# claims

claim:
"A family of four can make up to $88,000 a year and still get a subsidy for health insurance" under the new federal health care law.


claim:
Says "New Jersey's unemployment is significantly lower than it was when I got here. And we've created 50,000 new private sector jobs in the last 20 months after having lost 117,000 in the year before I got here."


claim:
Says that in 2001, Rick Perry spoke favorably of binational health insurance between Mexico and Texas.


claim:
When he took office in 2009, President Barack Obama "had the biggest Democratic majorities in Congress since Lyndon Johnson."


claim:
"Last year, Korea sold nearly half a million cars in our country. ... The United States, you know how much we sell to them? Six thousand. What kind of deal is that?"


claim:
Chris Christie has not been "effective at creating jobs … (or have) a record of governing for effectiveness. ...
New Jersey (has) one of the higher unemployment rates in the country at 9.4 percent."


claim:
"When it comes to being effective at creating jobs … (Chris Christie has not had) a record of governing for effectiveness. ... Last year, New Jersey created no net new jobs."


claim:
Says "Every year air pollution protections are delayed, another 34,000 people will die prematurely."


claim:
Says Tommy Thompson "pushed such strict laws that abortion providers faced potential life imprisonment and women were forced to cross state lines in order to receive attention for life-threatening issues."


claim:
"We’re. . . keeping and creating jobs in our state. From American Greetings, to Wendy’s, to Diebold, we’ve gone to their doorsteps to keep jobs right here in Ohio."


claim:
"If our recovery were more typical of the postwar era . . . we would have 14 million more jobs today."


claim:
Says his administration balanced "two budgets with over $13 billion in deficits without raising taxes."


claim:
Wisconsin's new state budget includes "a 15 percent increase for road construction and yet we’ve got local towns tearing up" paved roads and replacing them with gravel.


claim:
"[Federal] law says that you can't give in-state tuition to an illegal alien … unless you first offer it to any other student regardless of their state of residence."


claim:
Members of the public are being charged $50 to hear Gov. Scott Walker and a dozen members of his administration talk about jobs and the economy at Lambeau Field.


claim:
Says U.S. Sen Sherrod Brown "promised that the first stimulus bill would fund the
Brent Spence Bridge."


claim:
Because of Jim Whelan, "the 1990s are the only decade since the 1920s when the population of Atlantic City actually went up."


claim:
The Postal Service’s financial losses result from "a 2006 law that drains $5 billion a year from post office revenue, while the Postal Service is forced to overpay billions more into federal accounts."


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


claim:
Says President Barack Obama failed "to stand up for the bipartisan debt solutions of the Simpson-Bowles Commission."


claim:
Says only four Texas legislators voted against a law giving in-state tuition rates to certain illegal immigrants.


claim:
The federal government is spending $46,000 a year per family (or group of four) and could balance its budget by dropping that to $30,000.


claim:
"The Fed created $1.2 trillion out of nothing, gave it to banks, and some of them foreign banks, so that they could stabilize their operations."


claim:
"If we had been on 'Obamacare' and a bureaucrat was trying to tell me when I could get that CAT scan, that would have delayed my treatment."


claim:
"A construction worker who’s making $50 or $60 grand a year shouldn’t be paying higher tax rates than the guy who’s making $50 million a year. And that’s how it’s working right now."


claim:
"At nearly 19 million people, the population of Florida is larger than all the earlier primary and caucus states combined."


claim:
Stimulus money funded a government board that made recommendations that would cost 378,000 jobs and $28.3 billion in sales.


claim:
"We have asked public employees to pay 10 percent of the costs of their guaranteed pension and 15 percent of the cost of their health care. ... The leadership of those public employees unions don't want to pay anything."


claim:
Despite opposition from national Club for Growth, Club for Growth Wisconsin "has endorsed" him for U.S. Senate.


claim:
Says "as a share of the US economy, the government’s support for research and development (R&D) has fallen by nearly two-thirds since the 1960s."


claim:
Says Rick Perry is "spending more money than the state takes in, covering his deficits with record borrowing."


claim:
"The water quality in the ocean is perfect. It’s been tested up and down every ocean shore in New Jersey."


claim:
"In the past six years alone, changes to the pension formula … have saved over half a billion dollars."


claim:
Says that Romney touted the Massachusetts health plan for the nation in his hardcover book but then deleted it for the paperback edition.


claim:
Says he "got lobbied" by a woman with late-stage cancer about vaccinating Texas girls against a virus that can cause cervical cancer.


claim:
Says U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin is backing President Barack Obama’s plan to pass a $1.5 trillion tax increase.


claim:
Says credit rating agencies realize that our instability stems in large part from Oregon’s kicker system.


claim:
Says the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world with 2.3 million inmates, and the majority of Americans are imprisoned because they sold small amounts of drugs.


claim:
Says Mitt Romney wrote that if Social Security was done "in the private sector, it would be called criminal."


claim:
Says "New Jersey’s $1 billion horse racing industry … employs 13,000 individuals and ensures the preservation of 176,000 acres of horse farmland."


claim:
"In 1976, the first year that Pell Grants were fully funded, a full Pell Grant paid 72 percent of the cost of attendance at a typical four-year public college. Today, a full Pell Grant covers just 34 percent of those costs.


claim:
"In the month of July alone, EU exports to South Korea increased by over 36 percent. A lot of that is our market share. Those are our farmers and our service providers who are suffering."


claim:
"Since 1995, the top 400 wealthiest families have seen their incomes go up 400 percent and their tax rates go down 40 percent."


claim:
"[The state ethics commission] took absolutely the same percent of cuts as most other state agencies. … They were somewhere in the 7 percent range – same as the governor’s office."


claim:
Says that  in the recent year homeowners across Ohio have signed mineral rights agreements "and I understand that over a billion dollars worth of leases have been signed to date."


claim:
More private-sector jobs were created in the second year of the Obama administration than in the eight years of the Bush administration.


claim:
"[Eighty-five percent] of the funds collected in each county will be redistributed elsewhere -- not spent in the county in which it is collected."


claim:
Says "We do about 300 investigations a year into housing discrimination and in recent years have put about $150,000 of damages into the pockets of individuals who have been treated unfairly."


claim:
"Poverty among Americans 65 and over is statistically unchanged" in recent years because of Social Security.


claim:
Says that even if you have no children, "under Obamacare, you would still have to carry insurance that covers pediatric, maternity and newborn care even though you do not need it."


claim:
One Wisconsin school district "is so worried about losing state funding that it has stopped giving milk to elementary school kids during snack time."


claim:
"An amazing 5,400 jobs were lost in the first 12 months of the (smoking) ban’s implementation in Ohio’s hospitality industry alone."


claim:
Says New Jersey is "losing 50 football fields of open space to development every day and the more we develop upstream the more flooding we have downstream."


claim:
"The average state pension, including managers, is $23,000 a year; and just $14,000 for local government workers."


claim:
Says an amendment specifying when military members may use deadly force "does nothing to change existing rules of engagement for American service members."


claim:
Says that three of these five Republicans -- Ben Westlund, Rob Patridge, Max Williams, Lane Shetterly, Lynn Lundquist -- later became Democrats.


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


claim:
Says CNN's Wolf Blitzer was wrong to say that "the wealthiest Americans, they pay the most in taxes already -- 50 percent of Americans don't even pay any federal income tax."


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


claim:
Under President Barack Obama’s jobs bill, states would no longer have to lay off teachers, firefighters and police officers.


claim:
Hurricane "Irene was the second-largest storm to hit North America in terms of power outages -- and the first hurricane to make landfall in New Jersey since 1904."


claim:
Under President Barack Obama’s jobs bill, "you can sue if you are unemployed and don't get the job and think you weren't hired because you are unemployed."


claim:
"The majority last quarter of Sherrod Brown's campaign contributions came from outside of the state of Ohio."


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


claim:
In the New York 9th District, "there is a large number of people who went to the polls tonight who didn't support the president to begin with and don't support Democrats -- and it's nothing more than that."


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


claim:
"Gov. Kasich and the Republican-dominated legislature have foregone the popular option of closing tax loopholes that amount to $7 billion annually in this state."


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


claim:
"Today, when people retire in Galveston County, Texas, they retire making at least 50 percent more than they would ever get out of Social Security."


claim:
"In writing his book, Gov. Perry pointed out that … by any measure Social Security has been a failure."


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


claim:
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Assembly approved "only one out of 376 amendments offered by Assembly Democrats" in 2011.


claim:
"When you look at what we have done over the last decade, we created 1 million jobs in the state of Texas. At the same time, (the rest of) America lost 2.5 million."


claim:
"Over the past 10 years, the number of people living in Lower Manhattan has nearly doubled. In fact, Lower Manhattan has added more people over the last 10 years than Atlanta, Dallas and Philadelphia combined."


claim:
The Wisconsin Department of Corrections is considering implementing mandatory physical fitness testing for security staff.


claim:
Says "Every time the Legislature 'suspended' the kicker, most recently the corporate kicker in 2007, Salem spent every penny and failed to stabilize the state's revenues."


claim:
"The academic achievements of our student-athletes are mentioned in the same breath and spirit as Notre Dame and Stanford."


claim:
Says Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin ranks "as the most liberal member of the House."


claim:
The deal to raise the nation’s debt ceiling will "directly link a debt ceiling increase to spending cuts for the first time ever."


claim:
Since Rick Perry became governor, "Texas has gone from 46th in the country to 50th in the population that graduates from high school."


claim:
Utah was "the No. 1 job creator in this country during my years of service" as governor, with a 5.9 percent increase in jobs.


claim:
Sherrod Brown "has stood side by side" with President Barack Obama, presiding "over the most rapid increase in the debt over the last 2.5 years" and hurtling toward " the worst jobs record in the modern era."


claim:
Says the U.S. Department of Homeland Security must report to about 100 congressional committees and subcommittees.


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


claim:
The Massachusetts health care plan "dealt with 8 percent of our population," far less than the "100 percent of American people" affected by President Barack Obama’s health care law.


claim:
Says Jon Huntsman supports changes in Medicare that would deny guaranteed benefits to 980,000 New Hampshire residents.


claim:
A bipartisan payroll tax cut championed by the White House has meant that "the average family has an extra $1,000 in their pocket" this year.


claim:
"(U.S. Reps.) Paul Ryan, Sean Duffy and Reid Ribble are … shutting down town hall meetings, or making their constituents pay to attend them."


claim:
Say Ohio Reps. Marcia Fudge, Marcy Kaptur and Dennis Kucinich are "socialists who are openly serving in the U.S. Congress."


claim:
Say Texas U.S. Reps. Eddie Bernice Johnson and Sheila Jackson Lee are among open Socialists in Congress.


claim:
"Point Pleasant Beach does not own its beaches; they are privately owned and operated by businesses such as Jenkinson’s"


claim:
A new college tuition reciprocity agreement with Minnesota "makes college education more affordable for Wisconsin residents."


claim:
"Mayor Fung wants to punish our children's education by removing 12 million dollars from current funding to pay for his private charter school. Your taxes would increase by between 6 and 8 percent per year."


claim:
Says that 500,000 federal workers -- one-fourth of the federal workforce -- make more than $100,000 a year.


claim:
Says that when President Obama visited El Paso, he "pronounced that the border with Mexico and the United States was safer than it ever was in history."


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


claim:
U.S. Reps. Hank Johnson, John Lewis and other members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus are "socialists who are openly serving in the U.S. Congress."


claim:
"H.B. 194, the Voter Suppression Bill, invalidates a vote where a voter properly marks the ballot in support of a particular candidate, but also writes in the name of that same candidate."


claim:
"The ratio of corporate profits to wages is now higher than at any time since just before the Great Depression."


claim:
"In (Sen. Marco) Rubio's state of Florida alone, Social Security lifts more than -- count it -- a million people out of poverty."


claim:
Say New Jersey Reps. Donald Payne and Frank Pallone are "socialists who are openly serving in the U.S. Congress."


claim:
A national study of 2,500 charter schools shows that "maybe 20 percent do better than the community public schools, 40 percent or so do worse and the rest are not having any significant difference."


claim:
"The United States is the No. 1 country in the world for energy resources. … We are the king daddy dogs when it comes to energy."


claim:
Says there’s not "much evidence to suggest that people have (contributed to global warming) or can do very much to change anything."


claim:
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals estimates 200 animals will be spared annually as the result of former President Bill Clinton adopting a vegan diet.


claim:
"The health insurance plan that (members of Congress) have is no different than any other federal employee's in the United States government."


claim:
In Afghanistan, "it is very, very rare that someone who is killed in action is not killed by an" improvised explosive device, or IED.


claim:
Says the national debt and President Barack Obama's "refusal to control spending led to our nation's credit rating being downgraded for the first time in history."


claim:
Every 1 percent increase in the number of Ohioans with bachelor’s degrees "means economic activity growing the next year and for each year thereafter (by) $2.5 billion dollars."


claim:
Say Oregon Reps. Peter DeFazio and Earl Blumenauer are "socialists who are openly serving in the U.S. Congress."


claim:
Gov. Rick Scott "is trying to get a waiver under the federal health care law that would deny consumers in Florida the right to the $60 million in rebates they have from their own HMOs."


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


claim:
"The estimated savings of this (debt ceiling) deal only pay for half of the cost of extending all of the Bush-era tax cuts for another decade."


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


claim:
Rick Perry "has advocated abandoning Social Security, scuttling Medicaid and ending the federal income tax."


claim:
"As we near the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, we should not forget that some of the hijackers used New Jersey driver’s licenses to board those aircraft."


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


claim:
"The United States death rate is two-and-a-half times higher for those who do not have a high school education."


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


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


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


claim:
"When Social Security first started, there was 16 workers for every retiree. Today there are three workers for every retiree and soon there will be only two for every retiree."


claim:
Says that before Rick Perry became governor, "only 4 percent of our total labor force was a minimum wage job ... Today, that number has more than doubled (to) 9.5 percent."


claim:
"When lenders foreclose on homes, they typically suffer losses that exceed 30 percent of the value of the home."


claim:
Says "under our current sentencing laws, about 75 percent of all convicted felons in Oregon do not go to prison."


claim:
"Recent international reports show the United States near the bottom among industrialized nations for k-12 academic achievement."


claim:
"Last year -- actually, this year in May -- we saw New Jersey Transit fares rise anywhere from 25 percent to 47 percent."


claim:
Scientists are "questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change. … (It is) more and more being put into question."


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


claim:
Says that Wall Street hedge fund managers "pay a lower tax rate than does a sheet metal worker in Parma or a school teacher in Cleveland."


claim:
"Since I introduced my budget -- first budget -- in March of 2010, we've created 50,000 new private-sector jobs for the people of this state."


claim:
Outside of recall elections, "there's never been a public official removed from office" in Wisconsin "for anything but malfeasance in office."


claim:
There are 500 million Internet users "and 80 million bloggers who are driving discussions in China. … So you’ve got a lot of people voicing frustration and discontent."


claim:
Says allowing the payroll tax holiday to expire would end up "costing another estimated 900,000 jobs in 2012."


claim:
Says Rick Perry flip-flopped on gay marriage by first saying it was a state’s rights issue and then saying he was in favor of a federal constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.


claim:
Democrats failed to flip the Wisconsin state Senate because recall elections were in the "deepest red districts in the state."


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


claim:
Under Gov. Scott Walker, "unemployment is increasing in Wisconsin at twice the rate it is nationally."


claim:
Says a Senate resolution would restore $140 in monthly general assistance payments and prevent people from committing crime.


claim:
Thirty-seven percent of Central Falls’ retired police officers and firefighters are out on disability pensions; in most municipalities, about 5 percent of retirees collect disability pensions.


claim:
Says he worked with the Democratic legislature to balance spending with revenues so that "at the end of my four-year term, the rainy day fund was established at more than $2 billion."


claim:
Says the government wants to require farm tractor drivers to hold commercial driver’s licenses even if they’re just crossing a single public road.


claim:
"Josh Mandel used to be pro-choice, now he’s anti-choice. He used to be sympathetic towards gay and lesbians and now he’s [not]."


claim:
"Twenty-five states have lower unemployment than Texas" which is "tied with Mississippi for more minimum-wage jobs than anywhere in the United States."


claim:
Says the state’s pension and health benefits reform includes "the destruction of public sector collective bargaining rights."


claim:
Says "of the 2,000 Portland households in the year-long (composting) pilot, 87 percent of participants reported being satisfied with the overall system."


claim:
"The weight of the evidence (on global warming) is that most of it, maybe all of it, is because of natural causes ... it’s fair to say the science is in dispute."


claim:
Says a poll found him the only Republican candidate who could beat Barack Obama in Texas -- and by eight points.


claim:
"Certainly we're going to be the most restrictive state in the land … in terms of who can get medical marijuana, how it will be prescribed and how it will be achieved in terms of moving it into the marketplace."


claim:
When Standard & Poor's "dropped our credit rating, what they said is, we don't have an ability to repay our debt. ... I was proved right in my position" that the debt ceiling should not have been raised.


claim:
Says that under President John F. Kennedy, "government took up" 27 percent of the economy, and today it "consumes 37 percent."


claim:
"President Obama and Democrats' spending addiction has driven our national debt to historic proportions, maxed out our national credit card and has now led to the Democrat Downgrade of our country's AAA credit rating."


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


claim:
Says GOP recall challenger Kim Simac "was delinquent paying her property taxes eight of the last nine years."


claim:
There are cities and counties in Georgia that don’t have websites, and where elected officials don’t have email addresses.


claim:
"One in every five families in the state of New Jersey has a loved one with a mental illness, a serious mental illness, and today, we don’t care."


claim:
Says that voter identification laws "keep poor people from voting, minorities from voting, the elderly from voting, students from voting."


claim:
"George LeMieux voted against the majority of Republicans and joined with Democrats to create a 'Task Force For Responsible Fiscal Action' that looks strikingly similar to the 'Super Committee' now being set up in Washington to justify massive tax hikes."


claim:
The Northwest Corridor highway project in Cobb and Cherokee counties "is expected to create over 9,700 jobs statewide."


claim:
"We’re only spending 2 percent of our GDP on our infrastructure, while China and India are spending 10 percent of their GDP reinvesting back into their country."


claim:
The debt-ceiling bill "doesn’t cut the debt. It will add about $7 trillion in new debt over the next 10 years."


claim:
"You might be surprised to know that 137 billion gallons flows (into Lake Erie) every day. You might be surprised to know that only 86.3 billion gallons flow out. ... Leaving us a net surplus of approximately 50 billion gallons a day."


claim:
The deal to raise the federal debt limit created the "largest debt ceiling increase in America’s history."


claim:
"Almost 88,000 United States service members are still missing and unaccounted for, dating back to World War II."


claim:
Says Texas has "the fourth-lowest debt per capita of any state in the nation, and we are the lowest of any of the big states."


claim:
Says state Sen. Alberta Darling is "allowing mercury to harm our children" because she voted against an electronics recycling bill.


claim:
Says state Rep. Sandy Pasch "did nothing to stop" people from scamming the Wisconsin Shares child-care subsidy program and voted against funding for fraud investigators.


claim:
Says state Rep. Sandy Pasch, her recall opponent, "voted to allow public school employees to use taxpayer dollars to pick up the tab for…Viagra."


claim:
"The government's twice the size it was 10 years ago. It's 30 percent bigger than it was when (Barack) Obama became president."


claim:
"As a percentage of our gross domestic product, the defense budget remains just 3.6 percent. This figure is low by all historical standards."


claim:
Says Republican Sen. John McCain won more votes for president in Cuyahoga County in the 2008 general election than he did in seven states.


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


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


claim:
Tax increases under Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm led to state unemployment going from 6.8 percent to 15.3 percent.


claim:
"I cut more as a percentage out of government than any state in the country this past decade. And where is Michigan in terms of its economic growth? Cutting did not result in economic growth."


claim:
"#Business formation is still on the rise in Ohio! So far in 2011 we’ve assisted w/ 44,443 new business filings."


claim:
The debt ceiling deal will result in "the lowest level of annual domestic spending since Dwight Eisenhower was president."


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


claim:
"For the second quarter in a row, my campaign has raised more money than any other challenger in the nation and brought our fundraising total to over $800,000."


claim:
A Waushara County school closed because of state budget cuts supported by Republican Wisconsin state Sen. Luther Olsen.


claim:
Under last year’s health care reform, "a bunch of bureaucrats decide whether you get care, such as continuing on dialysis or cancer chemotherapy."


claim:
"Social Security didn’t cause the debt crisis. Social Security had nothing to do with the debt crisis."


claim:
In contrast to President Barack Obama, who "is not acting presidential," President Ronald Reagan "would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on — that's how much he revered the presidency."


claim:
Medicaid is the primary source of health insurance for 41.7 percent of Hispanic children in Georgia.


claim:
"The federal government is spending 25 percent of our entire economy versus 100 years ago we spent only 2 percent."


claim:
"The RI Board of Elections has heard official testimony from Providence residents who claim to have witnessed known illegal aliens voting in local elections."


claim:
"This is the first time in the history that we've had the raising of a debt limit also with spending cuts."


claim:
"When I served as City Commissioner, we made great strides …we successfully fought for, and won, adding women and people of color to the Fire Bureau."


claim:
Says that when he was governor of Utah, he worked with the state Legislature to create a flat tax that "cut income taxes by 30 percent."


claim:
Says Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel "supports allowing the United States to default on its obligations."


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


claim:
In Europe, "church attendance rates (are) in the single digits" because churches are supported by taxes.


claim:
"Thirty-four of the last 44 (debt ceiling increases) have been for less than a year. So, this notion that short-term is somehow the exception, it's actually the rule."


claim:
Says Tim Pawlenty said in 2006, "The era of small government is over... the government has to be more proactive and more aggressive."


claim:
"The U.S. won't default, because default means that you don't pay your creditors. And it takes about 10 percent of the money that's coming in right now" to pay interest to bondholders.


claim:
"Active duty males in the military are twice as likely to develop prostate cancer than their civilian counterparts."


claim:
Says unemployment in Trenton is "twice as much as what we see in every other area of the state" and, as a result, "we have seen an increase in crime."


claim:
"When the Republicans were in charge, they actually expanded government health care with the prescription drug program."


claim:
"The nonpartisan CBO, Congressional Budget Office, has said that the No. 1 policy decision that brought us to the need to prevent the nation from defaulting on our debt for the first time in history were the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003."


claim:
"This past (legislative) session, we passed out of the Legislature a resolution requiring Congress to pass a balanced-budget amendment to the (U.S.) Constitution."


claim:
The Atlanta streetcar is expected to create 930 jobs during construction, totaling more than 5,600 jobs over the next 20 years.


claim:
Says "the most dangerous time for children" is from "3 to 6 p.m., during which time juvenile crime rates triple"


claim:
Says the state budget "doubled property tax credits for seniors and middle class New Jerseyans" and had "no tax increases for any New Jersey family for the second year in a row."


claim:
Says members of the military have sent him more campaign contributions than they’ve sent President Barack Obama and more than twice what they’ve sent other Republican presidential candidates.


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


claim:
"A clause hidden in the Obamacare bill, which is now law, gives Obama the right to form a private army."


claim:
Says "in the Legislature, (Mary Nolan) has been a party-line Democrat, showing a 100% track record in harmony with the American Civil Liberties Union."


claim:
Says Wisconsin Senate recall candidate Jessica King "voted to increase her pay with taxpayer dollars by 63 percent."


claim:
"There’s pretty much no question that [the curfew ordinances] aren’t effective in either reducing crime or preventing harm to young people."


claim:
"Federal law requires that hospitals treat people whether or not they can pay. So someone (who) doesn’t have health insurance --  they can go to the hospital and get free care."


claim:
"The firefighter and police officer pension system is not headed for bankruptcy, far from it. That’s because New Jersey first responders -- fire fighters and police officers -- have never missed making payments to the retirement system."


claim:
Said his mother had to fight with health insurance companies for treatment because of a pre-existing condition.


claim:
Florida Democrats "put my Social Security number and my wife's Employment Identification Number in a mail piece."


claim:
Republican redistricting plans cut Democrat Nancy Nusbaum out of  "her state Senate district by a half a block."


claim:
During his first year, President Obama said he "was going to visit Kim Jong-ll and Ahmadinejad and Assad and Chavez – the worst actors in the world."


claim:
"[L]ess than one-tenth of Atlanta's transportation needs are covered" in a referendum to levy a 1-cent sales tax.


claim:
"Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged."


claim:
Says that, unlike the U.S. Senate, "even the Libyan government, in the middle of a civil war, passed a budget on June 15, 2011"


claim:
"Fracturing or horizontally fracturing the shale to open up larger pockets of natural gas ... has been used for over 60 years and, as of 2009, over 80,000 wells have been fracked in Ohio."


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


claim:
"Sherrod Brown was just voted two years in a row the most liberal senator in the United States of America" and is more liberal than Sen. Bernie Sanders.


claim:
The $290 million structural surplus in the 2011-’13 Wisconsin budget is not real because it is based on the assumption that Congress will reinstate the estate tax.


claim:
"Some criminals have learned how to spy on Americans, hacking into our home computers and looking out through the video camera attached to the screen."


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


claim:
"The clear majority of Republican voters think that any deficit reduction package should have a balanced approach and should include some revenues."


claim:
"Eighty percent of the American people support an approach (to federal budget problems) that includes revenues and includes cuts."


claim:
Says the U.S. borrows "42 cents of every dollar Washington spends today and about half of that comes from countries like China."


claim:
"95 percent of teachers and principals are not implicated in the [Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal] report at all."


claim:
Under Ryan plan, "those 54 and younger would receive the same kind of healthcare options now enjoyed by members of Congress."


claim:
"Numerous studies have shown that these so-called right-to-work laws do not generate jobs and economic growth."


claim:
"Our country's got this huge debt, and (President Barack) Obama says raise taxes and keep spending more."


claim:
Says a quote at the top of the redesigned website for the Department of Justice comes from a socialist who wanted to impose global common law.


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


claim:
Says for the first time in the history of the United States, the government cut taxes during wartime


claim:
Social Security and other federal checks may not go out on Aug. 3 if the debt ceiling is not increased.


claim:
Florida’s proposed Health Care Freedom Act "will allow Floridians to opt out of Obama’s govt. takeover of healthcare!"


claim:
"From now on, we have to pay the Russians $50 million an astronaut to send Americans to the space station"


claim:
Says new GOP Wisconsin Assembly members "voted to take funding away from their public schools in their districts to give it to private Milwaukee voucher schools."


claim:
"The [Georgia] General Assembly took away the Atlanta Board of Education’s oversight of the superintendent."


claim:
"As we've seen that federal support for states diminish, you've seen the biggest job losses in the public sector -- teachers, police officers, firefighters losing their jobs."


claim:
"I sponsored and was the co-sponsor of the only legislation that ever passed that had E-Verify provisions in it back in 2010 when I served in the Legislature."


claim:
"A recent study revealed that, across the nation, taxes would have to be increased by an average of $1,300 a year just to support the currently unsustainable public employee pension systems. In Florida, that dollar figure translates to $813 a year."


claim:
For people in the top 1 percent for income, "your effective tax burden is in the low 20s, the lowest it’s been in decades and decades and decades -- lower than somebody who might make substantially less money."


claim:
Because of Democratic tax hikes, New Jersey ended a decade with fewer private sector jobs for the first time in recorded history.


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


claim:
Former Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall left the school district "significantly better than she found it."


claim:
Says legislative debate of airport pat-down procedures initiated federal changes in security procedures.


claim:
"In our proposal, we would have expanded school aid across the board … Governor Christie slashed school aid in this budget, preferring instead to extend a tax break for millionaires over funding in the classroom."


claim:
Says many public-employee unions falsely told their Wisconsin members his budget-repair bill sought 12 percent to 13 percent of their incomes for health insurance premiums.


claim:
By the end of his first term, President Obama will have added as much debt as all the prior 43 presidents combined.


claim:
"Mitt Romney is the first Massachusetts politician to run for president and not win the New Hampshire primary in a generation."


claim:
Says the average government worker won't be impacted in the first two years under the reform of state health benefits.


claim:
"Dubious taxpayer-funded stimulus projects in Rhode Island include … $250,000 to provide digital television to the state’s inmate population."


claim:
"Fifty-one percent -- that is, a majority of American households -- paid no income tax in 2009. Zero. Zip. Nada."


claim:
Rhode Island spends "52 percent more per capita on human service programs than the national average."


claim:
Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign has "exactly the same" challenges as Ronald Reagan’s successful 1980 bid.


claim:
"This governor has cut funding repeatedly for people who have AIDS, who need drugs to save their life."


claim:
"Let’s say (Republicans) take away half of our delegates. They’re worth more than Iowa’s, New Hampshire’s and almost South Carolina’s combined."


claim:
Says that when President Bill Clinton raised the top tax rates to levels now proposed by Obama, the country experienced significant job growth.


claim:
Says car insurance rates have decreased since about a decade ago because of market-based solutions that attracted more auto insurers to New Jersey.


claim:
Housing prices dropped for the 30 months prior to Barack Obama taking office, "and they have stabilized, they've been about flat since the president came in."


claim:
Says Gov. Scott Walker’s budget "includes tax breaks for corporations and the rich that will cost the state of Wisconsin taxpayers $2.3 billion over the next decade."


claim:
"Under Gov. Rick Perry’s leadership [Texas] has created more jobs over the last decade than the rest of the states combined."


claim:
Says that under City Council Member Randi Shade, Austin had the "highest city debt per person in Texas."


claim:
From 1947 to 1979, family incomes for rich, middle-income and poor Americans grew about the same rate. But since 1979, incomes for rich families have grown much faster.


claim:
U.S. Reps. John Barrow and Sanford Bishop and their fellow Democrats "went on a spending spree and now their credit card is maxed out."


claim:
Says U.S. House opponent Michael Williams does not live in and has never voted in the congressional district he’s seeking to represent.


claim:
Says that President Obama said, "Nobody made these guys go to war. ... Now they whine about bearing the costs of their choice?"


claim:
"You see a whole bunch of Korean cars here in the United States, and you don't see any American cars in Korea."


