's second inaugural was moved inside the Capitol. It was. Because of a terrible snowstorm."


claim:
"The Republican leadership in the House has refused to address the issues that matter the most to Rhode Island, such as passing a jobs bill."


claim:
"The only time over the last 25 years when the state’s unemployment rate exceeded the U.S. average was when (Mary) Burke was commerce secretary."


claim:
"300,000 Floridians will lose their current health plans" because of Obamacare, a plan Alex Sink supports.


claim:
Says North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Thom Tillis "supports a plan that would end Medicare as we know it."


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Of minimum wage workers in Rhode Island "only 14 percent serve as sole income earner for their family."


claim:
"Over 3 million Americans are employed in the growing green-collar workforce," which is more than the number "of people working in the fossil fuel industry."


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North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Thom Tillis would let insurance companies "deny coverage for pre-existing conditions."


claim:
Businesses "will be required to certify to the IRS – under penalty of perjury – that Obamacare was not a motivating factor" for cutting staff.


claim:
A government report shows that alternatives to the Keystone XL pipeline "are worse" for the environment.


claim:
Girl Scouts USA’s curriculum "promotes Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, Betty Friedan, founder of NARAL Prochoice, and other pro-abortion women as icons for our children to emulate."


claim:
Responding to a major snow event in Atlanta would be like Kansas City, Mo., responding to a major earthquake.


claim:
Says that as a U.S. senator, Scott Brown "delivered for Wall Street, saving big banks $19 billion in taxes."


claim:
"Social Security was advocated … in the 1930s as a way of getting people to quit working, because they thought we were confined to a permanent scarcity of jobs in this country."


claim:
"The median net worth of American households hasn't changed much over the past decades, it's about $20,000 ... but Congress' average median net worth has ballooned, more than doubled."


claim:
The Keystone pipeline creates "35 permanent jobs" after construction, according to a government report.


claim:
"It’s been 14 years since a president or a vice president or a member of their family has not gone and attended at least an event at the Olympics."


claim:
A bill backed by Sean Duffy and other House Republicans "could actually require the Internal Revenue Service to conduct audits of rape victims" who get an abortion.


claim:
"The CBO’s latest report confirms what Republicans have been saying for years now. Under Obamacare, millions of hardworking Americans will lose their jobs."


claim:
"If you have a union job, you're making on average $950 a week. If you have a non-union job, you're making $750 a week."


claim:
Says Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is responsible for the roughly $7,800 "I pay in property taxes per year."


claim:
Says President Barack Obama carried Congressional District 13 "by 8.2 points in 2008 and 5.6 points in 2012."


claim:
Says David Jolly "lobbied on a plan" by Rep. Paul Ryan that would turn Medicare into a voucher program.


claim:
Says President Barack Obama has issued upwards of 1,000 executive orders, more than any modern president.


claim:
"According to (Barack) Obama’s newest unconstitutionally enacted law, health care professionals are now required to violate HIPAA privacy laws and submit medical data to the government," which is "then used as justification for gun confiscation."


claim:
"Savings that I achieved" helped fund cameras on the border. "As a result, more than 21,500 arrests have been made and 46 tons of narcotics confiscated."


claim:
A friend’s sister "died from Obamacare" because Blue Shield "completely just pulled out of California."


claim:
Pinellas County voters "elected me as their chief financial officer … (and) elected me as (their) governor four years ago."


claim:
"The CBO now says the president's health care law will cut the number of full-time jobs in the United States by 2.3 million by 2021."


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


claim:
Wisconsin is "not a high tax and fee state." When you look at "all the money state and local governments bring in" from residents, "we're more in the middle."


claim:
Says he didn't tell viewers that the Obama campaign hid news about the motives behind the attack in Benghazi because Obama was running for re-election.


claim:
Florida shelled out more money for drug testing than it saved by denying welfare benefits to people who tested positive for drugs.


claim:
"Eighty-five percent of the states in the United States that had electrocution have now abolished it."


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


claim:
"Every year since Gov. Walker and the Republicans have been in control of the Legislature we’ve created fewer jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics."


claim:
"I played in a game here against the Pittsburgh Steelers where there was 23 inches of snow. … We played in at least 15 inches of that."


claim:
"Of the 20 bills [Rep. David] Cicilline has sponsored in his three years in office, not a single one has advanced past the embryonic committee stage."


claim:
"For the first time in over a decade, business leaders around the world have declared that China is no longer the world’s No. 1 place to invest; America is."


claim:
"The $18.8 billion in funding for K-12 education funding is the highest in Florida history and includes a record $10.6 billion in state funds."


claim:
"The federal minimum wage is worth about 20 percent less than it was when Ronald Reagan" gave his first address to a joint session of Congress.


claim:
"Over the past eight years, the United States has reduced our total carbon pollution more than any other nation on Earth."


claim:
There is "more oil produced at home than we buy from the rest of the world – the first time that’s happened in nearly 20 years."


claim:
Monica Wehby and Jason Conger are "causing devastating consequences" for nearly 23,000 Oregonians looking for work.


claim:
Says state Sens. Greg Evers, Nancy Detert and Charles Dean "got a failing grade from conservatives."


claim:
Says in 2000, Fox News broke the story of George W. Bush’s drunk driving arrest. "Who broke it? Fox News."


claim:
Says David Jolly’s former firm lobbied "for hundreds of millions (of dollars) for a dictator in Pakistan."


claim:
"Recently, Florida has successfully reduced the environmental permitting time down to just two days."


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


claim:
"Obamacare passed by just one vote in the Senate. It wouldn’t have passed without Mark Warner’s vote."


claim:
Volunteer firefighters and communities they serve in Georgia and elsewhere are being devastated by Obamacare.


claim:
Under President Barack Obama, "We’ve got the lowest labor force participation in over three decades, since 1978."


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


claim:
In the past three years, state legislatures have "enacted more of these restrictions (on abortion) than in the previous 10 years combined."


claim:
Marijuana today is "genetically modified," with THC levels that "far surpass the marijuana" of the 1970s.


claim:
People on pot "shoot each other ... stab each other ... strangle each other, drive under the influence, kill families."


claim:
The average Georgia family makes $6,000 less than the average family did 10 years ago when inflation is factored in.


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


claim:
Of the approximately 6 million disenfranchised felons in the United States, "one-quarter are Floridians."


claim:
"After years of 5.5 percent average tuition increases, we now have a two-year tuition freeze for the first time in the history of the UW System."


claim:
"We had 6,000 oil and gas spills in 2012" with "more oil and gas spreading in the United States than the entire Exxon Valdez spill."


claim:
"Rick Scott’s Administration spent over $100,000 of taxpayer money during their first voter purge attempt in 2012."


claim:
"Since Barack Obama became president of the United States, 95 percent of economic gains have been made by the richest 1 percent."


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


claim:
"We’ve had the private sector more than double the investment that was made by the public sector" at Quonset Business Park.


claim:
In 2011, Carlos López-Cantera "staunchly supported" a Florida bill modeled after Arizona’s immigration law


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


claim:
In Russia "all people are absolutely equal regardless of their religion, sex, ethnicity, or sexual orientation," while "70 countries of the world have criminal liability for homosexuality."


claim:
Action by the Milwaukee County Board will "provide the County Executive with the same level of security as the Governor and the Mayor of Milwaukee while saving taxpayers $300,000."


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


claim:
"In 1916, the U.S. government predicted that by the 1940s all paper would come from hemp and that no more trees would need to be cut down."


claim:
"For the first time in nearly two decades, we produce more oil here in the United States than we buy from the rest of the world."


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


claim:
"The (New England) Patriots were led by an explosive offense that scored the second most points in the NFL."


claim:
President Barack Obama’s judicial appointments for Georgia and the region were drafted in secret and not vetted by legal groups among the president’s supporters.


claim:
On foreign policy, Joe Biden was against aid for Vietnam, said the fall of the Shah was "a step forward" for human rights in Iran, opposed Reagan's defense build-up and voted against the first Gulf War.


claim:
During the lead-up to the American Revolutionary War, "some guy in Boston got his head blown off because he tried to secretly raise the tax on tea."


claim:
Obama unilaterally announced he was delaying employer mandate "through a blog post by a mid-level bureaucrat at the Department of Treasury."


claim:
"Texas is experiencing the fastest population growth in the country," adding "more than 1,000 people a day."


claim:
Scott Walker's income "tax plan is a tax hike. It increases taxes for nearly 80% of the people in the state."


claim:
"Trey Radel does not even qualify to drive a Lee County school bus at this point, yet he occupies a seat in Congress."


claim:
"I started the whole year" as a senior on the University of Illinois football team and "led the team in interceptions and tackles from defensive back."


claim:
"The median male worker in this country has not seen a raise, inflation adjusted, for 30 years, basically."


claim:
"If you have a job in this country, (there's a) 97 percent chance that you're not going to be in poverty."


claim:
"If you make the average amount of people in Wisconsin, $50,000, you got $1.60 less a week in taxes" under the state income-tax cut, but "it didn’t show up in your paycheck."


claim:
"Sens. Isakson’s, Chambliss’ Votes Against Unemployment Insurance Were Votes to Kill Nearly 6,000 Georgia Jobs."


claim:
A judge's order means there's a "Constitution exemption zone" if you live "within 100 miles of the United States border."


claim:
"Under Obamacare, when you turn Medicaid over to the states ... the money will be available up front for the expansion for a few years. Then, the money will go away."


claim:
"Jobs that involve the minimum wage are overwhelmingly jobs for young people starting out in the workforce."


claim:
"The amount of attention paid this week to Chris Christie makes the coverage of Benghazi ... pale in significance."


claim:
"We have been in Afghanistan longer now than we have been in any foreign land conducting a war in our nation’s history."


claim:
"What do Rutgers University, Kean University, Montclair State University, New Jersey City University, Stockton College, Rowan University and William Paterson all have in common? They all graduate less than 50 percent of their students within four years."


claim:
"The Obama administration has used the Espionage Act to go after whistleblowers who leaked to journalists ... more than all previous administrations combined."


claim:
The Foundation for Government Accountability, which supported a Florida law requiring drug testing of welfare recipients, is a "Koch brothers affiliated group."


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


claim:
"State Rep. Kathleen Peters has a 100 percent pro-abortion voting record – even voting against a ban on sex-selection abortions."


claim:
"Oregon is spending $10 million advertising Obamacare with ads that don’t even mention the program and how to enroll in it" and that don’t "mention the word ‘insurance.’"


claim:
"Under the Espionage Act, (Edward Snowden would not be) allowed to come into court and say ‘I was justified in disclosing this information.’ There is no whistleblower exception in the Espionage Act."


claim:
Under a proposed bill, a $100,000 home’s flood insurance premium would be "maybe $200 or $300 annually."


claim:
The No. 2 owner of Fox News is Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who said, "A strong American Government is not good for us."


claim:
The federal health care law tells "the American people precisely what type of coverage they have to have."


claim:
The Obama administration offered "no magic number" of people that needed to sign up for health care on the marketplaces.


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


claim:
"Granite Staters who hold individual policies from Anthem...can indeed renew their policies and keep their current doctors and hospitals" in 2014.


claim:
Because of the health care law, "by 2017, we will be funneling over $100 billion annually to private insurance companies."


claim:
Republican state lawmakers "are refusing to give the people of their own states their own tax dollars back in the form of (expanded) Medicaid."


claim:
"(Jack Kingston) had more earmarks at one time than every member of the Georgia delegation put together."


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


claim:
"This is the first time in Texas history -- and only the fourth time in United States history -- that two women are running for the top spots."


claim:
Protesters in La Crosse blocked an exit and surrounded a State Patrol car carrying the governor and were "beating on the windows and rocking the vehicle." When the car was "extricated" from the crowd, a truck blocked a second exit.


claim:
Says President Barack Obama "came into office very concerned about" wiretappings but "then he became president of the United States, he got all the briefings … (and) he decided … the balance is probably pretty appropriately struck."


claim:
To comply with non-discrimination laws, the government is "forcing people in business to make wedding cakes" for anyone.


claim:
Says Gov. Scott Walker dropped out or was kicked out of college short of a degree "not long after" he was "kicked out of student elections at Marquette University."


claim:
Federal law for Obamacare navigators "does not bar — or even require screening for — convicted felons, including individuals convicted of identity theft or fraud."


claim:
"60 percent of the jobs lost in the 2008 recession were living-wage jobs. Of the jobs we’ve gotten back, only 40 percent are living-wage."


claim:
Studies suggest the 2017 College Football Playoff Championship game will bring about 1,700 to 1,800 full-time jobs.


claim:
The economic impact of new Atlanta Braves stadium includes 9,241 new jobs and $295 million in wages.


claim:
"We don’t show people playing these games. We don’t show them winning playing the video lottery games."


claim:
The United States is "behind many countries in Europe in terms of the ability of every kid in America to get ahead."


claim:
"The latest Quinnipiac poll found that nearly six-in-ten Americans oppose ObamaCare -- 30% support the law and 57% oppose it."


claim:
"Texas has the highest rate of uninsured in the nation. ... And there are more uninsured children in Texas than in any other state."


claim:
"Medicare costs have slowed down dramatically. In fact, the first two months of this fiscal year, Medicare costs were down even in nominal terms relative to the previous year."


claim:
Greg Abbott defended more than $5 billion in public school funding cuts in fighting hundreds of school districts in court.


claim:
"By using a little-known loophole ... Obama minions are allowing Nestle Company to export precious fresh water out of Lake Michigan."


claim:
Florida’s proposed medical marijuana amendment "would make Florida one of the most lenient medical-marijuana states, allowing use for limitless ‘other conditions’ specified by any physician."


claim:
"Of the four statewide races this century within a 300-vote margin, three have been overturned in a recount."


claim:
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act "discriminates against Christian daycare, Christian parents, Christian business owners, and the rights of religious freedom."


claim:
Iran President Hassan "Rouhani has more Cabinet members with Ph.D.s from American universities" than members of Barack Obama’s Cabinet.


claim:
School children can earn higher grades by studying Islam under a new "nationwide Muslim outreach program" announced by President Barack Obama.


claim:
Says he would have "almost twice the actual experience practicing law" Greg Abbott did on becoming attorney general of Texas.


claim:
The new Atlanta Braves stadium will require no tax increase for homeowners and provide $3 million annually for Cobb County schools.


claim:
A gun "background check is futile. Something like 42 (people during the) last year … were prosecuted for trying to buy a gun with a criminal record out of 11 million."


claim:
Under President Obama’s health-care reforms, the premium for "an average plan for a family didn't go down by $2,500 per year, it's gone up about $2,500 per year."


claim:
"The vast, overwhelming majority of [crimes that occur with a firearm] are committed by people who don’t legally possess that firearm in the first place."


claim:
Gov. Charlie Crist "sought for and got approved the automatic restoration of felon rights for nonviolent offenders for the first time in Florida history."


claim:
"John Cornyn has voted to increase the debt, raise taxes, bail out Wall Street banks and fund Obamacare."


claim:
"The CBO just said if we cut this (unemployment benefits) extension, we will kill jobs, because those people who are looking for work won't have any money to spend."


claim:
Even after collective bargaining reforms, most Wisconsin public employees "are still paying about 12 to 13 percent" of their health insurance premiums, while most state residents who work in the private sector "pay 20 to 25 percent."


claim:
"I have cut taxes 63 times, including a 2006 property tax reduction that ranks as the largest in state history."


claim:
"The Walton family, which owns Wal-Mart, controls a fortune equal to the wealth of the bottom 42 percent of Americans combined."


claim:
Passing a federal firearms "background check through the NICS database . . . typically takes 90 seconds."


claim:
"At present spending levels, only citizens of New York have a greater local debt burden than Texans."


claim:
The "priorities" of more than three-quarters of Americans are to increase the minimum wage, create a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, and require background checks for gun buyers.


claim:
"By the time she turns 3 years old, a child born into a low-income home hears 30 million fewer words than a child from a well-off family."


claim:
Says Vladimir Putin said, "President Obama and his fellow Democrats are either idiots or deliberately trying to destroy their own economy."


claim:
It's a good sign for Obamacare that in California, "the proportion of kids who are signing up is the proportion of kids in the population."


claim:
Obamacare is a "massive, massive income redistribution" with "$250 billion a year in Medicaid expansion (and) in the subsidy structure that's basically being paid for by people on Medicare, through Medicare cuts, and a lot of tax increases."


claim:
"Why would our president close the embassy to the Vatican? Hopefully, it is not retribution for Catholic organizations opposing Obamacare."


claim:
"Residents could have received nearly $48M for Local Schools, Fire District, Sheriff’s Dept. and Social Services."


claim:
"We, the bishops of the United States -- can you believe it -- in 1919 came out for more affordable, more comprehensive, more universal health care."


claim:
"Back door gun control is in full effect in the United States" due to "Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency."


claim:
Says in the last five years "Senate Republicans have placed a filibuster on every piece of legislation and every nominee."


claim:
"The administration was kicking and screaming all the way with these sanctions being put in place (on Iran)."


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


claim:
"Since 1988, Congress has raised its own salary 15 times 'to reflect rising costs.' But raised the minimum wage only three times."


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


claim:
If the Trans-Pacific Partnership "is fast-tracked through the Senate, it won't receive a committee assignment" and the consideration will include "no debate."


claim:
"Just days ago, Iran's Supreme Leader (Ali) Khamenei, who will oversee implementation of this agreement, was calling Israel a 'rabid dog' and accusing the United States of war crimes."


claim:
In Wisconsin, more than 300,000 people have "some kind of addictive gambling problem, whether it’s pathological or what we’d categorize as a problem gambler."


claim:
"Only 536 Georgians are signed up for Obamacare while 400,000 in the state lost their health insurance."


claim:
"Republicans have proposed dozens of (health care) solutions designed to help control costs and improve quality."


claim:
Republican ideas on health care don’t give people "an option to even enroll in something that they can afford."


claim:
"During the last election, Democrats won over a million votes more than Republicans, but because of the way districts are designed, the Republicans got 33 more members of the House of Representatives than the Democrats did."


claim:
President Barack Obama has the "power to stop deportation for all undocumented immigrants in this country."


claim:
"These 60 acres (the Atlanta Braves want to build a stadium on) have produced zero SPLOST money for parks and recreation, have produced zero money for education."


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


claim:
"American voters remain steadfast in their support for immigration reform with a path to citizenship, with more than 70 percent who want to see reform passed this year."


claim:
In a poll, "53 percent of young Republican voters . . . under age 35 said that they would describe a climate [change] denier as 'ignorant,' 'out of touch' or 'crazy.'"


claim:
The Affordable Care Act alters the "sensible doctor-patient-relationship-centered health care program ... we see today."


claim:
"Harry Reid was against (the nuclear option) before he was for it. Mitch McConnell was for it before he was against it. President Obama was against it before he was for it."


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


claim:
"The reason we have a national debt is not because of defense spending. What is driving our long-term debt are Medicare and Social Security programs."


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


claim:
"8.5 million Americans have gotten rebate checks because their insurance companies were spending too much money on executive bonuses and administrative costs and not enough on health care."


claim:
Says Barack Obama’s approval rating "is right in the average" for second-term presidents at this point.


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


claim:
Says there’s no language in the U.S. Constitution that prevents someone from running for Congress simultaneously in multiple states.


claim:
Says Thomas Jefferson said, "You might be able to fool the people for awhile, and they may go astray, but sooner or later the American people are going to wake up and they will correct the course."


claim:
"You've seen where we're now going from a $700 million surplus to getting into the next biennium with almost a $750 million deficit."


claim:
The U.S. Department of Defense spends $80 million a year on prostate cancer research, $25 million a year on ovarian cancer research and $150 million a year on breast cancer research.


claim:
Medicare Part D "was far more expensive than the Affordable Care Act and unlike" the act, "was never budgeted."


claim:
The deficit this year could pay "all of the 2013 salaries of every professional baseball player for the next 248 years."


claim:
Says the number of Democrats who voted for the GOP measure allowing health plan renewals is close to the number who voted on GOP bills to delay mandates on employers and individuals.


claim:
"Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama."


claim:
"Given how expansive our program already was," expanding Medicaid in New Jersey due to Obamacare "was a relatively small expansion."


claim:
One of the "main functions" of the Department of Homeland Security’s SAVE database is "checking voter registration citizenship status."


claim:
"Onion Creek’s highest flow rate" on a recent night of flooding "was 120,000 cubic feet per second, which is nearly double the average flow rate of Niagara Falls."


claim:
"In July 2010 the government said small businesses -- 60 percent -- will lose their health care, 45 percent of big business and a large percentage of individual health."


claim:
"Georgia has lost 14 percent of its jobs paying more than $50,000 a year and added 15 percent to its Medicaid rolls during the recovery."


claim:
Says the Obama administration is handing out a pamphlet titled, "What To Do When The Veteran In Your Classroom Attempts A Mass Shooting"


claim:
"They delayed my swearing-in here in Massachusetts for a couple weeks so they could ram (the health care law) through."


claim:
"The majority of people travelling to these destination resorts are not going for the primary purpose of gambling."


claim:
Says Rick Scott "cut education by $1.3 billion" in his first year, then "in his second year he decreases funding by $300 million to our state universities."


claim:
Finance experts estimate that paying in cash for the $2.5 billion in projects funded by the sales tax saved Gwinnett County more than $1 billion in interest payments.


claim:
Says Chris Christie "vetoed Planned Parenthood funding five times over the course of his governorship."


claim:
Says 18 states and the District of Columbia have voted Democratic in six consecutive presidential elections.


claim:
"A million people … could get health insurance right away" if Texas expanded Medicaid under Obamacare.


claim:
"When you add a dollar value to mandates," government took almost 50 percent "of the American people’s money."


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The University of Texas is starting "the first medical school at a major Tier One" university "in the last 50 years."


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Says taxpayer subsidy for the Oregon Convention Center hotel jumped $100 million in closed-door sessions


claim:
Says Kay Hagan "supports waivers for friends of Obama and special treatment for Congress and their staffs."


claim:
With a bill bringing $100 million in property tax relief, "the typical Wisconsin homeowner will save approximately $680 over four years."


claim:
Says Barack Obama "knew half of the population of the United States would lose their health insurance."


claim:
A planning group said that to meet anticipated traffic demands by 2035, Interstate 35 between Austin and Round Rock will need a dozen additional lanes going north and 14 additional southbound lanes.


claim:
"The Legislature passed Gov. Walker’s so-called property tax relief bill," but the Republicans "are still raising your property taxes."


claim:
Congress "is bewildered at the scope and reach of our spying apparatus" but in 2008 and 2012 "explicitly rejected an amendment calling for more disclosure."


claim:
I am the only U.S. Senate candidate who spoke out against bombing Syria, and who challenged Georgia’s governor and insurance commissioner over obstruction to the Affordable Care Act.


claim:
Says Rick Scott "didn’t even come to his own education summit. But he did take time to go to the tea party convention the same week."


claim:
In 1929, the Secretary of State shut down a program that was "collecting information to protect America" because it was "unseemly," but that move led to "millions and millions" of deaths in World War II.


claim:
"If your plan is the result of collective bargaining, no subsequent changes by anybody -- insurance companies, Obamacare -- can force your grandfathered policy to change."


claim:
The average fast food worker is 29, and most fast food workers "are on some form of public assistance."


claim:
"Only 14 percent of Americans were able to keep these individual market plans for two years" before Obamacare became law.


claim:
"Before the Republican wave in 2010, Democrats had an advantage on the generic ballot in Congress. Even in 1994 with the Gingrich revolution ... Democrats had that advantage."


claim:
"Providence has more of its pension fund invested in hedge funds and is less transparent" about it than the state.


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


claim:
"Natalyn Archibong skipped (Atlanta) City Council meetings or was late 90% of the time. Then she voted herself a pay raise."


claim:
"Even after Obamacare is fully implemented, there still will be tens of millions of people not covered."


claim:
Under President George W. Bush, "we added $4.9 trillion to the debt. Under President Obama … we’ve added $6.5 trillion to the debt."


claim:
"Texas Governor Rick Perry’s voter ID law is a blatant effort to defeat Wendy Davis by disenfranchising tens of thousands of women voters."


claim:
"If I have affordable coverage in my workplace, I'm not eligible to go into the marketplace. ... It’s illegal."


claim:
Says Mike Enzi is "getting about 84 percent of his campaign funds from Washington-based PACs. That's more than any senator of either party."


claim:
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned that the SAVE "database is not a foolproof means of verifying (citizenship on) the voter rolls."


claim:
"The number of Americans who receive means-tested government benefits -- welfare -- now outnumbers those who are year-round full-time workers."