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


claim:
"One of the reasons that Budweiser stayed in New Jersey is the money they got from RGGI to put solar on their roof to save on their energy costs."


claim:
Says that in 2009, Jon Huntsman "said that the Recovery Act wasn't large enough and as governor he asked for $14.4 billion in federal stimulus funds. Now he's saying that he never supported it."


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


claim:
"If you look at our tax mix, the share of corporate revenues as a percentage of our overall revenue mix has declined by about half over the last 30 years."


claim:
"In May we generated more jobs than all the rest of the country combined: 28,000 jobs in May for the state, 54,000 for the entire country."


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


claim:
Ethanol reduced gas prices by 89 cents per gallon in 2010, and if ethanol disappeared, gas prices could rise by as much as 92 percent.


claim:
Says President Barack Obama’s overturning of the Mexico City Policy means federal tax dollars can be used "to fund abortion all over the world."


claim:
Georgia’s illegal immigration crackdown laws should be called the "Brown Codes" because of their similarity to the "Black Codes" governing blacks after the Civil War.


claim:
"Creeping defense commitments in (the Middle East) and globally now consume over half the U.S. discretionary budget annually."


claim:
"Only seven of 18 federal food assistance programs have been associated with positive health and nutrition outcomes, while the remaining 11 have not been effective."


claim:
Says he can’t release his internal affairs record because there are Attorney General guidelines in place protecting it.


claim:
"What I have done -- and this is unprecedented ... is I've said to each agency ... 'look at regulations that are already on the books and if they don't make sense, let's get rid of them.'"


claim:
"If you're a … wealthy CEO or a … hedge fund manager in America right now, your taxes are … lower than they've been since the 1950s."


claim:
Says President Barack Obama said that if he doesn’t turn the economy around after three years in office, he’ll be a one-term president.


claim:
"The top 1 percent of income earners pay 40 percent of all state income taxes, and those at the bottom pay little or nothing."


claim:
"There is no $30 million pot of money" for redistricting issues, including defending redistricting lawsuits. "Your tax dollars are not being spent on anything like that."


claim:
"Rep. Jim Renacci’s plan to end Medicare also puts nursing home care for 3,000 seniors in the district in immediate jeopardy."


claim:
"Since 2004, there have been some 1,300 attacks (on rail targets). Four thousand people have died. Thousands of injuries."


claim:
"Under Barack Obama the last two years, the number of federal limousines for bureaucrats has increased 73 percent."


claim:
"If you threw a barbecue yesterday for the Memorial weekend, it was 29 percent more expensive than last year because Barack Obama's policies have led to groceries going up 29 percent."


claim:
In the first 24 to 36 hours of the operation in Libya, "you saw $115 million go downrange because a Tomahawk cruise missile is a little over $1 million each."


claim:
"Hispanic unemployment has been ticking down from an all-time high of 13.9 percent because of the policies we’ve implemented."


claim:
Virginia spends $400,000 on abstinence programs while losing $2.5 million in federal funds due to Gov. Bob McDonnell’s "political agenda."


claim:
A "substantial number" of probationers participating in a pilot project to ease the farm labor shortage are able to "finish the work."


claim:
"The state’s tax burden has, according to census figures released today, cost our state another 190,000 residents in 2009."


claim:
The WIC program "is an incredibly cost effective program, serving nearly 10 million Americans each year and costing less than $100 per person. In my district, more than 18 percent of residents suffer from food insecurity and depend on WIC to make ends meet."


claim:
Says Rick Perry of Texas was "the governor who relied most on stimulus funds to close his state’s budget deficit in 2010."


claim:
In the Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire, none of the candidates mentioned the "middle class" or "education."


claim:
Says President Barack Obama promised he would cut the deficit in half, but instead will at least double it.


claim:
"Vern Buchanan. His old business was caught illegally funneling over $60,000 in campaign donations to Buchanan to influence his election."


claim:
Every 10th dollar spent by the Social Security Administration on its program for the poor is "waste, or fraud, they can’t validate that the people should have gotten it," totaling about $8 billion a year.


claim:
Multnomah County’s food action plan "clearly plans to disrupt the free market system in terms of food choices making it harder and more expensive for many residents to eat their food of choice."


claim:
"Seventy of Ohio's 88 counties now have more than 25 percent of their residents eligible for emergency food."


claim:
Says Miami-Dade mayoral candidate Julio Robaina "has the highest salary among Florida mayors. More than $260,000."


claim:
Says that Sherrod Brown "voted to cut Medicare by over $500 billion in order to fund government-run health care."


claim:
After not having any foreign trade offices overseas for the past decade, New Jersey opened offices in Shanghai and London in the past six months, and has seen an 18 percent increase in exports.


claim:
"Two thirds of the people in Wisconsin strongly disagree with this idea of permanently taking away people’s rights to collective bargaining."


claim:
"As the Democrats finally maxed out their government spending credit card Monday, Kurt Schrader continued to stand with his party leaders in failing to offer any viable long-term solution."


claim:
"Most of the state budget isn't for state government doing things. ... 85 percent of the state budget is transferred to local communities for delivery of service."


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


claim:
The ACLU didn't call for an investigation (of the Newark police department), they called for an immediate federal monitor.


claim:
"Almost 10 percent of Canadians came to visit Florida last year ... (Canadians) buy 7.4 percent of our homes in the state."


claim:
Says former Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez and current mayoral candidate Carlos Gimenez  both drove fancy European cars at taxpayer expense.


claim:
"President Obama and liberal former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine’s $787 billion stimulus failed to create jobs."


claim:
"Janice Hahn hired hard-core gang members with taxpayer money to be 'gang-intervention specialists.' She even helped them get out of jail, so they could rape and kill again."


claim:
State Sen. Alberta Darling "voted to add more than $1 billion in additional spending" while cutting programs such as education and health care


claim:
Says tax revenue was lower than expected in May and "that's basically a clear indication the governor's counselors are probably right -- that we are still not out of the woods yet."


claim:
Says Ocean Spray is moving its Bordentown processing facility to Pennsylvania largely because of costs associated with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.


claim:
"The tax on job creating businesses is 35 percent in the United States, second worst in the entire world."


claim:
Says an alternative to Social Security that operates in Galveston County, Texas, has meant that participants will "retire with a whole lot more money" than under Social Security.


claim:
"We are number one in the world when it comes to energy resources. ... The Russians are second; Saudi Arabia is number three."


claim:
Democratic tax hikes led $70 billion of wealth to leave New Jersey between 2004 and 2008, and mainly relocate to Florida, North Carolina, Virginia and Pennsylvania.


claim:
"The Democrat-led Senate has failed to pass a budget for 750 days ... Senate Democrats have neglected one of their most basic responsibilities."


claim:
Gov. Chris Christie caused a 4.1 percent increase in property taxes in 2010, marking the highest increase since 2007.


claim:
"Anywhere in the world, when someone uses a mobile phone, e-mail, the Internet or GPS, they are enjoying the benefits of the American miracle."


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


claim:
Says President Barack Obama "has put (up) a stop sign … against oil drilling, against any kind of exploration offshore or in Alaska."


claim:
Protesters "attacked" the group’s headquarters with "graffiti on the sidewalk" and "stenciled images … smeared on the building and statue."


claim:
Says the state’s new collective bargaining law effectively eliminates police unions' ability to negotiate.


claim:
"For a young man or woman who is entering the ninth grade in Newark this year, they have a 29 percent graduation rate."


claim:
Then-Sen. Barack Obama "refused to raise the debt ceiling because he said President Bush had failed in leadership."


claim:
An amendment inserted by lawmakers into the state budget "exempts scientific researchers from all state animal cruelty laws."


claim:
If today's economy was rebounding at the rate of the "Reagan recovery," it would have created the equivalent of 25 million new jobs and raised federal revenue by $800 billion a year.


claim:
"There was a recent report out that the premiums for Medicare and the payroll withholdings are only paying about half the program. So it is not financially solvent."


claim:
"Earlier this year, the head of the Congressional Budget Office testified before Congress that implementation of Obamacare would cost 800,000 jobs."


claim:
"Taxpayers pay for roughly 45 percent of all births in Wisconsin! And 60 percent of the births in Milwaukee!!!"


claim:
Rick Perry "has never lost an election and remains the only person to have won the Texas governorship three times in landslide elections."


claim:
An iron ore mine in northern Wisconsin could operate for 100 years and generate billion of dollars in economic activity.


claim:
Because Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a 30-bill job creation package, "New Jersey ranks 50th in the nation in job creation."


claim:
Says opponent Kathie Tovo "believes that Austin invests too much in the cops, firefighters and paramedics that protect our families and neighborhoods."


claim:
Commercial buses in the United States have "a stellar safety record, a safety record that exceeds that of any other commercial mode or surface transportation mode."


claim:
"Obamacare cuts $500 billion in future Medicare funding in order to fund the new constitutionally questionable government mandate, even going so far as to scuttle Medicare's most popular (and successful) part, Medicare Advantage."


claim:
"When I became president and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, it was supposed to go bankrupt . . . We turned it around with common-sense business principles."


claim:
Says Panasonic stayed in New Jersey because of the Business Retention and Relocation Assistance Grant (BRRAG) program.


claim:
Says six of the state’s 58 family planning centers had to close because of Gov. Chris Christie’s budget cuts.


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


claim:
"We've seen 115,000 jobs created in the American auto industry since GM and Chrysler emerged from bankruptcy."


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


claim:
"Rep. Robert Hurt voted again today to end Medicare and raise health care costs for Virginia seniors."


claim:
"Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare."


claim:
"Kasich’s budget increases state spending from $50.5 billion to $55.6 billion. This is the second largest, two-year spending increase in Ohio history."


claim:
The budget for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau "is only about 1 percent of the amount banks generate just from late fees and overdraft fees."


claim:
Says the federal government threatened to impose a no-fly zone in Texas if state legislators bar airport security officials from performing pat-downs.


claim:
Accuses President Barack Obama of making contradictory claims about efforts to kill Osama bin Laden in 2008 and 2011.


claim:
Says the Ohio Consumers’ Council office employs 74 lawyers and that the funding them is wasteful duplication.


claim:
"Part of his ride was to warn the British that were already there that, 'Hey, you're not going to succeed.' "


claim:
"Over the last 15 months, we've added more than 2 million jobs in the private sector. That's far in excess of what it was in the comparable period after the last recession."


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


claim:
U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, D-Wis., "and his fellow Democrats went on a spending spree and now their credit card is maxed out"


claim:
Michigan and Massachusetts raised their bottle deposit and "could no longer afford the program because the redemptions were so high there was no profit in there."


claim:
"We in the Democratic Party had no input into the locations of these hearings, nor did we have input into the process."


claim:
Says this month’s special session will cost the state $27,300 a day just for legislators’ daily living expenses.


claim:
Says Wisconsin state Senate President Michael Elllis (R-Neenah) broke Senate rules during debate on a photo ID bill for voters.


claim:
Says public education will get more money in 2012-13 though lawmakers cut $15 billion in overall spending.


claim:
Democratic Reps. Cicilline, Boswell, Carnahan and Critz "demanded that Congress vote to increase the nation’s debt limit without making any spending cuts."


claim:
"A few months into office, (President Barack Obama) traveled around the globe to apologize for America."


claim:
"We're going to be looking at $8 billion a day that we're going to be pouring into foreign countries in order to import that make-up fuel that we're going to need to take the place of what we could have gotten out of the gulf."


claim:
We are looking at "150,000 barrels (of oil) per day less next year, and 200,000 barrels per day less being able to be developed from the gulf the year after" because of the moratorium on new drilling enacted by the Obama administration.


claim:
"We have seized more currency, more drugs, more outbound arms in the past year than any year in our country’s history."


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


claim:
"We went from a $5.6 trillion surplus that George Bush inherited to over ... $11-plus trillion debt when George Bush left office."


claim:
Wisconsin’s technical college graduates "have a higher employment rate and starting salaries" than four-year college graduates nationwide.


claim:
The city’s 30 percent set aside for affordable housing in urban renewal areas is calculated citywide -- not district by district


claim:
Medicare "only has about 50 percent of it paid for by either premiums or payroll taxes, and the rest is deficit spending ... or debt spending."


claim:
"Look at the debt that has been accumulated in the last two years. It's more debt under this president than all those other presidents combined."


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


claim:
The Medicare proposal by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., would "allow insurance companies to deny you coverage and drop you for pre-existing conditions."


claim:
"Betty Sutton and her fellow Democrats went on a spending spree and now their credit card is maxed out."


claim:
"In the late 1980s, the U.S. was nearly the lowest-taxed nation in the world, and a quarter century later we're nearly the highest."


claim:
It is estimated that Arizona "has lost more than $100 million in hospitality industry revenues since passage of the Arizona immigration laws."


claim:
"If you look at the benefits and wages of recorded federal employees, they far outstrip the market rates of the private sector."


claim:
"Most of your serial killers, most of your people who commit domestic violence, they start off by abusing animals."


claim:
"Obama-Nelson economic record: Job creation ... at slowest post-recession rate since Great Depression."


claim:
"Abraham Lincoln (once) jumped out of a window in the Illinois Legislature in order to deny a quorum."


claim:
"There's a 1.5 percent to 2 percent overhead in Medicare. The insurance companies have a 20 percent to 30 percent overhead."


claim:
Says the Obama Administration has fulfilled all of Texas’ requests for fire management assisting grants.


claim:
"We are in the bottom 10 in dollars in the classroom and the top 10 in dollars in the bureaucracy and red tape."


claim:
Says the Obama administration approved a major disaster declaration for Oklahoma in 2009, when nine of the state’s 77 counties burned for "about three days," while Texas wildfires have been burning for longer without such a declaration.


claim:
"Without ethanol, gas prices would be at least 15% higher. With gas at four bucks, that means you’re saving 12 bucks on a 20 gallon fill up."


claim:
Under Gov. Bob McDonnell, more jobs have been lost than created in Southside and Southwest Virginia.


claim:
Says state budget deal between Texas House and Senate leaders "funds nursing homes, our public schools and universities and provides financial aid for college students."


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


claim:
"Less than two years ago, we made a commitment to repay the U.S. . . .taxpayers in full, and today we made good on that promise."


claim:
Says that Tim Pawlenty eliminated health insurance for 33,000 to 35,000 people when he was governor of Minnesota.


claim:
Says that several times in the last 15 years, Austin City Council candidates have won seats after trailing by more than 4,000 votes in the election prompting the runoff.


claim:
"The (health reform) legislation which Washington passed last year has made it more difficult to hire" because it’s increased costs for employers.


claim:
For more than 30 years after World War II, there was a steady reduction in U.S. debt as a percentage of gross domestic product.


claim:
In the U.S. Constitution, "there’s a little section in there that talks about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."


claim:
"For decades before I was elected, governors tried and failed to get Minnesota out of the top 10 highest-taxed states in the country. I actually did it."


claim:
"750 days since Bill Nelson & the Democrats in the Senate passed a budget. How can this be justified?"


claim:
Says Gov. Rick Perry has been "begging" for the federal government to send the Coast Guard to patrol two lakes on the U.S.-Mexico border.


claim:
The U.S. has "47 million people on food stamps. That’s 14 million more than when the current occupant of the White House took over."


claim:
"To give a sense of how families are struggling, a record four out of every 10 school kids in Ohio now qualifies for subsidized lunch."


claim:
"A gallon (of gasoline) delivered to the front lines for our troops in Afghanistan cost more than $400."


claim:
"If you take the population growth here in Virginia, we are net zero on job creation since (Bob McDonnell) became governor."


claim:
"We bring in enough tax revenue to service our debt, pay for Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, and then still have about $300 (billion) or $400 billion left over."


claim:
" 'Scary' fact about our national debt. In 1791 it was $75 million. Today, it rises by that amount in about an hour."


claim:
"The Democrats have already voted to ban our conventional light bulbs ... in favor of dangerous fluorescent light bulbs."


claim:
Department of Education officials investigating Virginia Tech shootings "have not once gotten into the car and driven down to Blacksburg to talk to the police chief or the university president or to anyone else."


claim:
Says state lawmakers have voted to "spend virtually all of the Rainy Day Fund four times" since the fund’s creation.


claim:
Promotes a chart saying that Barack Obama has "increased the debt" by 16 percent, compared to George W. Bush, who increased it by 115 percent.


claim:
"Wisconsin is one of the few states in the country that do not currently require a photographic identification" to vote.


claim:
Says people who signed recall petitions against Wisconsin state Sen. Jim Holperin received "harassing phone calls from out-of-state telemarketers claiming to represent the Democratic Party and insinuating foul play by petition circulators."


claim:
Says there are more federal dollars in Gov. John Kasich's budget plan than in the previous state budget.


claim:
"The new beverage tax will increase the cost of sodas, juice drinks, sports drinks, iced teas, and flavored water up to 50%."


claim:
"In the first year of the Obama administration, more jobs were created in the private sector than in the eight years of the Bush administration."


claim:
"You can't give a child an aspirin in school without permission. You can't do any kind of medication, but we can secretly take the child off and have an abortion."


claim:
"The Ohio Democratic Party has raised $1.1 million since the November election. A very small percentage of that has come from organized labor."


claim:
President Barack Obama deserves to be called "the most successful food stamp president in American history" because "47 million Americans are on food stamps."


claim:
Says the Texas Board of Nursing has a backlog of "3,000 complaints against nurses, many of them sexual assaults, malfeasance."


claim:
Increasing the bottle deposit to 10 cents on a case of water bottles could literally double the price of that product in the store.


claim:
About two-thirds of Medicaid beneficiaries are children, but they account for one-third of the program’s cost, while one-third are elderly, and they account for two-thirds of the cost.


claim:
Virginia ranked near the bottom of the nation 50 years ago in per capita income but is in the top 10 today. It had a "very low" rate of higher education attainment but is now above the national average.


claim:
The Bush tax cuts "created about 8 million jobs over the first 10 years that they were in existence. We've lost about 5 million of those jobs during this recession."


claim:
The Obama administration increased the deportation of illegal immigrants convicted of crimes by 70 percent.


claim:
When "the governor announced his ‘jobs budget,’ 99 folks from the Department of Taxation were let go the next day."


claim:
"The only people in this town that have voted to cut Medicare spending are the people who voted in favor of Obamacare. That’s a fact."


claim:
The "six largest cities in Ohio all have higher rates of violence and crime than every major city along the U.S.-Mexico border."


claim:
Says President Barack Obama’s debt commission recommended converting Medicare "to a system where Medicare participants are given a voucher to purchase insurance in the private market."


claim:
"Two million federal workers negotiate zippo, zero. There is no collective bargaining for federal employees."


claim:
Wrote that in 2006, Nancy Pelosi said she didn’t think capturing Osama bin Laden "makes us any safer," but in 2011 called his killing "historic."


claim:
There is "a situation in this country where you're nearing 50 percent of people who don't even pay income taxes."


claim:
"Gov. (Scott) Walker has yet to create a job, he gives away millions to his friends, and he raises taxes on working people."


claim:
Says Milwaukee County spent over $170,000 in salaries in 2010 for employees to "participate in union activities such as collective bargaining."


claim:
"I'm well aware that medical marijuana is a recognized, medical, viable treatment for this sort of [pancreas] pain condition."


claim:
The study that states that more than 70 percent of the traffic on the Sellwood Bridge is to/from Clackamas County has been thoroughly debunked by The Oregonian.


claim:
On the night of the Iowa caucuses, Obama "promised the nation that he would do health care reform focused on cost containment, he opposed an individual mandate, and he said he was going to do it with Republicans."


claim:
"Nearly 2,000 high schools - roughly 12 percent of all secondary schools in the United States - produce about half of the nation’s dropouts."


claim:
Says one of Austin City Council Member Randi Shade’s biggest contributors is the lobbyist for the Formula 1 racetrack planned outside Austin.


claim:
House Republican plan would increase costs for Oregon seniors by $6,000 with health care vouchers instead of Medicare


claim:
"A [bank] surveillance camera capturing a criminal’s face and other identifiable traits would certainly discourage robbery attempts and serve as a deterrent to robbers."


claim:
The federal debt is more than $14 trillion, "almost equal to the size of our entire economy," and "every child born today inherits a $45,000 share of the national debt before they take their first breath."


claim:
Says he has exposed plans by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to push legislation that would allow the state to declare financial martial law and take over municipal governments.


claim:
Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposal cuts "nothing" from Medicare, Social Security or defense in the next two to three years, and "in three years, he does not cut one dime from the debt."


claim:
In a lawsuit between private citizens, a Florida judge "announced the decision was going to be based on Islamic Law."


claim:
Says although the unemployment rate seems to be improving, it does not reflect real job creation -- it’s caused by a "shrinking of the actual labor force."


claim:
"You’ve got each day 10,000 new seniors, baby boomers, becoming eligible for the entitlement programs."


claim:
Drilling for oil on the Outer Continental Shelf and in parts of Alaska will  "immediately reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil."


claim:
Says the Internal Revenue Service estimated it must hire "16,500 agents at a cost of $10 billion to the taxpayer" to enforce the federal health care overhaul.


claim:
"At Texas A&M University, only 49 out of 3,000 faculty members brought in enough money to pay for their salaries and overhead over the past five years."


claim:
Says that had E-Verify been in place in Florida when 9/11 terrorists lived here, "we might have saved the lives of 3,000 Americans."


claim:
"China now owns $1.1 trillion of our debt, our trade deficit last year with them was a quarter of a trillion dollars."


claim:
"A vast majority of the production in the United States comes from small independent oil and gas companies."


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


claim:
Says "in Canada, the number of CT scan machines per 1,000 people is like one-tenth of what we have here in this country. That's why people have to wait."


claim:
Says that while his plan would narrow the time for early voting, "it still will be one of the most aggressive early voting time frames in America."


claim:
Says it probably costs more than $300,000 to run for a seat on the Pedernales Electric Cooperative board of directors.


claim:
Republicans offered Wisconsin bar patrons "free shots (of alcohol) to sign recall petitions against" Democrats.


claim:
Rep. Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan "lines the pockets of the private insurance companies," increases costs for seniors and does not reduce the deficit.


claim:
Says Florida is one of a few or perhaps the only state "that has a statewide review of local land use and zoning decisions."


claim:
"There are legitimate and widespread anomalies, and widespread questions about the conduct of (the Wisconsin Supreme Court) election, most visibly in Waukesha County, but also in counties around the state."


claim:
Says stories about his birth certificate drowned out media coverage of the Republican and White House budget plans the week of April 11.


claim:
President Barack Obama "took exactly none of his own deficit reduction commission’s ideas. Not one."


claim:
After the U.S.-led military alliance ejected Saddam Hussein’s forces from Kuwait in 1991, the Kuwaitis "never paid us."


claim:
Says the hospital listed on Barack Obama’s just-publicized long-form birth certificate denies the president was born there.


claim:
Says Paul Ryan "voted for two wars that were unpaid for, voted for the Bush tax cuts that were unpaid for, voted for the prescription drug bill that cost as much as my health care bill -- but wasn't paid for."


claim:
"The Georgia Lottery Corp. has only once in the past 16 years paid out the agreed upon 35 percent of proceeds to the account which funds the HOPE scholarship."


claim:
"As far as standing committees, we have 10 fewer standing committees. So we’ve saved the state about a quarter-of-a-million dollars through the reduction of the standing committees."


claim:
In early voting in Miami-Dade County, "there is a trickle of two or three people a day at a very high cost to keep those public libraries and polls open."


claim:
"In Senate Bill 5, there is this new method of evaluating teachers. … You’re also going to be rated on what the parents think of you and they can send questionnaires and surveys home to parents."


claim:
"Large majorities" of the public "oppose major changes to Medicare" and favor higher taxes on the wealthy.


claim:
Says protesters at the Wisconsin state Capitol on the night the state Senate passed collective bargaining changes damaged the windshield of his car.


claim:
"Foreign companies in the United States have a significantly higher unionization rate than other companies overall."


claim:
Says salaries and benefits for Wisconsin state employee comprised 8.5 percent of the 2009-2011 state budget.


claim:
"Gov. (Rick) Perry helped balance his budget with about $6 billion worth of federal help, which he happily took, and then started blaming the members of Congress who had offered that help."


claim:
"We are the most generous in New England and New England is known for its generosity toward its welfare recipients."


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


claim:
"Right now we are spending at an all-time high, close to 25 percent of our GDP [is] being spent on the federal government. But our revenues are at an almost all-time low of about 15 percent [of GDP]."


claim:
Says $38 billion in spending cuts in federal budget compromise is "less than $1 billion in real cuts."


claim:
If we had the same staffing ratio (of officers to residents) as Seattle, we'd have 300 more officers in our department."


claim:
Under a proposal by Rep. Paul Ryan, people on Medicare will only have $15,000 from the federal government to spend on their health care.


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


claim:
"The facts show that approximately 40 persons on death row have had all of their appellate review completed and await only the governor's signature on a death warrant to end the case."


claim:
General Electric "hasn't really created any jobs in this country, doesn't  pay any taxes, and they're making historic profits."


claim:
"America's wealthiest 25 percent pay 86 percent of total income taxes. Wealthiest 5 percent pay 60 percent of total income taxes."


claim:
According to David Cay Johnston, "the average American pays about 22 percent of their income to federal taxes. The richest 400 Americans … pay about 16 percent of their income to federal taxes."


claim:
"[Appalachian Power] wants another 10 percent rate increase. The compensation package for CEO Mike Morris rose 22 percent to $8.7 million in 2010."


claim:
"In this bill that I’ve just signed, we don’t cut anybody’s salary. We don’t take away their pension. And we don’t destroy their health care."


claim:
(Dennis) Richardson wants to make drastic cuts to services we depend on: schools, home care for seniors, even public safety -- all so Richardson can keep more than $440 million in unspent funds for his political priorities."


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


claim:
The Republican budget plan "says that 10 years from now, if you’re a 65-year-old who’s eligible for Medicare, you should have to pay nearly $6,400 more than you would today."


claim:
"The top 1 percent of income-earners pay about 40 percent of all taxes into the federal government."


claim:
"Americans will pay more in taxes in 2011 than they will spend on groceries, clothing and shelter combined."


claim:
"Hackers broke into Virginia's prescription-drug database (and) ... obtained more than 8.2 million patient records and a total of nearly 36 million prescriptions."


claim:
"What we have done with the PATRIOT Act, we've given the government enormous powers. We've given the government the right to reach deeply into people's private lives, into their business affairs, without a court order."


claim:
"If you go strictly by the numbers, crime is down across the board. Last year we had a 10 percent decrease in the most serious crimes."


claim:
Human error, such as skipping a community in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, "is common in (the vote-tabulation) process.


claim:
Tim Kaine proposed "over $6 billion in tax increases from the time he entered the governor’s mansion until the time he left."


claim:
"43,000 people are going to be kicked out of nursing homes or denied nursing home entrance" if the Texas House version of the state budget passes into law.


claim:
George Allen voted to add $3 trillion to the federal debt, voted to raise the debt ceiling four times and voted for the No Child Left Behind Act while he was a senator.


claim:
"The Republicans have demanded deep cuts in education. They've demanded cuts in cancer research and other research to find cures and treatments to diseases."


claim:
To pay for government growth, leaders of both parties "borrowed $4 billion a day, leaving us with today's $14 trillion debt."


claim:
"When we lower tax rates, we generate more in revenues. That happened in '86 with the Reagan plan, happened in 2001, following the Bush plan."


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


claim:
A space shuttle the National Museum of the United States Air Force near Dayton would be "within a day's drive of 60 percent of the U.S. population."


claim:
A Republican proposal changes Medicare for those under age 55 so that they will  "participate in the same kind of health plan that members of Congress do."


claim:
"Politicians and their corporate lobbyists are trying to take away my right to spend my paycheck how I want."


claim:
Says unions "take away" hard-earned money of teachers, firefighters and police officers to play politics.


claim:
President Obama has spent over $2 million in legal fees defending lawsuits about his birth certificate.


claim:
"The benefits that were offered to me as a congressman don’t even compare to the benefits that you get as a state employee. I just experienced that myself. They’re not nearly as good."


claim:
There was "some sort of informal commitment to build a (psychiatric) building in downtown Cleveland."


claim:
"For every one ESD superintendent position, we can pay for three speech pathologists, or three special needs instructors, or three classroom teachers."


claim:
"We have a guy who is going to be speaker of the House in four years, and his name has been on the ballot one time."


claim:
"Over the past decade, the big five oil companies --- BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Shell -- made a total profit of nearly $1 trillion."


claim:
"Many states without collective bargaining, such as Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina, have far larger budget deficits than many that do, including Ohio."


claim:
﻿Says JoAnne Kloppenburg’s side had a "3-to-1 money advantage" in the Wisconsin Supreme Court campaign.


claim:
"When I took office last year we faced historic budget deficits of $6 billion here in Virginia.  And we closed those deficits by cutting spending."


claim:
Undocumented students who qualify for in-state Oregon tuition are "actively working toward U.S. citizenship."