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


claim:
Nearly 6 in 10 uninsured Americans "can get health insurance for what may be the equivalent of your cell phone bill."


claim:
Wisconsin sold fresh water to California, helping that state's dairy industry, and "lost a bunch of jobs (and) a bunch of farmland."


claim:
For the state of Florida, "there is not an additional cost with implementation of the Common Core standards."


claim:
In Florida, "300,000 people are going to lose their individual coverage because of Obamacare. Now those people next year, they don’t have health insurance."


claim:
"The IRS has been specifically forbidden ...  from ever actually pursuing either civil or criminal remedies" for people who don’t purchase health insurance.


claim:
Georgia "spends in the top 10 nationally on education, yet, most of our education metrics hover in the bottom five."


claim:
Says "there are actually more people in poverty now than there were when we started" the War on Poverty.


claim:
"Wisconsin is not as obese as the national average is. The national average, 35.7 percent of the population is obese. In Wisconsin, it's closer to 26 percent."


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


claim:
Common Core "is not from the federal government," they "do not have their fingerprints on this thing at all."


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


claim:
Gov. Lincoln Chafee has imposed "a mandatory abortion fee" on all Rhode Islanders who buy health insurance through the state’s Obamacare exchange.


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


claim:
Common Core is being "used by the Obama Administration to turn the Department of Education into what is effectively a national school board."


claim:
According to a federal report, Obamacare will increase the long-term federal deficit by $6.2 trillion.


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


claim:
"Common Core expects English teachers to spend at least half of their reading instructional time at every grade level on informational texts."


claim:
The goal of Common Core is "to instill federally determined attitudes and mindsets in students including political and religious beliefs."


claim:
Common Core means "there are over 300 data elements the government is going to be collecting about your children and about you."


claim:
All members of Congress are required to be in Obamacare, but Obama and members of his administration "have their own gold-plated health care plans that they're in."


claim:
"Local law enforcement . . . will have access to the [Obamacare] Data Hub’s treasure trove of personal info."


claim:
"We went from $160 billion deficit spending in (President George W.) Bush's last year to $1.6 trillion the following year."


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


claim:
Says "by reducing chronic health care costs in the State of Georgia, we can reduce the $32.8 billion lost each year due to lack of productivity and economic costs."


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


claim:
40,000 veterans in Texas won’t get health care because Perry rejected Obamacare's Medicaid expansion.


claim:
"Unfortunately, since Mr. Foster's been mayor ... there are less people employed in the city of St. Petersburg than there were prior to his taking office."


claim:
When SACS came back to the DeKalb County School District to give a midterm review, we got straight A’s.


claim:
Congressional lawmakers earn their salaries "FOR LIFE," which for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi would add up to "$803,700 Dollars a year for LIFE including FREE medical."


claim:
"Neville Chamberlain told the British people: ‘Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.’"


claim:
Says Jeanne Shaheen "got behind the idea of using the IRS to target American citizens for their political views."


claim:
Ann Kuster turned "a blind eye to those in need of funding" by voting "against funding for our nation’s veterans, low-income women and children, the FDA and the National Institutes of Health."


claim:
Says U.S. Rep. Steve Daines, R-Mont., "opposes a vote on his own legislation that he proposed just a few months ago."


claim:
"Rather than prioritize and pass ethics reform measures to restore trust in state government, (Democrats) sat on their hands and did nothing" when they were the majority.


claim:
"Six years after unionization, 20,000 fewer children in Illinois were being served by the Child Care and Development Fund program."


claim:
Bill Gunter would "drain millions from local public schools, and give our tax dollars to private, for-profit schools run by out-of-state corporations."


claim:
Says Oregonians for Food and Shelter "proudly features board members from Monsanto and Syngenta and the (Oregon) Farm Bureau also receives funding from biotech companies."


claim:
Terry McAuliffe has "threatened to shut down Virginia’s government if his budget plan isn’t supported."


claim:
Says "(t)his 12 year council 'Seat-warmer' has never chaired, vice chaired, or led a single Council committee meeting."


claim:
Louie Gohmert of Texas "blamed the mass shooting at a movie theater in Colorado on ‘the ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs.'"


claim:
"Violent crime is up since the last year of Sharpe James’ administration. This year it’s higher. … The unemployment rate is almost 15 percent. The high school dropout rate is over 50 percent."


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


claim:
"Many don’t know that Bill Young was once the minority leader in the Florida Senate...because he was the only Republican senator."


claim:
I am "the only candidate for lieutenant governor to oppose in-state tuition for illegal immigrants."


claim:
Says Sen. Mark Pryor voted for "special subsidies" for lawmakers and staff in Congress "so they’re protected from Obamacare."


claim:
Says her actions as Wisconsin commerce secretary brought the state "84,000 more Wisconsin jobs than we have today."


claim:
Any state tax law has to start in the House and the renewal of the state hospital bed tax this year started in the Senate, which is unconstitutional.


claim:
"For the first time since the Korean War, total federal spending has gone down for two years in a row."


claim:
"Every month, we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for work."


claim:
There is "a constitutional issue" that affects "the paychecks of members of Congress" during a shutdown.


claim:
"This year, the federal government will have more revenue than any year in the history of our country."


claim:
Virginia is "the number one state per capita in screening out people with mental illness from gun purchases."


claim:
Domestic violence "is seen as a pre-existing" health condition and "women had to pay 50 percent more for health care because of gender ratings," but under Obamacare, "all of that is over."


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


claim:
"Eighty-five percent of government's running right now. Only 15 percent of government spending is shut down."


claim:
"At the time that (Medicare Part D) was passed (it) was actually less popular than the Affordable Care Act, according to the polls."


claim:
Shutdowns are "a normal part of the constitutional process," with 12 shutdowns under Democratic House Speaker Tip O’Neill and two during his own speakership.


claim:
Among the nation’s 51 largest metropolitan areas, Milwaukee is the "only one" where the poverty rate is more than "four times greater in the city than it is in the suburbs."


claim:
In a "sweetheart deal … members of Congress, thanks to the Obama administration, are going to be the only people in America to get subsidies in the Obamacare exchanges."


claim:
"In 2010, the non-partisan Government Accountability Office found that only 6.5 percent of the U.S.-Mexico border was under full control of the Border Patrol."


claim:
"In states where the federal government helps run these (health care) marketplaces, the average American will have more than 50 different plans to choose from, with different levels of coverage."


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


claim:
"There are still tens of thousands of missing service members from previous and current conflicts that our nation is working to find and repatriate."


claim:
If sea levels rise six feet due to climate change, Waterplace Park in Providence and Wickford village would be swamped


claim:
With Obamacare, "we're fixing to get hit with the biggest entitlement program the American taxpayers have ever seen."


claim:
Under Cuccinelli’s tax cut plan, "school divisions across Virginia could be forced to fire over 8,000 teachers."


claim:
UPS left 15,000 employees’ spouses "without health insurance" and told them to, "go on an exchange with no employer subsidy."


claim:
"I’ve been reducing the number of Democratic" Texas Senate committee "chairs since I came in" as lieutenant governor.


claim:
The 2013-’15 state budget backed by Gov. Scott Walker and Republican lawmakers "left our technical colleges funded at 1989 levels."


claim:
"Today many Florida teachers are at risk of having their pay impacted by the performance of children who are not even in their classrooms or subject areas."


claim:
"According to the Congressional Budget Office, repealing Obamacare would increase the budget deficit."


claim:
"Over the past 35 years, Florida families have paid into the (National Flood Insurance Program) over $16 billion, four times more than the amount they have received in claim reimbursements."


claim:
Says President Barack Obama "has amended, delayed, or repealed 19 components of his very own (health care) law."


claim:
"Unlike you and me, Congress gets to keep up to $11,000 a year in taxpayer subsidies" under Obamacare.


claim:
If the government shuts down, "all military personnel will continue to serve and accrue pay but will not actually be paid until appropriations are available."


claim:
Some "20,000 Delphi salaried retirees lost up to 70 percent of their pensions" as a result of "political favoritism and backroom deals."


claim:
"Thanks to (Rick) Perry's bad budgeting, the (Texas) highway department has to convert some modern paved state roads back to gravel."


claim:
Tuition at Rutgers has increased 10 percent since Gov. Chris Christie took office because he "cut funding for higher education."


claim:
In Florida "we have 75,000 on (a) waiting list for child care and 23,000 on waiting lists" for community care for the elderly.


claim:
"Cuccinelli wants to make all abortion illegal, even in cases of rape and incest, even to protect a woman’s health."


claim:
The Capitol Police force is "going so far as to use paramilitary equipment" in dealing with singing protesters in Madison


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


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


claim:
"The CDC issued a report commissioned by President Obama just earlier this year, and it found some very inconvenient facts. Armed citizens are less likely harmed by attackers. Effectiveness of gun control laws is mixed. Gun buybacks don't work."


claim:
Says potential Democratic opponent Mary Burke "implemented the policies of Jim Doyle. Those are the policies that, in his last term, saw the state lose more than 133,000 jobs."


claim:
According to the most recent jobs report, "we've got more Americans leaving the workforce than we have finding jobs."


claim:
"Minnesota is kicking butt relative to Wisconsin on everything from employment and job creation to school test scores, educated work force and a host of other factors and rankings"


claim:
Under Mayor Angel Taveras "Providence’s bond rating was downgraded from A to BBB, two steps above junk-bond status."


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


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


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


claim:
In the event of a U.S. strike on Syria, "the Russians will replace the weapons immediately. They’ve said it on the record. They’ve suggested they might even replace it with better stuff."


claim:
"The Kenosha casino would be one of the state’s largest employers and pay more to the state than any other company or Tribe – essentially, it would be Wisconsin’s biggest taxpayer."


claim:
"We've seen priests beheaded by the Islamic rebels on the other side. We've also seen an Islamic rebel eating the heart of a soldier."


claim:
"Before President Obama acted in Libya in 2011, the American people were opposed to military action by 35 to 60. After he took action, they were in support of it 54 to 43."


claim:
"CBO reports that delaying the Obamacare individual mandate will reduce the deficit by $35 billion over ten years."


claim:
Says U.S. Rep. Tom Price is sending letters both supporting and opposing the "small-business killing Internet Tax Mandate."


claim:
"Over the past twenty years, the number of homicides committed with a firearm in the United States has decreased by nearly 40 percent. The number of other crimes involving the use of a firearm has also plummeted, declining by nearly 70 percent."


claim:
Salaries for URI faculty are second to last among New England land grant universities and in lowest 20 percent of major U.S. research institutions


claim:
An account of attacks in Benghazi written by former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers shows that the body of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens was "dragged through the streets" and abused.


claim:
"We will have the highest general revenue in state history next year. Conservative pro-growth policies work in our state."


claim:
About 40 percent of U.S. illegal immigrants "came in on an airplane, with a legal visa, and just overstayed their visa and have never gone home."


claim:
According to a recent poll, "there are more young Republicans enrolled in their parents' (health insurance) plans than young Democrats."


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


claim:
Under the Endangered Species Act, "only 1 percent of the species that have been listed have actually been delisted."


claim:
Obamacare-caused paperwork will annually absorb 190 million hours or more--and Mount Rushmore could be built 1,547 times over "with the paperwork."


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


claim:
Because of Gov. Scott Walker’s budgeting, a greater percentage of general fund tax dollars is "going to pay off debt than ever before in our history."


claim:
"Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa already have 70 mph" speed limits on rural interstates, and "we see that they’ve been able to do it safely."


claim:
The R.I. Turnpike and Bridge Authority "was supposed to exist only until the bonds used to build the Newport Bridge were paid off through tolls. Once the bonds were paid, the Newport Bridge was to be transferred to the State of Rhode Island and become toll-free."


claim:
"We are about halfway" to the president’s goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions and "about half of that is because of the substitution of natural gas for coal in the power sector."


claim:
"While fat-cat bureaucrats at the Department of Education are getting paid an average salary of $102,000 a year, teachers in Georgia are getting paid half of that."


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


claim:
"America’s gun-related homicide rate … would be about the same as Belgium’s if you left out California, Illinois, D.C. and New Jersey, places with some of the strictest gun control laws in the U.S."


claim:
Says U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson voted to let oil and gas companies emit "unlimited carbon pollution into our air"


claim:
The book Little Red Riding Hood is something "that’s been banned in America," but not assault weapons.


claim:
"Three years after getting the $100 million (from Mark Zuckerberg), less than two-thirds of students in Cory Booker's Newark graduate."


claim:
Says an illegal immigrant fraudulently claimed children who actually lived in Mexico on income tax forms to collect more than $29,000.


claim:
"New York is the safest big city in the nation, and our crime reductions have been steeper than any other big city’s."


claim:
"State law says that once the state appraises a piece of property, they can only pay it a certain amount above appraisal."


claim:
Says under Mayor Cory Booker, Newark has seen "violent crime up five years in a row, murder up five years in a row."


claim:
Wisconsin’s criminal threshold for drunken-driving is "way out of line" with "states surrounding us," which "have the second offense as a felony."


claim:
Says "your Legislative Assembly was within one vote of enacting each of those bills into Oregon law."


claim:
Florida’s "high school graduation rates continue to increase at the fastest rate in the nation, with Florida leading the nation in the rate of Hispanic graduates."


claim:
Says President Barack Obama could "basically" legalize all immigrants here illegally "by the sign of a pen."


claim:
"There are only four countries in the world that ... legalize abortion after five months -- China, North Korea, Canada and the U.S."


claim:
Under a new law regulating abortions, "Even if you're raped, if you don't report it in the first 30 days, the Republicans will force you to have an ultrasound."


claim:
"According to a recent Congressional Budget Office report, under Obamacare, 7 million people will lose their employer-sponsored insurance."


claim:
Atlanta now has as many visitors as Las Vegas, San Diego and Los Angeles. Orlando, Fla., and New York City still have more visitors.


claim:
Under Obamacare, "The IRS will have access to the American people’s protected health care information."


claim:
"Polls show that 96 percent of New Jerseyans – and 95 percent of gun households in the state – support expanding background checks to keep guns away from those who shouldn’t have them."


claim:
"Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, U.S. health care spending grew at 3.9 percent for the last three years, the lowest growth rate in over 50 years."


claim:
Under Obamacare, members of Congress are required to purchase their health insurance from the new exchanges.


claim:
"60 percent of Texas 8th graders are not proficient in math. Only 26% have a teacher with a undergraduate major in math."


claim:
Sen. Marco Rubio "refuses to accept the basic science" on climate change and is "a climate change denier."


claim:
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 71.2 percent of Hispanic registered voters in Texas and over 86 percent of African American registered voters participated in the 2012 elections.


claim:
Of the roughly 15 percent of Americans who don’t have health insurance, "half of them made more than $50,000 a year."


claim:
"Sixty percent of the auto thefts that we have in (St. Petersburg) are caused by people leaving their keys in the car."


claim:
Says Mitch McConnell pushed "the Wall Street bailout through the U.S. Senate" and called it "the Senate at its finest."


claim:
Says President Franklin Delano Roosevelt "felt there wasn’t a need in the public sector to have collective bargaining because the government is the people."


claim:
"For anybody who's trying to cross the street and has seen those signs that say you have to stop when pedestrians are in the crosswalk, that was a bill that I passed."


claim:
Says that while Foster was mayor, Rick Kriseman was "ineffective" in the Florida House of Representatives because "there was no legislation that passed the House that had (Kriseman’s) name on it."


claim:
Says President Barack Obama "has taken 92 days of vacation since he was sworn in," compared to 367 for President George W. Bush at the same point in his presidency.


claim:
A United Nations working group has "adopted a proposed agenda" to enable member nations to "disarm civilians within their borders."


claim:
Says Virginia saved $300 million by rebidding a Metrorail construction project to exclude guaranteed union contracts.


claim:
Says there are half as many students in one Georgia technical college than there were two years ago.


claim:
"We need to pass a carbon tax to stop climate change. Break up the Wall Street banks. And stop the government spying on innocent Americans. Cory Booker doesn’t support any of these ideas."


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


claim:
"Every (personhood) bill I’ve ever support has either had language that says we’re conforming to the constitutional rulings of the Supreme Court or something to that effect."


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


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


claim:
"If we don't spend money on a pier, then that money does wipe into the general funds of the city or the county, and if you send it to the county, you never see it again."


claim:
Says "nearly 29,000 Oregonians — almost 5 percent of all homeowners — are 90 days or more delinquent on their mortgage."


claim:
Says "the acting chief of the IRS said he – and the majority of IRS employees – would rather stay with his current" health "plan than switch to Obamacare."


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


claim:
"Unemployment has been on the rise throughout Wisconsin" as Paul Ryan stepped up his advocacy of "immigration increases."


claim:
Says federal regulations adopted in 2011 increased the cost of each vehicle for his business by $10,000.


claim:
Says Florida refused to allow the insurance commissioner to "negotiate lower rates with companies or refuse rates that are too high" under Obamacare.


claim:
"The Georgia Department of Education has implemented a new policy beginning in August that states that public schools will no longer accept credits from home school entities or non-traditional education centers."


claim:
Says Houston National Cemetery is preventing Christian prayers from being said at military funerals.


claim:
Says by rejecting an expansion of Medicaid under the new law, Georgia was depriving 25,000 veterans of health care coverage.


claim:
Under Obamacare, people who "have a doctor they’ve been seeing for the last 15 or 20 years, they won’t be able to keep going to that doctor."


claim:
"For several days in July of 2012, Greenland surface ice cover melted more than at any time in 30 years of satellite observation. During that month, an estimated 97% of the ice sheet thawed."


claim:
"In fact New Jersey is a donor state, we get 61 cents back on every dollar we send to Washington. And interestingly Kentucky gets $1.51 on every dollar they send to Washington."


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A Republican housing finance reform bill "would eliminate a person’s ability to obtain 15- and 30-year mortgages."


claim:
"They’ve seen employer-supported coverage increase in Massachusetts after this law (Romneycare) was implemented."


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Says Greg Abbott "converted over $1 million in federal grant money intended for use to prosecute online sexual predators and other cyber crimes and instead used it to harass and prosecute senior citizens who were assisting other senior citizens in applying for mail-in ballots."


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Says about NSA data collection: "Every member in both parties who served on the Intelligence Committee voted in favor of this."


claim:
"A high school dropout makes on average $19,000 a year, a high school graduate makes $28,000 a year, a college graduate makes $51,000 a year."


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


claim:
"Even the employees’ union for the IRS -- the very people in charge of enforcing this law -- are begging to be let out from under this law."


claim:
"The Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan office, did an analysis and said that passing comprehensive immigration reform will reduce the federal deficit by $200 billion over the next decade."


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Says a Justice Department memo "directs that you must openly embrace gay marriage and homosexuality."


claim:
The "most realistic estimates" for jobs created by Keystone XL are "maybe 2,000 jobs during the construction of the pipeline."


claim:
Government subsidies for renewable energies such as wind and solar are 100 times greater than those given to gas and coal, and 50 times greater than what the nuclear industry enjoys.


claim:
"Over 12,000 school kids were arrested in Florida. It makes Florida the nation's leader in that area."


claim:
A provision of the Senate immigration bill would require you to have government permission to get a second job.


claim:
Under Obamacare, "75 percent of small businesses now say they are going to be forced to either fire workers or cut their hours."


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


claim:
The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is "collecting financial information, monitoring financial information of millions of Americans" without their knowledge and "storing it for up to 10 years."


claim:
"Every single month since 1985 has been warmer than the historic average. All 12 of the warmest years on record have come in the last 15 years."


claim:
"U.S. Department of Homeland Security has told banks -- in writing -- it may inspect safe deposit boxes without warrant and seize any gold, silver, guns or other valuables it finds inside those boxes!"


claim:
Rick Scott  "invested $38 million in the Port of Jacksonville's vital Mile Point Project," which "covered missing federal funds for the project."


claim:
"Our businesses have created nearly twice as many jobs in this recovery as they had at the same point in the last recovery, when there was no Obamacare."


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Says the reasoning behind Portland's high water and sewer rates is "all kinds of ’pet projects’ unrelated to the core function of the water and sewer bureaus"


claim:
The Republican-authored state budget includes a provision "forcing people earning as little as $12,000 to buy private health insurance that could cost them as much as $4,000 per year."


claim:
"The Senate immigration bill is … filled with things like rewards for au pair agencies, Alaskan seafood processors and Vegas casinos."


claim:
"The income of the top 1 percent nearly quadrupled from 1979 to 2007, but the typical family’s incomes barely budged."


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Patrick Murphy voted for Obamacare in 2010, "yet he reversed himself and voted to delay" the employer mandate and the individual mandate.


claim:
"In Providence, R.I., it's illegal to sell toothpaste and a toothbrush to the same customer on a Sunday."


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"Homicides against blacks have tripled" since Florida’s "stand your ground" law has been in existence.


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Says last year "13 million (health insurance) rebates went out, in all 50 states. Another 8.5 (million) rebates are being sent out this summer, averaging around 100 bucks each."


claim:
"The U.S. Postal Service doesn’t run on your tax dollars. It’s funded solely by stamps and postage."


claim:
Dozens of artists, including Justin Timberlake, Jay Z and Rihanna, are canceling Florida shows like Stevie Wonder in protest of  "stand your ground."


claim:
"The FL Guard has defended our freedom in Afghanistan, Iraq, and put their lives at risk; now the fed govt is going to cut their pay 20%."


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


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


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The city of Brookhaven’s ordinance could cause the Pink Pony to close, thereby "putting 300 Pink Pony employees out of work in this economy."


claim:
"We’re importing about 10 percent of our milk supply. We’re America’s Dairyland, but yet we don’t have enough milk in this state to meet the demand for our cheesemakers."


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Says an investigative report concluded Ken Cuccinelli "should have been prosecuted" for disclosure violations, but Virginia's law was too weak.


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


claim:
"Georgia is nearly 50 percent Democratic and (the Republican majority) diminished our voting strength to 32 percent through gerrymandered maps."


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Says Barack Obama is getting his nominees confirmed "faster than President (George W.) Bush was at the same time in his second term."


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Says in Texas "it's legal to shoot someone who's committing a ‘public nuisance’ under the cover of dark."


claim:
"In the 513 days between Trayvon dying, and today’s verdict, 11,106 African-Americans have been murdered by other African-Americans."


claim:
"This is the same (farm) bill we voted on a few weeks ago, with the exception of one or two sentences."


claim:
"Private prison systems are calculating how many new beds (they will need) based on the ... number of third graders."


claim:
The Hispanic population in Gwinnett and Henry counties has increased by 153 percent and 339 percent, respectively, since 2000 while Republican presidential candidates are getting a smaller percentage of the vote in those counties.


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In Rhode Island, 9 percent of workers use the state's temporary disability insurance program each year while in New Jersey, the rate is only 3 percent.


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Says that in Curry County, "if you make a 911 call you’re likely to wait for an hour for a response."


claim:
"A little-known unit of the Department of Justice, the Community Relations Service, was deployed to Sanford, FL, following the Trayvon Martin shooting to help organize and manage rallies and protests against George Zimmerman."


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Says if Texas abortion measure passes, "someone living in El Paso would have to drive 550 miles each way to San Antonio for something as simple as cervical cancer screening."


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Says Obama administration delay of health care law's employer mandate affects about 1 percent of the American workforce.


claim:
"Twenty-four percent of doctors in Virginia currently don’t accept new Medicaid patients because the reimbursement rates are so low."


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"Upwards of 90 percent" of women seeking an abortion decide not to have an abortion after seeing an ultrasound.


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Says proposed anti-abortion legislation "would force women facing the most personal of health decisions to endure a transvaginal ultrasound."


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Says "Canada has one-tenth of our population—yet it issues far more high-skilled visas (more than 150,000) yearly than we do (65,000)."


claim:
Economic Development Commission Executive Director Keith Stokes "sent me a letter and he said the taxpayers will never be on the hook for these bonds" for 38 Studios.


claim:
Electricity rates are 40 percent higher in states that have required utility companies to use a certain amount of renewable energy such as solar power.


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Says Ohio budget item later signed into law by Gov. John Kasich requires women seeking an abortion to undergo a  "mandatory vaginal probe."


claim:
The Senate immigration bill "unleashes a massive increase in overall immigration. … We're talking about a population increase under the Senate bill of over 70 million people in 20 years."


claim:
"We're already seeing bakers and florists and photographers forced to participate in same-sex marriages under the threat of law and in some cases even jail."


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Says under the Senate immigration bill, newly legalized immigrants will "pay every tax possible, but you don’t get a single benefit" for 10 years.


claim:
"In New Hampshire, 93 percent of Democrats, 79 percent of Republicans, 82 percent of gun owners and 60 percent of NRA households support background checks."


claim:
"It is against the law for the NSA to record or monitor Americans’ phone calls without getting a specific FISA warrant to do so."


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


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Says President Obama has cracked down "on employers who are attracting undocumented immigrants and hiring them more than any previous president."


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Says $800,000 cost of Texas special legislative session would pay for 1.6 million condoms, 90,000 months of the pill or 20 full-time sexual health educators.


claim:
"When I was growing up as a kid in the city of Milwaukee, if we averaged 4 homicides a year in the entire city that was a record number."


claim:
"Nearly 70 percent of all federal spending will go towards Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid" in fiscal year 2014.


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


claim:
"President Obama has the most border patrols and border security deployed at the border of any previous president."


claim:
"In 1999, the NRA leadership in Washington, pretty much the same people intact, were for (expanded background checks.)"


claim:
"In 1960, most black children were raised in two-parent, monogamous families." Today "we have only 20 percent of black children being raised in two-parent, monogamous families..."


claim:
"Seventy-four percent of Rhode Islanders support [a] national popular vote [for president] because they, as I, believe in one person-one vote."


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Says "the mandate is 71 times that a child’s body will be injected with a disease" for immunizations.


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Says Arkansas Republican Rep. Tom Cotton voted to provide Congress with "taxpayer-funded health care for life."


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Says Wendy Davis, "born into difficult circumstances," was the daughter of a single mother and a teenage mother herself.


claim:
Recent record-low water levels in Lake Michigan are evidence that global warming is leading to "the evaporation of our Great Lakes."


claim:
The Southern Baptist Convention voted 13 years ago "that women were inferior and had to be subservient to their husbands."


claim:
The Senate immigration bill "has immediate legalization ... and the border security is sometime in the future, and just like in 1986, it's designed never to come into being."


claim:
The immigration bill "has a specific provision that says that Secretary Napolitano does not have to build any fence if she chooses not to."


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As a student at Occidental College in Los Angeles from 1979 to 1981, "there were days where folks couldn't go outside. … because of all the pollution in the air."


claim:
"If you are born poor in America, we rank ninth or tenth in our citizens’ ability to climb up through that ladder and get themselves into the middle class."


claim:
Under Republican-backed state budget, the state education agency estimates expansion of Wisconsin’s school voucher program "could cost nearly $2 billion annually"


claim:
Says Florida didn’t offer special incentives to Deutsche Bank, which announced it will add 300 jobs in Florida.


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


claim:
A study of private bail bond systems "showed that Wisconsin has a higher no-show rate than other states" of defendants skipping court appearances.


claim:
"There are over 2,000 crimes recorded per 100,000 population in the U.K.," compared to "466 violent crimes per 100,000" in the United States.


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


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Says Georgia Power customers pay 10 percent to 15 percent below the national average for electricity.


claim:
"There is no statistical evidence that bail bonds increase the likelihood of those awaiting trial returning to court for their scheduled hearings."


claim:
"People want the minimum wage, they want marriage equality, they want women’s health care. There’s issues that actually that really do matter, social issues that matter to the people of this state. So I know Barbara would support those issues, I know the governor hasn’t. You’ve seen the actions he’s taken on them."


claim:
Says TriMet spends "$10.3 million in police contracts" a year for 56 transit police who must respond to non-transit calls


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


claim:
Proposed cuts in the House farm bill mean "2 million less people on food stamps, 210,000 children will not receive school lunches or breakfasts."


claim:
The state GOP ticket "says their top priority is a career-long mission to outlaw abortion in all cases and ban some common forms of birth control."


claim:
Says the Obama administration plans to reduce the number of beds devoted to holding individuals violating immigration laws and to "release hundreds of dangerous criminals into our communities."


claim:
On immigration reform, Marco Rubio "all along has been saying, 'We have to have border security first' " and then "he gets on Spanish TV, he ends up saying, 'No, no. That will never get in the way.' "


claim:
Rhode Island "didn't ratify the 13th Amendment to the Constitution to pay federal income taxes. So Rhode Island doesn't even have to pay federal income taxes."


claim:
If Gov. Rick Scott activates "the National Guard in anticipation of a federal disaster, the state’s costs, including the costs to recall any furloughed guardsmen, will be fully reimbursable by FEMA."


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


claim:
"The United States has never stood by and seen innocent people slaughtered to the extent that's happening in Syria."


claim:
Corporate tax holidays pushed by Presidents John F. Kennedy and George W. Bush brought "billions" of dollars back into the United States.


claim:
"Worldwide credit card transactions, the credit card fraud rate is 0.04 percent, compared to almost 8 percent, 9 percent, 10 percent of Medicare fraud."


claim:
Says that when the Rolling Stones performed in an Austin park, they paid $25,000 to the nearby city of Rollingwood "for one night of inconvenience."


claim:
"The Government Accountability Office estimated (Obamacare) will add to the long-term deficit by $6.2 trillion."


claim:
A data system that goes along with Common Core is designed to collect up to 400 data points on each child, which can include personally identifiable data.


claim:
Says the success of his economic agenda is supported by the fact "we went from unemployment at 9.2 percent when I decided to run for governor four years ago to two points lower."


claim:
Wisconsin is "not walking away from a dime" in federal funds by rejecting the Obamacare Medicaid expansion.


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


claim:
"This president spends 30 times as much money on global warming research as he does on weather forecasting and warning."


claim:
"There hasn’t been a Republican in the legislature or the City Council in Providence in over 30 years."


claim:
The Pink Pony club in DeKalb County has never been cited for any violation of an ordinance or state law.


claim:
"It's expressly prohibited by law that you can read and wholly surveil domestic email traffic in the United States."


claim:
Currently, the intelligence community "can collect business records on law-abiding Americans who have no connection to terrorism."


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Says less than half of 1 percent of all the Texas legislators who ever served draw "a benefit" from pensions tied to the salaries of state district judges.


claim:
"We haven't had a Republican senator in Washington for ... why, I think Clifford Case was our last Republican senator."


claim:
Says "Having organizations parading as being social welfare organizations and then being involved in the political combat harkens back to why the statute a hundred years ago said that they were prohibited."


claim:
Says Madison Mayor Paul Soglin's stated intent when proposing that city contractors disclose private political donations was to "discourage contributions to organizations with which he disagrees."


claim:
"47 - New provisions ObamaCare charges the IRS with implementing, according to the Government Accountability Office."


claim:
"One person, Kathleen Sebelius, was going to determine whether or not" 10-year-old lung patient Sarah Murnaghan would live or die.


claim:
Says Gov. Rick Scott returned "$1 million in federal funding that would have helped the state cover the cost of overseeing insurance rates under the new health care law."


claim:
The problem of unwanted sexual contacts in the military "is not just a woman's issue. More than half of the victims are men."


claim:
"We (Georgia) collect fewer state taxes per capita than any other state … although state taxes are low, Georgia is the eighth-most-dependent state on the federal government."


claim:
"Black children constitute 18 percent of the nation's public school population but 40 percent of the children who are suspended or expelled."


claim:
"Our ranking in terms of the best and worst states to do business in was 43 four years ago, and we just moved up to 17 two weeks ago."


claim:
Says "At age 76 when you most need it, you are not eligible for cancer treatment" under Affordable Care Act.


claim:
Says Texas lawmakers agreed to cut state's rainy day fund in half, spending "$4 billion from current $8 billion."


claim:
"My judicial nominees have waited three times longer to receive confirmation votes than those of my Republican predecessor."


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


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


claim:
"Nearly 6 out of 10 believe that money and wealth should be more evenly distributed among a larger percentage of the people in the U.S."


claim:
"During the Bush administration, liberal groups were targeted" by the IRS, similar to recent targeting.


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


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


claim:
The National Rifle Association was "founded by religious leaders who wanted to protect freed slaves from the Ku Klux Klan."


claim:
Says first eight chosen to draw Austin City Council districts are seven Democratic primary voters and one Republican primary voter.


claim:
"Republicans actually doctored emails between administration officials about Benghazi. Then, they released them to the press, trying to pass them off as real."


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


claim:
Cuyahoga County "passed a program to guarantee a college savings account for every single child who enters kindergarten in this county -- the first county in the United States to do so."


claim:
"A bag of Cheetos costs less to buy than an apple," and in some Milwaukee neighborhoods "good luck trying to find an apple or a banana or some sort of healthy option"


claim:
"Jon Corzine, elected governor. Teams up with Barbara Buono. $1.2  billion sales tax increase? Passed. Most spending in state history? Passed. After Buono named budget chair, taxes and fees increase 23 times in just two years. State debt? Up $13.4 billion. Unemployment? Doubled."


claim:
Since Gina Raimondo took office, investment fees on the state's pension portfolio "have gone up from about $12 million annually to about $50 million."


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Says 
"With nearly 75 percent of Americans supportive of the construction of the pipeline, Schrader needs to explain to Oregon families why he voted against this needed project."


claim:
The Obama administration has put out "more of these major rules than the Clinton administration or the Bush administration during comparable times."


claim:
"The UK has an unarmed police force and a firearm fatality rate that is 40 times lower per capita than in the U.S."


claim:
The federal government could save $500 million annually by circulating $1 coins instead of $1 bills.


claim:
Says the word "Dhimmitude" is on page 107 of the health care law and means "Muslims are specifically exempted from the government mandate to purchase insurance."


claim:
"Ronald Reagan’s signature on the 1986 amnesty act" gave Barack Obama about 15 million additional Hispanic votes in 2012.


claim:
Says Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told insurance companies "they couldn't inform their policyholders of what they thought the impact of Obamacare would be on them."


claim:
An 11-year-old girl was investigated by the FBI and had to pay a $500 federal criminal fine "because she found an injured woodpecker and put it in a cage to make sure that the bird was OK."


claim:
The proposed raises for the Norcross City Council would put it in line with other liked-sized communities.


claim:
"18 percent of our land in our state right now is either federally, state or county owned for conservation purposes."


claim:
"To hear Gov. Christie tell it, everything in New Jersey is going just fine. Well I see another New Jersey with 400,000 unemployed. One of the worst jobless rates in the country. Working and middle class families have seen costs soar, from property taxes to college tuition."


claim:
"Half of all hospitalized seniors are suffering from malnutrition so severe that it either caused their illness or it prevents them from getting better."


claim:
Says the inspector general for the IRS said there was "no political motivation" and "no outside influence" for targeting of tax-exempt applications from tea party groups


claim:
The state of Georgia lost 16 percent of its employees last year, and that percentage has risen over the past three years.


claim:
A law that mandates fingerprinting for gun purchasers is "a requirement that's reduced gun crimes in the five states where it's the law."


claim:
"New Jersey's governor cut $1.6 billion from public education while handing out $2.1 billion in corporate tax breaks, more than the entire previous decade."


claim:
"If you are black or brown, you are nine times more likely to be stopped and frisked" in New York City.


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


claim:
"Forty-six cents of every dollar" Ohio could get for Medicaid expansion "is going to come from China or some other country that doesn’t like us very much."


claim:
"This budget also reflects the smallest state government workforce per 1,000 residents in Florida in this century."


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


claim:
Says Sam Houston opposed slavery and as governor said Texas should not leave the union over slavery.


claim:
A referendum "gives the people the chance to decide" on cutting the Milwaukee County Board budget by two-thirds


claim:
There are about 120,000 solar energy jobs in the United States, but only 1,700 of them are in Georgia.


claim:
Says it's "estimated that 300 babies a year are sent home from the hospital with an unrecognized congenital heart defect; it is the most common birth defect in America."


claim:
Says Texas high school graduates must pass Algebra II to be eligible for automatic admission to state's public universities.


claim:
The IRS is going to be "in charge" of "a huge national database" on health care that will include Americans’ "personal, intimate, most close-to-the-vest-secrets."


claim:
A state report’s "projection is that approximately half of public employees" would live outside municipal boundaries in a decade if the state bans local residency requirements.


claim:
"Buono voted 154 times to raise our taxes -- like the sales tax, the income tax, health care taxes, even small business taxes."


claim:
Historically, the Social Security tax has been assessed on about 90% of U.S. income. Now it captures 83% because there's been such a growth of income among the highest earners.


claim:
A 0.05 standard for drunken driving means having a glass of wine at dinner could make a person drunk.


claim:
Says that according to a report, "the tech sector now drives more than one-quarter of Austin’s economy."


claim:
Says President Barack Obama’s proposed budget includes two new tax increases that would collect about $14 billion.


claim:
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is buried "not far" from President Kennedy’s grave.


claim:
"Under Republican Governor Chris Christie, tolls cost more. Train and bus rides cost more. College tuition goes up. But Christie protected a tax cut for millionaires."


claim:
"The State of Wisconsin thinks you should have to" wash your hands "at least 28 times to make one peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich."


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


claim:
"We had people that were getting killed (in Benghazi), we had people who are willing to risk their lives to go save them, and somebody told them to stand down."


claim:
"Over the last several months, there was a review board headed by two distinguished Americans, Mike Mullen and Tom Pickering, who investigated every element of" the Benghazi incident.


claim:
Says "we" have put more boots on the U.S.-Mexico border "than at any time in our history, and illegal crossings are down by nearly 80 percent from their peak in 2000."


claim:
When Susan Rice spoke about Benghazi on Sunday news shows, she said "that al-Qaida might be involved, or other al-Qaida affiliates might be involved, or non-al-Qaida Libyan extremists, which I think demonstrates that there was no effort to play that down."


claim:
"70,000 three-year-olds and four-year-olds across America will lose access to the preschool Head Start program. ... 2,000 in the state of Florida alone."


claim:
"Four balanced budgets in a row, with no new taxes for anyone. The best job growth in 12 years. Nearly 130,000 new private-sector jobs. Merit pay to reward New Jersey’s best teachers, and the most education funding ever."


claim:
"Two years ago Providence alone spent $50,000 a year notifying the school department" about residents in the state's sex offender registry.


claim:
In Cranston, it costs $5,000 to $6,000 to send out community notifications on just one Level 3 sex offender.


claim:
Says "Did you know that if you accepted the District's proposal today you would have NO pay increase for 4 years? Seven years of frozen wages = Disrespect."


claim:
A Wisconsin bill to limit use of food stamps for junk food would also "prevent -- or limit --  the extent to which" food stamps could be used for organic foods.


claim:
North Korea has a "substantial standing army, one of the largest, certainly the largest per capita, in the world."


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


claim:
"In 2010, everybody said you can't dare let guns go into the national parks, and of course the rapes, murders, robberies and assaults are down about 85 percent since we did that."


claim:
University of Wisconsin System's reserves are in the "mid- to low-range" of comparable university systems.


claim:
Then-Gov. Carl Sanders put 56 percent of the state budget into education, a figure that has not been achieved since.


claim:
The labor market is weak because if you count the unemployed, underemployed, and those who’ve stopped looking for work,  the unemployment rate "actually went up last month to 13.5 percent."


claim:
"We are dealing with an administration that, quite frankly, has shown a reluctance to enforce the immigration law."


claim:
"In 29 states in this country you can still get fired for not just being gay, but if your employer thinks you are gay."


claim:
In just six years, Georgia has dropped from first in the nation from a business-friendly legal climate to 24th.


claim:
Says Gov. Rick Scott allowed Republican legislators to cut his teacher pay raise proposal by 60 percent.


claim:
"Obama for President and Baldwin for Senate have kept their campaign offices up and running in Fox Valley, Eau Claire and La Crosse with their staffs preparing for the next battle."


claim:
Says a state bill checks the spending habits of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors by "bringing it in line with other county boards around the state."


claim:
"We’re spending less money today, in upcoming fiscal year 2014 than the Corzine-Buono budget spent in fiscal year 2008."


claim:
Proposed gun control legislation "will outlaw practically every firearm, make you pay $100 per firearm, put you into a police database" and make it "nearly impossible" to get a permit to carry a concealed weapon.


claim:
"If you are a federally licensed gun dealer and your license is revoked because you've engaged in misconduct ... your entire inventory under prevailing law is deemed your personal collection. You then can sell it free from any background checks."


claim:
Says proponents of a bond package for the Austin school district say the district has the second-lowest bond tax rate "among the Central Texas area school districts."


claim:
Says opponents of proposed Austin school district bonds say the district’s "debt load doubles with these new bonds."


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


claim:
"Just about everyone everywhere is spending more hours on the job, less time with their families, bringing home smaller and smaller paychecks, while they're paying more and more at the gas pump and the grocery stores."


claim:
For people with insurance, the only impact of the health care law "is that their insurance is stronger, better and more secure than it was before. Full stop. That's it. They don't have to worry about anything else."


claim:
"The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news."


claim:
Says that in 2007, "Oregon ranked 25th -- or 7th from the bottom -- in percentage of children with untreated decay compared to 32 other states with similar data."


claim:
Says the fertilizer plant that exploded in West, Texas,"had not been inspected by the state of Texas since 2006."


claim:
Long-term federal investment in U.S. airports is urgent because "there was a recent survey of the top airports … in the world, and there was not a single U.S. airport that came in the top 25."


claim:
The Milwaukee County Board approved a reform package by a 15-3 vote, "meaning Board Supervisors’ salaries will be cut by 20 percent" and "the Board’s budget will be cut by 50 percent."


claim:
Federal prosecutions for lying on background checks to buy guns are "down 40 percent" under President Barack Obama.


claim:
Says state Senate leaders have accepted $142,400 in campaign contributions from dentists and pharmacists during the past two years.


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"Over half" of science, technology, engineering and mathematics students "receiving advanced degrees are not citizens of the United States of America."


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


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Says more Austinites voted in the city’s 1973 election featuring a mayor’s race than in the city’s most recent mayoral election.


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"One in five" women in the military "are receiving unwanted sexual contact," as are "3.3 percent of men."


claim:
"Nearly 40,000 new jobs have been created in the last year due to the new wells . . . right here in Ohio."


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New Virginia regulations on abortion clinics "provide the same sanitary environment we expect of dental offices."


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A recent study of a proposed cap-and-trade policy’s effect on Wisconsin consumers showed it could "raise gasoline prices by 141 percent and electricity rates by 171 percent" by 2030.


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


claim:
"Narragansett Bay waters are getting warmer -- 4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter since the 1960s."


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Says "Every legislative district in the state has at least one craft brewery and countless home brewers."


claim:
"In barely four years in office, five jihadists have reached their targets in the United States under Barack Obama," compared to zero "in over seven years after 9/11 under George W. Bush."


claim:
"Odd fact for odd draft: No. 2 overall pick will earn more than the No. 1 pick due to no state tax in Florida. So 2 not so bad."


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Says the U.S. fleet of attack submarines is scheduled to fall below the 48 boats that Navy says it needs to carry out current missions.


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Says he has "yet to get a response" from Barack Obama to his August 2010 letter making border security requests.


claim:
The election bill "allows persons to correct an absentee ballot if they did not sign it and requires an extra two hours a day for early voting. Everything else in this bill is discretionary."


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The Boston Marathon bombing "is the fifth case" in which U.S. government officials examined individuals potentially involved in terrorism "and felt they were no threat and they went on to carry out terrorist murders."


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Right now, if Rhode Island police come across a young person with a gun, "they really don't legally have the right to take it away from them."


claim:
"No poll done this year ... shows less than a majority to reinstate a federal ban on assault weapons."


claim:
"The sex-offender registry has been around for a long time, and the research that's out there says that it has no positive impact on the public safety."


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Says under his utility rate plan, "An estimated 50 percent of our residential households will see a decrease in their water and wastewater bills."


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Says Abraham Lincoln supported an agreement that allowed slavery in New Mexico "and a law to return runaway slaves to their owners."


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If an individual is determined "to commit suicide, the availability of a gun is not a factor" because they will find a way.


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Says "If you compare the Portland Metro area to the CDC’s statewide cavity rates ... the Portland Metro area would actually rank as having the 15th lowest cavity rate in the U.S."


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A bipartisan background check amendment "outlawed any (gun) registry.  Plain and simple, right there in the text."


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The Manchin-Toomey amendment "would have criminalized certain private transfers of firearms between honest citizens, requiring lifelong friends, neighbors and some family members" to get government approval.


claim:
"Well over 90 percent of felony cases, all over the nation, are committed by defendants who grew up in father-absent households."


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Says Texas ranks 49th nationally in "what we are doing to support our per-pupil investment in education in the state."


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Ché Guevara "wrote extensively about the superiority of white Europeans over people of African descent."


claim:
"Rick Scott has paid down our debt by about $2 billion. Charlie Crist’s debt went up about $5 billion."


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Says uncompensated health care costs absorbed by Texas hospitals are adding $1,800 a year to Texas private insurance rates.


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Says President Barack Obama "has allowed, each year he's been here, the prosecutions of gun cases (for background check failures) to go down. ... They've declined every year since President Bush left office."


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Says a gun bill before the Senate would make it a federal felony to "leave town for more than seven days, and leave someone else at home with your firearms."


claim:
"In 2010 alone, 1,270 infants were reported to have died following attempted abortions and notably that is only one year."


claim:
Says Texas lawmakers in 2011 ordered school districts to test every student on their respiratory system and weight.


claim:
A proposed bill in the Florida Legislature "would authorize the public hoarding of cats by feral cat activists."


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Says a gun bill before the Senate "is proposing the universal registration of all firearms and their owners."


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


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Says Texas state funds were spent on "a TV series on spouses cheating on their wives, kind of glorifying the act of cheating."


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


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


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


claim:
"In 2012, 1 in 4 Wisconsin schools had a subpar score on the Department of Public Instruction’s recent report cards" and are "failing" the children they serve.


claim:
"Under Republican Chris Christie, New Jersey had the highest increase in unemployment in the country last year. Nearly 1 in 10 jobless. The worst unemployment in the region. Near the bottom in economic growth, yet Christie protected a tax cut for millionaires but vetoed a minimum wage hike."


claim:
When the NECAP proficiency test is re-given to the kids the second and third time, harder questions are taken out.


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Says Oregon’s high minimum wage is the reason why "by 2011, Oregon's restaurants employed an average of only 13.8 workers, or 2.6 fewer employees than they did before the state's minimum wage began rising above the federal level in 1997."


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Says PETA "is using this really fancy drone to follow hunters around in some places in other countries."


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Says "A baby in Coos County is two times as likely to be born to a mother who is someone who used tobacco during her pregnancy as is the average baby born in Oregon or the U.S."


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Says rejecting federal aid to expand Medicaid in Texas will "send $9 billion in federal taxes paid by Texans to other states to insure their working poor."


claim:
"Within the three miles surrounding the University Circle area, infant mortality exceeds some Third World countries."


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


claim:
"The people who were running the budget, in the Corzine years, decided to steal from the unemployment trust fund. … As did other Governors before. We simply don’t do that, haven’t done it, and won’t permit it."


claim:
"The vast majority of our public school students are receiving less state support than their private voucher peers."


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Air travelers "can’t get on a plane in the United States without someone doing a background check" on them.


claim:
"In the last two years, I have supported and proposed $155 billion worth of targeting cuts. Dr. Gingrey has presented zero."


claim:
"Right now, Texas doesn’t have an income tax and Oklahoma’s lowering their income tax rates, and guess what their severance tax is? Sky high."