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


claim:
In Florida, it’s not illegal for an immediate family member of state officials to prosper from legislation supported by a spouse.


claim:
"A report in Navy Times said that 7.3 percent of Army, Navy and Marines have thought about attempting suicide."


claim:
Said Planned Parenthood’s early objective was to "help kill black babies before they came into the world."


claim:
"We’re paying out-of-state residential facilities hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more," to house children in state custody


claim:
Says President Obama's "grandmother in Kenya said he was born in Kenya and she was there and witnessed the birth."


claim:
Virginia was named "best managed state, best state for business and best state to raise a child" while I was governor.


claim:
"Across the United States, 25 percent of voting age African Americans do not have the photo ID that this bill would require."


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


claim:
Says House Republicans rejected a straightforward measure that would prevent members of Congress and the president from being paid during a government shutdown.


claim:
For the first time in U.S. history, a personal inaction will be deemed unlawful -- not purchasing a health-insurance plan


claim:
Three courts have found the new health care law constitutional and two have found it unconstitutional.


claim:
"Franklin Roosevelt (was) the last president to come to the Congress to ask for permission to engage into war."


claim:
"Since 1990, in inflation-adjusted dollars, per-student funding of the (Florida) state university system from general revenue has dropped by about $4,000."


claim:
Says "some [states] with the largest reductions in crime have also lowered their prison population."


claim:
"Every child born today inherits a $30,000 share in a national debt that stands at more than $13 trillion."


claim:
"Some of the colleges, including A&M, have already guaranteed that they will not increase their tuition."


claim:
A majority of the American people opposed the health care law when it was signed and still oppose it today.


claim:
Says a photo ID voting law in Georgia didn't dissuade black voters from participating in voting. "It hasn't, it doesn't, and apparently, if you do cause and effect in that state, it's been helpful."


claim:
"In three years we could find close to 50 million gallons per day through a toilet replacement program."


claim:
When you compare our state pension system "to other systems throughout the country, our benefits are not gold-plated. They are not rich. They are actually average or below average."


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


claim:
Since Oregon’s prescription-only law took effect, meth lab incidents have dropped by 96 percent and meth-related arrests by 32 percent.


claim:
Says Chris Abele, opponent in Milwaukee County executive race, "failed to finish 3 separate colleges, dropping out all 3 times."


claim:
Says Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate JoAnne Kloppenburg "put an 80-year-old farmer in jail for refusing to plant native vegetation on his farm."


claim:
Discretionary spending has "increased over 20-some percent in two years if you don’t include the stimulus. If you put in the stimulus, it’s over 80 percent."


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


claim:
Says the Southwest Florida Water Management District has $850 million in reserves, enough money in savings to run without levying taxes for more than two years.


claim:
PolitiFact Wisconsin "concluded that the charge that Justice Prosser prejudges matters that come before the court is True."


claim:
Says Supreme Court candidate JoAnne Kloppenburg’s record as a state Justice Department lawyer consists only of the prosecution of cases regarding regulation of docks.


claim:
Says that during the first 19 months of the Obama administration, the U.S. detained people from nations designated as state sponsors of terrorism on the southwestern border.


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


claim:
"Originally, Democrats promised that if you liked your health care plan, you could keep it. One year later we know that you need a waiver to keep your plan."


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


claim:
"Before this (federal health care) law was enacted, Florida parents ... were able to purchase inexpensive 'child-only' coverage for their children. The law’s 'consumer protections' have now eliminated that choice in Florida."


claim:
Says the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act adopted last year contains "a series of slush funds, set up to stay on the books automatically, with little or no oversight."


claim:
"Public sentiment in favor of collective bargaining and in favor of the unions has actually gone up as these governors, I think, have overreached and gone too far and tried to destroy the labor movement."


claim:
"Ultimately, after an exhaustive investigation," the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that a Minneapolis bridge collapsed in 2007 "because of an original design flaw dating back to the 1960s."


claim:
Says new EPA water regulations would force the state to make drainage canals every bit as clean as pristine Florida river systems.


claim:
Since Corey Stewart became chairman in November 2006, unemployment is up 150% and average home price sales are down $150,000.


claim:
Georgia public sector employees do not have a say in the conditions of their employment, do not have bargaining rights or a say in their working conditions.


claim:
The "House-passed budget proposal could cut funding for programs that help keep local neighborhoods safe, slash more than $1.7 million in anti-terror funds for Ohio."


claim:
"One. That's the number of new drilling permits under the Obama administration since they came into office."


claim:
"We don't need a separate (prescription drug) database ... Pharmacies already have a database in place."


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


claim:
The hour of sleep you lose during the change to daylight saving time might initially pose some health risks.


claim:
"Oregon is the only state out of the 50 states in the USA that continues to pay 100% of the medical benefits for its employees and their families."


claim:
Says none of the government programs targeted for elimination or severe cutback in House Republican spending plans "appeared on the GAO's list of government programs at high risk of waste, fraud and abuse."


claim:
Says a Lubbock terror suspect’s alleged plan "to use baby dolls to conceal chemical explosives" is similar to a 1995 plot "to blow up 12 jumbo jets over the Pacific Ocean."


claim:
Says Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser "has prejudged matters that are likely to come before the court."


claim:
Woonsocket needs a garbage-burning power plant because "residents are paying through the nose for electricity that’s fueled by foreign oil, at prices that are skyrocketing."


claim:
Oregon concealed gun applications include "home phone numbers, home address, Social Security numbers, what kinds of guns you have in the house … whether you were dishonorably discharged from the military, what controlled substances you are taking and  were you ever accused of -- accused, mind you -- of stalking."


claim:
"A U.S. Government Accountability Office report says Planned Parenthood Federation of America cannot find some $1.3 billion given to it by the federal government from 2002 through 2008."


claim:
The HOPE scholarship "has helped turn our University System into one of the best in the Southeast, with two institutions ranked in the top 20 of public universities in the country."


claim:
Says "legislation pending in the House would effectively limit or eliminate ‘time-and-a-half’ for people who work overtime."


claim:
"About 22 percent of adults in Rhode Island and approximately 30 percent of youth (ages 10-17) are considered obese."


claim:
"The entire state of Florida led the nation last year with the most prison inmates committing tax fraud."


claim:
Wisconsin was embroiled in a "constitutional crisis" brought on by the Democratic senators fleeing the state for Illinois to block Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair bill.


claim:
"Due to a flaw in the 1995 Outer Continental Shelf Deep Water Royalty Relief Act numerous oil companies are now drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in federal lands and paying no royalties to the federal government."


claim:
On the president unilaterally authorizing a military attack "that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."


claim:
Says Allen West helped thwart a terrorist plot by shooting a gun in the direction of an Iraqi detainee, then reported the incident to his superior and said it was wrong.


claim:
Ohio Director of Job Creation "Mark Kvamme just clawed back about $900,000 from companies that made promises and they didn't keep them."


claim:
"Since 1980, over 145 incidents have been documented of suction entrapment in swimming pools and spas, including 36 deaths of children."


claim:
"Not even expensive bottled water, like Perrier and Evian, are of good enough quality to pump out of mines in Southwest Virginia, according to the EPA regulation."


claim:
"There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts you should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer."


claim:
Says taxpayer resources are being used "to facilitate private political agendas" through automatic payroll deduction of union dues.


claim:
The coalition of Arab states against Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi is the biggest coalition against a fellow Arab leader since the Persian Gulf War in 1990-1991.


claim:
"Eleven years ago, the city of Detroit lifted the residency requirement for police officers and today, 53 percent of officers live outside of the city. If we want the tax base of Milwaukee to resemble the tax base of Detroit, this is the way to go."


claim:
Studies have shown that in the absence of federal reproductive health funds, we are going to see the level of abortion in Georgia increase by about 44 percent.


claim:
"The Congressional Budget Office has this economic model where they measure the economy going forward, and they are now telling us that the entire economy crashes in the year 2037 because their computer simulation can't conceive of any way in which the U.S. economy can continue."


claim:
"According to 2009 estimates, an agreement with Panama could result in almost 1,900 Florida jobs in the first year – and about 15,000 jobs after five years."


claim:
Says a "rather extraordinary amount of non-classroom employees" were added by Texas school districts over the last decade.


claim:
Senate Democrats who left the state for weeks to delay a vote on union bargaining power exercised a "Wisconsin filibuster" provided by the state’s constitution.


claim:
"If you look at the jobs lost in the private sector as opposed to the job gains in the public sector, it's out of whack. The government's growing and the private economy's shrinking."


claim:
"What we have now is the most generous, in my opinion, 'good time' bill in the entire United States."


claim:
The state of Wisconsin pays plumbers, engineers and other attorneys "much, much more" than it pays attorneys to represent poor people.


claim:
The Texas Constitution "still contains Jim Crow provisions about the poll tax and restrictions on women having the right to vote."


claim:
Says it has offered $12 million in savings through 2011 and $184 million in savings over the next 25 years in contract negotiations with the City of Milwaukee.


claim:
Say easing restrictions on selling alcohol on Sundays will result in more traffic crashes and fatalities.


claim:
"Lake Erie supports nearly 10 percent of Ohio's jobs and generates $750 million in state and local taxes."


claim:
"We have over 25 million people who live in Texas and less than 2 percent of them have" concealed handgun licenses.


claim:
A proposed revenue smart cap "gives Floridians a voice, requiring a 60 percent vote by citizens in order to impose a new tax, fee, license, fine, charge or assessment."


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


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


claim:
Gov. Rick Perry "used $3.2 billion in stimulus dollars for schools to plug other holes in his budget."


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


claim:
"There are corporations in this nation, some of the biggest corporations in this nation, who do not pay taxes."


claim:
"For the first time in more than a decade, imports accounted for less than half of (the oil) we consumed."


claim:
In fighting collective bargaining changes, Democrats are trying to "protect a system that pays unionized government workers 42 percent more than non-union workers."


claim:
"Georgia still has one of the richest programs in terms of scholarships for students to go to college."


claim:
Says that President Obama said in 2008 that his proposed greenhouse gas regulations "will bankrupt" anyone who wants to build a new coal-fired power plant.


claim:
A bill that would halt the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases would help "stop rising gas prices."


claim:
"Seven of the 10" school districts with the lowest graduation rate for African-American boys in the country are in Florida.


claim:
On the night of the Wisconsin state Senate vote on the budget package, "a mob showed up and busted down the door and took over the Capitol."


claim:
"A new ruling by the EPA would force dairy farmers to comply with the Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure Program when dealing with spilt milk -- the same regulations oil and natural gas producers must follow."


claim:
Says students who receive free or reduced lunch are "performing just as well" as students who do not.


claim:
Tampa mayoral opponent Bob Buckhorn "supported forcing police officers to keep their guns locked in the trunks of their cruisers."


claim:
"Our average private sector employee pays 23 percent for their health care. Our average city worker in Ohio pays 9 percent."


claim:
Says it’s a "statistical reality that most single moms are very poor, under-educated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death."


claim:
Says women who need a sonogram in the eighth to 10th week of pregnancy have to get a transvaginal sonogram.


claim:
Says Sen. Sherrod Brown admitted "that his $787 billion stimulus law failed" and "after specifically attacking Republicans for wanting to lower Americans' taxes, (he) now claims that his stimulus bill 'didn't do enough' to lower taxes."


claim:
"Since 1999, all Virginia Lottery profits have been used for public education in the Commonwealth for kindergarten through 12th grade."


claim:
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s "budget okays disposing of unclaimed pound dogs to university research facilities."


claim:
A bill before the Georgia General Assembly would make presidential candidates meet citizenship requirements that are not in the U.S. Constitution.


claim:
Says Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s cuts to education are the same as his proposed corporate income tax rate reduction.


claim:
Bing Energy said it decided to move to Florida because of Gov. Rick Scott’s "plan to eliminate the corporate tax."


claim:
"On my first day in office, I ordered a review of every regulation in the pipeline and every contract exceeding $1 million."


claim:
"Hitler didn't want unions. Stalin didn't want unions. Mubarak didn't want independent unions. These autocrats in history don't want independent unions."


claim:
"Secretly, unbeknownst to members of Congress, over $105 billion was hidden in the Obamacare legislation."


claim:
Wisconsin state and local government workers pay "$500, $600 or in some cases, $1,000" per year in union dues.


claim:
Says nobody in higher education believes Gov. Rick Perry’s proposal to "serve up $10,000 college degrees" is possible.


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


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


claim:
In slashing $1.7 billion from Social Security, "Rep. Jim Renacci may end up forcing the entire agency to ... shut down for a month, causing seniors to not get their benefits on time, halting claims processing, and forcing new retirees and disabled workers into a backlog."


claim:
"We closed that plant down. It was a $27 million-dollar plant, operating full steam, and we closed it down."


claim:
"Last year it was discovered that Rhode Island's public employees ranked 4th in average pay, while the private sector ranked 23rd."


claim:
Texas would have to increase current state spending by 28 percent just to reach the national average for spending per resident.


claim:
Says Sheldon Whitehouse said on Senate floor: "Everybody in Rhode Island who disagrees with me about Obamacare is an Aryan, is a white supremacist."


claim:
A telephone company will no longer have to provide landline service to customers if there is an alternative provider, including wireless.


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


claim:
Under Gov. Scott Walker’s proposals, "Money is being taken away from workers, and the tax breaks given to major corporations. "


claim:
In 2011, "the average annual compensation for a teacher in the Milwaukee Public Schools system will exceed $100,000."


claim:
As part of efforts to rein in protesters, Republicans in Wisconsin have "bolted windows inside the Capitol shut."


claim:
Says neither President Barack Obama nor Mexico President Felipe Calderon "have been on the border to see what's happening to the citizens of Mexico, and for that matter the citizens of Texas."


claim:
DeKalb County has cut more money from its general fund budget "than any local government in the Atlanta metro region."


claim:
"We have lost 600,000 jobs over the period of the last 10 years. Only Michigan and California have done worse."


claim:
"We've seen local union after local union rush to their school boards, their city councils, their technical school boards and rush through contracts in the past two weeks that had no contributions to the pension and no contribution to health care."


claim:
Says Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget "roadmap … doesn't balance the budget until the 2060s and … adds an unthinkable $62 trillion to the national debt between now and then."


claim:
Gov. Bob McDonnell in 2010 "did not even create enough jobs to keep pace with population growth" in Virginia.


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


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


claim:
"There are nearly 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country and at any one time about 100,000 are unaccounted for."


claim:
Says Wendy’s founder "Dave Thomas left the state literally on his deathbed to avoid the estate tax."


claim:
Says that in a hearing, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords suggested to Gen. David Petraeus that the Army "put more emphasis on less environmentally damaging methods, like stabbing or clubbing enemy forces in order to minimize the carbon output."


claim:
Says signs posted at projects funded by the federal stimulus act has cost "20 or 40 million" dollars.


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


claim:
"The American people have endured 21 consecutive months of 9% or higher unemployment [and] 2.6 million jobs have been lost," since the stimulus bill was signed.


claim:
"Some of our state's educational administrators joined the feds in seeking to mandate Arabic classes for Texas children."


claim:
An illegal immigrant who gains admission at a public college takes class space away from students who are legal residents.


claim:
Says the Hawaii governor "can’t find anything that says (President Barack Obama) was born in Hawaii."


claim:
The law has not established whether Rhode Island public employees have property rights to their pensions.


claim:
Under former President George W. Bush’s administration "while the population in that period grew by 10 percent, the number of jobs in the nation grew by 1 percent."


claim:
Claims Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said: "It is necessary to eliminate unions in order to balance future budgets."


claim:
If public employees don’t pay more for benefits starting April 1, 2011, "the equivalent" is 1,500 state employee layoffs by June 30, 2011 and 10,000 to 12,000 state and local government employee layoffs in the next two years.


claim:
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s estimate of a $3.6 billion state budget deficit is "manufactured" and a "bogus figure."


claim:
One half of federal spending goes to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid while the other half goes to other programs funded with money "borrowed from a foreign land."


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


claim:
"The things I said (during the prank call by a blogger posing as GOP contributor David Koch) are the things I’ve said publicly all along" about the Wisconsin budget debate.


claim:
"Every (Wisconsin) legislator that votes for this bill" will have to "give up the same amount of pay" as other state employees.


claim:
"FACT: the ‘special assistant’ in @johnkasich's office makes over three times more than an average #OH firefighter"


claim:
The five states that outlaw collective bargaining for teachers all rank below 44th in the nation in test scores, while Wisconsin ranks 2nd.


claim:
In 2009, Democratic Wisconsin state senators "rammed through a billion-dollar tax hike in 24 hours with no public input."


claim:
In Wisconsin, teachers make $89,000 in salary and benefits, compared to $48,000 for all other workers in the United States.


claim:
"The president promised to close the space gap, but he now seems intent on repeating the events that created the space gap in the first place -- putting in place a new rocket design and then trying to underfund the effort..."


claim:
A federal system that verifies employees are authorized to work in the U.S. is inaccurate "anywhere from 50 percent all the way up to in excess of 80" percent of the time.


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


claim:
The president’s proposed budget "will help reduce the deficit by $400 billion over the next decade to the lowest level since Dwight Eisenhower was president."


claim:
Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in his budget repair bill "is showing that no stone goes unturned as he asks everyone to tighten their belts."


claim:
When it comes to urgency on passing a budget repair bill, "there’s no rush on this thing" because the fiscal year doesn’t end until June 30, 2011.


claim:
Since Sherrod Brown and the Democrats "rammed" the economic stimulus bill through, "Ohio's unemployment rate has risen to 9.6 percent, above the national average."


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


claim:
If Wisconsin's governor cuts perquisites as much as he plans to do, "it would still leave (workers) better off than their private sector" counterparts.


claim:
"The  firefighters, the policemen and others who supported (Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker) in his election bid ... don't have to worry about their collective bargaining rights."


claim:
At protests in Wisconsin against proposed collective bargaining changes, "phony sick notes (were) passed out to excuse striking union members."


claim:
"75 percent of the jobs created in the state of Ohio are created in small business. They are not created by huge corporations and those who are very wealthy."


claim:
Says some in Congress are trying "to create a separate government for those with a drop of Native Hawaiian blood."


claim:
"Lyme disease is one of the fastest growing infectious diseases in the United States, and Rhode Island has the second-highest incidence of this disease in the country."


claim:
"In Austin, I’ve got half-a-dozen or more schools on a list to be closed — one of which I presented a federal blue-ribbon award to for excellence. And several hundred school personnel on the list for possible terminations."


claim:
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s move to limit collective bargaining rights has led to "riots" at the Capitol -- "It's like Cairo has moved to Madison these days."


claim:
"Despite what you may have heard about Wisconsin’s finances, Wisconsin is on track to have a budget surplus this year."


claim:
When it comes to taking cuts in tough budget times, Wisconsin "state workers haven’t had to sacrifice."


claim:
"One of the biggest causes of our soaring debt and economic insecurity ends up being Pentagon spending. The budget for the Pentagon consumes more than half of our discretionary spending."


claim:
The federal government "can cut all of the non-military discretionary spending and not balance the budget."


claim:
Under changes being debated, state employees in Wisconsin "who earn $30,000, $40,000, $50,000 a year might have 20 percent of their income just disappear overnight."


claim:
For thousands of public employees, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s budget-repair bill would "take away any say they have in the workplace, and eliminate their union."


claim:
"For the last decade, funding in the health and human services budget has grown at twice the rate as other parts of the budget, and I think that context is important."


claim:
Americans, in the last 30 years, "have more than doubled the amount of money we are spending per child (on education) … and the results have gotten worse, not better."


claim:
Says there are Ohio Turnpike workers getting paid $66,000 a year to collect tolls that machines might collect.


claim:
The White House budget plan will bring domestic discretionary spending to its lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president.


claim:
"It is projected that 3.07 million people will use the train annually. Keep in mind that Amtrak's Acela train in Washington D.C., Boston, Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore only had 3.2 million riders in 2010."


claim:
The Obama administration "actually cut out the democracy in Egypt funds inside the State Department."


claim:
Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker "has threatened to call out the National Guard if workers protest against" changes to bargaining laws.


claim:
"Across the board, violent crime in jurisdictions that recognize the Right to Carry is lower than in areas that prevent it."


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


claim:
"Over the last two years since President Obama has taken office, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs."


claim:
Under the White House’s budget proposal, "we will not be adding more to the national debt" by the middle of the decade.


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


claim:
The United States is "the only developed country in the world that has not cut its corporate tax rate."


claim:
"There is nothing in the current state public records law that prohibits sensitive or confidential business information from being just that, confidential."


claim:
"The people that went to school with (Barack Obama), they never saw him, they don't know who he is."


claim:
The federal health care law is "probably the biggest tax increase ever in the history of our country."


claim:
Four state Assembly Democrats "scored a death blow to northeast Wisconsin’s economy" by killing hundreds of jobs at a potential Bass Pro Shops near Green Bay.


claim:
Oregon families pay an extra $1,400 a year on higher insurance premiums to cover those who do not have insurance.


claim:
"Today there are more men and women out of work in America than there are people working in Canada."


claim:
"If you shut down Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, it's estimated you'd have to add seven new lanes to I-95 to accommodate the increased traffic."


claim:
"Overall we currently have $981 million, almost a billion dollars in active development projects right here in the City of Richmond."


claim:
"I’m the only candidate for Milwaukee County executive that has voted against increasing government pensions."


claim:
Says Ohio is one of just 17 states with an estate tax, and it has "the lowest threshold in the nation."


claim:
When the Milwaukee County mental health facility is full, "cops sit out there in their squad cars with a mentally ill patient"  and sometimes "spend an entire shift out there doing that."


claim:
Foreign Trade Zones allow U.S. "land to be inhabited by Chinese communists -- communists straight from China! They are to set up little towns and live here."


claim:
"In Mexico, they don't have birth certificates... they don’t have registration cards for voters. They have one national ID."


claim:
If you tried to pay out $1 trillion by handing it out at $1 per second, it would take more than 31,000 years.


claim:
"For [GM] to pay back everything it owes, it would have to sell its shares at $143 a share . . . where the highest value of a General Motors share ever was $43, $44, $46, whatever the dollars were . . ."


claim:
Tells President Barack Obama that he also asked former President George W. Bush about how he felt about Americans hating him.


claim:
Twelve judges have thrown out legal challenges to the health care law because they rejected "the notion that the health care law was unconstitutional."


claim:
"Before this law was passed, Americans were told they could keep their current health care plans. After it became law, the administration issued regulations stating nearly half of Americans would lose their current plan."


claim:
Most state employees could pay twice as much toward their health care premiums and it would still be half the national average


claim:
The military has spent $500 million enforcing the "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" policy regarding gays and lesbians in the military.


claim:
The city building code violations on my properties only involve exterior issues; "within the households, it’s fine."


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


claim:
Says the Texas Forest Service planted 6,000 trees in the Dallas/Fort Worth area before the Super Bowl for unknown reasons at an unknown cost.


claim:
Americans spend 6.1 billion hours a year complying with tax law. It costs us $163 billion to comply with our tax laws annually.


claim:
Says getting ex-cons to successfully return to society is important "so we are not always faced constantly with recidivism, which is a big problem in the penitentiary today – in the 70 to 80 percent range."


claim:
Many of the 9/11 conspirators came from the Muslim Brotherhood, including Osama bin Laden, Ayman Zawahiri and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.


claim:
"All the money the Department of Citrus has is paid for by the citrus growers. You don't save dollars by eliminating the Department of Citrus."


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


claim:
"From 1980 to 1990, the top 1 percent saw their income go up by roughly 80 percent" while "the median wage in the country over (the same) 10 years went up 3 percent."


claim:
"The two worst counties for (Medicaid) fraud in the country -- not state -- are Dade and Broward county."


claim:
"Despite claims that you can 'keep the health care plan you like,' the Obama Administration has predicted that as many as 7 out of 10 Americans with employer-provided health coverage could lose their current health plan."


claim:
"In the past, President Obama has refused to meet with representatives from Cuban exile organizations."


claim:
"The New START treaty was passed despite significant concerns among some people in the State and Defense Departments."


claim:
Wisconsin employers have repeatedly said in surveys that our anti-business litigation climate is one of the most important factors affecting their expansion decisions.


claim:
Says that over the last decade, the state's population grew three times faster than the Texas state tax system.


claim:
Says there are "a half a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicare that are going to go in place" as a result of health care reform.


claim:
Says gun ownership information could be recorded and collected by the federal government and insurance companies as part of the federal health care law.


claim:
"Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican-controlled state legislature have added over $140 million in new special interest spending"


claim:
Regulations on developers have thwarted construction on county-owned land in Milwaukee’s downtown Park East corridor.


claim:
In September, the Department of Business and Consumer Services enacted a sudden 39% workers' compensation premium assessment by rule with little notice to the public.


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


claim:
Secure Communities "has a proven track record of enhancing public safety by focusing on violent offenders and those that pose a threat to our communities and our national security."


claim:
"Last year, out of the 500,000 (in) population growth we had in the state of Texas, about 250,000 of the 500,000 came to Texas... from the other 49 states."


claim:
Says President Barack Obama revealed in his State of the Union address that he "now is against earmarks."


claim:
"[Tailpipe emissions rules], if fully implemented with all the regulations that go with it, they will keep the temperature from rising nearly five one-hundredths of a degree Fahrenheit. By 2050."


claim:
"The American people say, don't touch Social Security, don't touch Medicare, don't cut defense. That's 84 percent of the federal budget."


claim:
"Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies, an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus."


claim:
"Of the top five cities for staged automobile accidents, three are in Florida. … We rank No. 1 in the country in staged auto accidents."


claim:
"The Interior Department is in charge of salmon while they're in fresh water, but the Commerce Department handles them when they're in saltwater."


claim:
The federal government "may put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill."


claim:
"Republican (small business tax cut) bill spends $80 million for better Google searches, not job creation"


claim:
Says a "Canadian provincial prime minister came to Ohio for his medical treatment because of the delay in Canadian health care which would have endangered his life."


claim:
"The number of inmates since 2000 on death row dying of natural causes has now surpassed the number of inmates executed."


claim:
Poll results from the past 35 years show that State of the Union speeches "do not move" presidential approval numbers.


claim:
Says the Defense Department shrink-wrapped $10.8 billion in American money, loaded it on 175 pallets and put it on a transport plane to Iraq where they passed out $100 bills and no one has any receipts.


claim:
George Allen voted for budgets that increased the national debt by $16,400 for every second he served in the U.S. Senate.


claim:
"Despite the administration telling us (health care reform) was going to reduce health care costs, they now acknowledge it's going to dramatically increase health care costs."


claim:
Says a Portland school gives Muslim students "their own school provided prayer room, prayer rugs," and lets them "out of class five times a day to pray to Allah."


claim:
A test last month at the MAX station at 162nd Avenue and East Burnside saw crime down 41 percent compared with December 2009


claim:
The governor has made a "commitment to billions of dollars in debt and new spending without any explanation of how he plans to pay that money back."


claim:
Says that "data from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities suggest that the Texas budget gap is worse than New York’s, about as bad as California’s, but not quite up to New Jersey levels."


claim:
Gov. Scott Walker hired convicted Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen to oversee a raid on the state employee retirement system to help balance the state budget.


claim:
"Ben Franklin once quipped that only two things in life were certain: death and taxes. I think even he didn't envision that the tax man would visit on the day of your death."


claim:
"We had a debate on whether ‘ObamaCare’ was the way to go to fix up health care and the American voters said no -- emphatically."


claim:
Under federal law, Jared Loughner "would not have been able to buy a gun" had he been identified as mentally ill.


claim:
If the Stamp Farm wind turbine is built, the "health risk of 'flicker' impact created by shadows of blades of turbines poses real and significant health risks, particularly seizures."


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


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


claim:
Says that before health care reform, one of every three health care dollars spent -- more than $800 billion a year -- didn't go for health care.


claim:
Says Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine is hypocritical for challenging the constitutionality of the new health care law.


claim:
"The incoming Republican freshman class – well, it’s no ordinary group: nearly half of its roughly 80 members have never served in elective office before."


claim:
"Recent studies have confirmed that any academic benefits of government funded preschool disappear by the fourth grade."


claim:
"On average, Americans spend less than 10 percent of their disposable income on food. Compare that to folks in Mexico, who spend 22 percent, China, 28 percent and Russia, 37 percent."


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


claim:
Says 15,000 IRS employees "have to be added to administer ‘ObamaCare’ and look at the tax implications."


claim:
The White House "branded" the memorial service for the Tucson shootings with a "Together We Thrive" logo and slogan.


claim:
"When we look at the number of murders in the United States (in) 2009, we had 9,500 people murdered. When we look around the world, we see ... large countries, the U.K., Germany, Japan had 200 or less killed in a year."


claim:
Ohio taxpayers spent more than $67 million "for the year" on food stamps and Medicaid for Wal-Mart workers


claim:
"We had an amendment in the health care law that said the federal government is going to take over education."


claim:
"Saturday's shootings reflect a disturbing trend. Mass shootings have become commonplace since the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007. There have been dozens of incidents where three or more people have been fatally wounded. Hundreds have died."


claim:
Says he "had to impose tougher cost controls on state employees than" any previous Wisconsin governor.


claim:
"Following the 2009 session," Texas House Speaker Joe Straus "was acknowledged and ‘thanked’ for his ‘tireless efforts’ by Planned Parenthood, the nation’s premier abortion provider."


claim:
Says the person who Florida U.S. Rep. Allen West first hired as chief of staff told people attending a Tea Party rally that, 'We will use bullets if ballots don't work.'


claim:
"In my 12 years in the House, I have watched my district go from a solidly Democratic district to a heavily solid Republican district."