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"The financial penalties imposed" on gay couples "can cost us more than $300,000 compared with married heterosexual couples over a lifetime."


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Says that his transportation budget and Ohio Turnpike plan "would make sure we have lower tolls than we’ve had through the history of the turnpike."


claim:
Paul Ryan’s budget "keeps the Obamacare taxes and spending cuts that paid for Obamacare, but then cuts all of the benefits."


claim:
"No one knows who bought the [38 Studios] bonds. And there was some language put in the bond offer that they must remain anonymous."


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Says that even if his budget is adopted, private schools in the choice program would be getting about half the per-pupil funds that public schools receive


claim:
"A report by the US General Accountability Office (GAO) in 2008 found that the disposal of Katrina wastes by AshBritt in the south resulted in the creation of contaminated sites along the Gulf Coast and two new Superfund sites in New Orleans."


claim:
Assertions that it makes no difference whether children are raised by heterosexual or homosexual parents have been "shattered by the latest and best social science and research."


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Preventive care coverage under the Affordable Care Act has already "helped Granite Staters save money and live healthier lives."


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A new law "requires the USDA to approve the harvest and sale of crops from genetically modified seed even if a court has ruled against the crop as being dangerous to public safety or the environment."


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Says 90 percent of Americans and 74 percent of National Rifle Association members support background checks of gun purchasers.


claim:
Says rabid animals from other states carry "different strains of rabies" that Florida "vaccines and serums don’t affect."


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Says that under President Barack Obama’s health care law, "your insurance" premiums could go up by 200 percent and cost "as much as a new Explorer."


claim:
"The average student in Florida, what they actually pay out of pocket at our major universities" for tuition is as much or less than what they spend on cellphones.


claim:
"75 percent of the (air traffic control) towers the Obama Administration is closing are located in Republican Congressional Districts."


claim:
"Opponents of Section 5 (of the Voting Rights Act) complain of state expense, yet their only cost is the paper, postage and manpower required to send copies of legislation to the federal government for review."


claim:
"Any legislative action that is taken now could very well be rendered completely null and void by the decision of the Supreme Court expected this June."


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


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


claim:
College students "who are NOT U.S. Citizens and who get the PELL Grant" plan to return to their home countries after getting free gas cards and child care.


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Says that Secretary of State Jon Husted and former secretary Jennifer Brunner both have supported a provision in Senate Bill 47 that would limit the days organizers have to collect signatures for initiative and referendum petitions.


claim:
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed held not one conversation with the public about the new Falcons stadium project


claim:
"A study by the University of Virginia pulls back the curtain on Medicaid’s tragically bad outcomes, including ‘increased risk of adjusted mortality.’"


claim:
When students leave our high schools and they go to the community college, 70-75 percent of them have to pay to take remedial math.


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Says "$1,100 of the tuition paid by every Oregon university student annually goes just to pay the costs of PERS."


claim:
Says she has bipartisan support, including "53 sheriffs throughout the state, Democrats and Republicans."


claim:
"While the United States has seen its unemployment rate steadily decline, New Jersey's remains nearly two percent higher than the national average and more than a point higher than Connecticut and New York."


claim:
Says the Democrats told the Catholic Church that they’ll use federal powers to shut down church charities and hospitals if the church doesn’t change its beliefs.


claim:
"This (parent trigger) legislation was drafted by President Obama's top advisers. It was drafted by President Clinton’s top advisers."


claim:
"[A] 2009 USDA study found that 87 percent of chicken carcasses tested positive for generic E. coli ... just prior to packaging."


claim:
"Even Roger Williams National Memorial in my home state of Rhode Island attracted nearly 51,000 visitors in 2011, with non local visitors adding more than $3.2 million to the local economy."


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


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


claim:
"If you go back to 1999, Wayne LaPierre testified on behalf of the NRA that background checks were appropriate and should be done."


claim:
"Already, a prototype driverless car has traveled more than 300,000 miles in the crowded maze of California streets without a single accident."


claim:
"Under my predecessor, they cut funding for education, but they didn't give them anything in return to make up for that," leading to "less money" for school districts


claim:
The United States spends "$2.2 billion on free cell phones, $27 million on Moroccan pottery classes" and pays for "the travel expenses for the watermelon queen in Alabama."


claim:
"Do you know that, statistically, when you take the SAT a second time, one third of the people that take the SAT, even if they've been studying, will get a lower score than they did the first time around?"


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Says, "The Democrats' proposed budget is also balanced by using more in new tax revenue than in total PERS reform or savings."


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


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Says of 80,000 people who were denied a firearm in 2012 due to a failed background check, only 44 were prosecuted.


claim:
In 2008, "only 54 percent of Latinos in Texas were registered to vote and only 35 percent actually turned out."


claim:
"The hole in the earth that’s going to be dug (for the proposed Gogebic mine) is bigger than my entire district."


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


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


claim:
"Scientists tell us that we could have a cure in 10 years for Alzheimer's" were it not for "overzealous regulators, excessive taxation and greedy litigators."


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


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Says Virginia, Florida and Georgia are the three states that are the principal source for gun trafficking.


claim:
Says we will pay the new chancellor "a basic salary of nearly $300,000 a year ... an amount that does not include the costs of this public employee’s benefits, perks and living expenses for a lavish house, an upscale car, a spending allowance, and fine dining almost every day on the taxpayer dollar."


claim:
Of every "three dollars in food stamps for the needy, seven dollars in salaries and pensions (go to) the bureaucrats who are supposed to be taking care of the poor."


claim:
"The incidents of threats against (President Barack Obama) are greater than for any other president in modern times."


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


claim:
Rhode Island is the last state still using the Optech III P voting machines and they don’t meet suggested federal standards.


claim:
"In the period from 2007 to 2011, the Office of Health Insurance Commissioner reported an 18 percent decline in the state’s total medical spending."


claim:
Says the federal government is supporting a study in Hawaii to "develop a menu for when we colonize Mars."


claim:
The transportation package passed by the General Assembly would impose the "largest tax increase in Virginia’s history."


claim:
Eighty-five percent of Floridians who will benefit from expanding Medicaid are "single, childless adults."


claim:
"There are 3 million jobs available in America that are not filled because too many of our people don’t have the skills for those jobs."


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


claim:
"There are 3.6 million jobs sitting vacant, in part because there aren’t enough qualified applicants to fill them."


claim:
Ohio Republicans made significant gains during [Chris McNulty’s] time at the ORP, including the extremely successful re-election of President Bush in Ohio."


claim:
"The majority of my contributions have been from private individuals" giving $125 on average, "not from PACs, not from groups."


claim:
"When (John) Brennan ... was asked directly … ‘Is there any geographic limitation to your drone strike program?’ Brennan responded and said, ‘no, there is no limitation.’"


claim:
"Over the last 20 years, the world has changed. It used to be that one could make a career out of working for one company. Today, the average worker stays at his or her job for barely four years."


claim:
The Legislature needs to spend $500 million to "shore up" the pension fund this year and the next 28 years to keep it "afloat."


claim:
Research found that "over the course of the existence of the Brady Bill ban, the use of assault weapons in crimes decreased by two thirds."


claim:
"There have been literally hundreds of new tax preferences and loopholes added to the code since 1986, last time we did this."


claim:
A proposed ban on hollow-point bullets and bullets that expand upon impact "essentially bans deer hunting."


claim:
"Governor Christie, his idea of jumpstarting the economy is to propose a trickle-down income tax cut last year and in his budget address this year, he stated his support for it again."


claim:
Says "Kurt Schrader supports Obama’s sequester … but won’t cut $1.6 million to fund new video games."


claim:
"In 32 other states and Washington D.C., they [voters] can avoid the wait by voting before Election Day."


claim:
"In Wisconsin, only half of all the adults with serious psychological distress received mental health treatment or medication."


claim:
"When the president's spokesman was asked about (Anwar) al-Awlaki's son, … he said he should have chosen a more responsible father."


claim:
Under Gov. John Kasich’s budget proposal, "the top one percent in Ohio will pay $10,000 less in income tax each year, but Ohio’s working and middle class families will pay more."


claim:
"For the first time in eight years, our budget also increases funding for persons with disabilities by $36 million to help more disabled people receive community-based services."


claim:
"We have over 300,000,000 weapons, firearms in this country. That’s almost as big as the population."


claim:
Of $60 billion Congress approved in response to Hurricane Sandy, "only 10 percent was for disaster relief."


claim:
Says if Oregon had limited its budget growth to the rate of population growth plus the rate of inflation, the state’s all-funds budget would be about $27 billion today, not $60 billion.


claim:
Says Gov. Rick Scott cut more government jobs than were created in the private sector in Florida in 2012.


claim:
"Do you know which state has the worst ratio of white voter turnout to African-American voter turnout? Massachusetts. Do you know what has the best, where African-American turnout actually exceeds white turnout? Mississippi."


claim:
The majority of public funding for the Marlins stadium "came from hotel taxes, the burden of which is incurred by tourists who are visiting our city, NOT the resident taxpayers."


claim:
"In Atlanta, since 1994 when the ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ (mandatory minimum sentences) took effect, the violent crime rate has dropped 62 percent."


claim:
Two-thirds of Wisconsinites receiving unemployment checks "are not required to search for work due to current work search exemptions."


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


claim:
Under Gov. Scott Walker’s public-school budgets, "a student entering kindergarten will not enjoy the same state investment in his or her education as those that came before them until they are graduating from high school."


claim:
"Since January 2010, New Jersey has added 103,000 new private sector jobs. The last two years -- 2011 and 2012 -- have been the best two years of private sector job growth since 1999."


claim:
"There's a tax credit of $2,400 to bond [former inmates] that an employer would get for hiring a convicted felon. There's a federal bonding program -- you can get $5,000 to $25,000 in federal money to hire a convicted felon. And there's federal grants for felons to set up their own small businesses."


claim:
Says that since 1975, redistricting by Texas lawmakers has always been found in violation of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.


claim:
Virginia is "the only state" that has a tradition of attorneys general resigning if they run for governor.


claim:
Says the "last non-partisan commission to improve the voting experience in America concluded that #VoterID was necessary."


claim:
"Of the 18 stadiums built from 2004 to 2013, 47 percent of the total cost came from public sources."


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


claim:
"About two-thirds of all consumption is services. . . It was just the opposite" when the sales tax was enacted in the '30s.


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


claim:
Comic strip says government study shows Head Start "has little or no impact on the children it’s supposed to help."


claim:
In a budget deal struck in 2011 "a trillion dollars of cuts went into effect immediately, and then a special committee was set up ... to get agreement on another $3 trillion of cuts."


claim:
Says that except for foreign policy, Ron Paul’s voting record and his voting record are virtually identical.


claim:
"You can't bring an iPad or a piece of paper and a pencil in the (Wisconsin Assembly) gallery to take notes of what's going on," but "you can bring a gun up there."


claim:
"New Jersey has lost over half of our pharmaceutical jobs to states you know, not low-tax states like in the South, but high-tax states like New York."


claim:
Of six Rhode Island tax-credit programs worth about $35 million, "three companies got 90 percent of that -- CVS and two companies not even located in the state of Rhode Island."


claim:
"Kewpie burgers are delicious. An Ohio institution. And they'll cost less thanks to John Kasich's tax cut."


claim:
"In other jurisdictions where (a domestic partnership registry) has been enacted, we have seen that fewer people enter into marriage."


claim:
Says if Congress doesn’t avoid the sequester, "tens of thousands of parents will have to scramble to find child care for their kids."


claim:
"The National Science Foundation spent $1.2 million paying seniors to play World of Warcraft to study the impact it had on their brain."


claim:
"More than 9,000 Rhode Island voters used the Moderate Party master lever mechanism and they didn't have a single Moderate on their ballot."


claim:
Without a Medicaid expansion, 275,000 more Ohioans could be getting their primary care in emergency rooms, costing "everybody a lot of money."


claim:
If the sequester hits, "hundreds of thousands of Americans will lose access to primary care and preventive care like flu vaccinations and cancer screenings."


claim:
The sequester "won’t consider whether we’re cutting some bloated program that has outlived its usefulness, or a vital service that Americans depend on every single day. It doesn’t make those distinctions."


claim:
Says Travis County's unemployment rate is below the national average while its poverty rate exceeds the national average--and local poverty is rising.


claim:
Says, "when this governor came to office, he had (an) 11 billion dollar  - I call it mismanagement – deficit."


claim:
Says Chuck Hagel’s nomination as defense secretary "has been publicly celebrated by the Iranian government."


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


claim:
"The president flagrantly defies the 2006 federal law ordering the construction of a secure border fence along the entire Mexican border."


claim:
"Nobody in total is proposing cutting anything. We’re trying to reduce the rate of growth in government."


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Says "If Oregon’s Legislature simply authorizes $450 million for the CRC, it will … leave Oregon holding the bag for a great deal more cost responsibility."


claim:
"Every dollar we invested in high-quality, early education programs can save more than $7 later on by boosting graduation rates, reducing teen pregnancy, even reducing crime."


claim:
Says of a failed cloture vote on nominating Chuck Hagel for defense secretary: "This is not a filibuster."


claim:
The United States does "not have a system through which growers and dairies can bring a workforce legally into the U.S."


claim:
Wisconsin's Supreme Court justices are "deciding fewer opinions in civil and criminal cases than they used to."


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


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


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


claim:
"Lots of studies seem to indicate that minors find it very easy to get marijuana, easier than to get alcohol."


claim:
Says he "has repeatedly praised Chuck Hagel’s character, patriotism, bravery, and personal service defending our nation."


claim:
"We have a governor who's vetoed measures like increasing our minimum wage and restoring the earned income tax cut."


claim:
Says Texas ranks first among the states in the amount of carbon dioxide emitted and toxic chemicals released into water.


claim:
"Throughout, we have kept Congress fully informed of our efforts" to create a legal framework on counterterrorism.


claim:
Says his administration has made "progress" on border enforcement by "putting more boots on the southern border than at any time in our history and reducing illegal crossings to their lowest levels in 40 years."


claim:
"After shedding jobs for more than 10 years, our manufacturers have added about 500,000 jobs over the past three."


claim:
State support for local schools per pupil has decreased by at least 25 percent over the past decade.


claim:
Says, "Since 1994 when VAWA was first passed, incidents of domestic violence have dropped more than 50 percent."


claim:
"When the Affordable Care Act was signed, 17 million American children" had a pre-existing condition and were "uninsurable."


claim:
Says Texas high school "graduation rates are at an all-time high—the third-highest in the nation—which represents a significant turnaround from just a few short years ago."


claim:
"With the exception of slavery and the Chinese Exclusion Act, our laws have never barred persons from becoming citizens."


claim:
"When total Sandy spending is added up, it's more than the annual budget for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. And it's more than twice the annual budget of the U.S. Energy Department."


claim:
"This is the first time since Roe was decided in 1973 that a court has granted personhood status to the preborn."


claim:
Says each year approximately 30,000 people in the United States die as a result of gunfire, and about 80,000 people are wounded.


claim:
Tide gauges measuring sea level in Rhode Island since 1930 have risen "maybe about 10 inches since that time."


claim:
"Washington, D.C., now has greater population than Wyoming and Vermont, more active duty military than 29 states, more tax revenue than 29 states (and) a larger domestic product than 27 states."


claim:
Says out-of-state abortion clinics "have marketed their services to minors" in states with parental consent laws.


claim:
Says "MAX carries 30 percent of evening rush-hour commuters traveling from Downtown on the Sunset and Banfield freeways."


claim:
"A majority of Americans agree with" a ban on assault weapons. "And by the way, so did Ronald Reagan."


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


claim:
In 2009, the FBI "referred more than 71,000" cases of people failing background checks when trying to buy a gun to another federal agency, "but U.S. attorneys ultimately prosecuted only 77 of them."


claim:
Says "on the state level, we spend less today than Jon Corzine spent in fiscal year 2008, five years later."


claim:
"Eighty percent of those who have applied for licenses have no cancer, no Parkinson's disease or glaucoma. They have nothing you would associate [with] the use of medical marijuana."


claim:
Says ending the direct payment farm subsidy program "could save up to $28.4 billion over ten years that could be used to reduce the deficit."


claim:
Says his plan to raise car registration to $56 would still leave Virginia with a fee that’s "equal to or lower than most states."


claim:
"As a result of National Rifle Association and other private-sector (safety-education) programs, fatal firearms accidents are at the lowest level in 100 years."


claim:
Says "the jurisdictions with the strictest gun control laws, almost without exception … have the highest crime rates and the highest murder rates."


claim:
"States have cumulatively cut over $1.8 billion from their mental health services between 2009 and 2011. This is the largest reduction in state mental health services in half a century."


claim:
Research shows that "a vast majority of arriving immigrants today come here because they believe that government is the source of prosperity, and that's what they support."


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


claim:
"Approximately 43 percent of all college grades today are A's, an increase of 28 percentage points since 1960."


claim:
"When George Bush became president of the United States, 17 million people were in poverty. When he left, 30 million people were in poverty."


claim:
Says Oak Grove is "one of the largest cities in Oregon" and is "the biggest city in Clackamas County and it's not a city."


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


claim:
"Since last year’s address, more than 10,000 jobs created -- many on the high end of the employment scale."


claim:
A Paul Ryan-Scott Walker (or Scott Walker-Paul Ryan) ticket for the White House in 2016 would be unconstitutional because both men live in Wisconsin.


claim:
"Washington, D.C., had some of the strictest gun laws in the country. And when they passed them, violence skyrocketed."


claim:
"Religious groups like Knights of Columbus have been forced to allow same-sex marriage ceremonies in their facilities, against their beliefs."


claim:
Says "Abortion clinics in Oregon, as in most states, have no state oversight and are not held to basic health or safety standards."


claim:
People committed involuntarily for 72 hours under the Baker Act will get their guns back "automatically and immediately upon discharge....and their commitment is never entered into a background check database."


claim:
Under President Barack Obama, "8.3 (million) fewer Americans are working today than there were four years ago."


claim:
"The last time Republicans held hostage a resolution to ensure that our country’s bills were paid cost us more than $1 billion in added interest and slowed the economic recovery."


claim:
The tax penalty that the government imposes if you don't buy health insurance "is lower than it would have cost to buy insurance."


claim:
Says Virginia economic development officials "decided they didn’t want to bid on" his company's electric automobile plant.


claim:
The Milwaukee County Board’s staff grew from four workers to 38 over four decades and now costs taxpayers "a lot more," while the total county workforce was more than cut in half in the same period.


claim:
Says Chris Christie’s plan "to kick-start our economy" is to propose an "income tax cut that disproportionately benefits the wealthy, and...he's still proposing it."


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


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


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"It is ironic that (First Energy Corp. is) going to have a name on our (football stadium) where we (Cleveland Public Power) supply the electricity."


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Says his elections proposal would allow "a potential of 168 hours (of early voting), which I think is the most we’ve ever had."


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Says "in this next biennium, the cost of primary and secondary education is going to increase by more that $1000 per student. Half of that $1000 – $500 per student – is accounted for by the increased cost of PERS alone."


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Says a recent study shows Florida students are second in the world in fourth grade reading, behind Singapore.


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


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"Thanks to Washington, nearly everyone will pay more in taxes in 2013. Somehow people think it's just the wealthy. It's not."


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"In total, we have added nearly 75,000 private sector jobs in New Jersey since we took office in January 2010."


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"It costs $10,000 a year to keep a child in school; it costs $30,000 a year to keep someone in prison."


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Since 1968, "more Americans have died from gunfire than died in … all the wars of this country's history."


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In 2011, more people were murdered with knives, "hands or feet" or "clubs and hammers" than with any type of rifle.


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


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The state budget proposal has been submitted "on time and [it's] the earliest that a governor has done so in over two decades."


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"Gross income tax receipts are exceeding the Administration’s projections for this fiscal year prior to Sandy."


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"Unlike the gridlock in Washington, more than 80 percent of the bills we passed during this General Assembly had bipartisan support."


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The United States has "an immigration system where only 6.5 percent of people who come here, come here based on labor and skill."


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U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin was "partly right" that a woman's body has a way of shutting down so that a pregnancy doesn't occur if she's raped.


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Members of Congress "specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed, such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment" ... (and) from the healthcare reform."


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"Semi-automatic weapons, whether pistol or rifle, were designed for use by the military on the battlefield."


claim:
"I sponsored the amendment that expanded the hours of early voting so that people who have irregular work schedules could vote."


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"Even if you took literally every single ounce of platinum in the world, it still wouldn’t add up to enough needed to pay down our nation’s debt."


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"[W]e see America's prison population exploding, with America having a greater percentage of its people behind bars than any other nation in the world!"


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Since the federal Violence Against Women Act was adopted in 1994, "cases of domestic violence have fallen by 67 percent."


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Says "how much money the government is collecting from people...in terms of the gross domestic product" is "the lowest in 40, 50 years."


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


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Says if you are on your bike in a crosswalk, all you have to do is dip your wheel into the road and cars must legally stop.


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Says his transportation plan "would make Virginia the first state in the nation to eliminate the state tax on gasoline."


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Obamacare includes "a $63 charge every American will begin paying (in 2013) as a way to cover some of the increased costs associated with providing health insurance to those with pre-existing conditions."


claim:
"In the four years before I became governor, we increased state debt $5.2 billion. We've paid it down $2 billion."


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


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


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There is "over 20 times more energy" in a proposed Southside uranium mining site than "there is in all the oil that’s estimated to be off Virginia’s coast"


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


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"Report that #GOP insisting on changes to Social Security as part of #fiscalcliff false. BTW those changes are supported by @barackobama."


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Says that according to "many reports and even our own data," the state of Texas spent more through Medicaid on orthodontia than all other states combined.


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The so-called doc fix in the fiscal cliff deal will cut payments "for treating illnesses disproportionately impacting minorities, including end stage renal disease and diabetes."


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Taxpayers are "on the hook ... for less than a third" of the proposed new Atlanta Falcons stadium, and those funds are "repaid from money that comes from outsiders."


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Says "10 days after Hurricane Katrina, this chamber passed two separate bills amounting to $60 billion. It has been nearly two months since we had Superstorm Sandy, and nothing has passed."


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"The problem with raising tax rates on the wealthiest Americans is that more than half of them are small business owners."


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Among Milwaukee Public Schools students, "86 percent are behind in reading and 80 percent are behind in math."


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"Connecticut has the fifth toughest gun control laws in the country, including an assault weapons ban that bans 35 different weapons."


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"Individuals with mental illnesses die an average of 25 years earlier than those without a mental illness."


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"Over $1 trillion" was spent on anti-poverty programs in 2011, enough to "give every single poor American a check for $22,000."


claim:
"Even hunters are restricted from using large capacity magazines: there is a five cartridge limit for large game hunting, and three for bird hunting."


claim:
"Faculty salaries at UW System institutions have now fallen more than 18 percent below the national average."


claim:
"One out of every four students fails to earn a high school diploma. In our major cities across America, half of our kids don’t graduate."


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"Last year, handguns killed 48 people in Japan, 8 in Great Britain, 34 in Switzerland, 52 in Canada, 58 in Israel, 21 in Sweden, 42 in West Germany and 10,728 in the United States."


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Says Charlie Crist and Missouri Rep. Todd Akin "hold same abortion views. No exception except the life of the mother."


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Says the Nike bill "is not a tax break ... this does not lower the taxes that Nike will pay nor does it prevent the Legislature from raising those taxes in the future."


claim:
"If lawmakers fail to avert the fiscal cliff, 18 percent of the federal money that is sent to the states will be eliminated."


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"I have the experience as Senate Budget Chair of cutting $4.5 billion in spending -- to close the deficit while protecting education and health care."


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Thanks to actions by the Milwaukee County Board on the 2013 budget, the amount of county taxes on the average home in the city of Milwaukee "would be a $19 decrease."


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


claim:
"In the last 15 years, we've witnessed a dramatic expansion in the jailing of immigrants, from about 70,000 people detained annually to about 400,000."


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President Barack Obama’s Fiscal Year 2013 budget proposal "couldn't get support from either party in the House or the Senate."