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


claim:
Wisconsin’s lawsuit rules are so anti-business that the state’s system is "one of the most promiscuous" in America.


claim:
Portland spent nearly $1 million in federal stimulus money to install bike path signs where they already existed.


claim:
New provisions of the health care law bar the use of flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts to pay for aspirin and other non-prescription health needs.


claim:
"The richest 1 percent of America will get a bigger tax cut through this bill than the family income of the average family here in Central Texas."


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


claim:
"You’ll find blacks in almost every regiment throughout the South who fought right alongside white Southerners," during the Civil War.


claim:
"There hasn't really been a lot of net growth in the federal workforce when you compare it to say, 1990."


claim:
Says he "led the effort to build a new (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) engineering campus in Wauwatosa."


claim:
Says the state's Medicaid waiver proposal "has languished in a file cabinet at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for more than two years."


claim:
"The Democratic majority led the 111th Congress to spend more money in two years than the first 100 congresses before them combined."


claim:
"We can save $125 billion in simply not giving out money to Medicare recipients that don't exist for procedures that didn't happen."


claim:
"In 1998, nearly half of Florida's fourth-graders were functionally illiterate. Today, 72% of them can read."


claim:
"We are one of only two states to have eight consecutive months of declining unemployment. Twenty-one states had increased unemployment last month. Ours went down."


claim:
Says "there is a plan formulated by Chair (Lynn) Peterson and the cities in Clackamas County to further increase this fee in three years and split it up on projects between the county and cities."


claim:
"In 1981, Matagorda, Brazoria, and Galveston Counties all opted out of the Social Security program for their employees. Today, their program is very, very well-funded and there is no question about whether it’s going to be funded in" years to come.


claim:
The tax-cut deal "adds more than $800 billion to the deficit over two years -- more than the cost of TARP and more than the cost of the Recovery Act" and about the same as health care reform.


claim:
"Over 80 percent of the people want the shot to vote" on whether to approve same-sex marriage, according to polls.


claim:
"All but one of the 50 states already have some form of a balanced budget amendment in their state constitutions."


claim:
Portland Public Schools invites "well-paid, well-fed school bureaucrats, administrators, teachers, other staff, non-needy students, affluent parents of students, and other adults, including on the other extreme the adult homeless, illegal aliens, fanatical Muslim terrorists, or drug addicted street people, to enjoy cheap breakfasts in taxpayer-paid school facilities amidst school children."


claim:
"The Governor did not consult members of his own party before he released his [transportation] plan."


claim:
House Speaker Dean Cannon says that freshmen lawmakers account for one-third of the 120-member House, and that two-thirds of the chamber have two years or less experience.


claim:
Says that "all those who do not answer directly to the president, they've said (repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell) is a terrible idea."


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


claim:
Unemployment and the housing and auto industry crises can be fixed by giving a million dollars to every worker over age 50 to retire.


claim:
"We have dozens of districts that go for 150 to 200 miles, splitting counties, splintering cities and connecting areas that have very little in common."


claim:
Says the University of Wisconsin football program is spending almost all of its Bowl Championship Series payout on a Rose Bowl junket for politically connected officials


claim:
Says that "on average, Democratic congressional districts received 81 percent more stimulus funds than Republican districts."


claim:
The Milwaukee business community "did not speak about the facts" -- and in support of train manufacturer Talgo -- as the Milwaukee-Madison rail link was being killed.


claim:
Once people become citizens under the DREAM Act "and turn 21, they can sponsor their illegal immigrant parents for legalization."


claim:
Earmarks requested in a federal spending bill included  "$277,000 for potato pest management in Wisconsin."


claim:
Says Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will "force you to stop using your cell phone" while driving.


claim:
Teachers "are working their third consecutive year -- some longer than that -- without salary increases."


claim:
TSA "started off with 16,500 screeners and the agency has mushroomed to 67,000 employees with 3,590 administrative people ... making over $105,000 per year on average."


claim:
"Since January 2008 the private sector has lost nearly 8 million jobs while local, state and federal governments added 590,000."


claim:
"Already, the mayor of Green Bay is having ribbon-cutting after ribbon-cutting for economic development around the new VA center."


claim:
Says that in his first 17 months as president, the United States doubled its world-leading $500 million a year commitment to fighting global AIDS.


claim:
"When Social Security was passed, there were all kinds of lawsuits," just as there have been in the legal battle over the new health care law.


claim:
Says Lee Leffingwell has been mayor of Austin, Texas "for about as long as Sarah Palin was governor of Alaska."


claim:
Under the compromise tax agreement, "99.7% of American families will not pay 1 nickel in an estate tax."


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


claim:
The Atlanta Braves are "the oldest continuously operating professional sports franchise in America."


claim:
"Barack Obama is in an economy that's only worsened since he's been president of the United States."


claim:
"A 5 percent increase in domestic production would increase the world supply by less than 1 percent and do almost nothing to our dependence on foreign oil. This would also have virtually no effect on the price of gas at the pump."


claim:
Says Joe Straus "was co-author of a bill that would have allowed Planned Parenthood to control public school sex education."


claim:
Says Jim Renacci ran against the Washington establishment in the election, but is now "hypocritically embracing it with big money, special interest fundraisers."


claim:
Says federal health care overhaul will cost Texas state government "upwards of $30 billion over the next 10 years."


claim:
The Bush-era tax cuts failed to increase employment and "work-force participation fell in 2001 and has never returned to the record level set in 2000."


claim:
"Last year, ExxonMobil made $19 billion in profit. Guess what. They paid zero in taxes. They got a $156 million refund from the IRS."


claim:
In 2007, "the top 1 percent of all income earners in the United States made 23.5 percent of all income," which is "more than the entire bottom 50 percent."


claim:
Eliminating the state tax on health savings accounts will "make it easier for small business owners to provide health insurance to their employees."


claim:
"An overwhelming majority of Americans support passage of the DREAM Act, which would provide a path to citizenship for undocumented youth willing to work for a college degree or serve in our armed forces."


claim:
"I think [a little] less than half of the people in our prisons are in there for less than a year.  ... We have people who are check kiters and don't pay child support and we are locking them up in the state pen."


claim:
In the case of a catastrophic event, the Atlanta-area offices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will self-destruct.


claim:
"The cost-saving measures we put into place at Columbia/HCA drove down national health care inflation from 18% to 8% in seven years."


claim:
When it comes to the state deficit, Wisconsin is "proportionally in as much trouble as the State of California."


claim:
"150,000 (oil spill) claims have been filed by Floridians, but only 40 percent of them have been paid."


claim:
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt started Social Security, "it only affected widows and orphans," and when Medicare began, "it was a small program."


claim:
The U.S. "had the opportunity with Israel coming and talking to us about improving our security screening procedures, and we turned them down."


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


claim:
"There are polls showing right now that the American people for the most part think it's a bad idea to provide tax cuts to the wealthy."


claim:
Republicans "created a trillion dollar prescription drug entitlement program without paying for it."


claim:
"It’s illegal for a state to say we’re simply going to cut off (union contract) negotiations. There’s a legal requirement that you are involved in good faith bargaining."


claim:
"Understand, this is unemployment insurance. It’s not welfare, as a lot of my Republican colleagues like to suggest it is. You pay into it when you’re working. You get help when you’re not."


claim:
"In Florida, illegal immigration costs taxpayers nearly $4 billion (a year). This amounts to $700 for every household in Florida."


claim:
"The senior senator from Arizona (John McCain) said he couldn't support repealing 'don't ask, don't tell' because of the economy."


claim:
The Pentagon's survey about the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy found that 92 percent of service members "agree that they could serve ... in a unit in combat" without compromising "mission readiness."


claim:
In Wisconsin, "6.2 percent of the population is black yet 24 percent of all state abortions are on African-Americans."


claim:
"We are giving almost $2 billion of taxpayer money to the junk food and fast food industries every year to make the (childhood obesity) epidemic worse."


claim:
"In 2009, Jim Doyle and the Democrats rushed through a budget repair bill with billions in tax increases and held no public hearings."


claim:
"Barack Obama's health care bill is nothing new. Mitt Romney signed one just like it four years before."


claim:
Says more than $3.5 billion in state revenue that is supposed to be dedicated to basic needs and functions is being diverted to "make the books look balanced."


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


claim:
"There’s talk in Congress now about basically confiscating your private 401(k) or IRA plan and rolling it into Social Security to strengthen Social Security."


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


claim:
Says he got twice as much money from the sale of County Grounds land than Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker was willing to accept.


claim:
In "the fall of 2009, only 21 percent of Texas high school graduates enrolled in a four-year public university."


claim:
"This town (Wilmington, Ohio) hasn’t taken any money from the government. They don’t want any money from the government."


claim:
Hillsborough's Public Transportation Commission has "a rule that says cabbies have to wear socks. I mean, please. Come on."


claim:
"Pls refer to Jan.1 tax changes appropriately: they're OBAMA TAX HIKES & they'll slam every American's savings, investments & job opportunity"


claim:
Says Sen. Sherrod Brown voted to keep "an extreme, job-killing Internal Revenue Service paperwork mandate."


claim:
A ban on earmarks greatly weakens the authority Congress has over spending, to the benefit of the executive branch.


claim:
"The Republican plan for tax cuts is to give each millionaire -- the top 1 percent of income in this country -- $83,347 a year in tax cuts."


claim:
Said the Washington Post argued that a failure to pass the START treaty this year would be "no calamity," and that the Associated Press said "the administration concedes the security risk is not immediate."


claim:
"We were one of the first states in the U.S. to build sewers, to bring the treatment plant on line."


claim:
"More people hunt and fish in Texas in a given year than attend the... games of the Dallas Cowboys, the Dallas Mavericks, the Houston Texans and the Houston Rockets combined."


claim:
Says the House Rules Committee is the only panel, other than the Intelligence and Ethics committees, not able to telecast proceedings in its main hearing room.


claim:
"Seven more people will die each and every day until the Legislature ratifies these (pain clinic) rules that are being approved by the Board of Medicine and the Department of Health."


claim:
Says President Obama has grown the federal government payroll by 141,000 workers and wants to add 125,000 more.


claim:
"Demand for transportation choice is on the rise, with 14 percent more Ohioans riding passenger trains over the past year."


claim:
Regulations are an "endemic weakness in government -- so old that Thomas Jefferson listed this problem among his charges against the King of England in the Declaration of Independence."


claim:
"Because of (U.S. Sen.-elect Ron) Johnson’s leadership, Senate Republicans adopted a caucus ban on earmarks."


claim:
"Over the course of one four-year term, it costs taxpayers more than $1 million simply to operate" the governor’s mansion.


claim:
Says you can buy four light bulbs for $1.99 at Walmart, while a single compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) costs "$10 a pop."


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


claim:
The U.S. House rule barring members from wearing hats while in session dates back to the 1800s and can be waived by the speaker.


claim:
The dollar "has fallen over 44% since Bernanke began pumping money into the system beginning back in 2002."


claim:
The Florida Supreme Court has "no express authority in the Florida Constitution" to remove questions from the ballot proposed by the Legislature.


claim:
The radiation coming from the new TSA body scanners is "equivalent to about three minutes' worth of air travel by anybody, say, at 30,000 feet."


claim:
"It’s gotten to a point where the average federal worker makes twice as much as the average private sector worker."


claim:
In his first meeting with University of Wisconsin System officials, Republican Governor elect Scott Walker told them to prepare for cuts.


claim:
Small businesses that have "$250,000 in gross sales for the business. They're the ones that are looking at massive tax increases."


claim:
"Congressman Ryan has secured a grand total of $116,838,763 to date (for the Mahoning Valley) and has an additional $27,095,000 pending in FY2010 spending bills."


claim:
"Nobody has played clips over and over ... of President Obama (saying), 'If they bring a knife to the fight, we'll bring a gun.' "


claim:
The cap-and-trade bill before Congress "prevents you from selling your home without the permission of the EPA administrator."


claim:
A recent report from the president's deficit commission was "completely empty" on controlling health care costs.


claim:
"Re: (Marco) Rubio's support of earmark ban: In 2002 alone, he requested 37 earmarks worth $43 million."


claim:
"This is the first time a party has picked up multiple seats during a regular election since the mid 1980s, making this the largest majority of any party in more than 25 years."


claim:
Sewer backups into basements caused the "vast majority of the damage to homes and buildings" in Milwaukee’s July floods, but federal flood insurance doesn’t cover them.


claim:
"We haven’t had control of the House for the last two years and it’s been malfunctioning. We had 109 sessions scheduled and held 49."


claim:
Federal spending is "the highest it's been as a share of our economy in 60 years (and) revenue is the lowest it's been as a share of our economy in 60 years."


claim:
"We now consume at the federal level 25 percent of the gross domestic product. Historically we were at 20 percent. So we've taken 5 percent away from the private sector."


claim:
If the state turns down money for high-speed rail, it will "kill nearly 10,000 permanent Wisconsin jobs."


claim:
John Kasich says he won, despite "12 visits by a president, somewhere between $45 (million) and $50 million (spent against him,) 500 paid volunteers in here calling me every name in the book, former presidents, first ladies and God-knows-who-else."


claim:
Says Governor-elect Scott Walker’s choice as transition team leader "killed the release of a damaging report on Walker’s record in the days leading up to the election."


claim:
Experts say the property tax "is the most harmful to economic growth and . . . the sales tax is least harmful."


claim:
"My debt to GDP was the lowest or one of the lowest of modern presidents. My taxes to GDP was the lowest and my spending to GDP" was too.


claim:
"The Republican who was just elected governor of the great state of Florida paid his campaign staffers, not with money, but with American Express gift cards."


claim:
"It is a commitment voters take very seriously: The only incumbent in Ohio to break his Pledge and vote for Ted Strickland's income tax hike was defeated soundly on Tuesday."


claim:
"Pres. Obama's finance team is recommending a . . . 1% tax on all transactions at any financial institution."


claim:
"The average federal employee makes $120,000 a year. The average private employee makes $60,000 a year."


claim:
Republican plan to extend Bush tax cuts "would double deficit projections going forward for the next couple of decades."


claim:
As mayor, Barrett led efforts to redevelop the Menomonee Valley, "which now supports nearly 4,000 jobs in Wisconsin."


claim:
Says he's arrested more criminals, "including thousands of child predators and sex offenders," than any previous Texas attorney general.


claim:
Electric utility FirstEnergy's annual revenues are greater "than the GDP of Haiti, Kyrgyzstan, Iceland, or 15 African nations."


claim:
"One of the interesting things about the Recovery Act was most of the projects came in under budget, faster than expected, because there's just not a lot of work there."


claim:
In 2011, Milwaukee Public Schools "will provide 77 cents in employee benefits for every dollar it spends on wages."


claim:
It’s hard to get people in Portland to vote yes on ballot measures, especially when there’s opposition.


claim:
"Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues."


claim:
"The amount of the revenue required by the state (for the construction of high-speed rail) is around 10 percent."


claim:
"The interest on the debt now is going to approach in the next couple of years ... what we spend in the national defense budget."


claim:
About 1 in 10 public school teachers in Wisconsin would have been laid off without federal stimulus funds.


claim:
"The budget submitted by Obama will add more to the debt than the outstanding debt of the previous 43 presidents combined."


claim:
"If all of the [Bush-era] tax cuts expire on schedule, the budget will be close to being balanced in four years."


claim:
When Obama took office "the economy of the United States was actually shrinking for the first time in about 70 years."


claim:
Says Washington state has "consistently ranked in the top five in the Forbes list of best states to do business — ahead of Texas."


claim:
"The president of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day."


claim:
"Congressman Nye voted against a bill which would have defunded the $5-10 billion" the IRS needed to implement  health care legislation.


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


claim:
Says that under Gov. Rick Perry, Texas Department of Public Safety troopers have had "standing orders" not to inquire into the immigration status of people unless they're under arrest.


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


claim:
Members of Congress did not have three days to read the bill "when the stimulus was rushed into law."


claim:
"(John) Kasich was the architect who balanced the budget, cut spending, created a surplus, igniting record job creation."


claim:
"Liberal out-of-state special interests are spending millions on 5 and 6 to change the way Florida draws its congressional and legislative districts."


claim:
"The Republican leader of the Senate said his main goal after this election is simply to win the next one."


claim:
Says four Democratic state senators voted to "raise taxes on Wisconsin workers by another $510 a month so freeloaders can get free state-run health care."


claim:
Democratic U.S. House candidate Julie Lassa pushed for a "Canadian-style government takeover of health care."


claim:
"Of the states that have a lieutenant governor, many are currently discussing the need for such an obsolete office."


claim:
She "led the fight to stop health insurance rate hikes and saved Rhode Island families over $150 million."


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


claim:
Lizbeth Benacquisto's supporters "would make (abortion) illegal in all cases, including rape, incest, even to save a woman's life."


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


claim:
Blames Mike McIntyre and Nancy Pelosi for the second straight year of no cost-of-living increases for Social Security beneficiaries.


claim:
"We have empowered state insurance commissioners to review the rate hikes that are taking place in states. And in some states like North Carolina, they have already used it and rolled back premium increases by 25 percent."


claim:
"Before we even passed health care, 4 millions kids got health insurance that didn't have it before, through the Children's Health Insurance Program."


claim:
Stabilizing the recent financial crisis "will cost less than 1 percent of GDP," which is less than the 2.5 percent to fix the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s.


claim:
"Most of the jobs that we lost were lost before the economic policies we put in place had any effect."


claim:
Bill Heller "raises taxes. Property taxes. Small business taxes. He even wants to tax the Internet. Mr. Heller said no to balancing the federal budget, that puts more debt on our kids."


claim:
Company may close, "all because government essentially says if they don't hire a lifeguard to watch their workers, they can't stay open."


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


claim:
Says Republican candidates in key Wisconsin Assembly races "side with those who want to privatize Social Security -- and risk our retirements on Wall Street."


claim:
Says state Senate candidate "Monk Elmer voted to exceed the (school district property tax) spending caps."


claim:
Tells David Cicilline, "94 percent of the carbon emissions which you so want to get rid of are caused by nature."


claim:
As CEO of WWE, Linda McMahon "was caught tipping off a ringside physician" about a federal investigation into illegally distributing steroids to wrestlers.


claim:
"Many of the companies bankrolling the ad campaign against Amendment 4 are recipients of a congressional bailout, in the form of humongous tax refunds earlier this year."


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


claim:
"As a state representative, David Cicilline argued against Megan's Law and voted against mandatory registration of sex offenders."


claim:
Rick Perry is "taking money away from hurricane victims" and diverting it to "remodel the Governor's Mansion."


claim:
"Unfortunately everyone needs to cut back in these tough economic times. That's why I voted to cut my own pay along with the pay of our state employees."


claim:
Says Scott Bruun supports allowing corporations to secretly funnel millions of dollars to front groups to finance attack ads.


claim:
Roy Barnes voted against a bill in the state Senate that would have made it easier to convict child abusers.


claim:
"Your tellers were paid kickbacks for directing elderly consumers from ... safe deposits to risky ones."


claim:
The lawyer who brought the case against NationsBank said "publicly that Alex Sink had nothing to do with the case, had nothing to do with the situation and didn't know about the problems."


claim:
"When President, then candidate, Obama was asked to disclose some of his donors because there was suspicion of their being the foreign source of money into his campaign, they refused to do it."


claim:
"In Congress Tom Barrett voted to allow abortions through the ninth month, just moments before the baby is born."


claim:
Says "Scott Walker wants to make abortion illegal, even in cases of rape, incest or to protect the life of the mother."


claim:
Since Rep. John Boccieri’s election, "Ohio has lost 600,000 jobs" and his district’s "unemployment has doubled."


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


claim:
Says PolitiFact says Amendment 4 "will force counties and cities across Florida to raise taxes and fees."


claim:
"Matt Patten kicked off his dirty campaign with thousands in dirty cash from guess who? (Frank) Russo and (Jimmy) Dimora."


claim:
Charlie Crist "attacks me for positions he held, like, six months ago, (when) he was running in the Republican primary."


claim:
"Middle-class families throughout America (would) have to pay $6,000 per year" to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy.


claim:
"I am very proud, as governor of Florida, that we signed the first divestment act, as it relates to Iran, divesting any investments in companies that would invest in Iran."


claim:
Says Marco Rubio said that "people who essentially don't agree with him, ought to leave the country, like Keith Olbermann."


claim:
"There currently are 825,000 student stations sitting empty across Florida in every district and at every grade level."


claim:
Says Gov. Jim Doyle and the DNR have not put hunters first and mismanaged the deer herd; as a result "the deer population has dwindled."


claim:
Says Leah "Vukmir supports allowing people to carry concealed weapons into day care centers, churches, health care clinics and playgrounds."


claim:
Says he "stood up to his own party by voting against the budget to stop runaway government spending."


claim:
The new health care law will "force seniors into Barack Obama's government-run health care program."


claim:
Jerry Brown "gave California state employees collective bargaining powers" and "now, state employees can retire at 55 with much of their salary for life."


claim:
"There are 100 members of the U.S. Senate. Fifty-seven of them, including Russ Feingold, are lawyers. There are zero manufacturers and one accountant."


claim:
Says Ron Johnson "likes to say there are too many lawyers in the Senate – 57. He’d be the 70th millionaire."


claim:
"Since 2000, when he entered politics, Jon Husted has been on the ballot six times for three different political offices."


claim:
"You worked hard for your money and you paid your taxes when you earned it. Now, (Indiana Republican congressional candidate) Todd Young wants to tax it again when you spend it."


claim:
Tom Ganley has "two F's from the Better Business Bureau" and "over 160 complaints in just three years."


claim:
"Scientists have shown us (that) the greater possibilities, the real science movement, has been with adult stem cell research. It has not been with embryonic."


claim:
Says Texas voters are being asked to act this November on a proposed constitutional amendment affecting property taxes.


claim:
Says Marco Rubio sold a home to a chiropractor who had been lobbying him on automobile insurance legislation and "once he sold the home, for $380,000 cash, the speaker's position on the issue changed."


claim:
The Seattle Times called Patty Murray "a 'prolific sponsor of earmarks.' Patty even defended the 'Bridge to Nowhere.' "


claim:
Says Republican Reid Ribble says stimulus bill failed to jumpstart the economy, but his "roofing company made almost $300,000 off stimulus funded projects."


claim:
Under the new health care law, "the first person (a) patient has to go to is a bureaucrat. That is called a panel."


claim:
"Mark Kirk: Lied about going to war. Opposed middle class tax cuts. And said unemployment’s not that big an issue."


claim:
Rand Paul wants "to end all federal faith-based initiatives, and even end the deduction for religious charities."


claim:
Said U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall, D-Macon, sent nearly $2 billion overseas to build wind turbines and create jobs, mostly in China


claim:
Says Kurt Schrader "cast the deciding vote that failed to extend tax cuts for Oregon’s middle-class families and small businesses."


claim:
Says Christopher Little has "a history of working against environmental protection by defending the worst types of corporate polluters"


claim:
"I've also offered a plan that can help (fix Social Security) that's supported by Robert Reich, secretary of labor previously, in a previous administration."


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


claim:
"Pam Bondi told a group of lobbyists she’ll side with corporate special interests as attorney general."


claim:
Says "Scott Walker tried to pass a law to allow pharmacists to block women’s access to birth control."


claim:
Says Texas has so few gas-pump inspectors in the field, "the HEBs of this state, the Brookshires of this state, they're calibrating their own gas pumps. The (Texas Department of Agriculture) just sends them the stickers and they calibrate them."


claim:
"If you want to see the jobs that I've saved and created in this storm he helped create, go anywhere in Ohio."


claim:
Says he's so bipartisan that "12 of my bills were signed into law by Democratic President Bill Clinton."


claim:
Says gas pumps in different parts of Texas are missing state inspection stickers and/or their inspections are out of date--and that's cheating consumers.


claim:
Says Scott Walker "eliminated his own office of economic development in the middle of this recession."


claim:
Says Tom Ganley has been "sued over 400 times, for fraud, discrimination and more," and "a judge called Tom Ganley's business practices "deceptive and unconscionable."


claim:
Says state Rep. Patrick Rose votes 90 percent with liberals, backed the state's largest tax increase, proposed nearly $15 billion in government spending and supported "Obama-style government-run health care system for Texas."


claim:
Loranne "Ausley's a financial train wreck for taxpayers -- pushing gas taxes, property taxes, taxes on seniors."


claim:
"Boyce gave (a lobbyist’s) wife a sensitive job in the treasurer’s office, a job Boyce admitted he only made available at their mosque."


claim:
Says Steve Kagen "promised us jobs, voting for the $787 billion stimulus. Cost: another 77,000 jobs lost."


claim:
Says Rick Perry told students he couldn't attend a gubernatorial forum due to scheduling conflicts, then on forum day "tweeted that he'd just been running with his dog."


claim:
Says David Wu has presided over "137 months" in which "Oregon's unemployment rate has been above the national average."


claim:
"One man (New Castle, Del., County Executive, Chris Coons) thought property taxes should be hiked almost 50 percent."


claim:
"(Jeff) Atwater's busy helping his friends and wasting our tax dollars -- $48 million for a government building so lavish it's dubbed the 'Taj Mahal,' $100,000 for a golf musuem, and $110 million to build a private prison to help a big contributor."


claim:
Says "Sean Duffy was a no-show" as Ashland County District Attorney while he was on the campaign trail


claim:
Says Illinois gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady's first priority after winning the primary "was to sponsor a bill that would mass-euthanize sheltered dogs and cats in gas chambers."


claim:
Just like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, "the AFL-CIO receives dues from foreign entities associated with it."


claim:
"Never once did they (House Republicans) actually cut spending or reduce the state budget. Even when they cut taxes in 2005, they increased spending.  They never paid for their tax cuts."


claim:
Taking the Fifth Amendment in a deposition about the Columbia/HCA hospital chain he founded "means a truthful answer to the questions that (Rick Scott) was asked would incriminate him."


claim:
Says Rick Scott gave a deposition in which he invoked the Fifth Amendment 75 times about his dealings as head of Columbia/HCA hospital chain


claim:
Shows in a television ad that police took evidence from Solantic, Rick Scott's new health care company, after allegations emerged that the company was engaging in fraud.


claim:
In ad attacking Rick Scott, says three executives of the Columbia/HCA hospital chain he ran were indicted.


claim:
"According to independent analysis, unfair trade deals have resulted in the loss of over 64,000 jobs in Wisconsin ... But Ron Johnson favors those deals."


claim:
Said state insurance commissioner candidate Ralph Hudgens "fights hard" to strip women of life-saving coverage such as mammograms.


claim:
Says Republican opponent Jason Isaac is peddling a plan meaning Texans "would pay the highest sales taxes in America, up to 14.5 percent."


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


claim:
"The years that I was speaker, the Florida House consistently offered leaner budgets than the governor offered."


claim:
Sen. Barbara Boxer "voted against immigration reform to permit (Hispanic immigrants) people to come here legally to work."


claim:
Says campaign contributions to her rival for a state House seat was money intended for schoolchildren.


claim:
"O’Shaughnessy even voted for her own personal stimulus package -- a taxpayer-funded pay raise for herself."


claim:
Daniel Webster "is an advocate for a group that teaches that mothers should not work outside the home."


claim:
"Webster sponsored a bill to create a form of marriage that would trap women in abusive relationships."


claim:
"Newspapers say Florida made bad investments, lost hundreds of millions of dollars, billions in pension funds lost. Who was in charge of Florida's investments? Alex Sink."


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


claim:
In most Muslim countries, "We can't have a church. We're not able to build synagogues. It's forbidden."


claim:
Since being elected in 2002, Scott Walker has "given back over $370,000 of his salary to the county."


claim:
Says Lee Fisher "wanted a $1.1 billion tax increase which could have driven countless jobs out of state."


claim:
Says Roy Blunt "secretly inserts language to benefit tobacco giant Philip Morris" into a national security bill while "Blunt's girlfriend and son are lobbyists for the cigarette company, and just days earlier, 26 Philip Morris executives wrote checks to Blunt totaling $23,000."


claim:
"A majority of Wisconsinites opposed the government takeover of health care. But Russ Feingold voted for it anyway."


claim:
"More lives have been lost because of the war with the drug cartels in Juarez alone, just a few blocks from the United States of America, than have been lost in the war in Afghanistan."


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


claim:
"Barbara Boxer voted to cut spending on Medicare benefits by $500 billion, cuts so costly to hospitals and nursing homes that they could stop taking Medicare altogether."


claim:
The Chilean "privatization scheme" that Sharron Angle supports "has resulted in hidden fees, fewer benefits, and millions of people with no coverage."


claim:
"Rick Scott's prison plan would cut Florida's prison budget in half, close prisons, and release tens of thousands of prisoners early -- murderers, rapists, sex offenders, armed robbers, drug dealers."