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"Right now one of our highest job growth sectors is Leisure and Hospitality. We've added jobs that mostly fall within the restaurant and bar sector industry. These are not high-paying jobs, as the U.S. Department of Labor estimates this is an industry sector with the lowest average wages and the lowest proportion of its workforce earning minimum or subminimum wage jobs."


claim:
"If the House of Representatives fails to extend the middle-class tax cuts, 400,000 middle-class Rhode Island families will see their federal income taxes increase."


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Under Charlie Crist, Florida lost 825,000 jobs and the unemployment rate increased from 3.5 percent to 11.1 percent.


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Says personal-injury trial lawyers "have provided over 80 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 "$2.3 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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Says the Obama administration plans to ban all weapons for U.S. citizens through international treaties.


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"The Agriculture Department estimates that roughly 42 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.


claim:
"In 2008, tourism brought in $38 billion dollars and supported more than 300,000 jobs in the state of New Jersey."


claim:
"The five economic indicators that the federal government tracks - for the first time since August 2006 - were positive this October."


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November 2012 was "a record year of turnout. More people voted before Election Day using absentee ballots and voting early than ever before in our history."


claim:
"The city of Atlanta has one of the highest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender populations per capita, ranking third among major American cities."


claim:
"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 $1,000 per worker.


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Says a new state report "confirms" that red-light cameras "lead to more accidents, more injuries and greater cost."


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Public employees receive "something like 25 percent of the paychecks that are issued in Rhode Island."


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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 200,000 more votes statewide" than their Republican counterparts in the 2012 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's website."


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Says "the number of Americans living at or below the poverty line is at its highest level since" 1964.


claim:
Says he first unveiled his new legislative agenda in Wisconsin, not in California as critics complain


claim:
Says in January 1992, George H. W. Bush "probably had a 90 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 16,000 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.


claim:
"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."


claim:
"Our race was the closest U.S. Senate race in Ohio in 36 years -- when Howard Metzenbaum defeated Robert Taft in 1976."


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A "foreclosure tax" that would take effect in 2013 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 1985 election former Gov. Tom Kean had "the largest winning margin for a gubernatorial candidate in Jersey history."


claim:
"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.


claim:
"When you look at the number of crashes before the cameras were installed compared to after, they’re virtually the same."


claim:
"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 $19 billion over 10 years."


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


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Says Gov. Scott Walker has "led people to believe that if Wisconsin doesn’t implement a (health-care) 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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Says Delta Air Lines has "once again broken a promise they made to me and to the people of Memphis."


claim:
"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."


claim:
Says Fran DeWine’s made-from-scratch dinner rolls are a delicious favorite in a traditional Thanksgiving dinner.


claim:
"Wisconsin is the only state that allows parents or guardians to purchase alcohol for their children – regardless of whether that child is seven or 20 years old – at bars and restaurants."


claim:
A precinct in the Allen West-Patrick Murphy recount has "7 registered voters in Guatemalan community and the tally showed 900 voted!!!!!"


claim:
Says the initial Portland plastic bag ban represented "only a modest share of total single-use checkout bag use."


claim:
"In one county alone in Ohio, President Obama received 106,258 votes. But there were only 98,213 eligible voters."


claim:
Says that under the new healthcare law, full- and part-time workers will be required to buy insurance costing $375 to $1,000 a month, starting in 2014.


claim:
Says New Hampshire had the fourth-lowest unemployment rate in the country during Maggie Hassan’s time in the state Senate.


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Says 40 years ago, the U.S. placed Texas under Voting Rights Act for failing to print ballots in Spanish.


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Barack Obama is "only the second Democrat in the last 75 years to win Ohio twice with more than 50 percent of the vote."


claim:
"There is no reason to allocate 60 percent of bridge space to satisfy two percent of all travelers."


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Says that with President Obama's re-election, state and federal income tax rates for some taxpayers will rise "to roughly 65 percent."


claim:
"Every American now is $51,000 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 4 or 5 worst" for middle-income earners.


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Says a poll shows that "without a name attached, Democrats are just one point behind" Gov. John Kasich.


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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 20 years, Texas public school spending rose 142 percent and per-pupil spending more than tripled when adjusted for inflation.


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Says Tennessee’s higher education funding model "is 100 percent outcomes-based" and "we are already seeing this model changing the way our postsecondary institutions do business."


claim:
"Texas’ population is projected to double in the next 50 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 -- $31 million per year" -- from a half-cent increase in the Shelby County sales tax.


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Says U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin "proposed a $3.9 trillion tax increase -- a tax increase so extreme" that "even Nancy Pelosi voted against it."


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Says during George W. 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 $29 million in stimulus for his congressional district."


claim:
"Obama's Environmental Protection Agency sent emails for Hispanic Heritage Month with a photo of Che Guevara."


claim:
"After Patrick Murphy’s charges were dropped, Murphy’s father gave the prosecutor a huge campaign donation."


claim:
"Tommy Thompson made millions from corporations who outsource American jobs and now he's 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 that Sherrod Brown is an "Obama rubber stamp" for "supporting the job-killing cap and trade plan."


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Says Matt Wand has sided with anti-choice activists "to restrict access to reproductive health care services."


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Says Charlie Bass supports Paul Ryan plan that forces seniors to pay $6,400 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."


claim:
"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.


claim:
"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."


claim:
Says New Jersey lost private-sector jobs between 2000 and 2009 because Democrats increased taxes, fees, regulations and state spending.


claim:
"We’re talking right now about a $12 billion hole in our current, so-called balanced" state "budget."


claim:
"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 2007, the unemployment rate was at 4.8 percent. The unemployment rate in Shelby County has reached 9.7 percent."


claim:
Rhode Island has taken its federal Medicaid funding and shown it can run the program more cost-effectively than the federal government.


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Says Multnomah County libraries "are open 44 hours per week … the lowest of any library in the four-county region."


claim:
Says U.S. Senate rival Tommy Thompson ran Medicare "into the ground" and "nine years closer to bankruptcy."


claim:
Says when he was governor, "most of the Democrats" voted for his billion-dollar property-tax cuts, but U.S. Senate rival Tammy Baldwin "voted against it."


claim:
Says the Central Health district's 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.


claim:
Says U.S. Senate opponent Tommy Thompson "personally made over $3 million" from a federal contract granted to his healthcare company, but left  9/11 first responders "without the care they were promised."


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Says "Tammy Baldwin had the opportunity to vote to honor the victims of 9/11 and she voted against it."


claim:
"One industry in America has increased its employment base in the last four years by 176,000 people: the United States government."


claim:
Lois Frankel "spent over $13,000 in taxpayer money on a marble shower in a private bathroom with her own toilet."


claim:
"There’s 21 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 65."


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Says Gov. John  Kasich incorrectly claimed Ohio’s economy was 38th in the nation when he took office. "We were sixth in the nation in terms of economic job growth."


claim:
"Connecticut's take on slot machines is 25 cents on the dollar. And the state's take on table games:  zero."


claim:
Says Connie Mack’s Penny Plan would cut "over $200 billion out of Medicare, over $1 trillion out of Social Security. ... $3 trillion out of defense."


claim:
Says U.S. Senate rival Tammy Baldwin supports a "tax increase that President Obama says" would cost middle-class families $3,000 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."


claim:
"Pakistan has 100 nuclear warheads and they’re rushing to build a lot more. They’ll have more than Great Britain sometime in the relatively near future."


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


claim:
Elizabeth Townsend runs the elections office that omitted a school board race on a ballot and gave a School Board candidate "faulty advice."


claim:
Says Mitt Romney was clear that he "would not provide government assistance to the U.S. 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."


claim:
"Veterans’ unemployment is actually now lower than (the) general population. It was higher when I came into office."


claim:
"A few months ago when you were asked what's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia."


claim:
Says a university survey concluded his Massachusetts administration "had more women in senior leadership positions than any other state in America."


claim:
Ann McLane Kuster is "for a government takeover of health care more radical than Obamacare. And she supports a $700 billion cut to Medicare for current retirees."


claim:
"The poverty rate amongst women is the worst it’s been in 17 years and the extreme poverty rate is the worst it’s ever been."


claim:
"Women who have miscarriages could be investigated by police" under legislation supported by Republican state Senate candidate Rick Gudex.


claim:
Says House Democrats "voted to use your tax dollars for abortions" by voting against bill defunding Planned Parenthood.


claim:
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."


claim:
Says an arts tax would provide "funding for certified arts and music teachers for every elementary school serving Portland residents."


claim:
Says Mitt Romney and George Allen "would overturn Roe v. Wade and allow states to end safe, legal abortion even in cases of rape, incest or when a woman's life is at risk."


claim:
"I’ve got a 94 percent" career voting record in Congress while Bill Nelson has "a 92 percent voting record."


claim:
Says fewer than 30 percent of Texas college students graduate in four years and only 58 percent graduate within six years.


claim:
Says the University of Texas can afford to build a medical school because it has a $7 billion endowment and its football program had a $50 million profit last year.


claim:
Says he "is the reason we do not pay a toll every time we pass over the bridge at MoPac and William Cannon."


claim:
Says Connie Mack "is protecting Chevron oil from a multi-billion dollar lawsuit over pollution of rivers and rainforests."


claim:
Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown shows someone can be bipartisan in Congress because he "votes about 66 percent with his own party."


claim:
Says Barack Obama has pension investments that include Chinese firms, and "investments through a Caymans trust."


claim:
Says his administration put more border patrol agents on the U.S.-Mexico border than at "any time in history, and the flow of undocumented workers across the border is actually lower than it's been in 40 years."


claim:
Says his administration has created "5 million jobs … over the last 30 months in the private sector alone."


claim:
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."


claim:
When Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts, he "stood in front of a coal plant and pointed at it and said, ‘This plant kills.’"


claim:
An Army report stated Allen West "performed illegal acts, merited court martial, faced 11 years in prison.'"


claim:
The  Georgia Department of Economic Development assisted with the creation of 28,776 jobs, an increase of 29 percent from last fiscal year, and $5.97 billion in investments, a 32 percent increase.


claim:
"Under the Obama administration, we are drilling and producing more domestic energy supplies than we ever had before."


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


claim:
Says the Obama administration "watered down sanctions" against Iran, delayed them and tried to stop Congress "from putting the tough sanctions in place."


claim:
Says "as Co-Chair of the Joint Ways & Means Committee, I secured the key piece of funding for" the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail project bridge."


claim:
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 $100,000 and $200,000."


claim:
" … 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 U.S. citizens!"


claim:
"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."


claim:
Signs letter saying Consumer Product Safety Commission is acting "without consultation or input from the company" to stop the sale of Buckyballs.


claim:
"David Cicilline was the state representative who opposed tough mandatory sentences for those convicted of domestic violence  and child abuse."


claim:
Says the U.S. Senate has passed "a budget" over the last three years "called the Budget Control Act."


claim:
"Tennessee students now cover about 67 percent of the cost of their education at public universities, and some 60 percent at community colleges."


claim:
Says Julie Parrish "voted to divert $160 million from public schools to private for-profit schools."


claim:
Under Maggie Hassan's leadership, "we increased state spending in the middle of the great recession by 24 percent leading up to and following it."


claim:
Says Joe Biden "went to China and said that he sympathized and wouldn't second-guess their one-child policy of forced abortions and sterilizations."


claim:
"The Canadians — they (dropped) their tax rates to 15 percent. The average tax rate on businesses in the industrialized world is 25 percent."


claim:
The Obama administration "called Bashar Assad a reformer when he was turning his Russian-provided guns on his own people."


claim:
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.


claim:
Says the Obama administration spent taxpayer dollars on electric cars in Finland (and) windmills in China.


claim:
On ending the war in Iraq, "Gov. Romney said that was a tragic mistake, we should have left 30,000 troops there."


claim:
Says his deficit plan "made some adjustments to (Simpson-Bowles), and we're putting it forward before Congress right now, a $4 trillion plan."


claim:
"When Congress voted to condemn Iran for sentencing a Christian pastor to death, (U.S. Rep. Lois) Capps was the only member who voted no."


claim:
Says Travis County Sheriff Greg Hamilton has accepted $42,000 from strip-club interests and $10,000 from local alcohol distributors.


claim:
Says Chris Christie created "this new category where you could get laid off and just be totally denied unemployment benefits forever."


claim:
A member of the redistricting commission proposed in Issue 2 "could accept a bribe from somebody" and "couldn’t be removed from this commission."


claim:
Says Romney wants to "take away early childhood education, slash K-12 funding, and cut college aid … to pay for a $250,000 tax break for multi-millionaires."


claim:
Bill Nelson "leased land that he owned for six cows, taking advantage of an agricultural tax loophole to dodge $43,000 in taxes just last year."


claim:
Says Tammy Baldwin supports a law "in which government will take over your decisions on medicine, on doctors and on hospitals."


claim:
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.


claim:
Says Romney invested in a firm that made goods in China that "could have been made here in America."


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


claim:
"This is what President Obama said the jobless rate would be if we passed the stimulus: 5.6 percent."


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


claim:
The federal tax code has "loopholes that are giving incentives for companies that are shipping jobs overseas."


claim:
"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."


claim:
Says opponent U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore ‘is Wisconsin’s most absent member of Congress, missing nearly 17 percent of the House votes in the second quarter of 2012.’


claim:
"When Congressman Langevin took office, gas was around $1.70 per gallon, and now it is near $4 per gallon."


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


claim:
Says under U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez’s watch the nation’s unemployment rate and debt doubled and the federal budget deficit quadrupled.


claim:
"If Gov. Romney's plan goes into effect … the average senior would have to pay $460 a year more in tax for their Social Security."


claim:
"In one year, (President Obama) provided $90 billion in breaks to the green energy world … into solar and wind, to Solyndra and Fisker and Tesla and Ener1."


claim:
Says black women are "fastest-growing demographic group in ... Texas seeking concealed handgun licenses."


claim:
Says U.S. Senate opponent Tammy Baldwin supported a federal budget "that spent trillions -- not billions, trillions -- more money than the Obama budget."


claim:
"We're up 123,000 jobs over the last year and three-quarters. We're actually, according to the Bureau of Labor statistics, down 500 ... auto jobs in Ohio."


claim:
Because of Obamacare, "over the last two years, health care premiums have gone up -- it's true -- but they've gone up slower than any time in the last 50 years."


claim:
"Right now, the (Congressional Budget Office) says up to 20 million people will lose their insurance as Obamacare goes into effect next year."


claim:
"(Barack Obama) says he’s going to reduce the long-term debt and deficit by $4 trillion, doesn’t say how he's 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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"While Mandel's been busy traveling the country raising campaign money, he hasn't shown up for work."


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Says Barack Obama "put in place a board that can tell people ultimately what treatments they're going to receive."


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Says Adam Hasner said he will never accept a pay increase, but he voted to raise his pay four times.


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Says Ohio's Issue 2 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's a fact."


claim:
"One of the first states in the union to pass a voter ID bill was Rhode Island, 85 percent Democratic legislature."


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Says President Barack Obama "already passed all these Obamacare taxes. About a dozen of them hit middle-income taxpayers."


claim:
Almost 400 arrests in the city last year for panhandling-related offenses involved just 78 suspects, an indication that the same people are panhandling over and over.


claim:
The Obama administration’s "green" stimulus program "funneled close to $2 billion dollars to overseas firms," creating thousands of jobs in China.


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Chinese tire imports threatened 1,000 American jobs, so President Obama "stood up to China and protected American workers. Mitt Romney attacked Obama's decision."


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Says the "public option" considered in the health care law backed by U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin was "wildly unpopular."


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Says Ronald Reagan "was behind in the polls in 1980 going into the debate with Jimmy Carter and then turned around 10 days later and won 40 states."


claim:
"Since the time of the Civil War, we've 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."


claim:
"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 $220 per square foot in hard construction costs to rebuild Portland Public high schools.


claim:
"Had the online change of address been in place in 2008 an estimated 130,000 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 $5.3 trillion over four years, compared to $2 trillion in eight years under President George W. Bush.


claim:
"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."


claim:
"There’s at least 7,500 addicted gamblers in Rhode Island, at least, … it could be as high as 22,000."


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"Over the last four years, the deficit has gone up, but 90 percent of that is as a consequence of" President George W. Bush’s policies and the recession.


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Says Ted Cruz "has pledged to eliminate" the U.S. 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.


claim:
"Barack Hussein Obama will ... force local authorities to allow Occupy protesters to live in parks."


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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."


claim:
Says Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Thompson "supports massive tax cuts for corporations that outsource Wisconsin jobs."


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


claim:
Says "One of the state’s largest governments made charging this tax one of their top priorities just this year."


claim:
Says scientists predict "sometime in the future, an event that will kill … somewhere between 80 and 90 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.


claim:
"Bill Nelson voted for a ban on millions of commonly owned firearms, which included many popular hunting and target rifles."


claim:
"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 Romney tax plan "could take away middle-class deductions for child care, mortgages and college tuition."


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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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"Obamacare will provide coverage for abortions, despite the president’s commitment that it would not."


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Says that in the U.S. 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 "number-one 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."


claim:
James Langevin "has received almost $20 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 voter-adopted constitutional amendment "instructed" a state board headed by Jerry Patterson to put $300 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."


claim:
"Eight million Americans have dropped out of the work force since (Barack) Obama became president. ... The real unemployment rate is 19 percent."


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Says U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Thompson "admitted" that Washington, D.C., "changed" him into an insider selling his influence to make millions from powerful special interests.


claim:
Says when Republicans took over the state legislature in 2010, New Hampshire’s tax rate for employers was 50th in the nation, and unemployment had more than doubled under Democrats.


claim:
The national debt of $16 trillion, is "enough to buy both the Cleveland Indians and Cincinnati Reds 1,918 times."


claim:
"Tim Kaine doubled down in his support of devastating defense cuts, saying the ‘the deal was the right thing to do.’"


claim:
"I am going to be on the ballot in all 50 states. There is no other third-party 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 $700 billion dollars off the top of it, Medicare goes away in less than 10 years -- certain accounts of it -- and it just falls apart at the seams."


claim:
Says Romney and Ryan "both backed proposals that would outlaw abortions even in cases of rape or incest."


claim:
"The president went on a stimulus-fueled spending binge that stuck every American man, woman and child with a $50,000 share of this $16 trillion debt."


claim:
Based on the August 2012 national jobs numbers, "for every person who got a job, nearly four people stopped looking for a job."


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


claim:
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 U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin.


claim:
Medicare "premium support" backed by Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan "is not vouchers."


claim:
Defends his vote to push "retirement age to 70" by saying he is for "a process" that would not be fully implemented until "around the turn of the century."


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


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The reason 29 states no longer have a death tax "is that the tax damaged their economic competitiveness."


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


claim:
Says that under Mitt Romney, 89 million Americans could be denied coverage if they have a pre-existing condition.


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


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


claim:
After hearing "the frustrations parents and teachers have with the FCAT," next year "we begin improving our testing system."


claim:
Tennessee's appeals court judges "were selected by a handful of party officials in Nashville" before the system of "merit selection" was put into effect.


claim:
"With the auto rescue," President Barack Obama "saved more than 1 million middle-class jobs all across America," including more than 28,000 in Wisconsin.


claim:
The U.S. unemployment rate has remained above 8 percent for 43 consecutive months, the longest stretch since the Great Depression.


claim:
"In Cuyahoga County ... 56 percent of weekend voters in 2008 were African American while adult African Americans comprise 28 percent of the county population."


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


claim:
On U.S.-Israeli relations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "set the record straight — he said, our two countries have 'exactly the same policy' (and) 'our security cooperation is unprecedented.'"


claim:
Says Rush Limbaugh made it clear he’d rather see the country fail than President Barack Obama succeed.


claim:
"The president promised that if he spent money on a stimulus program that unemployment would go to 5.7 percent or 6 percent. Those were his words."


claim:
Ann Kuster "supports the government takeover of healthcare, which robs Medicare of over $700 billion."


claim:
$50,000. That's 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."


claim:
"The Senate has not passed a budget in more than three years, not a good budget, not a bad budget, no budget."


claim:
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."


claim:
Voter identification laws make it complicated and expensive to get an ID, essentially instituting a modern-day poll tax.


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


claim:
Says Georgia will send more state money per child to state charter schools and that budget cuts are not applied to those charter schools.


claim:
"After 30 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."


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


claim:
Says Republicans "have declared that they’re going to convert the Medicare program into a voucher program."


claim:
Wayne Powell has a "stated position of having no objection to taking `In God We Trust" off of U.S. currency."


claim:
Says the Republican Party platform says "pull back even more of the rules on campaign finance reform, get rid of McCain-Feingold" while the Democratic Party platform says "we want to find a way to put more fair rules on campaign finance reform."


claim:
Says "under Oregon law, girls from 15 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 20 years."


claim:
The "Health Care Compact bill would end Medicare's guaranteed benefit for Tennessee's Medicare recipients and shift management of the federal health care plan to the state's TennCare program."


claim:
"We've got 7.2 percent unemployment (in Ohio), but when you include the folks who have stopped looking for work, it's actually over 10 percent."


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


claim:
"Jeb Bush recently noted, Reagan himself would have been too moderate, too reasonable for today's GOP."


claim:
Ohio has "created 45,000 new manufacturing jobs since 2010. And that's due in large part to the fact that the auto rescue has helped Ohio."


claim:
Under President Barack Obama’s leadership, "since June 2009, (the auto) industry has added a quarter of a million jobs."


claim:
Says U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan attacked the president for "the same amount of Medicare savings that (Ryan) had in his own budget."


claim:
Says that like Todd Akin, all Texas Republicans in U.S. House cosponsored a bill "that attempts to distinguish between ‘forcible rape’ and other sexual assaults."


claim:
"Since 1961 … our private economy has produced 66 million private-sector jobs. So what's the jobs score? Republicans 24 million, Democrats 42 (million)."


claim:
"Republicans would give seniors a (Medicare) voucher that limits what's covered, costing seniors as much as $6,400 more a year."


claim:
Says Republicans Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan support "massive cuts in Social Security for future generations."


claim:
Says she was misquoted and "didn’t say" that the Israeli ambassador said "what the Republicans are doing is dangerous for Israel."


claim:
"Seven presidents before (Barack Obama) -- Republicans and Democrats -- tried to expand health care to all Americans."


claim:
"Under President Bush in eight years, we added $4.9 trillion to the debt. Under President Obama, we've added $5.3 trillion to the debt in the 3.5 years he's been in office."


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


claim:
Says Mitt Romney has put forward a plan "that would cut taxes for millionaires while raising them for the middle class."


claim:
Says Mitt Romney’s tax plans would "give an additional $250,000 tax cut to millionaires and billionaires" while raising taxes on the middle class.


claim:
"We will spend $100 billion in Afghanistan this year, fixing roads, building bridges, training police officers, and more, [and] cutting the same things in our own country."


claim:
"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."


claim:
The GOP platform that seeks further limits on abortion and is silent on an exception for rape "has been there for more than 30 years."


claim:
Federal law adopted "under Tommy Thompson's watch" prohibits the government from negotiating for "better prices" on prescription drugs for senior citizens


claim:
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."


claim:
Says opponents of the health care law  "prevailed on our two main arguments" to the U.S. Supreme Court.


claim:
At Bain Capital, "we helped start an early childhood learning company called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised."


claim:
Says under the Romney-Ryan budget ... "the American Opportunity Tax Credit for college tuition would be eliminated."


claim:
"There is an increasing amount of evidence from public polling that the highest number of Americans ever identify themselves as pro-life."


claim:
Says that when Democrats controlled Congress and the White House, federal spending as a share of the Gross Domestic Product leapt from 18.2 percent in 2001 to 25.2 percent in 2009 -- the largest such increase in any eight-year period since World War II.


claim:
Clackamas County Commissioners "approved a re-negotiated agreement to lower the county’s contribution to TriMet’s Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail project to $19.9 million from $25 million."


claim:
Says Connie Mack IV co-sponsored 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."


claim:
Says "President Obama and his National Labor Relations Board" sued Boeing over its decision to open a plant in South Carolina.


claim:
Says the national health care law puts federal "bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor."