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


claim:
"Perry pushed for a law that lets insurance companies raise homeowners’ rates without having to justify the increase."


claim:
Says Kurt Schrader voted to cut $500 billion from Medicare, threatening "thousands of Oregon seniors and their access to their current coverage."


claim:
Says Scott Bruun "still believes in the same old direction that George Bush had before, which is to privatize Social Security."


claim:
"The Republican candidate [John Loughlin] has talked about privatizing Social Security ... so we know where he stands on the issue."


claim:
As Milwaukee County executive, Scott Walker "eliminated the waiting list for long-term care for older adults through the Family Care program."


claim:
Rick Perry thinks "injecting 11- and 12-year-old girls with a controversial drug (the HPV vaccine), without a parent's consent, is a good idea."


claim:
U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson "has never proposed, nor voted in favor of, a substantial cut in federal spending" and has voted for "many substantial increases in federal spending."


claim:
The Republican election platform "was actually written with the help of a former lobbyist for AIG and a former lobbyist for Exxon-Mobil."


claim:
When Tallahassee politicians and bureaucrats tried to run our schools, "I've stood up to them to protect local control."


claim:
"An organized crime syndicate was extorting money from his (Tom Ganley’s) business, threatening his family, but he fought back and won the FBI's highest civilian award"


claim:
"Twice as much (federal) money is going back to Hawaii, Virginia and Alaska than is coming home to Oregon."


claim:
Rep. Paul Hodes, D-N.H., "voted for the pork-filled stimulus bill -- $1.9 million to study ants in Africa, $39 million for office upgrades for politicians."


claim:
When each faced a pension funding crisis, Tom Barrett made tough choices and smart cuts while Scott Walker passed $400 million in pension debt to the next generation.


claim:
Says Joe Sestak "voted to gut Medicare ... reducing benefits for 854,489 seniors" and jeopardizing "access to care for millions."


claim:
Independent groups behind ads attacking Democratic candidates are "front groups for foreign-controlled companies."


claim:
The GOP's "Pledge to America" includes "a 20 percent cut ... for education. ... Eight million kids would have their college aid slashed under this budget."


claim:
"Over the past year ... our 16 counties have hemorrhaged more than 6,000 jobs with no apparent end in sight."


claim:
On Lee Fisher’s watch, "almost nine out of 10" jobs that Ohio lost were lost to other states, "not to other countries."


claim:
Says Zack Space voted for budgets and debt, energy taxes and the stimulus, and "we still lost more than 2.5 million jobs."


claim:
"Politician Reid Ribble wants to phase out Social Security, forcing Wisconsin seniors to fend for themselves."


claim:
A defense bill "includes language that would require military hospitals to provide abortions on demand."


claim:
A $300 million stimulus allocation to Wisconsin "has led to the creation of tens of thousands of jobs in every corner of this state."


claim:
"Austin politicians want to cram more kids into classrooms so they don't have to make the tough decisions to balance the budget."


claim:
"The downsizing of Pinellas County government resulted in about 1,200 people being laid off in a 12 percent unemployment market. … I can tell you that every one of them was hired from the time that Ms. Latvala went into office in 2000."


claim:
"One of the other inaccuracies ... is that we have raised taxes multiple times and run up the budget. Absolutely not true. One tax increase since I’ve been in office. It was a quarter mill tax in the unincorporated area only."


claim:
"If you look at the application for a security clearance, I have a clearance that even the president of the United States cannot obtain because of my background."


claim:
Says John Boehner "admits 'we are not going to be any different than we’ve been' " by returning to "the same failed economic policies" that "wrecked our economy."


claim:
Says more than 2 million Oregonians have received important medical services because of his health plan.


claim:
"Under Gov. Kitzhaber, unemployment rose 65 percent, state spending went up 57 percent and personal incomes declined compared to the rest of the country."


claim:
Says Julie Parrish wants to add a sales tax to everything we need to buy including food, clothing, medicine and school supplies.


claim:
"Our county now has the fastest growing airport in America, attracting nearly 1,000 new private sector jobs."


claim:
It's "not true" that since he's been the president, executions in Iran have increased by four times.


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


claim:
"The total number of dollars that passes through the Department of Development is like $900 million and like $650 (million) of it has nothing to do with development, which is breathtaking when you think about it."


claim:
The Bush administration had been "giving (auto companies) billions of dollars and just asking nothing in return."


claim:
"Our tax rates are lower now than they were under Ronald Reagan. They're much lower than they were under Dwight Eisenhower."


claim:
"Under Tom Barrett’s leadership, violent crime in Milwaukee has decreased by over 20% -- to its lowest levels in more than 20 years."


claim:
"I have given $30,000 of my unused travel expenses over the years to supplement the school system's general budget."


claim:
"Speaker Pelosi ... has been busy sticking the taxpayer with her $100,000 bar tab for alcohol on the military jets that she's flying."


claim:
"Julie Lassa willingly took a hefty pay raise at a time when people throughout her district and the state were losing their jobs."


claim:
Says Bill White "didn't pay taxes while earning $133,600 annual salary as deputy secretary of energy."


claim:
The new health care law "will cut $500 billion from Medicare. That will hurt the quality of our care."


claim:
"Ganley said that if elected, he wants to ‘cut the dickens’ out of Social Security, Medicare and Veterans’ benefits."


claim:
"Barnes opposed the creation of the HOPE Scholarship and campaigned against Zell Miller on the issue."


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


claim:
After Hurricane Katrina, "Dallas and San Antonio took in 5,000 to 10,000 refugees each, but (Bill) White brought in 250,000 and put them up in his 'buddies' empty apartment buildings and let the federal government pay their rents for over two years. They did not return to New Orleans, most of them are on welfare."


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


claim:
"Do you know that we have pipes carrying natural gas in this country that are made of wood? I'm not joking."


claim:
Harry Reid has voted "to give illegals Social Security benefits even for the time they were here illegally."


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


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


claim:
"She created the Waste, Fraud and Mismanagement Hotline.... (that) has saved Wisconsin taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars."


claim:
Allen West called Social Security a "Ponzi scheme" and said "this country's got to get on sound footing by destroying it."


claim:
Taxpayers pay $18,000 a month for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's district office in downtown San Francisco.


claim:
"Over 22,000 unique Internet Protocol addresses -- in Wisconsin alone -- have downloaded child pornography."


claim:
Says opponent Bill Flores helped run a company that laid off over 3,000 workers and paid off executives with millions.


claim:
"Over 10 years, (extending tax cuts for the wealthy) would add less to the deficit than Obama added with the stimulus in one year."


claim:
"Florida ranks last in the ratio of employees to residents... And Florida is dead last in the nation in state employee payroll expenditures per resident."


claim:
DeWine "took $1.9 million from big banks," "supported legislation that helped Bernie Madoff make millions" and "protected predatory lenders while families lost their homes."


claim:
Says Texas U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions said the GOP's goal is to "go back to the same exact policies that were in place before this president took office... policies that crashed the economy."


claim:
Clayton County has employed 1,300 people over the past seven months through the Neighborhood Stabilization Program.


claim:
John Boehner has called for "repealing the rest of the stimulus, which would raise taxes on 110 million middle class people."


claim:
Extending current tax rates would "average more than $100,000 a year to millionaires and even billionaires."


claim:
John Boehner wants to reopen a tax loophole "that actually rewarded corporations for shipping jobs and profits overseas."


claim:
"I don’t understand what Republicans are doing against this. It was their idea. John McCain introduced cap and trade legislation three times."


claim:
"While many of his colleagues turned down a $2,500 pay raise ... (Jeff) Plale pocketed the extra money."


claim:
Federal stimulus money went to a Georgia Tech project that will "apparently involve the professor jamming with 'world-renowned musicians' to 'hopefully also create satisfying works of art.'"


claim:
Jeff Weems' "legal record is one of defending BP, Enron and just about every big oil company against the working man."


claim:
Scott Walker supported the same transportation bill he’s attacking me for. He said at the time it would save the taxpayers money.


claim:
Due to the war in Iraq, "4,400 Americans are dead, 30,000 severely wounded and more than 100,000 are suffering from serious health problems related to post traumatic stress syndrome."


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


claim:
"It's factually correct to say" that Jennifer Brunner inherited at least 18 lawsuits when she came into the office that were a result of Ken Blackwell’s "mismanagement of the 2004 election."


claim:
"I can put 10,000 people to work. Electricians, plumbers, sheet metal workers -- by retrofitting all of the state buildings for energy independence or efficiency."


claim:
"When the mayor of Providence's brother wrote over 100 grand in bad checks to the city, Joe Fernandez didn't have the guts to prosecute him. He let him off the hook."


claim:
"When these same Republicans –- including Mr. Boehner –- were in charge, the number of earmarks and pet projects went up, not down."


claim:
"For every dollar a county gets in taxes from new development, it costs us 40 to 50 percent more to provide services."


claim:
The Richardson-Denish administration "gave" 50,000 driver's licenses to illegal immigrants in New Mexico.


claim:
"On (Rob Portman's) watch as Bush's trade czar, our deficit with China exploded" and "as Bush's budget chief, Portman oversaw a spending spree that doubled the deficit."


claim:
"Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded."


claim:
John Boehner said the jobs of "teachers and nurses and police officers and firefighters" are "'government jobs' that weren't worth saving."


claim:
By releasing only basic tax information, former U.S. Congressman Nathan Deal is "hiding more than he's disclosed" about his business dealing with the state.


claim:
"The president's party always gets shellacked in midterms. It's only twice, 1934 and 2002, that the president's party actually gained in both the House and the Senate."


claim:
Likens Obama's predicament to 1982, saying, "when Reagan just started out, (unemployment was at) exactly the same point. He was two years into his term. The unemployment was well over 10 percent, and it did come out of it."


claim:
Georgia's U.S. senators voted for legislation that would "gut clean air protections and increase oil dependence."


claim:
"It costs us, logistically, three times more to fight in Afghanistan than it does in any other place."


claim:
Says the federal agency in charge of Medicare and Medicaid will disburse $803 billion in benefits this year, making "it larger than all but 15 of the world's economies."


claim:
"I asked (then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice) how many people had died and she did not know the answer to that question."


claim:
Jennifer Carroll is the "first African-American Republican woman to be part of a statewide ticket in Florida."


claim:
"Both the state and federal governments make more per gallon in gas taxes than the oil companies make themselves for doing all the work."


claim:
"Since being elected, (Tom Barrett) has dumped 8.2 billion gallons of raw sewage into Lake Michigan."


claim:
"When Pepper’s tax was finally voted down, Pepper laid off cops and closed jails and let criminals run free in the streets."


claim:
"80 to 85 percent of my campaign funds go to donations to various organizations throughout the City of Providence."


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


claim:
"The Great Lakes Compact has a loophole. And the loophole is that while you cannot remove the water in a big transport, you can remove it in containers of 5.7 gallons or less."


claim:
"Congress and President Obama have accumulated more debt since he took office than the total amount of debt accumulated during the first 200 years of the United States existence."


claim:
McDonald's in England only sells organic milk and free-range eggs, which provides more nutritious offerings than in the U.S.


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


claim:
"Forty-five percent of those who've been unemployed, they've been unemployed for six months or longer."


claim:
Under the new health care law, "if a landscaper wants to buy a new lawnmower, or a restaurant needs a new ice-maker, they have to report that to the feds."


claim:
"We spend more money on health care per capita in the United States than any other country in the world. Of the 30 developed countries in the world, we spend 2 1/2 times more than the average. Of the country that spends the second most per capita, Switzerland, we spend 175 percent more."


claim:
Michael Thurmond "authored major legislation that has provided more than $250 million in tax relief to Georgia’s senior citizens and working families."


claim:
"The IRS filed an $11,000 lien against (Allen) West for back taxes. Three liens were placed on
his home for unpaid bills, and a judge ordered West to pay over $5,000 for past due
credit card bills."


claim:
"The Obama Health and Human Services Department is planning to compile a federal health record on all U.S. citizens by 2014," including "each individual’s Body Mass Index."


claim:
The DeWine campaign is "receiving money from so many more people. (Cordray's) money is coming almost exclusively from the party, labor unions, and special counsel that he has given business to."


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


claim:
Rob Portman is "the one who actually sucked the jobs out of the (Mahoning) Valley and sent them to China."


claim:
Kendrick Meek claims he's the only candidate who said Sonia Sotomayor "will make an excellent Supreme Court justice."


claim:
"One of the things we found very clearly and consistently is that [video gaming] is a growth industry."


claim:
"Since February 2009, the private sector has lost millions of jobs while the federal government has grown by hundreds of thousands of workers."


claim:
"Joe Sestak ... even wants to bring back the death tax, letting the IRS take half of your savings when you die."


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


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


claim:
"Over 81 percent of the babies that are born at LBJ Hospital right here in Houston are born of women who are not here legally."


claim:
U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall (D-Ga.) refuses to return $37,000 in "dirty" campaign contributions from U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.)


claim:
"Reporters have uncovered another Scott company accused of criminal acts. But Scott won't come clean."


claim:
"In 2008 (Mandel) was re-elected to a second term, representing a district with a 2:1 Democrat to Republican voter ratio."


claim:
Says Rick Perry's proposal on driver licenses and high school dropouts has been state law since 1989.


claim:
"Over 80 percent of our trade deficit today is with countries that are not trade agreement partners, that are not level playing fields for the United States."


claim:
"Warren Buffett called credit default swaps financial weapons of mass destruction. And Greene was the first individual to use them."


claim:
"Some Republican leaders in Congress" are "pushing to make privatizing Social Security a key part of their legislative agenda if they win a majority in Congress this fall."


claim:
"We have over 700,000 illegal immigrants in the state. They're costing us billions of dollars and they're taking legal residents' jobs."


claim:
"Since the president became the president, we have lost 3.3 million jobs in the private sector. But you know who's done OK and who's not complaining today? The public sector. We've gained 590,000 public sector jobs."


claim:
"It is wrong for the average federal worker today to make more than $100,000 while the average private-sector worker makes less than $70,000."


claim:
The United States is "number 14, number 15" in college graduation rates, and "we're leading the world in high school dropout rates."


claim:
"In 1935, more than 50% of the elderly population lived in poverty. Today that poverty rate stands officially at 9.4%."


claim:
"Unemployment for those with college educations is now 4.5 percent. Unemployment for those with more than a college education, below 4 percent."


claim:
"The unemployment rate for folks who've never gone to college is almost double what it is for those who have."


claim:
This year, Newt Gingrich "has raised as much money as Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Sarah Palin, and Mike Huckabee combined."


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


claim:
Kathryn Starkey "aided and abetted the continued taxation on residents’ properties over 70 percent of the time by seconding motions and voting to keep the millage rate the same."


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


claim:
The United States accounted for 26 percent of worldwide military spending during the Cold War, but now accounts for 41 percent.


claim:
"We are amassing most of our military strength in a country where fewer than 100 members of al Qaeda remain."


claim:
A bill to aid state and local governments "is fully paid-for by closing costly corporate tax loopholes."


claim:
Cap and trade legislation that Zack Space supported "would cost the average household approximately $1,761 per year in increased energy rates."


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


claim:
"We know that tax cuts are remarkably un-stimulative when you compare them with different kinds of government spending."


claim:
"The border security plan of Sens. McCain and Kyl called for 3,000 additional troops to keep us safe. President Obama says he'll send 524."


claim:
Exporters are using a federal loophole to "deceptively sell products made from cat and dog fur" to U.S. consumers.


claim:
Despite the U.S. spending $10 billion on Iraq's electrical system, Baghdad still only gets five hours of electricity a day.


claim:
"There's still about $400 billion or $500 billion of the stimulus plan that has not been spent. Why don't we stop it."


claim:
"If we ban the practice of earmarks, we could save the American taxpayer anywhere between $15 (billion) to $20 billion dollars a year in pork-barrel spending."


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


claim:
"Last year, we borrowed $1.4 trillion -- or 41 cents of every dollar we spent. Over half of this debt is held by foreign investors."


claim:
"[U]nlike every other major transit system in the nation, MARTA has never received any significant, dedicated funding from the state of Georgia."


claim:
Says the United States is the only nation that affords citizenship to anyone born here, "whether you are here legally or illegally."


claim:
"Police officers in this state have that right," to check the immigration status of people they arrest.


claim:
"There are currently delays of up to six months in the processing of DNA evidence at the state run crime lab."


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


claim:
"Over the time that President Obama has been in office, we have lost 2.5 million free
enterprise system jobs, and, yet, 500,000 federal government jobs have been
added."


claim:
Repealing the sales tax on boats in Rhode Island has spawned 2,000 companies, 7,000 jobs and close to $2 billion a year in sales activity.


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


claim:
"Harry Reid says he does more for Nevada. He's done more for unemployment. We were at 4.4 percent. Now we're at 14 percent. He's done more for the foreclosure rate. We have the highest foreclosure rate in the nation. He's done more for bankruptcy. We have the highest bankruptcy rate in the nation."


claim:
"In recent years, Rep. LaTourette has sponsored legislation that would increase spending by 551.6 percent."


claim:
Georgia has lost more than 124,000 jobs and the unemployment rate has increased since the stimulus passed


claim:
Because of violence spreading from Mexico, "you’ve got bullets hitting the city hall in El Paso. You’ve got bombs exploding in El Paso."


claim:
"The Congressional Budget Office estimates that for every $1 we spend on unemployment benefits, $1.90 is put into our economy."


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


claim:
"Eight of the nine justices in the Supreme Court decision (on campaign finance) said that not only is it constitutional for Congress to require disclosure of the special interest money, but they recommend we do it."


claim:
"Kendrick Meek was named one of the two most corrupt Democrats in Congress by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington."


claim:
"This is the first time since the Depression that unemployment has stayed above 9 percent for two consecutive years."


claim:
The Bush administration "pulled the troops out of Afghanistan, pulled the resources away, because they wanted to invade Iraq instead."


claim:
"In Cobb County, every meeting opened with a prayer. The ACLU objected. Sued ... [Sam] Olens took on the ACLU and won!"


claim:
"(Bill) McCollum also voted for numerous amendments to weaken the legislation, even voting to make trains less accessible to those in wheelchairs."


claim:
During the recession, "the consumer in his native perversity has begun to save. The savings rate is now 6.2 percent."


claim:
"As President George W. Bush’s trade representative, Portman failed to address China’s currency manipulation, which was inflated to as much as 40 percent in 2006."


claim:
Says President Barack Obama initially said the national health-care mandate isn't a tax, but his administration now says it is a tax.


claim:
"We have my opponent Sam Olens to thank for [the Arizona immigration ruling] since he was on the team that got Clinton elected."


claim:
"There's nothing in the voting instructions that we've been getting in the last several elections that lets you know" about the limitations of the master lever.


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


claim:
Cicilline "continues to accept hundreds of thousands of dollars in lobbyist, corporate PAC and insider money to fund his campaign."


claim:
"Only a few months ago the FBI arrested three Broward County Commissioners for accepting millions of dollars in trade for illegal favors."


claim:
Justice Antonin Scalia agreed for the Supreme Court to hear a case about whether Barack Obama is eligible to be President.


claim:
"In renewable and advanced energy manufacturing projects, Ohio now ranks first among the 50 states."


claim:
For every $1 spent on afterschool programs, "we can save over $5, almost $6, in crime costs down the line."


claim:
Dave Aronberg "was the first to demand that BP create a billion-dollar fund to pay for the devastation."


claim:
"Tim Pawlenty has cut education funding in Minnesota. Classrooms are overcrowded. Districts have gone to four-day school weeks."


claim:
"I don't think the argument can be credibly made that the United States of America is undertaxed compared to our competitors."


claim:
The president's budget "would take ... non-defense spending to its lowest level ... as a percentage of the economy since JFK."


claim:
"In 2009, Yost spent 2.5 times more money than it took to run the (prosecutor’s) office before he got there."


claim:
Over the last 10 years, incomes for the top 1 percent "have grown." Meanwhile, the bottom half of the country, "they've seen their wages stagnate."


claim:
Kendrick Meek was "#1 in Florida in taking tobacco cash and then opposed a tax on cigars that would have helped pay for children's health care."


claim:
The Latino unemployment rate is higher than the white rate and the black rate is higher than the Latino rate.


claim:
Says Bill White's program to bring dropouts back to school was "so successful that almost every city in our state has replicated" it.


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


claim:
Says his office "has already recovered over $2 billion from Wall Street for the workers, retirees, and investors who were harmed."


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


claim:
Karen Handel "would have felt like it was OK to go in and abort" Sarah Palin's son Trig, who has Down syndrome.


claim:
"We caught (the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality) lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale."


claim:
"Attorney General Eric Holder is involved in the dismissal of the criminal charges" against the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation


claim:
"I think it is unacceptable for the Chinese today to be larger in wind power and in solar panels and photovoltaic manufacturing than all of Europe put together -- forget the United States."


claim:
"The Department of Health and Human Services is providing $160 million to the state of Pennsylvania to set up a new high-risk insurance pool program that would cover any abortion legal in the state."


claim:
"It turns out that Texas has an $18 billion budget shortfall and can't afford its new science textbooks."


claim:
The lieutenant governor has the power to be an "economic ambassador" and "negotiate" on economic development


claim:
"Should Democrats get their way, every income tax bracket will increase on Jan. 1, 2011. Every single one."


claim:
"We have more kids take the SAT than any other state in the nation. I mean a high percentage of our kids take the SAT."


claim:
House Republicans who complained they didn't have enough time to consider a constitutional ban against oil drilling "shoved through a proposal in just a few days to open state waters to oil drilling."


claim:
Opponent Holly Benson said that "Just because you're poor doesn't mean you're unhealthy, it just means you have a lot more time to go running."


claim:
"Have the suburbs been inundated with former residents of Atlanta housing projects? Absolutely not."


claim:
"Rick Scott's company is partners with Playboy in a social networking website that has community pages specifically geared towards gay dating."


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


claim:
"Rick Perry accepted more stimulus funds than any other governor except the governors of California and New York."


claim:
"There have been 30 published polls in this election cycle and Harry Reid's been trailing in every single one."


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


claim:
As a Congressman, J.D. Hayworth was an avid earmarker who supported such pork as "$220,000 to renovate a Maine Blueberry farm" and "$5.8 million for a Vermont snowmobile trail."


claim:
The Obama administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million to pay for health insurance plans that cover "any legal abortion."


claim:
"Forty cents of every dollar being spent by the federal government is being borrowed from my children."


claim:
"We had 2 percent of the global market (for advanced batteries) when he (Obama) started. We now have 16 percent, headed to 40 percent by 2015."


claim:
Dan Gelber's employment by BP's law firm "could disqualify him from representing Florida against BP as Attorney General."


claim:
"Since February 2009, our economy has lost roughly 3 million private sector jobs while the federal government has grown by more than 400,000 jobs."


claim:
"We went from losing 3 million jobs in the last six months of the Bush Administration," adding almost 600,000 private sector jobs in the first six months of the year.


claim:
Under President George W. Bush, the U.S. had "52 months of ... uninterrupted job creation" and "revenues were at an all-time high in 2007."


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


claim:
Says that President Obama said if Congress passed the economic stimulus bill, "we would have unemployment at 8 percent and no higher. And it went higher."


claim:
"Attorney General McCollum, Speaker-Designate Cannon, Senate President-Designate Haridopolos and I stood up to Governor Crist and worked to remove Jim Greer as Chairman because of his mismanagement of the party."


claim:
"To say a family has to buy a product from a private company is clearly beyond the delegated powers of the U.S. Constitution."


claim:
"Forty percent of the undocumented workers in this country" entered the U.S. legally and "overstayed their visa."


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


claim:
The state Legislature attempted to "outlaw stem cell research, passes bills about microchips in the brain, and talks about seceding from the Union."


claim:
"Subsidies for oil and gas companies make up 88 percent of all federal subsidies. Just cutting the oil and gas subsidies out would save the U.S. government $45 billion every year."


claim:
Says Rep. Ken Legler "voted against installing fire sprinklers and emergency power generators in nursing homes."


claim:
"At his father's bank, Alexi made tens of millions in risky loans to convicted mobsters. Then, the bank collapsed."


claim:
"He (Kirk) did violate Pentagon rules, twice actually, for improperly mingling politics with his military service."


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


claim:
"As Washington debates cracking down on the big Wall Street banks, I’ve passed legislation that does so."


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


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


claim:
"President Barack Obama has deported more people in his first year in office than George W. Bush in his last year in office."


claim:
Said he is the only Democratic candidate for state attorney general who has "represented the entire state of Georgia."


claim:
"I’m running against a groundhog. He saw his shadow on the primary day, and no one has seen him since."


claim:
Says state Rep. Jim Keffer, a GOP lieutenant to House Speaker Joe Straus, "did mail pieces for Democrat Mark Strama to help him defeat" a Republican.


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


claim:
John McCain "began his career in Washington as a lobbyist when he was appointed in 1976 as the Navy's liaison to the United States Senate."


claim:
Says Republican lieutenants to House Speaker Joe Straus “aired radio ads supporting Democrat(ic state Rep.) Mark Homer... helping the Democrat to a narrow win.”


claim:
"Powerful Houston Democrats Sylvia Garcia (Democrat county commissioner in Harris County) and Elyse Lanie(r) (wife of the former liberal Democrat mayor Bob Lanier) sponsored a Democrat fundraiser for Speaker (Joe) Straus with numerous Democrat officials and high-ranking union officials."


claim:
Says his GOP challenger, Doug MacGinnitie, "hadn’t voted in a Republican primary for almost 20 years until 2008.


claim:
"Today, we have more boots on the ground near the Southwest border than at any time in our history."


claim:
"West has raised $2 million from those that would leave our beaches in ruins, end Social Security and Medicare, and give corporations free reign."


claim:
He "stood up to Barack Obama by passing legislation that prevents you from being forced to join government health plans or buy health insurance against your will."


claim:
"In Florida alone, more than $3.5 billion a year is spent on health care and criminal justice for illegal immigrants."


claim:
During the year Kagan barred military recruiters from Harvard Law School's Office of Career Services, "military recruiting actually went up."


claim:
If Rhode Island applied a 1-percent sales tax on all items exempt from sales tax, ''the state would receive an additional $89,376,857.''


claim:
"The majority of the people that are coming to Arizona and trespassing are now becoming drug mules."


claim:
Says Houston’s 18th congressional district has been “gentrified” and is home to “more Anglos than African Americans.”


claim:
"I have a record on the environment of creating green energy ... taking trash and turning it into cash."


claim:
"In her first appellate argument, Ms. Kagan told the court that the speech and press guarantees in the First Amendment would allow the federal government to ban the publication of pamphlets discussing political issues before an election."


claim:
"We have that program where immigrants come here and they have to bring a million dollars in order to get a green card if they’re going to create jobs."


claim:
"The first time he ever voted as a Democrat was here in Florida in 2008. He only voted four times in his life, and he's asking Floridians to come out and vote for him."


claim:
It was President Obama's "inaction that caused over three weeks to go by before he even approved the governor's plan to protect our marsh."


claim:
"The ABA's own criteria for a judicial nominee call for, among other things, at least 12 years' experience in the practice of law, and they mean actual practice of law."


claim:
Canada "does spills into their water to practice in the event that this would happen. That is not allowed in the United States."


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


claim:
"When George Bush took office, President Clinton, a Democrat, and the Democratic Congress at the time had left an annual budget that was in surplus."


claim:
"Every day, oil continues to pour into the Gulf of Mexico. ... Even with disaster on our coast..., Richard Burr voted to let big oil off the hook."


claim:
“If every small business in our state, on average, was able to create one new job we would cut our unemployment rate in half.”


claim:
U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin didn't want a border fence to block illegal immigration "because he is afraid that someone will get hurt trying to go around the fence."


claim:
"In the last 6 years, there have been 420 elections for State Senator and State Representative. Only three incumbents have been defeated!"


claim:
"In fact, oil spills from tankers are far more common than the very rare leaks from rigs or pipelines."


claim:
"Social Security, like I told you, is out of money. This year it is borrowing from the general treasury."


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


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


claim:
"If the Republicans were the majority, (Rep. Barton) would have actually the gavel and the chairmanship."


claim:
"Health reform eliminates co-pays, deductibles, and other costs for preventative care and provides for free annual wellness checkups starting next year."


claim:
Jeff Greene "is the king of the undercover Credit Default Swap that brought about the destruction of our economy that we have right now."


claim:
"When I become the nominee, the Democratic nominee, I will be the only pro-choice candidate on the ballot."


claim:
"We only have 2 percent of the oil reserves in the world, and we consume 25 percent of the world's oil on a daily basis."


claim:
"For six years, I served our community as a conservative state legislator. In every one of those years, I helped balance the state's budget."


claim:
"In the case of General Motors, the (Bush) administration wrote a check without asking for any conditions of change."


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


claim:
"We have a director of homeland security who cannot use and will not use the term 'terrorist attack' but instead substitutes 'man-made disaster.' "


claim:
“The Republican Party lost 1.1 million registered voters since 2008. The Democratic Party lost 1.2 million registered voters… (while) voter registration in the Libertarian Party rose 8 percent.”


claim:
The addition of a 1 percent sales tax would cost a typical household in Hillsborough County approximately $12 a month.


claim:
"On the pace that we're on with job creation in the last four months ... we will have created more jobs in this year than in the entire Bush Presidency."


claim:
"Phoenix, Arizona, I'm told, is now the No. 2 kidnapping capital in the world, right behind Mexico City."


claim:
"Oil companies showered regulators (at the Minerals Management Service) with gifts and favors, and were essentially allowed to conduct their own safety inspections and write their own regulations."


claim:
"Ninety-four percent of the bills that pass the Senate have no debate, no vote, no amendments, no reading of the bill, no online disclosure."


claim:
"If you read the Arizona (immigration) law, what it says is if you are stopped for violating the law and they have a suspicion that you're illegal, they can ask you if you're legal."


claim:
"Right now every single one of the (oil) companies here today and dozens of others are drilling for free in the Gulf of Mexico on leases that will cost American taxpayers more than $50 billion in lost royalties."


claim:
"While Exxon Mobil has 40 pages on its media response strategy, its plan for resource protection is only five pages long and its plan for oil removal is just nine pages long."


claim:
Alex Sink was "the first official who said that BP should pay $25 million for an ad campaign to promote Florida tourism."


claim:
Since 2000, "the Texas clean air program achieved a 22 percent reduction in ozone and a 46 percent decrease in NOx emissions."


claim:
Of hospitals in Rick Scott’s Columbia/HCA health care company, "A top executive said they even turned away a poor man and left him to die outside their door."


claim:
John McCain "voted against the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, wrongly claiming they helped only the rich."


claim:
After J.D. Hayworth "was voted out of Congress, he became a registered lobbyist" who was "paid thousands by a Florida corporation to lobby the very committee he used to serve on."


claim:
The Obama administration "has been constrained by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, which basically gives the responsible party the lead role in trying to not only fix the problem, but contain the problem."


claim:
"A major part" of the climate change bill sponsored by Sens. John Kerry and Joe Lieberman "was essentially written by BP."


claim:
The final pitch of Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series "was a foot and half probably high and outside."


claim:
Starting in 2011, "you will be required to pay taxes" on "the value of whatever health insurance you are given by the company."


claim:
Presidents Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower collectively ordered the deportation of at least 15 million illegal aliens.


claim:
"Across the country, more than half of the U.S. attorney seats remain without a prosecutor chosen by Obama."


claim:
Says an estimate that Texas will face an $18 billion budget gap is “a number that somebody just reached up in the air and grabbed."


claim:
Once the U.S. government signs a U.N. treaty on conventional arms, "all U.S. citizens will be subject to those gun laws created by foreign governments."


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


claim:
"Every major study that has been done by a legitimate group ... shows that there are hundreds of thousands of jobs to be created if you pass our (cap-and-trade) legislation. And if you wind up pricing carbon."


claim:
"My opponent in November of 2008 sent a missive to the White House, to President Obama-elect, and said, 'Here's how you need to sell cap-and-trade to the American people.' "


claim:
"Rick Perry attempted to fast-track unnecessary coal-fired power plants, which degrade air quality and would cost billions. Fortunately, a court stopped him."


claim:
Under the new health care law, the elderly will be denied care when they have "passed the age limit for treatment."


claim:
If voters agree in November to approve a one-cent sales tax increase, that will give "Hillsborough County the highest sales tax of all Florida counties."


claim:
"Handel endorsed gay adoption" in 2003 when she was running for chairwoman of the Fulton County Commission.


claim:
Says EPA regulation of greenhouse gases will endanger 575 Texas dairy facilities, 58 swine operations, 1,300 corn farms and 28,000 beef cattle operations.


claim:
"Barbara Boxer's worried about the weather" instead of terrorism as the biggest threat to national security.


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


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


claim:
"A Houston school district analysis found that the (State Board of Education) more than quadrupled the number of historical figures students must learn about."


claim:
After the oil spill, Congressman Adam Putnam "doubled down saying all energy sources, including oil drilling in the Gulf, should be considered just days after the oil spill started."


claim:
"The Democratic Congress has already taken significant steps to create jobs and jump-start the economy, resulting in the lowest tax rates in over 50 years and the creation of over 500,000 new jobs so far this year."


claim:
"ObamaCare will use your tax dollars to provide free Viagra to convicted rapists and registered sex offenders."


claim:
"The Interior Department has only 30 days to review an exploration plan submitted by an oil company. That leaves no time for the appropriate environmental review. The result is, they are continually waived."


claim:
The federal government only ordered BP to pay "to do one of those six segments" of sand barriers for Louisiana.


claim:
"The president has added close to 68,000 troops in the last year, since he came into office, not just the 30,000 you hear, but the others that were added before that."


claim:
Mexican government officials "hand out brochures showing individuals how they can avoid our Border Patrol, how they can get into our country."


claim:
"There are 321,092 public school teachers in Texas. And there are 313,850 non-teachers in our public schools."


claim:
Says his opponent Dorman Grace brags on his Facebook page about receiving illegal campaign contributions.


claim:
"Last year, (Bill McCollum) spent more than $2.2 million dollars to produce and air campaign-style TV ads where you were featured in almost every frame."


claim:
The Republican Party "fought very hard in the '60s to get the civil rights bill passed, as well as the voting rights bill."


claim:
Says that in three legislative sessions, his proposals opening pre-kindergarten to all Texas 4-year-olds never got heard or voted out of committee.


claim:
Halliburton gave Dick Cheney a $34 million payout when he left the company to join the presidential ticket.


claim:
"Jeff Greene only moved from California to Florida in the last two years. In fact, he would not legally be allowed to run for any other statewide office because he has not lived here long enough to meet the residency requirement."


claim:
The primary election results show Democrats are strong in Kentucky because the Democratic candidates "both got more votes than Rand Paul did."


claim:
"In the history department at the University of Texas, out of 50 registered voters, only one is a Republican."


claim:
“In three days last week, (Gov. Rick) Perry flew to five cities at taxpayers’ expense, holding press conferences, delivering $2,325,000 in checks.”


claim:
"The fact that Rick Scott is running for governor as a 'reformer' would be funny if it wasn't so outrageous. This is a man who barely escaped imprisonment."


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


claim:
"You’ve got almost twice as many cops in New York City as you do on our entire border. That’s nuts."


claim:
"Sue Lowden gave Harry Reid's campaigns a thousand dollars in five different elections, helping his Senate dreams come true."


claim:
Rick Scott "was forced to resign as the head of a company that pled guilty to massive amounts of systematic fraud, including 14 felonies, leading to a historic $1.7 billion fine."


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


claim:
Says U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith supported the $700 billion Wall Street bailout in 2008, "but now he is standing in the way of reforms that would assure these bailouts would never happen again."


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


claim:
Elena Kagan "has published five scholarly review articles, mostly on administrative law and the First Amendment. These articles were mostly on technical and procedural issues."


claim:
Says state's expected "increase in federal political clout is almost entirely due to the growth of the African American and Hispanic populations in Texas in virtually every region of the state.”


claim:
Elena Kagan "violated the law of the United States at various points" with her opposition to military recruiters.


claim:
"Bill White used D.C. connections from his job in the Clinton administration to form a company that did business in the Middle East and defaulted on a $60 million loan."


claim:
Says that when he first ran for office in the late 1980s, "there were still folks who didn't have phone service. Soon I'd helped ensure that everyone in North Florida could access a dial tone."


claim:
"In the last 10 years we've only had 7,000 barrels of oil spilled in the Gulf ... not counting hurricanes. This well is spewing that amount every day and a half."


claim:
Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, cast votes for TARP, the stimulus, and an individual mandate for health care.


claim:
On Sandra Day O'Connor: "I think one reason she was a good judge is she had no judicial experience" before she joined the Supreme Court.


claim:
The president can "authorize the killing of a U.S. citizen who fights for a foreign terrorist organization."


claim:
"McCollum admitted he didn't think that the subprime mortgage crisis was a big deal, telling reporters he thought that the subprime collapse had been exaggerated by the media and investors and that 'it's not the end of the world.' "


claim:
Says the EPA "outsourced the scientific basis for its greenhouse gas regulation to a scandal-plagued international organization that cannot be considered objective or trustworthy."


claim:
"Ms. Kagan has spent her entire professional career in Harvard Square, Hyde Park and the D.C. Beltway."


claim:
On military recruiters at Harvard, Elena Kagan "took a position and the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that she was wrong."


claim:
Says federal law enforcement officers cut off questioning of the Christmas Day underwear bomber by giving him a Miranda warning after 30 minutes of questioning.


claim:
Says Gov. Rick Perry failed "to involve border sheriffs in developing plans to prevent violence in their communities."


claim:
“The percent of students who enter high school and eventually earn a diploma or equivalent, or who remain in pursuit of a diploma or equivalent, is 90 percent.”


claim:
"We can prevent terror suspects from boarding an airplane, but the FBI doesn't have the power to block them from buying dynamite or an AK-47."


claim:
Royalties for oil and other energy sources are the "second-largest revenue source to the federal government after the IRS."


claim:
"If you will go look up the definition of 'act of God,' we've used it in legal terms for a long time in this state."


claim:
"Up until two weeks ago, John McCain was a leading proponent of amnesty. Now with me challenging him, suddenly he has changed."


claim:
"This administration and this Congress have been systematically cutting funding to border security since the Democrats took control."


claim:
Says in 2003 Texas cut "$10 billion out of the entire budget, yet we put $1.8 billion more into public education. We put $800 million more into health and human services."


claim:
"Incoming House Speaker Dean Cannon and incoming Senate President Mike Haridopolos have said they plan to champion efforts next legislative session to allow oil rigs off Florida's coast."


claim:
Under the Arizona immigration law, police are required to check immigration status if someone's "lawn is overgrown" or if a dog is "barking too loudly."


claim:
Late changes to the Arizona immigration law "lay to rest questions over the possibility of racial profiling."


claim:
Numbers on illegal immigrants "are down in terms of apprehensions, which indicates fewer illegal crossings, but also up in terms of actual enforcement actions."


claim:
“We’re making more than ever off oil and gas right now, but it’s no secret that oil production in Texas peaked in the 1970s.”


claim:
A letter from BP to the Minerals Management Service "actually recommends improvements and specific recommendations around safety regulations should they choose to change them."


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


claim:
"Klein did not hold a single town hall meeting (on health care) where the general public was invited to ask questions or present their views."


claim:
Says Texas General Land Office “has earned the school children of Texas $451,932.89 on wind leases that haven't produced a watt of energy."


claim:
Members of Congress "have not reduced their salaries ... since the Great Depression," meaning they've gone "eight decades without a pay cut."


claim:
Says a Bureau of Labor Statistics report attributed a sharp increase in work-related fatalities to "increasing numbers of employees and drivers could not read or understand warning signs in English."


claim:
The more than $800,000 raised by the Alan Grayson campaign last quarter was "#1 among all 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives."


claim:
"We've got a 1,000 National Guard troop request that's been in front of this president for over a year and no response."


claim:
The new Arizona immigration law "says that any police officer can stop anyone who appears to them to be reasonably suspicious of being an undocumented person."


claim:
Under the new Arizona immigration law, police can't stop someone to check their immigration status unless they think they see something illegal.


claim:
"What the Arizona law does is make a state crime out of something that already is... a federal crime."


claim:
GM has "repaid our government loan, in full, with interest, five years ahead of the original schedule."


claim:
Gov. Lawton Chiles said "if I were to become ... become speaker of the House it would be (his) worst nightmare."


claim:
"Fifteen years ago, the assets of the six largest banks in this country totaled 17 percent of GDP ... The assets of the six largest banks in the United States today total 63 percent of GDP."


claim:
"We researched to find out if anybody on Fox News had ever said you're going to jail if you don't buy health insurance. Nobody's ever said it."


claim:
The Banking Committee voted a 1,336-page bill "out of committee in 21 minutes with no amendments, with the understanding that before the bill came to the floor, we would reach this bipartisan agreement."


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


claim:
"Obama did not open new lands to offshore drilling – all of these areas were already open for drilling once Congress and President Bush lifted the moratorium in 2008. Instead, President Obama yesterday announced what areas he would CLOSE to offshore drilling."


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


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


claim:
''I have received more contributions than any other candidate in the race – Republican or Democrat.''


claim:
In 2004, "20 percent of U.S. households were getting about 75 percent of their income from the federal government. ... Another 20 percent were receiving almost 40 percent."


claim:
"The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act is the largest-ever investment in higher education."


claim:
"We have constitutional amendment that says that there's a ban on drilling right off Florida's coast."


claim:
"Dubai is the only country with huge amounts of imported workers that's actually passed legislation to give these immigrant workers a better deal in the Middle East."


claim:
The passage of the teacher tenure bill in the Fla. Legislature was like the health care bill in Congress because one party jammed it through.


claim:
"The bill reported out of committee sets up a $50 billion slush fund that, while intended for resolving failing firms, is available for virtually any purpose that the treasury secretary sees fit."


claim:
"The fact is, in the past year we have had more tax cuts than almost any time in our nation's history."


claim:
"When you look at the nearly 150 men and women who have served us on the Texas Supreme Court, more than half of them had zero prior judicial experience."


claim:
"Americans now spend 100 days out of the year working for government before we even start working for ourselves."


claim:
Crist sent his "top policy staffer to the House Committee to testify in support of the proposal," then vetoed the bill.


claim:
When the United States "first created the federal income tax, frankly, nobody below a million dollars a year paid anything."


claim:
"Florida Statutes require (Attorney General Bill) McCollum to consult with members of Florida's Congressional delegation" before filing a lawsuit against the health care reform law.


claim:
"Every citizen is entitled to the freedom of speech, but no one should have the right to use government funds or institutions to portray acts that are morally reprehensible to the vast majority of Americans."


claim:
Says that under a new program jail "time for non-violent, mentally ill offenders has been reduced by 50 percent."


claim:
"Giving money to politicians has paid off for Paul Workman. Workman gave thousands to politicians and got millions in government construction projects."


claim:
"Early census returns are showing that conservatives have been measurably less likely than liberals to return their census forms."


claim:
"The most private question on this year’s form asks for an individual’s race, and that question has been asked by every census since the 1790 census conducted under then-President George Washington."


claim:
"The path to ObamaCare becoming law all started with Charlie Crist supporting President Obama's $787 billion stimulus."


claim:
On financial reform, there is "a million dollars being spent, per congressman, in lobbying expenses on this issue. (The) industry has four lobbyists per member of the House and Senate working on this."


claim:
"An audit of the last census found that over 370,000 people living in Texas were not counted, and our state lost an estimated $1 billion in federal funds as a result."


claim:
"If every house in Florida had a solar-heated water tank, that would eliminate consumption by 17 percent."


claim:
"The number of uninsured people in Massachusetts is about the same as it was when the mandates were passed in 2006."


claim:
"More people are driving under the influence of drugs than are driving under the influence of alcohol. A recent roadside survey showed that 16 percent of the people tested, tested positive for illicit or licit drugs. That's significantly higher than alcohol."


claim:
"With this reform, every insured American gets valuable consumer protections, and every uninsured American can become insured."


claim:
The Florida House is "holding the FINAL public hearing" of a controversial education bill in the middle of spring break..."when they hope (teachers) are not watching or listening."


claim:
''Both Democrats and Republicans are advocating for the use of student test scores to measure teacher effectiveness.''


claim:
"A lot of the ideas in terms of the (health insurance) exchange, just being able to pool and improve the purchasing power of individuals in the insurance market, that originated from the Heritage Foundation."


claim:
"Cuba wants to let the Chinese drill in some of the very parts of the gulf that American producers are currently forbidden to touch, as close as 45 miles off the Florida coast."


claim:
“This week liberal Bill White faced an ethics complaint about more than $83,000 he failed to report to the state Ethics Commission.”


claim:
"On the day that (the Republican) state leader resigned in disgrace, a ‘Shred-It' truck rolled up to Republican headquarters."


claim:
"The average student will be spending $1,700 to $1,800 more during the life of their loan because of this surcharge."


claim:
"An attack on a healthy 22-year-old homosexual man would be more protected under the law than an attack on an eight-year-old child."


claim:
"The New England Journal of Medicine released a survey the week that President Obama signed Obamacare stating that over 30 percent of American physicians would leave the profession if the government took over health care."


claim:
Marco Rubio controlled funds that "out of the $600,000 that were raised, only $4,000 went to candidates to try to improve their chances to be elected to office."


claim:
"According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the IRS would need to hire over 16,000 people ... to audit the American people and impose the new taxes and mandates" of the health care bill.


claim:
"The average cost for health insurance in Florida went from about $600 a month for an individual to about $150 a month."


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


claim:
"Just this week we received the news that for the first time Social Security is now paying out more in benefits than it's taking in. That was something that was supposed to happen in 2016."


claim:
"The American people will be appalled to learn the health care bill exempts (congressional) leadership and committee staff."


claim:
"Our national debt ... is on track to exceed the size of our entire economy ... in just two more years."


claim:
"Joe, I keep hearing you every morning talking about the biggest tax increase in history, but you don't mention it's also the biggest tax cut in history.''


claim:
The Associated Press called Charlie Crist's attacks "over the top," "out of context," and "not true."


claim:
"Last week the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE), led by Rick Perry's appointee, voted to remove Thomas Jefferson from social studies textbook standards. That's right. Thomas Jefferson... was deleted from a list of historical figures who inspired political change."


claim:
"Hospitals, doctors, MRIs, surgeries and so forth are more extensively used and far more expensive in this country than they are in many other countries.''


claim:
The Democratic health care bill will "collect higher taxes for 10 years and provide health care for only six years."


claim:
"Americans who get their insurance through the workplace, cost savings could be as much as $3,000 less per employee than if we do nothing."


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


claim:
"Kay Bailey Hutchison was elected state treasurer, succeeding Ann Richards. Democrats then abolished the position ... Hutchison later became a U.S. senator."


claim:
A national poll found that among people who oppose the Democratic health care reform bill, "almost 40 percent" opposed it not because it goes too far, but because "they don’t think it goes far enough. ... They will not be unhappy when we pass health care reform."


claim:
The Congressional Budget Office analysis of the health insurance reform legislation says the bill "cuts the deficit by $1.2 trillion in the second 10 years."


claim:
"The Massachusetts Supreme Court...defined marriage as simply, quote, the establishment of intimacy ... I guess that would mean if you really had affection for your horse, I guess you could marry your horse."


claim:
"As Florida's CFO, I shut down Krakow's scam and refunded more than $1.2 million to Josephine and other victims of this con man."


claim:
"There is no precedent for what the Democrats are doing with this deception. ... We have never written a reconciliation bill to amend a law that does not exist."


claim:
Because of a local version of Amendment 4, "the taxpayers of St. Pete Beach have had to pay hundreds of thousands in legal bills."


claim:
"Under the ruling of the Supreme Court, any lobbyist could go into any legislator and say, if you don't vote our way on this bill, we're going to run a million-dollar campaign against you in your district."


claim:
St. Pete Beach's local version of Amendment 4 resulted in "seemingly endless lawsuits (that) decimated the city's legal budget and forced the city to raise the property tax rate."


claim:
"A government panel that didn't include cancer specialists says women shouldn't receive mammograms until age 50...If government takes over health care, recommendations like these could become the law for all kinds of diseases."


claim:
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said this week that the Democrats have to pass their terrible health care bill so that the American people can actually find out what's in it."


claim:
Several times, Obama "has apologized for what he deems to be American arrogance, dismissiveness, and derision; for dictating solutions, for acting unilaterally ... ."


claim:
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's "concession speech came with less than 20 percent of the precincts having been counted.”


claim:
"Bill White ... supports the ‘ObamaCare’ socialized medicine plan, as well as ‘Cap and Trade’ legislation that would kill thousands of Texas jobs."


claim:
"Bill White spent his city billions of dollars into debt (and) saw crime rates soar while he backed gun control."


claim:
Says the Texas State Board of Education is considering eliminating references to Christmas and the Constitution in textbooks.


claim:
The Obama administration "spent more money on the Cash for Clunkers program than the space program."


claim:
"Crist stays in $2,000 a night luxury hotel suites where he racks up $1,300 in mini-bar charges, and doesn't pay for a dime of it himself."


claim:
"We are the only industrialized nation that relies heavily on a for-profit medical insurance industry to provide basic health care."


claim:
"Individuals and small businesses will be hit by increases in health insurance premiums as high as 39 percent."


claim:
"Obama has proposed a 1.4% pay increase for active duty military in 2011. This is THE LOWEST SINCE 1973 ... A LOWER PAY INCREASE THAN WELFARE RECIPIENTS!!!"


claim:
In the Senate version of the health reform bill, "Every enrollee in the Office of Personnel Management enrolled plan, every enrollee has to pay a minimum of $1 per month towards reproductive rights, which includes abortion."


claim:
"When we started this health care debate a year ago, 85 percent of the American people had health insurance, and 95 percent of the 85 percent were happy with it."


claim:
"If we just froze spending at 2007 levels ... by 2013 we would balance the budget ... and by 2020 we would cut the national debt in half."


claim:
The Senate version of the health care reform bill "allows taxpayer money to pay directly for abortion in federal community health centers funded in the bill."


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


claim:
"Florida's new fingerprint identification system is improving our rate of solving cold cases by 300 percent."


claim:
"When Social Security started, age expectancy for the average man was 58. It was 62 -- 62 for women."


claim:
"There's almost 1 million Texans who are unemployed and that's an all-time record number in our state."


claim:
"President Obama's bill won't bring down the costs (of health care) for average Americans -- or really for very few Americans, if any."


claim:
"Washington cannot hide from the fact that Congress hiked the national debt ceiling to $14.3 trillion. They cannot hide from the fact . . . that the budget that they’re going forward with has more than a $5 trillion in debt in it over the next five years."


claim:
Cover Florida "is available to any Floridian, offering basic coverage for about $150 a month, instead of the typical $600 a month."


claim:
"The lifespan of the average American is less than that of people in nations that spend far less (on health care). ... To put it bluntly, we spend more and die sooner."


claim:
The Democrats' health care bills would end "the denial of ... coverage to those who have a pre-existing condition," while the Republican bill would not.


claim:
"Due to ... tax cuts and lower (property) values, 2009 property taxes were almost $3 billion below 2007 property taxes."


claim:
"He (Obama) has done several things well. Most of those things are places where he changed his view from where he had during the campaign. So, for instance, he's left our troops in Iraq and they're being more successful there. He boosted our effort in Afghanistan, which is the right course to take. He did not close Guantanamo, thank heavens."


claim:
In 2001, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan "justified increasing spending and cutting taxes, saying that we didn't really need to pay down the debt."


claim:
U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson "compared a former vice president to a vampire ... and compared America's health care system to the Holocaust."


claim:
"Charlie Crist was the only prominent Republican in the country to campaign with Barack Obama before the stimulus passed, on behalf of the stimulus."


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


claim:
Gov. Rick Perry "spent over a million dollars on D.C. lobbyists asking for more federal money and lives in a luxury house that costs taxpayers $10,000 a month."


claim:
Challenger Tim Tuggey "is a lobbyist who donated over $41,000 to Democrats who support abortion and same-sex marriage."


claim:
"I'm glad for the wording of it (an ethics report on corporate-sponsored Congressional trips) because clearly the wording exonerates me."


claim:
Says he "never" donates to Democrats while Paul Workman "contributes to Democrat Kirk Watson and other Democrats running against Republicans."


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


claim:
The CBO found that the House Republican health care plan would lower premiums by "up to about 10 percent" and, for purchasers in the individual market, "those cost savings could even be higher."


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


claim:
"Congresswoman Bachmann actually said we should be 'weaned' off our Social Security and Medicare. She wants to privatize Social Security and replace Medicare with some kind of voucher system."


claim:
Bill McCollum "cost the rest of us billions" as a member of Congress, including a national debt that "skyrocketed" to $4.7 trillion.


claim:
Bill McCollum voted four times to raise his own pay, by a total of $51,000, and earns a congressional pension worth more than $75,000 a year.


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


claim:
"One of the most recent polls said 75 percent of the American people have said either don't do anything or start over (on health care reform)."


claim:
"We were promised (the stimulus) would provide 'green jobs' for Americans, but 80% of the $2 billion they spent on alternative energy went to purchase wind turbines built in China!"


claim:
“In this judicial race, special interest groups have demanded money from me, in exchange for endorsement and support.”


claim:
The stimulus includes "$7 million to build a bridge in Thedford, Nebraska, to help 168 residents avoid a 30-second wait at a local train crossing. Not one full-time job will be created."


claim:
In the stimulus, "$15 million dollars went to 'build a bigger, better airport' for the town of Ouzinkie, Alaska, population 165."


claim:
"So far, the Recovery Act is responsible for the jobs of about 2 million Americans who would otherwise be unemployed. ... [And] the Recovery Act is on track to save or create another 1.5 million jobs in 2010."


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


claim:
During "the recent global warming summit in Copenhagen, Nancy Pelosi and others stayed at a five-star hotel on a trip costing nearly $10,000 per person."


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


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


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


claim:
President Barack Obama's "initial response when we heard about the Christmas underwear bomber" was to say that "this was the act of an isolated extremist."


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


claim:
"When we go to vote, they ask for driver's license and verify that you are a voter and a citizen in the state of Texas."


claim:
Despite touting the economic stimulus as a great triumph, "The very same report, however, notes that unemployment will average 10 percent for the rest of the year."


claim:
Franklin Roosevelt never allocated more than 12 percent of GDP to federal spending, while the percentage for Barack Obama is not projected to drop below 22.8 percent.


claim:
"A Democratic poll operation shows that Fox News is the most trusted news operation in the country."


claim:
The House passed a pay-as-you-go rule that said, "If you wanted to have an investment, an entitlement, etc., you had to pay for it."


claim:
Says Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison "took 154 private flights all funded by taxpayers" though "commercial flights were readily available at a fraction of the cost."


claim:
Vice President Joe Biden's meeting "with the transparency and accountability board . . . was closed to the public."


claim:
"One state even spent a million bucks to put up signs that advertise that they were spending on the federal stimulus projects."


claim:
"The governor’s not taking his own fiscal advice. ... In the first fiscal quarter of this year, we’ve seen a 13.5 percent increase in spending, double-digit spending out of the executive branch in the State of Texas."


claim:
"The law is very clear! 'The monies recouped from the TARP shall be paid into the general fund of the treasury for the reduction of the public debt.'"


claim:
Some Republicans who voted against the stimulus "have been all too happy to claim credit for Recovery Act projects and the jobs those projects have produced. They come to the ribbon cuttings."


claim:
"For the hour after the (Jan. 14) debate, 'Debra Medina' was the No. 1 search on Google and for the remainder of that night No. 3."


claim:
"We're also cutting a Forest Service economic development program that strayed so far from any mission that it funded a music festival."


claim:
The Senate-passed health care bill "is identical to the Massachusetts health care plan -- the same thing."


claim:
Bill White "is discriminating. He's taking jobs from African Americans and giving them to his friends."


claim:
"We passed without, frankly, the help of the Republican caucus, we passed 25 tax cuts last year, mostly aimed at the middle class and small businesses."


claim:
Health care reform "would bring down the deficit by as much as $1 trillion over the next two decades."


claim:
"The State of Texas does not even use the E-Verify system to determine if someone is legally in our country when they apply for a job."


claim:
"What were the old annual deficits under Republicans have now become the monthly deficits under Democrats."


claim:
Obama came into office "with a $1.3 trillion deficit before I had passed any law. ... We came in with $8 trillion worth of debt over the next decade."


claim:
"Mr. President, multiple times from your administration there have come statements that Republicans have no ideas and no solutions" on health care.


claim:
"I have had the challenge during this administration to suspend no less than 37 public officials in about 36 months."


claim:
“Under (Rick Perry’s) watch as governor, over six million Texans have no health care coverage, including one million children, homeowners suffer from the highest insurance rates in the country, and college tuition has skyrocketed 136 percent.”


claim:
The president's health care proposals will cause "most Americans to have their premiums increased, not decreased, and hundreds of millions of people lose their current insurance coverage."


claim:
"President Obama's proposed 'spending freeze' will only reduce the $42 trillion in government spending proposed between 2011 and 2020 by little more than one-half of 1 percent."


claim:
"Inequality in Texas is steadily getting worse, with very few rich people, a great many poor people, and fewer and fewer in the middle."


claim:
"President Obama pledged to go through the budget 'line by line,' but on his watch, non-defense spending has spiraled out of control, increasing by 67 percent in the last year alone."


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


claim:
"Here in Virginia, we have the opportunity to become the first state on the East Coast to explore for and produce oil and natural gas offshore."


claim:
"Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests – including foreign corporations – to spend without limit in our elections."


claim:
"At the beginning of the last decade ... America had a budget surplus of over $200 billion. By the time I took office, we had a one-year deficit of over $1 trillion and projected deficits of $8 trillion over the next decade."


claim:
"Because of the steps we took, there are about 2 million Americans working right now who would otherwise be unemployed."


claim:
"With a stroke of a pen, the (U.S. Supreme Court) decided to overrule the 100-year-old ban on corporate expenditures."


claim:
"As long as I have served . . . This is the first time every single solitary decision has required 60 senators."


claim:
Members of Congress passed a pay raise for themselves of $10,000 over two years even as they voted not to raise Social Security benefits for 2010 and 2011.