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


claim:
Says that as Providence’s mayor, David Cicilline said the city had a "world-class … school system. Not only did Providence not have a world-class school system but as measured, was amongst the last school system in the entire country."


claim:
"When President Obama took office, we were losing 700,000 jobs a month. Now we've had job growth, I think, for 24 consecutive months."


claim:
In Massachusetts under Mitt Romney, "unemployment went down, household incomes went up," and the state "saw its credit rating upgraded."


claim:
When his grandfather arrived in the United States, "there were no government benefits for immigrants."


claim:
"Mitt Romney’s platform ...won't protect the mortgage interest (tax) deduction for middle-class families."


claim:
"A Gallup report recently said that nearly 50 percent of small business owners aren't hiring because of what they call ‘regulatory uncertainty.’"


claim:
"A report just came out that if we continue with President Obama's policies, we're looking at over 9 percent unemployment next year in the fourth quarter."


claim:
"President Obama is attacking Paul Ryan on Medicare even though it is his administration with the help of Jim Langevin who cut $716 billion from Medicare."


claim:
Says "taxes were raised 115 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."


claim:
Says they said "it was impossible to balance a budget at the same time, with an $11 billion deficit" and "we did it."


claim:
The health care law imposes a federal mandate requiring middle-class Americans to buy health insurance "whether they can afford it or not."


claim:
"Household income in America has gone down for families an average of $4,000 in the last four years" while it " went up $5,000" under Mitt Romney when he was governor of Massachusetts


claim:
"If you look at the number of illegal immigrants coming into the country, it is net zero. It's been that way now for almost two years."


claim:
Says a portfolio managed by the Texas General Land Office earned 22 percent last year while the state’s emergency reserve account experienced a 1 percent gain.


claim:
In the past 27 months, President Barack Obama has created more private-sector jobs than "in the Reagan recovery."


claim:
"Half the kids coming out of college this year … can't find a job, or a job that's consistent with a college degree."


claim:
Republicans included "the Akin amendment in the Republican Party platform, which bans abortion, even for rape victims."


claim:
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."


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


claim:
Says U.S. Senate rival Tommy Thompson "wants to give a new $265,000 tax cut to millionaires like himself while raising taxes on the middle class."


claim:
Says U.S. Senate rival Tammy Baldwin wants a "completely government-controlled" health care system that goes "far beyond 'Obamacare'" and is "a Medicare system for all."


claim:
"We have only one person on the (TVA) board, to my knowledge, who even has any corporate board experience."


claim:
"For Social Security, which is projected to remain solvent through 2033, Whitehouse has cosponsored [a bill that] . . . would extend the life of the program by an additional 75 years."


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


claim:
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."


claim:
The price of gasoline was at $1.85 a gallon when President Barack Obama took office and has since nearly doubled because of his policies


claim:
Initial efforts to strip airport contractors of their special diversity status "has no effect" on the contracts or the city’s diversity goals.


claim:
Says Obama puts "15 unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats in charge of Medicare, who are required to cut Medicare ... that will lead to denied care for current seniors."


claim:
Says U.S. Senate hopeful Tammy Baldwin voted for a $1 trillion stimulus bill that included a wasteful "$800,000 to replace light bulbs."


claim:
Says that as Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney "condemned coal-fired plants, saying they kill people."


claim:
"In Florida, they're already talking about how the Ryan-Romney plan will end Medicare and replace it with a voucher."


claim:
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."


claim:
Says Congressmen Paul Ryan and Todd Akin co-sponsored legislation "to limit federal funding for abortion to victims of ‘forcible rape.’"


claim:
"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.


claim:
Rep. 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."


claim:
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!"


claim:
"Under the president's plan, he cuts Medicare by $716 billion, takes that money out of the Medicare trust fund and uses it to pay for Obamacare."


claim:
"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.


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


claim:
"From a standpoint of the county government, neither school system has received an increase in funding over the past six years."


claim:
Says Gov. Scott Walker "raises the pay of inmates, but we don't raise the pay of staff in our correctional institutions."


claim:
Says Reps. Rush Holt, Frank Pallone and Bill Pascrell are "willing to jeopardize seniors’ access to coverage by gutting $741 billion from Medicare" to pay for a "big-government healthcare takeover."


claim:
"Paul Ryan got his start in politics, as a young staffer just out of college, working for then-Congressman John Kasich’s Budget Committee."


claim:
"While (Barack) Obama preaches ‘we are our brother’s keeper,’ his brother and aunt live in real poverty in Kenya."


claim:
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.


claim:
"Austin is the largest city in the U.S. or Texas with no geographic representation" on its city council.


claim:
"NASCAR fans are twice as likely as non fans to serve in the military and 37 percent of active servicemembers and veterans are NASCAR fans."


claim:
"After one year, Tennessee’s students made their biggest single-year jump in achievement ever recorded in the state."


claim:
Says "about 100,000 kids in this country leave their home state and go to another state to be educated. Out of that 100,000 young people, 30,000 of them are from New Jersey, by far the largest amount."


claim:
Says President Obama said of the national debt, "If I don't have this done in three years, then there's going to be a one-term proposition."


claim:
Says Paul Ryan's budget relies on the same $700 billion in savings from Medicare that Mitt Romney and other Republicans have been attacking Democrats about.


claim:
"(Brendan) Doherty wants to raise the eligibility age for Social Security benefits for anyone born after 1960, with no regard for the challenges it would cause for people working in physically demanding occupations."


claim:
Says U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich "spent a trillion of our tax dollars on a stimulus for failed companies here and jobs overseas."


claim:
"Mitt Romney is the first major party candidate for president of the United States in modern times not to release at least 12 years of tax returns."


claim:
Voter turnout for some groups in the 2008 presidential general election in Georgia "was far greater than it should have been demographically."


claim:
Says Mitt Romney said at a January 2012 debate that under Paul Ryan’s tax plan, "I’d have paid no taxes in the last two years."


claim:
"We do know that Romney personally approved over $70 million in fictional losses to the IRS as part of the notorious 'Son of Boss' tax scandal, one of the largest tax avoidance schemes in history."


claim:
Says the federal government "mandates transexuals (sic) and homosexuals grabbing children in their stranger-danger zones in the name of airport security."


claim:
"(The Tax Policy Center) found that Romney would raise taxes on the average middle class family by $2,000 to pay for $5 trillion in tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires."


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


claim:
Says Tommy Thompson favors Obama's health care mandate, was publicly thanked by Obama for health reform support and that Thompson "says we can't repeal 'Obamacare.'"


claim:
Says U.S. Senate rival Tommy Thompson is "a big corporate lobbyist" and has been "lobbying during the middle of the campaign."


claim:
Says the Central Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force "is the first task force of its kind in Central Ohio"


claim:
A United Nations arms treaty would "almost certainly force" the U.S. to "create an international gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation."


claim:
"Gov. Romney himself, with 28 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."


claim:
Says Mitt Romney and Bain Capital are to blame in a woman’s premature death when they closed the plant where her husband worked.


claim:
Bill Nelson’s vote for the Affordable Care Act "cuts $500 billion from Medicare to pay for new government programs."


claim:
"This ban will only apply to Oregon commercial fishermen. Washington commercial fishermen would still be allowed to use gillnets on the Columbia River."


claim:
"One of the key things about Leonard Lance is that in 2008, 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."


claim:
"Thousands of politicians from across Ohio – along with their relatives, employees and friends – are still eligible to serve" on the proposed redistricting commission.


claim:
In June 2012 "we actually had more people go on Social Security Disability [85,000] ... than the 80,000 jobs that were created."


claim:
President Obama and Nancy Pelosi said "Obamacare" would save money because "they factored in 10 years worth of tax revenue and only six and half years worth of expenses."


claim:
Says Mitt Romney opposes requiring employers to cover contraception and would eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood.


claim:
"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."


claim:
Says Connie Mack IV has been "a promoter for Hooters with a history of bar room brawling, altercations and road rage."


claim:
Says Romney would add "trillions" to the deficit while Obama would "cut the deficit by $4 trillion."


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


claim:
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.


claim:
Says Gov. Jeb Bush vetoed the "Quiñones Plan" because it was "taxation without representation on a large scale."


claim:
"In her nearly decade and (a) half in Congress, Tammy Baldwin has sponsored 105 bills. Only three have been enacted into law."


claim:
"Guns have murdered more Americans here at home in recent years than have died on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan."


claim:
Says Congressman Jon Runyan does not want to cut taxes for the middle class, but only for millionaires.


claim:
"An April study found that about 70 percent of ads in this election cycle have been negative [due to SuperPACs], up from only 9 percent through the same period in 2008."


claim:
Says the "largest tax increase in American history is set to occur on January 1st unless President Obama and Congress can come to an agreement."


claim:
Mitt Romney is proposing a tax plan "that would give millionaires another tax break and raises taxes on middle class families by up to $2,000 a year."


claim:
Says U.S. Senate opponent Eric Hovde "supported billions in stimulus for high-speed rail"  and "billions more to bail out banks."


claim:
"The president’s health care law raids Medicare by more than $500 billion and creates a Medicare rationing board — a group of 15 unelected bureaucrats — to slow the growth of Medicare spending."


claim:
"The judicial system is the most underfunded in this state, able to only pay 52 percent of its obligations. Meanwhile, judges get some of the richest pensions of all public employees."


claim:
"Under the Obama administration’s bailout of General Motors, Ohio dealerships were forced to close."


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


claim:
"Foreign Chinese prostitution money is allegedly behind the groups funding Congressman Scott DesJarlais's (TN-04) Republican Majority."


claim:
Says under federal law "we do not have any limitation on the number of guns and bullets we can buy."


claim:
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks grounded commercial air traffic, "there was a temperature drop while the airplanes weren't flying, for the week afterwards."


claim:
President Ronald Reagan sent troops into conflict "only in one circumstance, which was in Grenada … We were in a peacekeeping setting in Lebanon."


claim:
Embryonic stem cell research is at a "dead end, with no one good example of a successful treatment."


claim:
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."


claim:
"The White House has three staff calligraphers making between $86,000 and $97,000 each, and just one National Security Director. She makes $55,000."


claim:
"Donna Shalala left me with 12 million doses" of smallpox vaccine and "I created enough" to vaccinate "every man, woman and child against smallpox in America."


claim:
"What I look at every month is how many more New Jerseyans are back to work. You have another 9,900 last month that are back to work and over almost 90,000 that are back to work now since I became governor."


claim:
A study showed that President Barack Obama’s health-care reforms will "devastate Wisconsin" by pushing people off employer-sponsored insurance, driving up premiums, increasing dependency and making 122,000 people ineligible for Medicaid.


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


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Says Democrats racked up a $1 billion state deficit, while Republicans under Bill O'Brien balanced the budget.


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Says Minnesota has more Fortune 500 companies than Oregon and "one of the most obvious differences is they've invested in their schools."


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


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Says PolitiFact "validated and independently documented" its "criminal history" claims about Adan Ballesteros.


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Says U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy is among seven "Tea Party freshmen" who "spent an average of $15,000 on cars for themselves."


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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 80 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. 1 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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"In 2010, Mr. [Anthony] Gemma described himself as a 'pro-life' candidate. Now, he claims to be pro-choice."


claim:
President Obama was saying success "is the result of government," not "hard-working people," when he said, "If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."


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Twenty two years ago, when he was running for governor, Bill Nelson missed 56 percent of his votes in the U.S. House.


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The new 21st 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 2011 and 2011 was the best single year for private-sector job growth since the year 2000."


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


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Says President Barack Obama "doubled the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year."


claim:
"When Josh Mandel claims to have accepted three debates with Sen. 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 $90,000 to take a single vehicle off the road during the morning and afternoon commute.


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"I used my line-item veto authority to veto $360 million dollars in special interest spending, so that our budget this year ... is still smaller than the fiscal year 2008 and 2009 budgets signed by my predecessor."


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The U.S. initially had three federal felonies: treason, piracy, and counterfeiting securities and money.


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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 state-run Citizens Property Insurance to dump policies onto "out-of-state, 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 10 times and held 106 fundraisers, but his jobs council has never met.


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Unemployment among Oregon high school graduates aged 18 to 20 increased more than 200 percent from 2008 to 2011, while the U.S. average increased only 30 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's a tax shift."


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"Sherrod Brown and his special interest allies in Washington are plotting to spend over $13 million" to defeat Josh Mandel.


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"If you have ever visited Nashville or Washington D.C. 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 "didn't 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 $1 million.


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According to a national survey, transit "ridership" among people age 16 to 34 increased 40 percent between 2001 and 2009.


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


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The Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Project has created 1,525 direct jobs as of June 11, 2012.


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The health care law "adds around $800 billion of taxes on the American people. It does not discriminate between rich and poor."


claim:
"Bill O'Brien's Tea Party legislature tried to repeal kindergarten and compulsory education, defund Planned Parenthood and eliminate insurance coverage for birth control."


claim:
"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 2001, 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 80,000 jobs last month. We don't talk about the jobs that we lost. The net of it all is that we lost jobs."


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President Obama’s health care law says "when you sell your house now you have to pay a 3.8 percent tax."


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"America used to be the third easiest country to get established in a business. It's now number 17."


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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 38 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 1.5 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."


claim:
"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 8 percent of white voting-age citizens but 25 percent of African-American voting-age citizens lack government-issued photo IDs.


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Says as a result of the national health care reform, "the Congressional Budget Office says we save $250 million over the first 10 years. Over the next 10 years, we save $1.2 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 67 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 U.S. didn't borrow $1.2 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 Sen. 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 $800 million."


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"In the last 10 years, only one piece of legislation has been cosponsored and passed by" John Duncan Jr.


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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 $3.4 billion."


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Under the health care law, "everybody will have lower rates, better quality care and better access."


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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 10 percent more ... about $2,100 more for a family."


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States still face a "mandate" to expand Medicaid coverage under President Obama's health care reform law.


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


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Says Clackamas County Measure 3-401 "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 2019" and "continues to gain support."


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"If you look at most of the polls, this is a margin-of-error race on Fourth of July between Mitt Romney and the president."


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The Wisconsin Retirement System for public employees is "a self-funded pension plan" and "it’s the money of the workers’ that funds it."


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"In 1950, corporations paid $3 in taxes for every $1 by a worker. Today, they pay 22 cents for every $1 by a worker."


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


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"Before Act 10, the total cost of public sector employees’ employment was 29 percent higher than that in the private sector. After the act, it’s still 22 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 line-item veto to cut "millions of dollars for firefighting equipment," including firefighters' "coats, pants, helmets and boots."


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"People who wash cars at home will use approximately 80 percent more water than they do in a car wash."


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"(Environmentalists) said ‘We’re only going to stop coal mining above 2,000 feet.’ ... Well guess where all the coal in the state of Tennessee is? Above 2,000 feet."


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Says Rep. Charles Bass "supports privatizing Social Security, risking trillions more on Wall Street."


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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 4,000 Texans" otherwise prevented from obtaining health coverage due to pre-existing conditions.


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


claim:
"Obamacare … means that for up to 20 million Americans, they will lose the insurance they currently have, the insurance that they like and they want to keep."


claim:
"Austin is the biggest city in America with a Tier One research university (UT-Austin) but without a medical school."


claim:
"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."


claim:
"Over the last few decades, the income of the top 1 percent grew by more than 275 percent -- to an average of $1.3 million a year."


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Says "TriMet's own analysis shows that YouthPass does not actually add to the transit agency's costs."


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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, life-saving cancer screenings and contraception."


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


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U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey gave the government the power to electronically spy on Americans without a warrant.


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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 lip-reading instructor at the River School, a Washington, D.C., school for the deaf" has determined that during 9/11 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."


claim:
"Under current law, if you go on a dating website and you say you're 32 and you're actually 42, you've committed a misdemeanor."


claim:
"Did you know Wisconsin's AFSCME union has lost 50%+ of its members since no longer requiring membership?"


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"Now, in the House of Representatives, we have 40 different jobs bills that have passed and almost all of them have been bipartisan."


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Says a national Coca-Cola study showed Texans love Texas more than residents of any other state love their state; Wisconsinites ranked second.


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In 2008, "33.2 percent of those who voted early on the last Sunday before Election Day were African-American, while 23.6 percent were Hispanic."


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"70 percent of the people who voted" on June 5, 2012, "just didn’t feel comfortable with the recall of the governor," weakening any idea that Wisconsin is "fully behind this Walker agenda."


claim:
"As Virginia lost over 65,000 jobs, (Tim) Kaine put partisan ambitions first" by serving as DNC chairman during the last year of his governorship.


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


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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 1,700 employees just at the Department of Transportation" earning over $170,000.


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"(Assembly Democrats) wanted to raise the gas tax by $2.4 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 97 cents of every dollar played "represents over $500 million dollars that is returned to Oregonians every year to help support job creation, schools, state parks and watersheds."


claim:
"A million people a year come into the U.S. legally. No other country even comes close to that figure."


claim:
"The Koch brothers alone gave twice as much money to Scott Walker as the total amount of money raised by Tom Barrett."


claim:
"Vagina. Because apparently, saying that word in the Michigan State House of Representatives can get you a two-day ban from speaking on the floor."


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"In 2011, NJ economy ranked 47th--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 U.S. average."


claim:
"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."


claim:
"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's pension funds by $2.8 billion that is costing New Jersey taxpayers still today to the tune of nearly $15 billion dollars to repay that money."


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Says her congressional district has 10,000 medical-device industry jobs and 1,000 will be lost because of health-care law tax.


claim:
"The latest evidence of Republican success is that since the beginning of the current legislative term, state unemployment has gone down almost 20% to 5% adjusted."


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Says he has nearly 200 delegates bound to support his candidacy at the Republican National Convention.


claim:
Says Barack "Obama admits he’s coming for our guns, telling Sarah Brady, ‘We are working on (gun control), but under the radar.’ "


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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 40,000 manufacturing jobs, a rate twice the national average, and fell to 47th 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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Citizens Property Insurance has "over $500 billion worth of risk, with less than $10 billion worth of surplus."


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Says lawyer appointed by Eric Holder to investigate government leaks helped and donated to Obama's campaign, vetting vice presidential prospects.


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"Overwhelming Democrat and Republican votes" in 2011 for legislation in two special sessions on jobs demonstrated the bipartisan nature of the Wisconsin Legislature.


claim:
"Giving the facts:  73,000 jobs created ... since '11.  Do you know how many direct jobs in the auto industry?  1,800."


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Under Florida’s voting law, a requirement to turn in voter registrations within 48 hours "makes it impossible to meet the deadline if you’re working right to the end of the week."


claim:
"Marcy Kaptur voted against a ban which would have prevented the aborting of a baby girl for the sole reason that she's a girl."


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


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Says "only 18 percent of Portland elementary schools have art instruction compared to 83 percent nationally."


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Says Jeff Wentworth, bending the rules, "has used $211,743.96 in campaign contributions to lease luxury cars."


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


claim:
"When I was U.S. Attorney we wound up putting 10 percent of the state Legislature in jail during my seven years."


claim:
"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 3,000 jobs in central and northeast Georgia and "create about a $3 billion infusion" into the economy.


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Says "Tommy Thompson's tax plan amounts to an average tax cut of almost $87,000 for the top 1 percent."


claim:
"Massachusetts is reporting a trend far below the national trend in the escalation of health-care costs in this year."


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Says combined inflation and unemployment rates in October 2011 were the highest since Ronald Reagan succeeded Jimmy Carter.


claim:
"We spend in tax loopholes annually $1.1 trillion. That's more than we spend on our defense budget in a year, on Medicare or Medicaid in a year."


claim:
"When Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs, a rate twice the national average."


claim:
"In Galveston, Texas, they have allowed people to privatize part of their Social Security. And people are building wealth."


claim:
"It took us four years to balance the budget. Then I gave you four surplus budgets for the first time in more than 70 years, paid $600 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 late-night 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's top five of ‘Lie - en Governors’."


claim:
"There is no record of congresswoman Betty Sutton ... ever holding a single in-person town hall meeting open to the general public."


claim:
"District 22 includes about 80% of the district I have represented since 2010. District 20 includes about 20% of the area I have represented since 2010."


claim:
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."


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


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


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Georgia Public Service Commission member Stan Wise "has received about 95 percent of his campaign money from the utilities he is supposed to be regulating."


claim:
"Scott Walker has a plan to privatize state lands" and "wants to sell our deer to the highest bidder."


claim:
"Women have come through the recession worse off than men … the numbers bear that out. We went from a 7 percent unemployment rate for women when he (President Barack Obama) was elected to an 8.1 percent now."


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President Obama budget request for veterans is "more than double the amount in constant dollars appropriated in 1980, when the veterans population was larger by a third."


claim:
"Forty years ago ... about half of congressional districts were genuinely competitive. Today, only about 10 percent of House races on Cook Political Report are listed as ‘toss-ups’ 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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"We came out against Deepwater and everybody is now paying for [the project] in their electric bills."


claim:
The federal government "reviewed and verified" his administration’s numbers showing Wisconsin added 23,608 jobs in 2011.


claim:
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 $100 million on a trolley that goes barely two miles on the east side of Milwaukee."


claim:
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.


claim:
Says in the last six months of the Bush administration, the U.S. lost 3.5 million jobs, including 760,000 jobs during January 2009 alone.


claim:
"The legislature was never given the opportunity to debate or vote on loaning $75 million to 38 Studios."


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


claim:
"More than 250 (voter registration) groups, ranging across the entire political spectrum, have filed with the state and are registering voters right now."


claim:
Says Gov. Scott Walker "took away $1.6 billion from schools and handed it off as over $2 billion in tax breaks to the rich."


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Says that from 1992 through 2010, every statewide candidate drawing over 43 percent of the vote in a Republican Texas primary won the resulting runoff.


claim:
"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."


claim:
To help balance the 2011-13 budget, Gov. Scott Walker used "a credit card" approach that "pushed over $500 million in debt onto our children and our grandchildren" costing state taxpayers "more than $150 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."


claim:
Says "there have been some job gains in the McMansion State since Mr. 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."


claim:
An "Obamacare slush fund" paid to spay and neuter dogs and cats, then counted it as an "anti-obesity campaign."


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


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


claim:
"The region I represent, both currently and in the future, has more automotive plants than the entire state of California."


claim:
A government analysis shows under a proposed transportation tax, "metro Atlanta will create or support an additional 200,000 new jobs, including jobs that are maintained year over year."


claim:
"In the state of Rhode Island 25 percent of our current physicians are graduates of for-profit medical schools."


claim:
"While Act 10 allowed (Milwaukee County) to save some money, it was millions short of what we needed to fill the hole left by the $28 million cut in state aid."


claim:
Says under President Barack Obama there’s been "the lowest discretionary spending we’ve had in decades in the United States."


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


claim:
In 2011, Alabama and Massachusetts passed legislation allowing non-citizens who are legal residents to vote in state and local elections.


claim:
Says "one in four women and one in seven men have been victims of domestic violence in their lifetime."


claim:
"There’s 400 more people working in health care today in New Hampshire than when we passed the budget."


claim:
Lloyd Doggett "made millions off companies like Bank of America while they took taxpayer bailout money."


claim:
Prince William County "has cut violent crime in half" since instituting a crackdown on illegal immigration.


claim:
"For every one mile of light-rail track that will be built, 16 miles of new road capacity will be built."


claim:
Says Gov. Scott Walker is "cooking the books" by releasing numbers "he just dreamed up" that show Wisconsin gained jobs in 2011.


claim:
Since Scott Walker took office as governor in January 2011, there has been an increase of 33,200 jobs in Wisconsin.


claim:
"Obama’s flush with cash, returning to Wall Street for even more money. … Wall Street sure supports President Obama."


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


claim:
Says he fought for the repeal of a septic tank inspection program after "Tallahassee pulled a fast one."


claim:
Says Mitt Romney is wrong to claim that spending under Obama has "accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history," because it's actually risen "slower than at any time in nearly 60 years."


claim:
"Over the past five years the federal government has paid out $601 million in retirement and disability benefits to deceased former federal employees."


claim:
"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 40 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."


claim:
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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Says New Jersey’s prison system is "61 percent African-American even though our state is just 13 percent black."


claim:
The recent process of awarding $3 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."


claim:
On allowing Shelby County's schools merger commission to finish work before allowing any new merger legislation.


claim:
Says Democratic recall opponent Mahlon Mitchell sent a letter "encouraging folks to boycott more than 100 companies."


claim:
"Jimmy Langevin is having a fundraiser . . . to retire the debt from his campaign for secretary of state, which was 12 years ago."


claim:
Says he posted a "win" in the Republican Party of Wisconsin endorsement contest in the U.S. Senate primary.