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


claim:
The House health care bill provides for "free abortion services, and probably forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession."


claim:
There are "high administrative costs" when you donate to Haiti relief through the White House Web site.


claim:
In Massachusetts, Scott Brown's Republican affiliation is "not a secret, but clearly not on display."


claim:
"The Washington Times ... pointed out that we had succeeded where previous administrations had failed" on spending cuts.


claim:
Health care reform: "Everything about it is going to raise costs, raise taxes and lower the quality of health care."


claim:
"Close to half of the folks in this country illegally entered legally (but) overstayed (their ) visas."


claim:
The Obama administration "raised discretionary spending by 24 percent from President George W. Bush's last full-year budget and will run up more debt by October than Bush did in eight years."


claim:
When President Bush took office in 2001, he inherited a $236 billion budget surplus, with a projected 10-year surplus of $5.6 trillion. When he ended his term, he left a $1.3 trillion deficit and a projected 10-year shortfall of $8 trillion.


claim:
"We definitely lost way more jobs in Texas this year than we gained — we lost 300,000 jobs in Texas alone this year."


claim:
"No Democratic campaign for (Fla.) governor has ever had these kinds of resources this early on in an election cycle."


claim:
Says Rick Perry's "Pay to Play" politics led him to send $899 million to an offshore call center in Bermuda, driving down enrollment in children's health insurance


claim:
"Sen. Hutchison abandoned Republicans and stood with Democrats to ensure health care legislation would pass quickly."


claim:
During his tenure as mayor, he "saw Houston’s crime rates drop to the lowest levels in more than 25 years."


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


claim:
"A number of the national publications have put this race in a tossup race between Democrats and Republicans. They don't know who's going to win this race."


claim:
Says approximately 70 percent of jobs created in the United States in November 2007-2008 were in Texas.


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


claim:
"Why is January 8th an important date in American history? This day in 1835 is the only day in our history when we have not been in debt."


claim:
"President Obama has broken his pledge to the American people to be transparent throughout (health care reform negotiations)."


claim:
"In Florida, Sen. Bill Nelson ... got a $25 billion to $30 billion carve-out for Medicare Advantage patients in their state."


claim:
A Medicaid provision added to the Senate health care reform bill "is not a special deal for Nebraska."


claim:
When Charlie Crist was elected governor, Florida ranked 31st in K-12 education. "Last year ... we went from 31st to 14. And this year, the top 10 in America."


claim:
"We've created or saved up to 1.6 million jobs, according to the CBO -- the Congressional Budget Office -- through the Recovery Act."


claim:
The Climatic Research Unit e-mails show that the science behind climate change "has been pretty well debunked."


claim:
"President Obama's proposal calls for serious cuts in our own long-term carbon emissions," but China and India will still be allowed to increase their emissions.


claim:
A recent drop in the unemployment rate is questionable because it was calculated "over two days of the Thanksgiving week."


claim:
The "post-Soviet industrial meltdown is responsible for most of the progress in reducing carbon emissions that Europe is able to claim."


claim:
"To use money from the TARP fund in the manner that is being discussed by the White House and congressional Democrats would be a violation of the law."


claim:
"I'm predicting (the Saints) will go not only undefeated, but all the way through the Super Bowl -- something that's never been done before."


claim:
When Obama was interviewed by American reporters in Asia, "Not one of them asked me about Asia. Not one of them asked me about the economy."


claim:
"In the past year, more than 20 percent of Americans have changed their mind about the war in Afghanistan. They conclude we shouldn't be there."


claim:
"In the last few months alone, we have apprehended extremists within our borders who were sent here from the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan to commit new acts of terror."


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


claim:
"If you want to talk firsts for Bush, this was the first time in American history that a president took us into a war and cut taxes."


claim:
"The Congressional Budget Office -- supposedly non-partisan -- estimates that in just a few years the average cost to every family of four (from cap and trade) will be $6,800 per year."


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


claim:
A data-storing microchip "would be implanted in the majority of people who opt to become covered by the public health care option."


claim:
"Although Democrats represent only 10 of Florida's 25 districts, their districts received 60 percent of the stimulus funds."


claim:
Under the cap-and-trade bill, homes would have to be retrofitted to meet energy and water efficiency standards before they could be sold.


claim:
Senate health care legislation will "levy a new 'abortion premium' fee on Americans in the government-run plan."


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


claim:
A small business receiving a federal tax credit "to provide health care for its employees ... would be barred under the Stupak Amendment from allowing their employees to use ... the health care that they offer them for abortion."


claim:
In the House health care bill, "Something like 2 percent of the people would [be] eligible even to get the public option."


claim:
A cap-and-trade plan promoted by Barack Obama would hit hardest "those already struggling to make ends meet."


claim:
"The Stupak Amendment doesn't just say you can't use your federal insurance subsidy to pay for an abortion, it says, if you're getting a federal subsidy of any kind, you're not allowed to buy an insurance plan that covers abortion even with your own money."


claim:
Under the House health care bill, the government "will have to penalize citizens if we choose not to buy a plan that will cost a minimum of about $15,000 per family per year."


claim:
Maj. Nidal Hasan, the man accused of the Fort Hood shootings, "was an ADVISOR to the Obama Administration."


claim:
The health care bills will be "mandated spending. You can't cut it, regardless of the budget circumstances."


claim:
"I signed the largest single tax cut in the history of Florida, a $25 billion tax cut over five years, directed at property tax cuts."


claim:
"President Obama campaigned on a promise to put reproductive health care at the center of his reform plan."


claim:
"Mitt Romney ... gave you government health care that is now bankrupting the state" of Massachusetts.


claim:
An amendment to the House health reform bill "puts new restrictions on women's access to abortion coverage in the private health insurance market even when they would pay premiums with their own money."


claim:
The House health care bill pays for "about six years of program with a decade of revenue, with the heaviest costs concentrated in the second five years."


claim:
"As a result of the House Republican bill, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office now confirms that families will see their health care premiums reduced by up to 10 percent."


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


claim:
The GOP health care plan "would allow health insurance companies to continue engaging in unfair and discriminatory practices like denying coverage to people because of a pre-existing medical condition."


claim:
Health care reform "establishes a new board of federal bureaucrats (the 'Health Benefits Advisory Committee') to dictate the health plans that all individuals must purchase."


claim:
Health care reform "requires the use of federal dollars to fund abortions through the government-run health plan."


claim:
Research shows the employer mandate in the House health reform bill would "place millions 'at substantial risk of unemployment' — with minority workers losing their jobs at twice the rate of their white counterparts."


claim:
"That 3.5 percent (increase in the third quarter GDP) came from two things — government spending on Cash for Clunkers — they just moved fourth-quarter auto sales into the third quarter — and the first-time home buyer thing."


claim:
Page 92 of the House health care bill "says specifically that people can't purchase private health insurance after a date certain."


claim:
Three presidents in the last century — Harding, Kennedy and Reagan — all cut taxes during recessions and produced "rapid and dramatic economic recoveries," while two, Herbert Hoover and Barack Obama, did "the opposite."


claim:
Sen. Joe Lieberman's "home state has a public option which covers about 10,000 of its citizens that was introduced by its Republican governor."


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


claim:
When it comes to aid, "the United States is still about half as what European countries give as a percentage."


claim:
The Democrats' health care bill "gives a new Health Choices Commissioner the right to look at an individual's tax return to determine what medical benefits or subsidies that person qualifies for."


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


claim:
"Forcing Americans off of their current health coverage and onto a government-run plan isn't the answer, but that's exactly what the Democrats' plan would do."


claim:
When White House communications director Anita Dunn said that Mao Tse-tung was "one of her favorite philosophers, only Fox News picked that up."


claim:
Barack Obama wrote a thesis at Columbia University in which he criticized "plutocratic thugs" and said the Constitution gave Americans "the shackles of hypocrisy."


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


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


claim:
The Obama administration notified Poland and the Czech Republic about cancellation of major missile-defense facilities "at the last minute in midnight phone calls."


claim:
"Usually it's about $900 a month to get health coverage. (Florida's program has) reduced that, on average, to about $150 a month."


claim:
A "massive" federal computer network will make your medical records available to "millions of people" with a "complete lack of privacy and confidentiality," while doctors and hospitals who don't take part face "stiff penalties."


claim:
"Democrats rang up a $1.42 trillion budget deficit in 2009 — the single largest in American history."


claim:
The proposed excise tax on "Cadillac" health plans will hit "those making less than $200,000" the hardest.


claim:
If President Obama signs the Copenhagen climate change treaty, he "will sign your freedom, your democracy, and your prosperity away forever — and neither you nor any subsequent government you may elect would have any power whatsoever to take it back again."


claim:
"The Senate Finance Committee approved a reform proposal that has both Democratic and Republican support."


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


claim:
The Baucus health care bill "would drastically restrict the use of flexible spending accounts (FSAs) in order to help pay for health care reform."


claim:
An Iowa policy "provides for a state round up of Iowa citizens who might be exposed to the swine flu virus."


claim:
"You don't know if this (the H1N1 vaccine) is gonna cause neurological damage like it did in the 1970s."


claim:
A report by the health insurance industry "ignores some of the key policies that are part of the Senate Finance Committee bill."


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


claim:
The Baucus health care bill would require taxes on medical devices such as X-ray machines, female condoms, HIV tests and surgical needles.


claim:
"Not only is there no scientific evidence that CO2 is a pollutant, higher CO2 concentrations actually help ecosystems support more plant and animal life."


claim:
"There's no evidence anywhere that offshore drilling has hurt tourism in any area where it has been allowed."


claim:
"The truth is any oil that would be drilled could be sent to any other country in the world, reducing our use of foreign oil not by one single drop."


claim:
All the talk about socialism during the campaign made young people more interested in it by Election Day.


claim:
Medicare officials have treated Humana and AARP inconsistently on how they can communicate with seniors.


claim:
White House Political Director Patrick Gaspard once served as the "right-hand man" for Bertha Lewis, who heads up ACORN.


claim:
AARP is "the largest reseller of insurance in the country" and "has a vested interest in seeing that the market for reselling supplemental insurance expands."


claim:
"Health care mandate will require imprisonment and fines for Americans who can’t afford to purchase insurance or pay hefty government penalties."


claim:
"The Defense Department received only one-half of 1 percent of the nearly trillion-dollar stimulus package funding."


claim:
"For the first time in history, the Democratic Congress will not allow an increase in the social security COLA (cost of living adjustment)."


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


claim:
In a now-viral video, "impressionable youngsters at a public school in New Jersey ... have been instructed to sing the praises of 'Barack Hussein Obama.'"


claim:
"Our own National Security Agency says that (Iran's) nuclear ambitions are advancing, and at the same time ... we are slashing our own nuclear arsenal."


claim:
"Recent census data shows that the average American family spends over $13,000 a year for health care coverage."


claim:
The Baucus bill "contains provisions that would send massive federal subsidies directly to both private insurance plans and government-chartered cooperatives that pay for elective abortion."


claim:
"In some states, it is still legal to deny a woman coverage because she's been the victim of domestic violence."


claim:
For middle-class families under the Baucus plan, "13 percent of what they make could be deducted directly from their paychecks . . . the so-called 'Max Tax.'"


claim:
The House of Representatives has never passed a resolution of disapproval to condemn a member's behavior.


claim:
The Obama administration "was successful in rushing a massive spending bill through Congress in just two days — after which it sat on the president's desk for three days, while he was away on vacation."


claim:
As a candidate, President Obama "declared that everyone deserves access to reproductive health care that includes abortion, and vowed that this 'right' would be at the heart of his health care reform plan if elected president."


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


claim:
"Nothing in any of the Democrat bills would require individuals to verify their citizenship or identity prior to receiving taxpayer-subsidized benefits."


claim:
Health reform will "give every American the same opportunity" to buy health insurance the way members of Congress do.


claim:
"You lie!" (in response to President Obama saying health reform would not insure illegal immigrants.)


claim:
"It’s a plan that incorporates ideas from many of the people in this room tonight – Democrats and Republicans."


claim:
"The claim ... that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to  kill off senior citizens ... is a lie, plain and simple."


claim:
If you "already have health insurance through your job, or Medicare, or Medicaid, or the VA, nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have."


claim:
"Switzerland and the Netherlands . . . cover all their citizens using private insurers, and they do so for much less cost."


claim:
"The Obama Administration's own White House Council of Economic Advisers has estimated 4.7 million Americans will lose their jobs if the (health care) bill passes."


claim:
Van Jones signed a petition indicating he "thinks the Bush administration blew up the World Trade Center and covered it up."


claim:
The government is "going to have the right to get into your bank account with the health care bill and make transfers without you knowing it."


claim:
"We waterboard, incidentally, hundreds of our own military personnel. They waterboard themselves in training to toughen themselves up."


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


claim:
"It took Obama six months to pick out a family dog," but he's "cramming health care reform down the country's throat in a fraction of that time."


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


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


claim:
"Since World War II, only Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton have had worse ratings after seven months than President Obama."


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


claim:
"Under the plan, for the first five years your employer not only has to keep the coverage, but you can't migrate to the public plan."


claim:
"It's costing every American who is insured $1,100 to pick up the cost of uncompensated care that goes on at the emergency room."


claim:
"Medicare has at least $80 billion worth of fraud a year. That's a full 20 percent of every dollar that's spent on Medicare goes to fraud."


claim:
"Any government-run 'public' plan ... creates an entitlement that will cost another $1 trillion over the next 10 years."


claim:
"Any government-run 'public' plan ... forces more employers to drop employee coverage due to rising costs and pay an additional 8% payroll tax for each worker."


claim:
The Department of Veterans Affairs has "a manual out there telling our veterans stuff like, 'Are you really of value to your community?' You know, encouraging them to commit suicide."


claim:
The health bill's plan for comparative effectiveness research "would be used by the government to ration care."


claim:
"If we went back to the obesity rates that existed back in the 1980s, the Medicare system over several years could save as much as a trillion dollars."


claim:
"If you're over 65 years old in America today, you have no choice but to be in Medicare. Even if you want out of Medicare, you have to forfeit your Social Security to get out of it."


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


claim:
Pregnant women trying to buy health insurance on their own are barred from maternity coverage because they have a "pre-existing condition."


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


claim:
Obama's plan for health care reform "ends exorbitant out-of-pocket expenses, deductibles or co-pays."


claim:
A provision in the health care reform bill for end-of-life counseling for seniors is not "entirely voluntary."


claim:
Ezekiel Emanuel, one of President Obama's key health care advisers, "says medical care should be reserved for the nondisabled. So watch out if you're disabled."


claim:
The health care plan for members of Congress "is no better than the janitor who cleans their offices."


claim:
In every committee when the health care bill was considered, Democrats voted against an amendment that would require members of Congress and their staff to take the government-run public option as their health care plan.


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


claim:
The Democrat-backed health care reform plan "will require (Americans) to subsidize abortion with their hard-earned tax dollars."


claim:
Page 992 of the health care bill will "establish school-based 'health' clinics. Your children will be indoctrinated and your grandchildren may be aborted!"


claim:
During the 2005 fight over Social Security, "there were noisy demonstrations — but they were outside the events," and opponents were "not disruptive — crowds booed lines they didn’t like, but that was about it."


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


claim:
A loophole "still exists which allows members of Congress and high-powered executive branch appointees to exploit 'insider' knowledge of the financial industry in order to turn personal profit."


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


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


claim:
A former Clinton administration official and other economists agree that "if you keep extending these temporary unemployment benefits, you're just going to extend joblessness even more."


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


claim:
If you log into the government's Cash for Clunkers Web site (cars.gov) from your home computer, the government can "seize all of your personal and private" information, and track your computer activity.


claim:
President Barack Obama suggested on national TV that the Democratic health care bill "will have government decide" that a healthy, 100-year-old woman in need of a pacemaker "should take a pain pill" instead.


claim:
"The Congressional Budget Office most recently came out and analyzed the current (health care) plan and said that it was not only deficit-neutral, but also that over 10 years it would create a $6 billion surplus."


claim:
"All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange."


claim:
In the health care bill, "The 'Health Choices Commissioner' will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None."


claim:
John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, "has proposed forcing abortions and putting sterilants in the drinking water to control population."


claim:
Only 15 percent of drug users are African-American, yet 74 percent of all drug offenders sentenced to prison are black


claim:
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs "lied" when he said President Obama's birth certificate is posted on the Internet.


claim:
"Doctors, nurses, hospitals, even the pharmaceutical industry, (and) AARP" say that health reform "makes sense to do."


claim:
The health care reform bill "would make it mandatory — absolutely require — that every five years people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner."


claim:
There were more job losses per month in the last three months under President Bush than in the past three months under President Obama.


claim:
"The government is going to tell Americans they need to replace functioning stoves in their homes with 'government-certified' stoves and use taxpayer dollars to do so."


claim:
The Obama administration has spent millions of taxpayer dollars for roadside signs to tout the economic stimulus.


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


claim:
The Obama administration offered "$900 million to Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization, to rebuild Gaza."


claim:
"Under the new and little known 'global justice' initiative," the Obama administration has ordered FBI agents to "read Miranda Rights to high-value terrorist detainees captured on the battlefield."


claim:
"Obama's Justice-designate Sotomayor threw out (the New Haven firefighters') lawsuit in a sneaky, unsigned opinion -- the judicial equivalent of 'talk to the hand.'"


claim:
On the day the House voted on the climate change bill, "there was not even a copy of the bill in the well of the House, which is standard. It wasn't even written."


claim:
"We were promised. The president said we would keep unemployment under 8.5 percent (if the stimulus passed)."


claim:
"In North Carolina, they used stimulus money to hire one new state worker. His job, apply for more stimulus funds from the taxpayers by the way of the federal government."


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


claim:
Mitch McConnell opposed "legislation to create and protect Kentucky jobs . . . help for the unemployed. . .  health care for Kentucky's children," and "fair pay for women."


claim:
"If the United States moves ahead by itself (on cap-and-trade)... after 30 or 40 years, we're going to reduce CO2 by less than 1 percent."


claim:
The Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 "would guarantee Barack Obama will never be held accountable for producing forged birth documents."


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


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


claim:
ACORN will be a paid partner with the Census Bureau and "they will be in charge of going door-to-door and collecting data from the American public."


claim:
"Medicare and Medicaid are the single biggest drivers of the federal deficit and the federal debt by a huge margin."


claim:
Says the Congressional Budget Office estimates a cap-and-trade program would cost the average family the equivalent of "a postage stamp a day."


claim:
"Yes, this would be the same congressman (Rep. Pete Hoekstra) who last year Tweeted the whereabouts of a top-secret mission to Iraq."


claim:
Even high estimates for an early draft of the health care plan are "less than the $1.8 trillion cost of the Bush tax cuts."


claim:
The war spending bill "actually spends more money on the International Monetary Fund than on the war."


claim:
Under the "Cash for Clunkers" program, "all we've got to do is ... go to a local junkyard, all you've got to do is tow it to your house. And you're going to get $4,500."


claim:
Says President Obama was wrong "about Muslims' historical contributions to mankind, such as algebra (actually that was the ancient Babylonians), the compass (that was the Chinese), pens (the Chinese again) and medical discoveries."


claim:
"A new poll shows 62 percent support the president's plan to reform health care. That means ... letting you choose between keeping the private insurance you have and a public health insurance plan."


claim:
Under a public health care option, 120 million Americans will "lose what they now get from private companies and be forced onto the government-run rolls as businesses decide it is more cost-effective for them to drop coverage."


claim:
Palin said stimulus money for weatherization required "universal energy building codes for Alaska, kind of a one-size-fits-all building code that isn't going to work up there in Alaska."


claim:
Contends that President Obama "literally said (if) his cap-and-trade proposals were to pass, that utility rates, his words now, would, 'necessarily skyrocket.'"


claim:
"In the first round of repayments"  from financial institutions that received TARP money, "the government has actually turned a profit."


claim:
Inside the stimulus package "is anti-Christian legislation that will stop churches from using public schools for meeting on Sundays, as well as Boy Scouts and student Bible study groups."


claim:
Says Vice President Joe Biden "admits that the American people are being scammed" with the economic stimulus package.


claim:
Says he didn't call Dr. George Tiller a baby killer, as liberal groups charge, but was merely reporting what "some prolifers branded him."


claim:
"If you actually took the number of Muslims [sic] Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world."


claim:
There are billions of barrels of oil beneath our oceans and in Alaska, and there is ample oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West, but Democrats "say all this American energy is off limits."


claim:
"The Department of Justice, under the Obama administration, disagrees with the decision" Judge Sotomayor made in the Ricci vs. DeStefano case.


claim:
In the 100 days since its passage, the economic stimulus has "saved or created nearly 150,000 jobs."


claim:
"The nuclear test conducted in our nation this time is the Earth's 2,054th nuclear test. The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council have conducted 99.99 percent of the total nuclear tests."


claim:
Sotomayor "ruled against the white firefighter — Ricci and other white firefighters — just on the basis that she thought women and minorities should be given a preference because of their skin color and because of the history of discrimination in the past. The law was totally disregarded."


claim:
Sotomayor thinks "that one’s sex, race and ethnicity ought to affect the decisions one renders from the bench."


claim:
"Walking in the door (Sonia Sotomayor) would bring more experience on the bench, and more varied experience on the bench, than anyone currently serving on the United States Supreme Court had when they were appointed."


claim:
Cheney is "disagreeing with President Bush's policy. President Bush stated repeatedly to international audiences and to the country that he wanted to close Guantanamo."


claim:
"President Obama's own director of national intelligence, Admiral Blair, put it this way: 'High-value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al-Qaida organization that was attacking this country.'"


claim:
ACORN "could get up to $8.5 billion more tax dollars despite being under investigation for voter registration fraud in a dozen states."


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


claim:
A public option for health care would end private insurance "because the private insurance people will not be able to compete with a government option."


claim:
The Democrats propose "a government-controlled health care plan that will deprive roughly 120 million Americans of their current health care coverage."


claim:
"Democrats have failed to answer the most basic question of how they want to pay for the more than $1 trillion of health care spending."


claim:
"The Pentagon under the Obama administration has just acknowledged seizing and burning the privately owned Bibles of American soldiers serving in Afghanistan."


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


claim:
Democrats in Congress "had control since January of 2007. They haven't passed a law making waterboarding illegal. They haven't gone into any of these things and changed law."


claim:
"The president of the United States ... agrees with me" that marriage should be between a man and a woman.


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


claim:
"We were not, I repeat, were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used."


claim:
The economic stimulus bill created a council that's "modeled after the national board that controls Britain’s health system."


claim:
Obama's "first call (as president) to any head of state was to Mahmoud Abbas, leader of Fatah party in the Palestinian territory."


claim:
Sen. Arlen Specter's party switch could "end up giving Republicans the ability to filibuster judicial nominees at the Judiciary Committee level so that the nominees never get out of committee."


claim:
Cass Sunstein, President Obama's nominee for regulatory czar, "wants to give legal standing to animals so they can sue you for eating meat."


claim:
"Barack Obama's nominee for 'regulatory czar' has advocated a 'Fairness Doctrine' for the Internet" that would require links to opposing opinions.


claim:
Washing your hands and covering your mouth when you cough "makes a huge difference" in reducing transmission of the flu.


claim:
In Iraq, "civilian deaths, incidents of bombings, etc., remain very low relative to what was going on last year."


claim:
It is "the Department of Homeland Security's view that returning military veterans and gun owners are likely to commit terrorist acts."


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


claim:
"You can't read a speech by George Washington . . . without hearing him reference God, the Almighty."


claim:
Gov. Sarah Palin "got precisely zero support for her call for Alaska's Democratic Senator Mark Begich to resign because Ted Stevens' corruption conviction was overturned."


claim:
"Congress shoveled $700 billion into the Troubled Assets Relief Program, $325 billion of which has been spent without purchasing any toxic assets."


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


claim:
Claims that former Sen. Tom Daschle said, "Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them."


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


claim:
"The administration raises revenue for nationalized health care through a series of new taxes, including a light switch tax that would cost every American household $3,128 a year."


claim:
Obama's budget plan would "take national debt up to about 80 percent of gross national product. ... Historically, it's been about 40 percent."


claim:
"As a percentage of gross domestic product, we are reducing nondefense discretionary spending to its lowest level since the '60s, lower than it was under Reagan, lower than it was under Clinton, lower than it was under Bush, or both Bushes."


claim:
Under Obama's budget plan, families making over $250,000 are "going to lose their mortgage deduction, their charitable deductions."


claim:
"Tens of billions of dollars (from taxpayer-funded bailouts) ... flowed straight through AIG into the coffers of foreign corporations and foreign banks."


claim:
"Senator Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, placed an amendment in the ‘stimulus’ bill that allowed for banks bailed out with taxpayer money — including AIG — to hand out huge bonuses."


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


claim:
"We had bipartisan legislation that got through the Senate" that would have prevented bonuses like AIG's "and then somehow mysteriously disappeared."


claim:
In Japan, executives of failing companies "say 'I'm sorry' and then either do one of two things: resign or go commit suicide."


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


claim:
"A middle-class family donates $1 to charity, they get 15 cents off their income tax. Bill Gates donates $1 to charity, he takes 35 cents off his income tax."


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


claim:
"In just one month, the Democrats have spent more than President Bush spent in seven years on the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and Hurricane Katrina combined."


claim:
"The president's plan, even after the end of its withdrawal timeline is reached, will leave in place up to 50,000 U.S. troops."


claim:
The stimulus bill includes "$8 billion for high-speed rail projects, such as a 'magnetic levitation' line from Las Vegas to Disneyland."


claim:
Says former Clinton budget director Alice Rivlin said the stimulus bill "won't actually stimulate the economy."


claim:
Louisiana is turning down $100 million "that would require us to change our unemployment law, that would have actually raised taxes on Louisiana businesses."


claim:
"The Congressional Budget Office has found that (the stimulus) bill will lead to a real 0.1 to 0.3 percent reduction in gross domestic product by 2019."


claim:
"When the salmonella source was finally identified, FDA officials had to wait for industry approval before they could go live with the [peanut] recall."


claim:
If we got solar energy from "an area of the Southwestern desert 100 miles on a side, that would be enough, in and of itself, to provide 100 percent of all the electricity needs for the United States of America in a full year."


claim:
There is a provision in the economic stimulus plan that means that "students cannot meet together in their dorms, if that dorm has been repaired with this federal money, and have a prayer group or a Bible study."


claim:
"The Obama Administration wants to have soldiers and officers pledge a loyalty oath directly to the office of the President, and no longer to the Constitution."


claim:
"You and I know that in the history of mankind and womankind, government — federal, state, local, or otherwise — has never created one job."


claim:
The Congressional Budget Office "estimates that only 15 percent of this stimulus package will be spent in 2009" and only 37 percent in 2010.


claim:
On attacks by Republicans that various programs in the economic stimulus plan are not stimulative, "If you add all that stuff up, it accounts for less than 1 percent of the overall package."


claim:
"The average bonus [on Wall Street] is about $100,000...The bonuses on Wall Street are down 44 percent."


claim:
The stimulus bill contains "$20 million for the removal of small to medium-sized fish passage barriers" and "$25 million to rehabilitate off-roading trails for ATVs."


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


claim:
To give the proposed economic stimulus plan some perspective, "if you started the day Jesus Christ was born and spent $1 million every day since then, you still wouldn’t have spent $1 trillion."


claim:
"The (economic stimulus) legislation could open billions of taxpayer dollars to left-wing groups like the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)."


claim:
"There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jump-start the economy."


claim:
"The House Democrats' so-called 'stimulus' has been stuffed with an astonishing $335 million to fund prevention programs of sexually transmitted diseases."


claim:
Democrats compare the infrastructure programs in the stimulus to the Eisenhower interstate program, "but he proposed a $500 billion highway system, and they're going to put $30 billion" into roads and bridges.


claim:
"For every dollar (in the stimulus package) that is spent to help small businesses, $4 is being spent to help upkeep the grass on the lawns of Washington."


claim:
"Our economy could fall $1 trillion short of its full capacity, which translates into more than $12,000 in lost income for a family of four."


claim:
Democrats have said that "even one hearing (on the stimulus bill) would be one too many, and that we have a single day to approve these five complex propositions that will affect the lives of millions."


claim:
Says a Congressional Budget Office report on spending by House Democrats in the economic stimulus concluded it "is just not stimulus. It won't help the economy grow."


claim:
Geithner's failure to pay self-employment taxes while working for the IMF "is a mistake that is commonly made for people who are working internationally or for international institutions."


claim:
"Geithner still didn't correct the same type of error for some years, even after the Internal Revenue Service flagged him for the failure to pay the taxes in other years."


claim:
"The biggest job of the surgeon general is to translate health care and health care needs into plain English."


claim:
If Obama's economic plan creates 600,000 new government jobs, "that's about the size of the post office work force."


claim:
Obama "changed the rules in Washington. Gone are the free gifts from lobbyists. Gone are the fancy airplane rides for nothing."


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


claim:
"The McCain campaign is roughly in the position where Vice President Gore was running against President Bush one week before the election of 2000."


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


claim:
"For my energy plan, my economic plan, and the other proposals you'll hear tonight, I've offered spending cuts above and beyond their cost."


claim:
Measures in Barack Obama's health plan could "lower health care costs for the typical family by $2,500 a year."


claim:
"Fidel (Castro) has made his preferences known in the campaign and had some very unkind things to say about me."


claim:
Barack Obama said "people making less than $250,000 would benefit from his plan" then said "if you're a family making less than $200,000, you'll benefit."


claim:
McCain is "selectively editing Joe Biden's words...Biden actually said about Barack Obama: 'They're gonna find out this guy's got steel in his spine.'"


claim:
"One percent of the American people make over 21 percent of all the income in America. That wasn’t the way before George Bush became president."


claim:
If parents "don't have health insurance that Senator Obama wants them to have (for their children), they will be fined."


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


claim:
"If Barack Obama would apply for a job with the FBI or with the Secret Service, he would be disqualified because of his past associations with William Ayers."


claim:
"The centerpiece of Senator McCain's education policy is to increase the voucher program in D.C. by 2,000 slots."


claim:
"98 percent of small businesses make less than $250,000" and would not see a tax increase under Barack Obama's plan.


claim:
"He voted twice for a budget resolution that increases the taxes on individuals making $42,000 a year."


claim:
"Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow associated with ... the worst chapter in American history. ... And, Senator Obama, you didn't repudiate those remarks."


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


claim:
Under John McCain's health care plan, people get a $5,000 tax credit to buy a $12,000 health care policy, and "that's a loss for you."


claim:
"The truth was revealed there in that report that showed there was no unlawful or unethical activity on my part."


claim:
On the economic crisis, "the biggest problem in this whole process was the deregulation of the financial system."


claim:
"I wrote to Secretary Paulson, I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke [in March 2007], and told them this is something we have to deal with, and nobody did anything about it."


claim:
On the economic troubles of 2008, "really the match that lit this fire was Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac."


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


claim:
Barack Obama voted against "born alive" legislation in Illinois that was "virtually identical to the federal law."


claim:
Under Barack Obama's health care proposal, "if you've got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it."


claim:
A mortgage buyback plan is "my proposal, it's not Sen. Obama's proposal, it's not President Bush's proposal."


claim:
"Two years ago...I wrote to Secretary Paulson, I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke, and told them [subprime lending] is something we have to deal with."


claim:
John McCain "is proposing tax cuts that would give the average Fortune 500 CEO an additional $700,000 in tax cuts."


claim:
"Senator McCain has been talking tough about earmarks, and that's good, but earmarks account for about $18-billion of our budget."


claim:
"Obama held one of the first meetings of his political career in Bill Ayers's home. And they've worked together on various projects in Chicago."


claim:
McCain intervened on behalf of Charles Keating with federal regulators... that allowed Keating to continue his fraud at an incredible cost to taxpayers.


claim:
"John McCain voted against funding the troops because of . . . a timeline in it to draw down American troops."


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


claim:
Barack Obama's health care plan is "to mandate health care coverage and have a universal government-run program."


claim:
John McCain said "he wouldn't even sit down with the government of Spain, a NATO ally that has troops in Afghanistan with us now."


claim:
"There are so many loopholes ... our businesses pay effectively one of the lowest tax rates in the world."


claim:
McCain "said the other day that he would not meet potentially with the prime minister of Spain, because he . . . wasn't sure whether they were aligned with us."


claim:
Obama "has voted in the United States Senate to increase taxes on people who make as low as $42,000 a year."


claim:
"He has asked for $932-million of earmark pork-barrel spending, nearly a million dollars for every day that he’s been in the United States Senate."


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


claim:
"I introduced a bill that would’ve helped stop the multimillion-dollar bonus packages that CEOs grab on their way out.. (McCain) opposed that idea."


claim:
Obama says McCain went to Bermuda and "pledged to protect tax breaks for American corporations that hide their profits offshore."


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


claim:
"Obama's Ten Point Plan to 'Change' The Second Amendment….Ban the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns."


claim:
"But if my opponent had his way, the millions of Floridians who rely on it would've had their Social Security tied up in the stock market this week."


claim:
Barack Obama got more campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac "than any other member of Congress, except for the Democratic chairmen of the committee that oversees them."


claim:
"In January, I outlined a plan to help revive our faltering economy, which formed the basis for a bipartisan stimulus package that passed the Congress."


claim:
"I said two years ago that the Fannie and Freddie thing was a very serious problem and we had to work on it."


claim:
Holding up a BlackBerry, McCain campaign adviser says, "you’re looking at the miracle John McCain helped create."


claim:
McCain "voted to cut education funding, against accountability standards. He even proposed abolishing the Department of Education."


claim:
McCain economic adviser Phil Gramm is "the architect of some of the deregulation in Washington that helped cause the mess on Wall Street."


claim:
"Obama has asked for $932-million in earmarks, literally $1-million for every day that he’s been in Congress."


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


claim:
"I fought to bring about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history."


claim:
"When George Bush said we shouldn't investigate why the government's response to Hurricane Katrina was so incompetent, John McCain stood with him."


claim:
Education Week says Obama 'hasn't made a significant mark on education,' is 'elusive' on accountability, and a 'staunch defender of the existing public school monopoly.'


claim:
Obama's one education accomplishment was "legislation to teach 'comprehensive sex education' to kindergartners."


claim:
"While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from the library some books that Sarah wanted removed."


claim:
"The average American family" saw income rise $7,500 under Bill Clinton and decline $2,000 under George Bush.


claim:
"Sen. McCain was already turning his sights to Iraq just days after 9/11, and he became a leading supporter of an invasion and occupation of (Iraq)."


claim:
"The fact is that although we have had a president who is opposed to abortion over the last eight years, abortions have not gone down.''


claim:
Barack Obama "openly supported (opposition leader) Raila Odinga during his visit to Africa in 2006."


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


claim:
"John McCain's top foreign policy adviser lobbied for... the Republic of Georgia, and McCain has mirrored the position advocated by the government."


claim:
McCain is "raising campaign cash with one of (Jack) Abramoff's closest business partners: scandal-plagued conservative activist Ralph Reed."


claim:
"First, he (Obama) opposed the surge. Then he confidently predicted that it would fail. Then he tried to prevent funding for the troops who carried out the surge."


claim:
"McCain opposed a requirement that the government buy American-made motorcycles. And he said all buy-American provisions were quote 'disgraceful.' "


claim:
John McCain offers "billions in tax breaks for oil and drug companies, but almost nothing for families like yours."


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


claim:
John McCain refuses to support a new bipartisan energy bill "because it would take away tax breaks from oil companies like Exxon Mobil."


claim:
"We could save all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling, if everybody was just inflating their tires and getting regular tune-ups."


claim:
"I have repeatedly said that many of the predatory loans that were made in the mortgage system did target African-American and Latino communities."


claim:
Obama said his proposed $1,000 emergency energy rebate "will be enough to offset the increased cost of gas for a working family over the next 4 months."


claim:
"Wild Bill Hickok had his first duel in the town square here. And the family legend is that he is a distant cousin of mine."


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


claim:
In the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, offshore drilling "did not cause any real difficulties."


claim:
"Sen. McCain's economic plan gives nearly $4-billion in tax breaks to the oil companies but doesn't provide any tax relief to more than 100-million middle-class families."


claim:
Obama "voted against critical resources: no to individual body armor, no to helicopters, no to ammunition, no to aircraft."


claim:
"We now have a pro-American president in France, which shows if you live long enough, anything can happen in this world."


claim:
"We've heard talk about curbing our use of fossil fuels in nearly every State of the Union address since the oil embargo of 1973."


claim:
"I have a perfect voting record from organizations like the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion and all the other veterans service organizations."


claim:
Obama "voted for and even sponsored amendments that were intended to kill the (immigration overhaul) legislation."


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


claim:
"McCain used to buck his party on immigration by fighting for comprehensive reform. . . . But when he was running for his party's nomination, he . . . said that he wouldn't even support his own legislation if it came up for a vote."


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


claim:
U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan include a "few thousand that are still green card holders who are not even citizens of this country."


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


claim:
"If you have an investment for your child's education or own a mutual fund or a stock in a retirement plan, (Obama) is going to raise your taxes."


claim:
"Our National Guard, as we saw in the Midwest flooding, can't function as effectively as it could. I was talking to National Guard representatives. Fifteen of their 17 helicopters in this region were overseas during the flooding."


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


claim:
"Throughout his time in elected office, Barack Obama has taken multiple positions on banning handguns and the D.C. handgun ban."


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


claim:
Says Obama opposes lower gas taxes, nuclear power, new offshore drilling and doesn't have "new solutions" to the energy crisis.


claim:
McCain tells of a fellow Vietnam POW who was beaten for fashioning an American flag that became an inspirational symbol to fellow POWs.


claim:
"The legislation ... that Senator McCain supports would provide the authority for the federal government to surveille American citizens in their own country without any suspicion whatsoever that they're engaging in discussions with terrorists or about criminal activity."


claim:
"The most recent Associated Press poll has Nader-Gonzalez at 6 percent, without any national coverage, against McCain and Obama."


claim:
"He won't even support his colleague's ... motion to censure the Bush administration for systemic repeated illegal wiretaps."


claim:
"When he was asked a few years ago whether he could see himself lifting the cap on the payroll tax, (McCain) said, 'I could.' But today he's attacking me for holding the very same position."


claim:
"These steps (a middle-class tax cut, national health care plan, foreclosure prevention fund, Social Security fix and more) are all paid for."


claim:
John McCain "opposed legislation to fund levees and flood control programs, which he considers pork."


claim:
"More than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children."


claim:
"I joined the Gang of 14, seven Republicans, seven Democrats, so that we wouldn't blow up the United States Senate. Sen. Obama had the opportunity to join that group. He chose not to."


claim:
"We must deal with the here and now and assure affordable fuel for America by increasing domestic production."


claim:
"George Bush, and a Republican Congress, have presided over a 55 percent increase in the size of domestic government spending in the last seven years."


claim:
Obama "wants a windfall profits tax on oil to go along with the new taxes he also plans for coal and natural gas."


claim:
"In just a few years in office, Sen. Obama has accumulated the most liberal voting record in the Senate."


claim:
John McCain opposed bankruptcy protections for families "who were only in bankruptcy because of medical expenses they couldn't pay."


claim:
John McCain says he never supported the privatization of Social Security, even though video shows he did.


claim:
"I've supported every investigation (into Hurricane Katrina) and ways of finding out how – what caused the tragedy. I've met with people on the ground. I've met with the governor."


claim:
From Obama's book: "I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race."


claim:
"The U.S. Navy has sailed ships around the world for 60 years with nuclear power plants on them and we've never had an accident."


claim:
When the United States invaded Iraq, Saddam Hussein wanted to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and "he said so himself after his capture."


claim:
"Ronald Reagan met with Gorbachev; Kennedy met with Khruschev; and Nixon met with Mao — and these were folks who have done horrendous damage not only to their own countries but to other countries."


claim:
"Obama voted to support President Bush between 40 and 50 percent of the time over the past two years."


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


claim:
Obama's wife wrote a paper in college that said America was a nation founded on "crime and hatred" and that whites in America are "ineradicably racist."


claim:
"I had an uncle ... who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps."


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


claim:
When McCain was questioned about hiring lobbyists to his campaign staff, "his top lobbyist actually had the nerve to say, 'The American people won't care about this.' "


claim:
"Ten years ago, John McCain offered a bill that said he would ban a candidate from paying registered lobbyists."


claim:
John McCain, "one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires," says the solution to the housing crisis is for people to get a "second job" and "skip their vacations."


claim:
"Privatizing Social Security was a bad idea when George W. Bush proposed it. It's a bad idea today. Sen. McCain's campaign went even further ... suggesting ... to cut cost-of-living adjustments or to raise the retirement age."


claim:
"Sen. Obama has declared, and repeatedly reaffirmed his intention to meet the president of Iran without any preconditions."


claim:
Iran "might not be a superpower, but the threat the government of Iran poses is anything but 'tiny,'" as Obama says.


claim:
A gas tax holiday is a gimmick that "every economist says will just go into the pockets of the oil companies."


claim:
John McCain "is one of the few senators of either party who oppose this bill (to expand education aid for veterans) because he thinks it's too generous."


claim:
McCain "voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban."


claim:
"NATO hasn't provided enough troops (in Afghanistan) because they are still angry about us going into Iraq."


claim:
"Obama himself voted against funding our nation's veterans and troops in the field during a time of war."


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


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


claim:
Obama "supports hate-crimes expansion ... potentially putting churches at risk if they preach the truth about homosexuality."


claim:
"As a state senator, he (Obama) even refused to support a measure to stop sex businesses from opening near schools or places of worship!"


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


claim:
After Reagan took office, "we didn't raise taxes and we didn't cut entitlements. What we did was we cut taxes."


claim:
Obama served on a board with former Weather Underground member William Ayers and "that relationship with Mr. Ayers on this board continued after 9/11."


claim:
If the U.S. stops adding to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, it "will lessen worldwide demand for oil" and reduce prices.


claim:
"Again today (Ahmadinejad) made light of 9/11, and said that he's not even sure it happened and that people actually died."


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


claim:
"Among his (Obama's) pet projects is a bill ... which would commit the U.S. to spending 0.7 percent of gross national product on foreign aid."


claim:
"Hillary (Clinton), one time late at night when she was exhausted, misstated and immediately apologized for it, what happened to her in Bosnia in 1995."


claim:
"He positions himself as pro environment, but he scored a zero — yes, zero — from the League of Conservation Voters last year."


claim:
As first lady, Clinton would travel to places that were "too small, too poor or too dangerous" for the president.


claim:
McCain's "plan for the economy is to extend George Bush's tax cuts for billionaires and give a $100-billion additional corporate tax cut."


claim:
"According to The Book of Revelations the anti-christ ... will be a man, in his 40s, of MUSLIM descent ... is it OBAMA??"


claim:
Barack Obama has written and co-sponsored more bills in three years than Hillary Clinton has in seven.


claim:
Obama spent "40 percent of the PAC money, 43 percent to be exact, on Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina politicians."


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


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


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


claim:
Obama says Clinton in 2002 suggested there was a connection between al-Qaida and the Iraqi government.


claim:
Obama voted for "tax subsidies and giveways" that have slowed oil companies from pursuing clean energy sources.


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


claim:
"I've spent 20 years devoted to working on behalf of families who are having a tough time and are seeking out the American dream."


claim:
"When we've got CEOs making more in 10 minutes than ordinary workers are making in a year ... then something is wrong."


claim:
A mailer from the Obama campaign "accurately indicates" that Hillary Clinton would "force uninsured people to buy insurance, even if they can't afford it."


claim:
Barack Obama said in 2004 "that he basically agreed with the way George Bush was conducting the war."


claim:
"He (Obama) chairs the subcommittee on Europe. ... He's held not one substantive hearing to do oversight."


claim:
"As has been noted by many observers, including Bill Clinton's former secretary of labor, my plan does more than anybody to reduce costs."


claim:
"Hillary's main extracurricular activity in law school was helping the Black Panthers, on trial in Connecticut for torturing and killing a federal agent."


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


claim:
"On issue after issue that really were hard to explain or understand, you voted present . . . And anytime anyone raises that, there's always some kind of explanation."


claim:
"I have something in common with my husband. He never carried caucuses either. He lost all of the ones that I've lost."


claim:
Barack Obama said "he's going to attack Pakistan and embrace (Iranian President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad."


claim:
"The last six polls, including this week's Time magazine, show that I beat John McCain by six or seven points."


claim:
"I'm the only Republican who has gotten endorsements in this presidential race from major labor unions..."


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


claim:
In the Illinois Legislature, Barack Obama "voted 'present,' instead of yes or no" on seven votes involving abortion rights.


claim:
In the Florida Republican primary, "we got a very large percentage of the, quote, conservative vote."


claim:
"In her short time in the United States Senate, the senator from New York, Senator Clinton, got $500-million worth of pork barrel projects."


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


claim:
Hillary Clinton agrees with John McCain "by voting to give George Bush the benefit of the doubt on Iran."


claim:
Hillary Clinton "agrees with (John McCain) in embracing the Bush-Cheney policy of not talking to leaders we don't like."


claim:
"Let's not blame President Bush for all of this. We've got a Congress who sat around on their hands and done nothing but spend a lot of money ... leaving us $9-trillion in debt that we're passing on to our grandchildren."


claim:
Romney left Massachusetts "with a $245-million debt because of the big government-mandated health care system."


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


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


claim:
"Gasoline would rise in price by approximately 50 cents a gallon" if the McCain-Lieberman bill became law.


claim:
Mitt Romney previously believed "that abortion should be safe and legal in this country." Now he is "prolife."


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


claim:
"But it was Hillary Clinton, in an interview with Tom Brokaw, who quote 'paid tribute' to Ronald Reagan's economic and foreign policy."


claim:
"The 1990s were a time of prosperity. We created more than 22-million new jobs, moved 8-million people out of poverty, and turned our economy around."


claim:
Says he was the only Republican candidate at a prior debate who said lower-income workers were being hurt by the economy.


claim:
"When the Fair Tax becomes law, it will be like waving a magic wand releasing us from pain and unfairness."


claim:
"I was fighting against those (Republican) ideas when you were practicing law and representing your contributor, Rezko, in his slum landlord business in inner city Chicago."


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


claim:
"While I was working on those streets watching those folks see their jobs shift overseas, you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart."


claim:
"If you are African-American in this country today, you are likely to have a net worth of about 10 percent of what white families have."


claim:
The Bush administration has "the Pentagon trying to take away the signing bonuses when a soldier gets wounded and ends up in the hospital, something that I'm working with a Republican senator to try to make sure never can happen again."


claim:
"Barack (Obama) has one of his biggest supporters in terms of funding, the Exelon Corporation, which has spent millions of dollars trying to make Yucca Mountain the waste depository."


claim:
"And he's the only candidate who will fight for a national catastrophe fund to reduce insurance rates."


claim:
Says he passed a bill to stop a military requirement that wounded soldiers pay for meals and phone calls.


claim:
"Congress just passed another huge, pork-filled spending bill. The Democrats allowed less than a day to read all 3,400 pages and stuffed it with nearly 10,000 earmarks costing about $10-billion dollars."


claim:
"So that 2005 energy bill was a big step backwards on the path to clean, renewable energy. That's why I voted against it."


claim:
"I'm proud of the fact that I've raised more money from small donors than anybody else, and that we're getting $25, $50, $100 donations, and we've done very well doing it that way."


claim:
"I believe, Senator Clinton, you've raised more money from those people (the oil and gas industry) than any candidate, Democrat or Republican."


claim:
"I took on the worst road system in the country, according to Trucker's magazine. When I left, they said it was the most improved road system in the country."


claim:
"You've got a building in the Cayman Islands that supposedly houses 12,000 corporations. That's either the biggest building or the biggest tax scam on record."


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


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


claim:
Barack Obama "wants the government to take over health care, spend hundreds of billions of dollars of new money for health insurance for everyone."


claim:
"There are 7,000 kids in New Hampshire who have health care because I helped to create the Children's Health Insurance Program."


claim:
As secretary of the Department of Energy under former President Bill Clinton, "I created reserves of home heating oil."


claim:
"...some of those (tax increases) were either court-ordered, or they were voted on by the people and approved by the people for (such) things as roads."


claim:
"Sen. McCain says it was not a mistake to vote against the Bush tax cuts ... but now says the tax cuts need to be made permanent."


claim:
"Average families are spending roughly $2,000 more a year on energy costs. ... It's like a $2,000 energy tax in just the last seven years, more than three times what the typical American family received from the Bush tax cuts."


claim:
"The fact of the matter is that my colleague from New York, Senator Clinton, there are 50 percent of the American public that say they're not going to vote for her."


claim:
"I just talked about guns. I told you what my position was, and what I did as governor, the fact that I received the endorsement of the NRA."


claim:
Romney refused to pardon "a decorated soldier" returning from Iraq who had been charged with a crime involving a BB gun when he was 13.


claim:
Huckabee "granted 1,033 pardons and commutations . . . more clemencies than the previous three governors combined."


claim:
"As governor, Mike Huckabee supported higher income taxes, sales taxes, gas taxes, grocery taxes, tobacco taxes, beer taxes, Internet taxes, nursing home bed taxes."


claim:
When Obama was sworn into office, "he DID NOT use the Holy Bible, but instead the Kuran (Their equivalency to our Bible, but very different beliefs)."


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


claim:
"I'm prolife. I'm not going to apologize for becoming prolife. Ronald Reagan followed that same course, as did Henry Hyde and George Herbert Walker Bush. And I'm proud to be prolife."


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


claim:
" ... following World War II war crime trials were convened. The Japanese were tried and convicted and hung for war crimes committed against American POWs. Among those charges for which they were convicted was waterboarding."


claim:
"Iranian mullahs took American hostages and they held the American hostages for 444 days. ...The one hour in which they released them was the one hour in which Ronald Reagan was taking the Oath of Office …"


claim:
"And, you know, our first president and our first commander in chief prayed every day. He had a field manual of prayers."


claim:
"The estate tax, which came into being by Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and others ... is there for a real simple reason: In America, we've never liked the idea of massive inherited wealth."


claim:
"George Bush ... used a signing statement (on a FEMA bill) to say, 'I don't have to follow that, unless I choose to.' "


claim:
"If we went back to the obesity rates that existed in 1980, that would save the Medicare system a trillion dollars."


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


claim:
"Thanks to President Bush's policies....The income gap is now higher than at any time since the Great Depression."


claim:
"We've got some 37-million of our fellow citizens who are living in poverty; about 12-million or 13-million are children."


claim:
"Five percent of Americans pay over half the income taxes in this country. Forty percent of Americans pay no income taxes at all."


claim:
"For every single illegal immigrant family in this country, it costs $20,000 — it costs us $20,000; $20,000 in infrastructural costs. They pay about $10,000 in taxes."


claim:
"A ham and cheese sandwich on one slice of bread is the responsibility of the USDA ... But a ham and cheese sandwich on two slices of bread is the responsibility of the Food and Drug Administration."


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


claim:
"Senator Obama's relatives and friends say he has been talking about running for president for at least the last 15 years," a campaign spokesman said.


claim:
Huckabee supported "a tuition break to the children of illegals that are here illegally when citizens are having to pay a higher rate."


claim:
"He was a member of the Iraq Study Group and was either fired or quit from a very important commission that was trying to figure out the way forward in Iraq."


claim:
"I saved the taxpayers $2-billion on a bogus Air Force Boeing tanker deal where people went to jail."


claim:
"I spend a lot of time in Iowa, and believe it or not, in Ottumwa, Iowa, this is the heartland, the newspaper, the regular newspaper for Ottumwa, Iowa, is (a) bilingual newspaper."


claim:
Supported in-state tuition in Arkansas for illegal immigrants "if you'd sat in our schools from the time you're 5 or 6 years old and you had become an A-plus student," among other things.


claim:
"The mayor said … 'if you happen to be in this country in an undocumented status . . . then we welcome you here. We want you here. We'll protect you here.' "


claim:
"Fred's never had a 100 percent record on right-to-life in his Senate career. The records reflect that. And he doesn't support the human life amendment, which is most amazing because that's been a part of the Republican platform since 1980."


claim:
"I won the South Carolina primary in 2004, and I was way behind in the polls at this stage in 2004."


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


claim:
"Gov. Romney's own health care plan in Massachusetts ... requires by law that a representative from Planned Parenthood sit on the MassHealth advisory board."


claim:
"Hillary's baby bond proposal would give $5,000 to each of the 4-million babies born in the U.S. each year, totaling $20-billion per year, multiplied by four years = $80-billion."


claim:
"The truth of the matter is that during my administration, the FBI's crime statistics show that violent crime was reduced in Massachusetts by 7 percent."


claim:
"If Sen. Hillary Clinton could enact all of her campaign proposals, taxpayers would be faced with financing more than $777.6-billion in new spending over one White House term."


claim:
"The $2.3-billion budget deficit I inherited when I came into office became a $2.9-billion surplus."


claim:
"I believe in tax cuts. I believe in being a supply-sider. I cut the income tax I think it was 24 percent. We got 42 percent more revenues."


claim:
"People were hopeless. Sixty percent of the population, 70 percent of the population wanted to live somewhere else. . . . By the time I left, 70 percent wanted to stay."


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


claim:
"Americans spend 100-million hours a year filling out these forms (FAFSA). That is the equivalent of 55,500 full-time jobs."


claim:
"America never made up for the gutting of the intelligence services that Bill Clinton did. I think those are (former CIA director George) Tenet's words ... that Bill Clinton gutted American intelligence."


claim:
"Right now, an employer has more of a chance of getting hit by lightning than be prosecuted for hiring an undocumented worker. That has to change."


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


claim:
"She stood by our National Guard and Reserve and kept standing till they received health care they deserved."


claim:
"Rural schools enroll 40 percent of American children, but receive only 22 percent of federal education funding."


claim:
"She stood by ground zero workers who sacrificed their health after so many sacrificed their lives and kept standing till this administration took action."


claim:
"Hillary stood up for universal health care when almost no one else would, and kept standing till 6-million kids had coverage."


claim:
Rural schools "face the highest dropout rates, the lowest college enrollment rates, have the lowest average teacher salaries..."


claim:
"I have not changed my position on the (gay) marriage amendment or anything else related to marriage."


claim:
"The reality is, with a $2 trillion-a-year health care budget, we're spending more on health care, nearly 17 percent of our gross domestic product, versus 3.8 percent of GDP on the entire military budget."


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


claim:
"With those first principles, it allowed a fellow like me to get in his truck and go from one end of the state to the other; started 20 points down and wound up 20 points ahead on election night."


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


claim:
"If we manufactured 5-million of these 2.5-meg windmills across the country, we could electrify the entire nation — the entire nation."


claim:
"It doesn't make sense to me to send $1-billion a day out of our
country. We can be energy independent and should be."


claim:
"When I was mayor of New York City, I encouraged adoptions. Adoptions went up 65-70 percent. Abortions went down 16 percent."


claim:
"I opposed this war from the beginning. I opposed the war in 2002. I opposed the war in 2003. I opposed it in 2004 and 2005 and 2006."


claim:
"There are 300,000 babies born deformed every year in this country because of women who are alcoholics while they're carrying those children to term."


claim:
"Mayor Giuliani made New York City what's known as a 'sanctuary city,' where illegal aliens were allowed to come. And he instructed the leaders of the city not to enforce the law, not to enforce immigration law."


claim:
"Bill Richardson is the only major Democratic candidate with a plan to withdraw all American troops from Iraq. All of the other major Democratic candidates support leaving American troops in Iraq indefinitely."


claim:
"John Kerry was at 4 percent in the polls in December of 2003...and he ended up becoming the nominee of the party."


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


claim:
"I would love to see us have in this country what I helped lead in Arkansas...Amendment 65 (which) says that we believe life begins at conception, and that we ought to do everything in the world possible to protect it until its natural conclusion."


claim:
In countries that allow gay marriage, the rates of heterosexual marriage "have plummeted to where you have counties now in northern Europe where 80 percent of the first-born children are born out of wedlock."


claim:
"The Z-visa that was offered in that Senate bill let everybody who's here illegally, other than criminals, stay here for the rest of their lives."


claim:
"Thirty-four percent of Hispanics don't have any health care at all, don't have any health insurance."


claim:
If African-Americans vote their percentage of the population in 2008, "Mississippi is suddenly a Democratic state."


claim:
"I built that border fence in San Diego...and it reduced the smuggling of people and drugs...by 90 percent."


claim:
"The crime decline in the United States would be fairly small if it wasn't for the crime decline in New York City."


claim:
"The failings in our civil service are encouraged by a system that makes it very difficult to fire someone even for gross misconduct."


claim:
Sen. Clinton said "the surge of troops in Iraq was 'working.' Now.... Sen. Clinton says the surge 'has failed' and that we should 'begin the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops.'"


claim:
"In state after state, polls make clear that the American public understands the Kelo ruling is a disaster."


claim:
"In 1972, we had a 179,000 human beings in jail in this country. Today, it's 2.3-million, and 70 percent of them are black, African-American."


claim:
"Bill Richardson passed the first law in the nation giving National Guard soldiers $400,000 in life insurance."


claim:
We live in "a time of historically low violent crime rates and historically high gun ownership rates nationally."


claim:
"I'm the first person who really took up the issue of the war. Four years ago I said that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and, actually... did an analysis which disproved the cause for the war."


claim:
"You know we can't just pull out now... The truth of the matter is: If we started today, it would take one year, one year to get 160,000 troops physically out of Iraq, logistically."


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


claim:
Hillary Clinton was against setting a deadline for withdrawal, but now she wants a "precipitous withdrawal" regardless of "conditions on the ground" or "consequences of a defeat for the United States," an RNC radio ad.


claim:
"Let's pay attention to kids who are not going to college, which ends up being about 60 percent of the kids... and get them trained for the jobs that are there. Because, you know, there are auto mechanic jobs paying $50,000, $60,000 that they can't get filled. There are airline mechanic jobs paying a lot of money that can't get filled." Remarks at AFSCME forum 6/19/2007


claim:
"Roadside bombs are responsible for 70 percent of casualties in Iraq and these new mine-resistant vehicles can reduce those casualties by two-thirds."


claim:
"Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have changed their positions (on the Iraq war withdrawal) to follow Chris Dodd."


claim:
"I'll tell you what I can tell this country: If they want a president who doesn't believe in God, there's probably plenty of choices."


claim:
"Democrats are kind of falling over each other seeing who can raise taxes faster. It looks like they're going to raise taxes anywhere between 20 to 30 percent."


claim:
"If we increase fuel efficiency standards to 40, 45 miles a gallon, we would have to import zero oil from the Middle East."


claim:
"Both China and Japan have surpassed us, with Japanese cars now getting an average of 45 miles to the gallon."


claim:
"For every single scientist that tells you (global warming is) happening and that it's our fault...I can stack up another group of reports that say just the opposite."


claim:
"Tommy Thompson is the father of welfare reform, creating the groundbreaking Wisconsin Works program in Wisconsin that became the model for national and international reforms."


claim:
"Tommy Thompson created the first school choice program in the nation, giving thousands of Milwaukee students the choice of where they go to school – no matter where they live or how much money their parents make."