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


claim:
Obama promised to cut the deficit by half by the end of his first term but he "hasn't even come close."


claim:
"Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are negotiating with the United Nations about doing a treaty that will ban the use of firearms."


claim:
Says he represents or has represented about half the San Antonio-rooted district in which he seeks election.


claim:
Says that President Obama promised that with the stimulus plan, "unemployment would never go above 8 percent. He even said it would be 6 percent by now."


claim:
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."


claim:
Says President Barack Obama’s finance team is recommending a "1% tax on all transactions at any financial institution."


claim:
"20 million people could lose their current coverage" … "including our senior citizens who are on Medicare."


claim:
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."


claim:
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."


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


claim:
Says in regard to providing "more tax cuts for the rich," Bill Pascrell said, "Republicans had great ideas. I liked some of their ideas."


claim:
Says the health care reform bill was paid for, in part, by taking money from students and the student loan system.


claim:
The salaries of Wisconsin’s best-educated public school teachers were "slashed" by Gov. Scott Walker through a recent administrative rule change.


claim:
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're still illegal aliens. They cannot get a job."


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Florida has "1,200 golf courses. I think 58 million rounds played a year in Florida. We’ve got 44 percent of all travel golf in the country here. 5 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 $68,000 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 Bush-era tax cuts ... would be the biggest tax increase in the history of the country, about $4.6 trillion over 10 years."


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"Just remember this: the president's health care bill put 30 million people on health care rolls that weren't there before."


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Says when he was governor, "we expanded participation in Virginia in early childhood programs by nearly 40 percent."


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Says since 2000, Austin’s "tax burden" rose more than 40 percent while family income rose more than 20 percent.


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If Congress froze the current spending level and then cut it by 2 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 40th anniversary of electing a Republican to the United States Senate. 1972 was the last time New Jersey sent a Republican to the United States Senate."


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Says that Rep. Betty Sutton "would rather riot with Occupy (Wall Street) than stand up for Ohio families."


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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 $250,000 to every millionaire in this country."


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"We should be seeing numbers in the 500,000 jobs created per month. (Creating 115,000 jobs, the total from April 2012) is way, way, way off from what should happen in a normal recovery."


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The congressional district for Miami-Dade and Broward counties has a "staggering drop-out rate of almost 61 percent."


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Says Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley reduces 36 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 the average Ohio student graduates from a four-year college or university with nearly $27,000 in tuition debt.


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


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Says Rep. 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 $47 billion in revenue (raised over 10 years by the Buffett rule) into infrastructure you could create 611,000 infrastructure jobs."


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Says "I never billed a single hour of my time to the City of Portland in the last 10 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 don't say yes even if CH2M Hill wants us to."


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Says  "I don’t agree with Mr. 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" $6.5 trillion to the national debt in his first term, more than the $6.3 trillion added by the previous 43 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 7th worst out of 51 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 2009, the Ohio Republican Party has made more contacts with voters — nearly 6.6 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 "$1.2 billion to a solar company that's building a plant in Mexico."


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


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Says "Amanda Fritz publicly claimed to be endorsed by NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon, both on her website and in the voter’s guide."


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"After four years of a celebrity president … 85% (of recent college grads are) moving back in with their parents."


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


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Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s budget "calls for raising property taxes by nearly $500 billion."


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Says the Department of Homeland Security has ordered "enough rounds of .40 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 99 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 drug-induced abortions could be charged if women don’t return to them for follow-up care


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The average Atlanta resident "spends an extra $924 each year in additional gasoline and wasted time."


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In the "Obama economy ... the youth unemployment rate is double the unemployment rate for all Americans."


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Under Republican economic policies, "the typical American family saw their incomes fall by about 6 percent."


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A proposed U.S. Labor Department rule for children working on farms "would even ban youth from operating a battery-powered 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 100 to fewer than 40."


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"Bank of America could create 878,300 jobs with benefits if they spent their 2010 bonuses on job creation."


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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 $97.7 million, an increase of more than $2 million from last year."


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"The total unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino workers has increased from 10% to 10.3%" between January 2009 and March 2012.


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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 10 years."


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Under President Barack Obama’s watch, "oil production on federal lands has decreased 14 percent over the past year."


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Says more than 8,000 people have supported her campaign as volunteers, donors and advisors and endorsers.


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In the past three years, "we've added enough new oil and gas pipeline to circle the Earth and then some."


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"One out of two Americans … are living either in or near poverty. That means 150 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 self-defense."


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"If you're earning under $100,000 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 $5 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 2025."


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Says "Cape May, Cumberland, Salem and part of Atlantic counties are all south of the Mason-Dixon line."


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Ron Oakley's "conservative leadership protected local taxpayers over government bureaucrats" as the Water Management District’s budget decreased by "58 percent in the four years he served on the board."


claim:
"The number of new businesses started per year has dropped by 100,000 during this president’s term."


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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 10.7 percent on his watch.


claim:
"The Austin school district calendar lists 64 different dates for either a state-mandated test or make-up test."


claim:
"In 1993 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 80 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 1 cent, "it's a billion dollars out of our economy that goes to Saudi Arabia."


claim:
"The (ARC Tunnel) project was originally estimated to be $8.7 billion, and New Jersey alone was on the hook for all overruns."


claim:
"Large phone companies and their trade association have hired 35 registered lobbyists to influence and pass SB 271 (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 10 years, and has been approved to last longer.


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Says President Obama's decision to not issue a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline meant "we were denied the ability immediately to reduce prices at the pump."


claim:
"The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office concluded ObamaCare will cost the U.S. more than 800,000 jobs."


claim:
"By the time I finish this speech, two Americans will be slain, six women will be raped, 27 of us will be robbed, and 50 more will be beaten."


claim:
"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."


claim:
"While the country’s economy was battered, nine states with no income tax actually grew jobs from 2001 to 2010."


claim:
"In April 1997, there was a ‘gas out’ conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight."


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"This rule could prevent children under 18 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 30 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 $200,000."


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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.


claim:
"It's the first time in the nation this many members have been drawn (by a Legislature) into the same districts where it wasn't a court order."


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Says Sen. Bill Nelson voted to spend "$144,541 to see how monkeys react under the influence of cocaine."


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"Since President Obama took office, our federal spending has increased by nearly 30 percent and our national debt has increased by almost 50 percent."


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Says the treasurer’s office has "saved $37 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 ‘08-’09" and "refused to give the charitable dollars that he was required to give by the contract."


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Sen. Sherrod Brown’s vote helped pass "Barack Obama’s job-killing health care law, which slapped small businesses throughout Ohio with a $500 billion tax increase."


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President Obama's refusal to grant permits for offshore drilling is one reason gasoline prices are soaring.


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About 78 to 81 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 27 percent in Milwaukee, pushing it to "one of America’s 10 worst cities for unemployment."


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


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Says that Mitt Romney, while he was in Arizona, said he believes the state’s SB 1070 immigration law should be the model for national immigration laws.


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Says "at the state level we're 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 can't "do something about it" under bill passed by Republicans.


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"Lean, finely textured beef is the proper name [not pink slime], and it is a safe, widely used product."


claim:
"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 one-shots, is a 500 percent increase over the last Corzine budget."


claim:
"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 voting-reform 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 2014."


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Says his reform efforts improved performance at all 10 low-performing schools in Palm Beach, Florida.


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Under the House Republican budget, "if these cuts were to be spread out evenly … the year after next, nearly 10 million college students would see their financial aid cut by an average of more than $1,000 each."


claim:
"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.


claim:
"We were the No. 1 job creator in America in February and we are now the No. 4 job creator in the last year."


claim:
"Before this law, any group could go out anywhere, register voters, sit on the voter registration forms for unlimited amount of time."


claim:
"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."


claim:
"To get out of the (teachers) union, you pay 85 percent of $731. Then you're out of the union, but you've 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's cap-and-trade regulations are ‘burdensome’ and could harm economic growth in Ohio."


claim:
"This is the only state in the country that bypassed the General Assembly to authorize [in-state 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."


claim:
"Richard Hayne, president and CEO of Urban Outfitters … (is) a supporter of Rick Santorum and donated over $13,000 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 180,000 people to 80,000 people.


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Tim Kaine "reduced higher education funding by 25 percent when he was governor, driving up tuition..."


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In "the past 10 years, our (Austin) water rates have increased by 100 percent and we now have the highest water cost of the top 10 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 FreshFromFlorida.com 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 don't 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 2010 but did nothing for more than a year while raising money for his (Republican) Senate campaign."


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Says she "created the first felony deferred prosecution program for nonviolent first-offenders" in Texas.


claim:
"Having an entirely Democrat congressional delegation in 2009, when the [federal stimulus] bill passed, increases the per capita stimulus dollars that the state receives per person by $460."


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Says "today unemployment has been running near 12 percent or more for the last four years" and the Legislature hasn’t done much to lower it.


claim:
"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 price-tag" for the health care law "will exceed $2 trillion — more than double what was initially reported."


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If Rhode Island raises the meal and beverage tax to 10 percent, it would be the "fourth-highest in the nation."


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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."


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


claim:
Says President Obama and his allies in Congress gave "power" to control Medicare patients’ health care decisions to "a commission of 15 unelected bureaucrats in Washington."


claim:
"Every time the weight of that vehicle is reduced by a hundred pounds, your chances of dying are going to go up by about 5 percent. Peel three hundred pounds off – you’re 15 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.


claim:
"Right now we have sufficient reserves to take care of Tennessee's lottery scholarship students for a few years more."


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Says the Wisconsin Republican Party tweeted "Happy International Women's 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's a good thing because it will reduce consumption, we don't 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."


claim:
"Up to 80 percent of small businesses will be forced to give up their current plans due to new Obamacare regulations."


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President Barack Obama "reduced the cost of prescription drugs for nearly 3.6 million Americans in 2011."


claim:
"It was found unconstitutional to drug test elected officials because it prevents us, as citizens, from having that First Amendment right."


claim:
New federal projections estimate that the health care overhaul "will cost $1.76 trillion over 10 years -- well above the $940 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 $2,500 per family per year," his health care law "raises premiums in the individual market by $2,100 per family."


claim:
Since Florida passed the "stand your ground" law in 2005, deaths due to self-defense have jumped over 250 percent.


claim:
Says when he was governor, Wisconsin cut unemployment to 2.1 percent and the state’s unemployment rate was "the lowest in the country for 40 consecutive months."


claim:
The CBO says the cost of health care reform will rise to $1.8 trillion, "increasing the price to far greater than the $900 billion" originally projected.


claim:
Says a study shows that children who live with a biological parent and the parent's boyfriend or girlfriend "have a 20 times greater chance of being sexually abused."


claim:
"Nearly 45 percent of the women who receive health screenings through (the Women’s Health Program) do so at a Planned Parenthood health center."


claim:
"We’ve had a dramatic drop in violent crime since this law (‘stand your ground’) has been in effect."


claim:
Says only seven percent of 2009’s stimulus bill went toward transportation projects, yet they created over one-third of the bill’s total jobs.


claim:
According to the Congressional Budget Office, "as many as 20 million Americans could lose their employer-based insurance thanks to Obamacare."


claim:
Says former U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter refused to host town hall meetings during her time in Congress.


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Says that in fiscal year 2010, "nearly 80 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 "260 hours a year."


claim:
"When we passed (the stand your ground law), we said it portends horrific events when people's lives were put into these situations."


claim:
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's first human trafficking bill which has increased by 66 percent the calls to the human trafficking hotline."


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The administration has issued rules for "$1 abortions in ObamaCare" and "requires all persons enrolled in insurance plans that include elective abortion coverage to pay" an abortion premium.


claim:
"However, it took $19.5 million in Oregon Lottery funds for the Port of Newport to eventually land the new NOAA Marine Operations Center-Pacific."


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Says Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele "eliminated" sheriff’s office funding for providing security for presidential and presidential campaign visits.


claim:
"Ninety percent of the people who work in this country work for companies under 100 people, maybe even less than that."


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


claim:
Despite President Barack Obama's promise to cut healthcare costs, "the average cost of a family policy is up $1,300."


claim:
"Make no mistake -- Sherrod Brown is one of the main D.C. politicians responsible for Ohio jobs moving to China."


claim:
"Every 1 percent increase in the cost of health insurance today causes about 30,000 Georgians to be uninsured."


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


claim:
Because of the new health care law, "Americans no longer will see their coverage dropped or capped when illness strikes."


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


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


claim:
Says "the governor took away a billion dollars of rebates, so in real dollars, our property taxes have gone up 20 percent."


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


claim:
"We also have, in a park that’s not far from here, an ability to build a reservoir that can hold a 30-day water supply for the city of Atlanta."


claim:
Says Gov. Scott Walker "didn’t balance the budget" so "we now have a larger state deficit 14 months into (his) term than we did when he was elected."


claim:
Because of the new health care law, "17 million kids can no longer be denied for a pre-existing condition."


claim:
"While 9,000 state employees were added to the state’s payroll, Oregon’s revenue forecasts dropped by more than $4 billion."


claim:
"In 1950, the average American lived for 68 years and 16 workers supported one retiree. Today, the average life expectancy is 78 and three workers support one retiree."


claim:
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.


claim:
Says David Rivera "received a $5,000 campaign contribution from Congressman Spencer Bachus, who is currently under House Ethics investigation for insider trading."


claim:
"This (Independent Payment Advisory Board) board can ration care and deny certain Medicare treatments so Washington can fund more wasteful spending."


claim:
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.


claim:
"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."


claim:
Obama's secretary of energy, Dr. Steven Chu, "has said publicly he wants us to pay European levels (for gasoline), and that would be $9 or $10 a gallon."


claim:
Says Gov. Scott Walker cut aid to local schools despite campaigning on trying to restore two-thirds state funding for education


claim:
Says her accomplishments include "a fiscally responsible budget agreement that controls state spending."


claim:
President Barack Obama’s policies have forced "many parts of the country to experience rolling blackouts."


claim:
"Ohio is not meeting its obligation to update voter registrations when voters change their address with the BMV."


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


claim:
Says Wisconsin Assembly Republicans voted to repeal a law that ensures "that women cannot get paid less than a man for doing the same job."


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


claim:
"Seven out of the 10 states with the lowest unemployment rates (have) Republican governors … That approach that Republicans are using is working."


claim:
Says 94 percent of Wisconsin employers think the state "is heading in the right direction" and a majority say they will "grow their companies in 2012."


claim:
"They're paying a less rate of tax -- these richest people in America -- than they have in the last 80 years."


claim:
"A hundred percent of all the jobs lost during the recession have been reclaimed in Texas … while the nation is at about 36 percent."


claim:
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.


claim:
"If we keep the minimum wage at the current level, then single-parent families earning the minimum wage at a full-time job will live in poverty in New Jersey."


claim:
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.


claim:
After President Barack Obama’s health care law takes full effect, "100 percent" of Americans will "depend on some form of federal payment, some form of government benefit to help provide for them."


claim:
"A little less than 50 percent of the people in this country depend on some form of federal payment, some form of government benefit to help provide for them."


claim:
Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker doesn't make his calendar public -- "he's on our dime and we don't know where he is."


claim:
Says the proposed fiscal year 2013 budget "is still below the level of state spending when I took office."


claim:
"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."


claim:
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."


claim:
"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."


claim:
Says the federal government "tells health insurance companies how much money they're allowed to keep of what they receive in revenues -- 15 percent."


claim:
Says pension contributions under Gov. Chris Christie would represent "75 percent of the total contribution made between the years 1995 and 2010. That's right, in 15 years, total state contribution was only $2.1 billion."


claim:
"Fifty percent of the graduating class of the year 2012 will have smoked marijuana or have done illegal drugs."


claim:
"Rhode Island is the only state where officers at state-supported [colleges] carry out their duties unarmed."


claim:
"The top 1 percent (of income earners) paid 36.7 percent (of the taxes).  ... The top 50 percent pay 97.7 percent."


claim:
Says in the 2012 State of the Union address, President Obama "didn't even mention the deficit or debt."


claim:
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."


claim:
"[E]mployment in Gwinnett is up more than 3 percent over last year, and unemployment is the lowest of the five core metro counties."


claim:
"When (Marcy) Kaptur fought for the Democrats' prescription drug benefit for seniors, (Dennis) Kucinich voted no."


claim:
Says Ted Cruz slurred Republican senators including John Cornyn as "graybeards" and "spineless jellyfish."


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President Obama's "budget would call for about $25 trillion in debt by the end of his term, if he was re-elected."


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Pasco County "opened 22 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 Sen. Glenn Grothman said "he didn’t believe women belonged in the workplace" but belonged "at home, cooking and cleaning and having babies."


claim:
"In 2011, there were more than 28,000 new Tennessee jobs created and over $4 billion in capital investment. Our Jobs4TN plan is working."


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"In 2010 about 75 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 8 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 U.S. 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.


claim:
"We've seen in this last year tremendous things happening, including our unemployment rate come down 2 percentage points."


claim:
"We have 395 inmates pushed into triple-bunked 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, 13,000 more people "have been put on food stamps."


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


claim:
"Since President Obama took full control of Washington … every single day, more than 1,500 of our jobs have been lost."


claim:
A Dallas proof-of-insurance ordinance resulted in area tow lots mostly filling with the cars of illegal residents.


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Claims Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said "she prefers the South African Constitution over the United States Constitution."


claim:
"(President Barack Obama) said unemployment was never gonna go over 8 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 401(k)-style plan that will reduce pensions "by at least a third" for current and retired public employees


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Says private-sector job growth in 2011 "places New Jersey in the top third among all of the states."


claim:
"Our small staff of 51 is still fewer than we had a decade ago, yet our caseload -- like that of other courts -- has grown."


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


claim:
"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."


claim:
Without U.S. Senate action, Texas will have more federal judicial vacancies this year than any other state.


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Says "sixty-two percent of small businesses over the last five years went under because they couldn't pay their health care bills."


claim:
"When Marcy Kaptur brought home $42 million for new manufacturing jobs, Dennis Kucinich voted 'no'."


claim:
"When I was born, less than 10 percent of the federal budget was entitlement spending. It's now 60 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."


claim:
"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."


claim:
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 2007, "admissions for acute myocardial infarction … stroke, asthma, [and] angina decreased following the implementation of the ban."


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


claim:
"[W]hen adjusted for cost of living, Georgia ranks first nationally in teacher salary and benefits."


claim:
Says Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz "opposes the DREAM Act, which is supported by 85% of Latinos."


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Says the federal government could save $175,587 by eliminating a study of the "connection between cocaine and risky sex habits of the Japanese quail."


claim:
"'Wrong precinct' rules exacerbate our provisional ballot problems (and) HB 194 does nothing to solve the wrong-precinct problem."


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"They're saying that 40 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 $150,000 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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A 10-year state program that created 202 jobs at a cost of $247,000 per job was approved by former Gov. Jim Doyle.


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Says unemployment would be at 10 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 2 percentage points, down from 12 percent to 9.9 percent, the second-largest drop in the nation."


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Says a 1915 referendum on women’s right to vote "went down in New Jersey. And it took the Legislature to pass it."


claim:
"Many of the top officials at the Port Authority earn more money than the governors of the states that have jurisdiction over them."


claim:
Newt Gingrich "co-sponsored a bill with Nancy Pelosi that would have given $60 million a year to a U.N. program supporting China’s brutal one-child policy."


claim:
"The U.S. Census believes that by 2030 the majority of Americans will use Spanish as their first language."


claim:
Says a U.S. Supreme Court justice suggested that some U.S. cases will be decided based on South African law.


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


claim:
"Senator Menendez said he would spend our money wisely. But our annual national deficit climbed from $250 billion a year to $1.6 trillion on his watch."


claim:
"[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 43 presidents -- combined!"


claim:
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 2010.


claim:
"Here's 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 45th in the nation in terms of job creation, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics."


claim:
"Statistics bear out that any time a country, a state, makes more restrictive abortion laws ... fatalities go up and abortions actually increase."


claim:
"This year’s redistricting has been the most open, interactive and transparent redistricting process in Tennessee history."


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


claim:
"This year President Obama canceled the 21st annual National Day of Prayer ceremony at the White House under the ruse of ‘not wanting to offend anyone.' BUT … on September 25, 2009 from 4 AM until 7 PM, a National Day of Prayer FOR THE MUSLIM RELIGION was HELD on Capitol Hill, Beside the White House."


claim:
A bill delaying the start of classes until Labor Day would permit school districts "to shave 5 full weeks off the school year."


claim:
"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 8 percent."


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


claim:
Says Chris Christie "inherited the highest taxes in America and the worst unemployment in the region."


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


claim:
"Private prisons do not chase escaped inmates past the perimeter like the public prisons do, which means more escaped prisoners in our communities."


claim:
Public education has been permanently cut "by $1.6 billion through changes in the Standards of Quality funding formula."


claim:
In the 2011 legislative session, DEQ's budget was cut 18.5 percent — a disproportionate cut compared to other natural resource agencies.


claim:
Says New Jersey is "down nearly 200,000 jobs from its pre-recession peak" and with Gov. Chris Christie "New Jersey has trailed the rest of America when it comes to unemployment" for 12 consecutive months.


claim:
"Ohio has one of the highest provisional ballot rates in the country, and many of them go uncounted each election."


claim:
"No candidate has run more negative ads in American history than Barack Obama did in 2008, especially in the general.’’


claim:
The Georgia Secretary of State's 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 $70 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."


claim:
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.


claim:
Says Mitt Romney’s campaign "has already spent more on negative ads than John McCain did during his entire presidential run."


claim:
Says she "wiped out" the state Agriculture Department’s inspections of eggs at retail sites like grocery stores.


claim:
"The national debt is equal to $48,700 for every American or $128,300 for every U.S. household. It is now equivalent to the size of our entire economy."


claim:
"We've seen more anti-women's choice bills introduced in the first half of this session than we've seen in the last three General Assemblies."


claim:
"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."


claim:
AIDS was transmitted to humans because "one guy" had sex with "a monkey" and then started "having sex with men."


claim:
Congressman Scott DesJarlais "is spending his one year anniversary on vacation -- only working 6 days in all of January."


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


claim:
"Gov. Romney cut off kosher meals for Jewish senior citizens who were on Medicaid to save $5 a day."


claim:
"Today, for the first time in fifteen years, Master Lock’s unionized plant in Milwaukee is running at full capacity."


claim:
"Unemployment has fallen from 10 percent during the president’s first year in office to 8.5 percent today."


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


claim:
"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."


claim:
"Federal, state and local governments have subsidized the production of the Volt to the tune of estimates between $50,000 and $250,000 per vehicle sold."


claim:
"Sheldon Whitehouse's failure of leadership, the adding of almost $8 trillion in debt in his first full term, is shameful..."


claim:
Says with "Gov. Chris Christie and bipartisan reformers" New Jersey had "the most job growth in 11 years."


claim:
Says the New York Giants "train in New Jersey, they play in New Jersey and most of their players live in New Jersey."


claim:
"Chesterfield has eliminated more positions from its general government operations than the Commonwealth has from the entire state government since (fiscal) 2009."


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


claim:
"Congressman Phil Roe hands out $1.3M government check" from a federal program that "he voted against."


claim:
"In 2006, I went out and authored a letter with 24 other senators asking for major reform of Freddie and Fannie, warning of a meltdown and a bubble in the housing market."


claim:
"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."


claim:
"Eric Holder is supportive of the NAACP's efforts to get the United Nations involved in our elections."


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


claim:
"We have cut crime across every single zone in the city of Atlanta by between 10 percent and 16 percent, depending on the zone."


claim:
"Romneycare sent costs spiraling out of control" in Massachusetts, "hiking premiums, squeezing household budgets."


claim:
"Before this day is out, 18 more veterans will have taken their own lives.  That is the daily average, it is intolerable, and it has to stop."


claim:
"(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."


claim:
"In the last 22 months, businesses have created more than 3 million jobs. Last year, they created the most jobs since 2005."


claim:
"Right now in Georgia, nearly one in three leaving our prisons are re-convicted within three years."


claim:
A typical married couple "will contribute $119,000" into Medicare but will "receive $357,000 in Medicare benefits over their lifetimes."


claim:
"When I was fighting against cap and trade, the speaker was sitting down with Nancy Pelosi on a sofa encouraging it."


claim:
Florida's economy "became a bad economy ... because of a huge spike in oil prices in the summer of 2008."


claim:
"[N]early one in three primary care doctors are forced to limit the number of Medicare patients they see."


claim:
Newt Gingrich says electric co-ops and credit unions are "government-sponsored enterprises" like Freddie Mac.


claim:
"While Romney was a director of the Damon Corporation, the company was defrauding Medicare of millions."


claim:
Rob Cornilles has been endorsed by 20 local mayors, including Independent, Democratic and Republican.


claim:
"More than one in five of veterans aged 20 to 24 can’t find a job to support their family or to ease the transition to civilian life."


claim:
Says that according to a study, under Obama’s health care initiative, "nearly 90 percent of people" in Wisconsin with health insurance "will have their costs go up by more than 30 percent."


claim:
"Under this tax cut, middle-class families don't save enough for a week's worth of groceries, while millionaires save enough to go on an exotic vacation."


claim:
Rep. David Cicilline is responsible for the federal loan guarantee to Solyndra, the failed solar company


claim:
Says 282 Texas school districts have requested emergency waivers to increase elementary school class sizes because of "unprecedented fiscal challenges."


claim:
Says Mitt Romney "put Planned Parenthood on a state medical board but failed to put a pro-life group on the same board."


claim:
Says an Obama administration policy prohibits people who work with at-risk youth from promoting marriage as a way to avoid poverty.


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


claim:
"[Mitt] Romney and [Brendan] Doherty certainly have a lot in common, like flip-flopping on abortion -- in Doherty's case, in a little over a week."


claim:
"In campaigns in the past with Sen. McCain and President George W. Bush and others, they have tended to release tax records in April."


claim:
The U.S. military is at risk of losing its "military superiority" because "our Navy is smaller than it's been since 1917. Our Air Force is smaller and older than any time since 1947."


claim:
Says she got unions to agree to "about $10 million in reduction" of salaries and health benefits while serving as Dane County executive in Wisconsin.


claim:
"When [Mitt Romney] was the governor of Massachusetts, he performed 100 — and I’m not sure this number is right, but my mind says it’s about 180 gay marriages."


claim:
"[The] ACLU and atheists in Denver are demanding the NFL stop [Tim Tebow] from praying on the sidelines."


claim:
Says "we’ve accomplished balancing two budgets without raising taxes. We’ve now created 60,000 new private-sector jobs. We’ve made government smaller."


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


claim:
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."


claim:
Freshman Rep. Bob Gibbs "is spending his one year anniversary on vacation — only working 6 days in all of January."


claim:
"In 1958, there were 16 states in this country that prohibited -- prohibited -- an African-American and a Caucasian from being married."


claim:
"In Connecticut and New York, students at Achievement First schools consistently outperform city and statewide averages."


claim:
"My opponent on day one of this campaign attacked me on Medicare and Medicare Advantage and that claim was found to be False."


claim:
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 U.S. defense budget.


claim:
Mitt Romney is worth "at least a quarter billion dollars" and the bulk of his wealth "remains in blind trusts and overseas bank accounts."


claim:
New energy standards will take away "our freedom of choice and selection in the light bulbs we have in our homes."


claim:
The education tax burden for Shelby County -- and Tennessee -- is "one of the lowest in the country."


claim:
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.’"


claim:
"In 1790, the first Congress, which was packed with framers, required all ship owners to provide medical insurance for seamen; in 1798, Congress also required seamen to buy hospital insurance for themselves. In 1792, Congress enacted a law mandating that all able-bodied citizens obtain a firearm."


claim:
Says Newt Gingrich "co-sponsored a bill with Nancy Pelosi that would have given $60 million a year to a U.N. program supporting China’s brutal one-child policy."


claim:
"Opinion polls show that the majority of Americans, and the majority of New Jerseyans, favor marriage equality for same sex couples."


claim:
"Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Newt Gingrich all say they would cut foreign aid to Israel — and every other country — to zero."


claim:
Says that when Republicans held Congress and the presidency, they "doubled the size of the (U.S.) Department of Education."


claim:
"Since the passage of Obama's stimulus package, over 1 million additional jobs were lost and nearly 25 million Americans are out of work, are stuck in part-time work, or have given up looking."


claim:
Barack Obama’s recess appointment of Richard Cordray "is precisely what then-Sen. Obama claimed would be ‘the wrong thing to do.’"


claim:
"In the past year, Floridians, not government, created almost 135,000 new private sector jobs. We netted more than 120,000 total jobs in the first 11 months of 2011; the third most of any state in the nation."


claim:
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.


claim:
Says that after she declared her candidacy for Congress, "the redistricting process was manipulated to allow incumbent politicians to guarantee their re-election."


claim:
"[If] you apply for a job, the chances are 1 in 7 that you are going to be denied that job unfairly if everybody is forced to use E-Verify."


claim:
"You can hire lots of bureaucrats.  That’s what the president’s done.  He’s added 135,000 people to the government workforce."


claim:
As a result of welfare reform, "poverty levels went down to the lowest level ever for ... African-American children."


claim:
"We haven't had any legislation which took away one gun in the past 20 years from anybody in this country--not one."


claim:
"Ballistic tests have confirmed that the death of at least one U.S. Border Patrol agent was caused by" weapons that were part of a federal arms trafficking operation.


claim:
The EPA was asked about an environmental citation for the city landfill in Nashua, N.H. but "didn’t know" why it was cited.


claim:
Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan provides "pretty much" the same coverage that members of Congress receive.


claim:
Says the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction proposal went from President Barack Obama's desk to "the garbage can."


claim:
"I delivered a flat tax for my state. I took my state to No. 1 in job creation. With all due respect to what Rick Perry has said about Texas, we did a little bit better."


claim:
Says area near proposed northern Wisconsin iron ore mine is "15 hours away" from where public hearing on mining was held.


claim:
"Bob Menendez just voted to increase the government's debt ceiling to $1.9 TRILLION! In his 19 years in Congress, Menendez has helped overspend America over $15 TRILLION into debt."


claim:
"[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."


claim:
"Oregon’s per capita income is 9 percent below the national average and getting worse. This is a state that’s actually getting poorer."


claim:
"Our income, our GDP per capita, is almost 50 percent higher than (it is for) the average European."


claim:
Says he’s proposed "the largest employer contribution to the Virginia Retirement System in history."


claim:
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."


claim:
Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker eliminated "cancer screenings for uninsured women" and offered "no alternatives."


claim:
"I think with the exception of the last year or maybe the last two years, we were at 100 percent" when it came to contributing to the Providence pension fund.


claim:
Says he lived up to a 2008 promise when he "closed corporate tax loopholes that were sending profits overseas."


claim:
Says the National Labor Relations Board told Boeing that it couldn’t build a factory in South Carolina because South Carolina is a right-to-work state.


claim:
Says "kids who start in the ninth grade in the city of Newark this past September, 23 percent of them will graduate in four years."


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


claim:
Says a new national poll shows "the majority of the American people believe we should have a gold standard" for U.S. currency.


claim:
Wisconsin’s monthly job reports have a "margin of error" of 75 percent and were "way off" in eight of first 10 months of 2011.


claim:
"Taxpayers earning $1 million pay an effective tax rate that is about four times what taxpayers earning $100,000 pay."


claim:
"Eighty percent of all U.S. communities depend solely on trucks to deliver and supply the products sold in stores or ordered online."


claim:
Says Rep. Betty Sutton supports allowing "welfare fund withdrawals from strip clubs, casinos and liquor stores."


claim:
Enacting the Right-to-Carry Act would amount to "expanding the rights of sex offenders, terrorists, child predators, and abusers to carry concealed weapons across state lines.’’


claim:
"The latest unemployment numbers have shown that nearly 315,000 Americans have simply given up hope when it comes to finding a job."


claim:
"And, as of today, New Jersey state government has less employees than when Christie Whitman left office in 2001."


claim:
"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 two-year reporting period."


claim:
"Ever wonder why no one ever came forward from Obama's past, saying they knew him, attended school with him, was his friend, etc.? Not one person has ever come forward from his past."


claim:
Says America spends "over 17 percent of its GDP on health care costs when our closest competitor nations are spending about 12."


claim:
"We have one of the highest percentages per capita of nonprofits in this state of any state in the union."


claim:
Scott Walker’s school-aid cuts were so devastating that students are without chairs and a government survey found 47 kids in a classroom.


claim:
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."


claim:
"The fact is, over 2.4 million jobs have been lost since the 'Stimulus' bill was signed into law in February of 2009."


claim:
In a watershed 1958 decision, "the Warren court asserted by itself that the Supreme Court was supreme over the president and the Congress."


claim:
Says President Obama "helped more than half a million veterans and military family members go to college through the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill."


claim:
Says it cost Massachusetts taxpayers $100,000 when Mitt Romney and his staff purchased computer hard drives.


claim:
A study says Massachusetts has lost 18,000 jobs because residents were required to obtain health insurance under an act signed into law by Mitt Romney.


claim:
"Following the catastrophic, cascading collapse of major investment banks on Wall Street in 2007.....Nobody was prosecuted, no hearings were held and no reforms were implemented."


claim:
Says 77 percent "of Portland's students finish elementary school without taking even one art class."


claim:
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 partial-birth abortion."


claim:
"We’re $15 trillion now in debt, with a president that’s racked up as much debt as almost all of the other presidents combined."


claim:
Nevada has been recently ranked No. 1 in "unemployment, foreclosures, violent crime, personal bankruptcy and divorce."


claim:
Says King Street Patriots held a fundraiser featuring an author who believes that registering the poor to vote is un-American.


claim:
"After the debate that we had last week, PolitiFact came out and said that everything I said was true."


claim:
"If Congress does not pass the renewal of the payroll tax cut before the end of the year, nearly 160 million working families will see their taxes go up by roughly $1,000."


claim:
"President Obama has increased the federal workforce 192,000 individuals -- about 10 percent since he’s taken office -- while we’ve lost 2 million jobs."


claim:
"(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."


claim:
"The American Conservative Union gives [Rep. Tim] Ryan a dismal 0.0 percent rating for the billions he has contributed to our national debt."


claim:
"The Obama administration just issued instructions that terrorism training should not involve any reference to Islam."


claim:
Says with Jon Corzine, "it's the first time, I think, in history where a former Senator has been subpoenaed to testify before his former colleagues."


claim:
"The study of the Savannah River Estuary . . . clearly demonstrates the project can be constructed and [environmental] impacts will be mitigated."


claim:
"Rhode Island already gets more revenue per capita from gambling than any other state in the country."


claim:
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 didn't like the construction of the agency."


claim:
Newt Gingrich "has suggested" building "a mirror system in space" could improve the Earth’s habitability.


claim:
"They say teachers only make on average in New Jersey 60,000 dollars a year. They only work 180 days."


claim:
"Our federal government has lent $2 billion to the state-owned oil company of Brazil to allow them to explore for oil and gas."


claim:
More Hispanics "have been elected statewide (in Texas) on the Republican ticket than on the Democratic ticket."


claim:
"We've got a personal tax system that's so complicated it costs Americans about $500 billion a year to comply with the current tax code."


claim:
A database police use to look up wanted suspects excludes certain warrants issued by Atlanta Municipal Court.


claim:
Says the paperback edition of Mitt Romney's book deleted line that Massachusetts' individual mandate "should be the model for the country"


claim:
In 1993, 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.


claim:
Says "our unemployment insurance trust fund is broke. We're over a billion dollars in debt to the federal government."


claim:
While CEOs of some large charities have big salaries, the heads of some veterans groups do the job for free.


claim:
I differed with my party on business legislation, on consumer protection, and on free trade agreements.


claim:
"Ohio’s Planned Parenthood operations received millions of taxpayer dollars via federal grants in 2010 and 2011."


claim:
Says IBM leader told Obama that using IBM technology to cut fraud could "pay for" health care reform.


claim:
"When the country was founded, Congress had exactly the same attitude about the sanctity of Christmas celebrations that a 7-Eleven does today: 'Yeah, we're open.'"


claim:
Says recall organizers "started their website last November" and began work on their effort before he even took office.


claim:
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."


claim:
Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is making voting more difficult by closing Department of Motor Vehicles offices where "low-income voters" live.


claim:
Sen. Sherrod Brown "has chosen to side with Washington bureaucrats and fringe extremists in the attacks on our natural resources."


claim:
"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."


claim:
President Barack Obama "has now spent three years proving that he kills jobs in energy, he kills jobs in manufacturing."


claim:
"Most of, if not all of, the [DeKalb school construction] projects always came in on or were under budget."


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


claim:
Says military expenditures for the United States are greater than the combined spending of the next 14 largest nations.


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Says the unemployment rate for college graduates is 4.4 percent and over 10 percent for noncollege-educated.


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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 al-Qaeda 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 balanced-budget 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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"Eighty percent of the net new jobs created in the state of Texas since 2009 went to the foreign-born."


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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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People can use food stamps "for anything," including "to go to Hawaii," and even millionaires can qualify.


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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's recent plan to cut $100 million of waste within his administration won't actually save money because he's going to spend it elsewhere."


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"Eighty-five percent . . . of Rhode Island tax returns that were filed for the year 2010 . . . were from individuals who earned $30,000 or less."


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"A part-time Congress with half the pay would still make $38,000 a year more than the average American family."


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Says the federal stimulus program was ineffective because "the number of jobs has actually decreased by 18,300 through July 2011."


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In Pennsylvania, President Barack Obama’s policies have increased unemployment 19 percent, led to the loss of 37,900 manufacturing jobs, and left 189,000 more people in poverty.


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"At a minimum, 40 percent of those who view child pornography end up molesting children as a result."


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"For the past eight years, Gov. Carcieri and Mrs. 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 11 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 2011-’13 state budget


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"Since Obama took office, a net of 540,000 additional black Americans – Obama’s strongest supporters – have lost their jobs."


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In Rhode Island, "only 5 percent of ozone pollution is from local or in-state sources. . . Ninety-five percent comes from outside of our borders, particularly the Midwest."


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Says she "brought together business, labor and hospitals to give 94,000 Oregon children health care."


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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 U.S. 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 "$7.7 million -- $7.7 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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Dem-controlled 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 30,000 engineers.


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President Obama plans to "impose a tax of at least 23 percent on the Medicare prescription drug benefit for low-income beneficiaries."


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"House Republicans are ramming through legislation ... to classify pizza as a 'vegetable' for the purpose of school lunches."


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1 percent of Americans are millionaires. 47 percent of House Reps. are millionaires. 56 percent of Senators are millionaires.


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A Republican-led 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 $15 trillion, it means that U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio will reach 99.7 percent of our debt and this is $47,900 for every living American."


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


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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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Says the state auditor found that 37 percent of the 428,000 students receiving free and reduced-price lunches are ineligible.


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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 16 years."


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Says that Sen. 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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The loan guarantee program that helped Solyndra "was a program that was supported by President Bush."


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Says 23 percent of ninth graders in Newark will graduate with a high school diploma in four years and "we spend $100,000 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 1998, and the life expectancy was 58."


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After losing 750,000 jobs a month before this administration, the U.S. economy under Barack Obama has had 20 straight months of growth, has added 2.8 million jobs in the private sector and added "millions of jobs in manufacturing."


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


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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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"[A]n extra 8 million Americans [are] projected to join state Medicaid programs in the next few years."


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George Allen's flat tax "plan would actually shrink revenues further than the Perry (flat tax) plan."


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"The governor won this state with 49 percent. We had some of the closest races in the House in history. So you’re not dealing with this 70-30, like they want to make it."


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"By 2014, there will be one administrator for every teacher on college campuses in the United States."


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Under a Wisconsin bill, "minor offenses such as violating pet leash laws, seat belt laws, parking infractions, etc., would now be arrestable offenses."


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Says the Treasury Department "says 41 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 April 2009 "the Democrats were in control, and the congressional (approval) rating was 40 percent."


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"In Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker has created a manufacturing-led jobs recovery. 30,000 new jobs were created this year, with 15,000 created in the struggling manufacturing sector."


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"No other public or private business in America" except for the U.S. Postal Service must fund 100 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 in-state tuition to illegal immigrants."


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"By 2015, we will be sending so much interest" to China that "we will be paying for the entire People's Liberation Army."


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The city of Pembroke Pines doesn't 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 1 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) non-college-educated is well into the double digits in America. It's 4 percent or 5 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 50 years ago."


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"The Confederate battle flag never flew over Texas, but... you might soon see it on our license plates."


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Says Mitt Romney "is committed to overturning Roe vs. 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 "$300 billion -- half our trade deficit -- overseas for oil to unstable and unfriendly regimes."


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"A couple retiring today will pay about $119,000 in lifetime Medicare taxes and receive about $357,000 in lifetime Medicare benefits. ... about 3 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're going to be getting a tax cut."


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"The average homeowner spends more than $2,000 each year on energy costs – more than on either real estate taxes or homeowners insurance."


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Says "over the last 48 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 2003."


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Rhode Island Treasurer Gina Raimondo "raised the mortality rate from 65 to 87" and "used a 1994 annuity chart" to create the pension crisis.


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"Corrupt political bosses. Money laundering. Fraud. It’s just another day at the office for Vin Gopal."


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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 84 public relation representatives on payroll which cost taxpayers over $6.2 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 "don't have to pay any taxes" on their income for two years.


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"New Jersey alone, my home state, is facing a ten-and-a-half billion dollar shortfall in its 2012 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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Says some Wisconsin state employee contracts "gave some employees $4 for bringing in their own lunch."


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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 1 in 5 women under 65 don’t have access to health care."


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"If Rhode Island does a hybrid [retirement] plan we’ll be the first state in the nation to do this.’’


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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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"I made a bunch of these promises during the campaign. ... We've got about 60 percent done in three years."


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In the Affordable Care Act, Democrats "cut $500 billion from Medicare" and "put in place the Independent Payment Advisory Board, 15 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 50 percent more food to the poor than three years ago.


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"The collective net worth of Americans has taken a $5.5 trillion hit ... mainly due to plummeting home values."


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"Under Barack Obama's watch, we have expended $805 billion to liberate the people of Iraq and, more importantly, 4,400 American lives."


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Wisconsin’s concealed-carry 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's 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 pay-to-play 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 28 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 130 percent and 219 percent between 2008 and 2010.


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Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to freeze pay for state employees includes a 5.4 percent raise for himself.


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Says adding toll lanes on I-95 in Broward County improved rush-hour traffic for non-toll lanes from 25 mph to 45 mph.


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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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The STAR Ohio fund "just received the highest possible credit rating one of these funds can receive."


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Medicare monthly premiums will go up to $104.20 in 2012 and $247.00 in 2014 due to "provisions incorporated in the Obamacare legislation, purposely delayed so as not to 'confuse' the 2012 re-election 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's governorship. Also, the Texas rate has increased faster than the national rate during Barack Obama's presidency.


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On using Gov. Scott Walker’s collective-bargaining limits to help balance the city of Milwaukee budget


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"After every major conflict ... what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep, across-the-board cuts."


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Says it wasn't 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 four-year degrees."


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﻿﻿"Since Mayor Kennedy O’Brien took office Sayreville has issued 22,081 building permits! Now O’Brien is holding secret meetings with big developers."


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"In 2008, when Flint had 265 sworn officers on their police force, there were 35 murders and 91 rapes in this city. In 2010, when Flint had only 144 police officers, the murder rate climbed to 65, and rapes … climbed to 229."


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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 9/11, there have been as many suicide attacks against the United States and its allies as there were in all the years leading up to 9/11.


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Says 24 million people in this country "can't find a full-time job," 50 million "can't see a doctor when they're sick," 47 million people need government help to feed themselves and 15 million families owe more than the value of their home.


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Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s "actions are directly responsible for killing at least 15,000 jobs."


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Says "if you are shot in the city of Newark, you have over an 80 percent chance that you've been arrested before an average of 10 times."


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"During Sherrod Brown’s past decade as a D.C. 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 $500 million to cover and treat our pure drinking water."


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Says his proposed payroll tax cut "will mean an extra $1,500 in your pocket compared to if we do nothing."


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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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"About 57 percent of registered Democrats in the new (9th Congressional) district come from my old district."


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President Obama’s uncle and aunt "are illegal aliens ...  who've been allowed to stay in this country."


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Slot machines in Miami-Dade and Broward counties have generated 20 percent of the promised $500 million per year for schools.


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Even a 100 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 1 million Texans are jobless, the state has its highest unemployment rate in more than 20 years and joblessness doubled on Rick Perry’s watch.


claim:
"New Jersey's 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 flat-out 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 long-term 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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"Over the last several years, 40 percent (of) the jobs created in Texas were created for illegal aliens."


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


claim:
"Nearly 14,000 Wisconsinites have lost their job since Governor Walker and the Republicans took over in January."


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"Since 1970, the Clean Air Act has reduced toxic and health-threatening air pollution by 60 percent while our economy has grown more than 200 percent."


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"The city of Columbus would save $41 million a year if employees had to contribute to their own, guaranteed-check pensions."


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"(Sen. Robert) Gordon cost us money, exempting the Newark sports arena from paying property taxes and sticking us with the bill."


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"When we got the income tax in 1913, the top rate was 7 percent. By 1980, the top rate was 70 percent."


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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 2000 and 2010, the illegal immigrant population of Texas increased by 60 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 60 percent of your electric bill, my electric bill, 60 percent of that is pass-throughs, 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 5 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 2009 reported far fewer crimes to the FBI than the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee police did.


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"The proudest accomplishment (of my tenure) was leaving the state with a $1.2 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 10 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 115 times in the past 10 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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Says the National Labor Relations Board told Boeing that it "can't build a factory in a non-union state."


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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 10th highest state for state and local tax burden per capita in the country. We're the 6th worst in the country for the business tax index. We're the 3rd highest per capita in the country for all taxes."


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


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When George W. Bush was governor of Texas, "the percentage uninsured went down." Under his successor, Rick Perry, "it's gone up."


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


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Says someone earning $50,000 a year will fare better under his "9-9-9" plan than under the current tax system.


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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 8 percent for more than two-and-a-half years, far above what the Obama Administration promised with the 'stimulus.' "


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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 U.S. Senate candidate Adam Hasner "cited his efforts to weaken pro-life and school choice legislation as unequivocal proof that he’s a moderate."


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Massachusetts has "less than 1 percent of our kids that are uninsured. You (Gov. Perry) have a million kids uninsured in Texas."


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"These 15 political appointees (on the IPAB) will make all the major health care decisions for over 300 million Americans."


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


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In the early 1960s, all levels of government were "consuming about 27 percent of the U.S. economy," a number that has risen to 37 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 25 million Americans are unemployed. More than 50 million live without health insurance. Perhaps 100 million live in poverty."


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Says that "In 2009, I saved ratepayers around $500 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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Says Vince Polistina is "collecting nearly $70,000 in taxpayer-funded salaries -- plus a government pension."


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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 2008."


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"Legally, it doesn't make any difference" which state district you live in when running for Congress.


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Says that politicians who approved collective bargaining restrictions for public employees "exploited a loophole exempting themselves from Senate Bill 5."


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Gains in Atlanta Public Schools scores on a national standardized test lend credence to "dramatic" score increases on state tests.


claim:
"Today, you have six financial institutions, the largest six, that have assets that are the equivalent of 60 percent of the GDP of the United States of America."


claim:
"We have a $2 trillion to $3 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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Says Gov. Chris Christie "cut spending (by) $1 billion" and provided "$850 million in new education funding."


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"The typical white male worker in this country is making in real terms what he was making in 1973" and "the average worker is making what they were making in 1996."


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Says Barack Obama is a "hypocrite" for criticizing President George W. 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 15th District "you’d find yourself on the road as long as it would take to drive from Columbus to Niagara Falls."


